The movie, directed my Nguyen Vo Nghiem Minh, was screened at 9pm (Berlin time) on February 6.

According to the organisers, it has been seven years since an Asian movie was selected to be the opening film for the Panorama selection.

Nguyen Thi Hoang Anh, the Vietnamese Ambassador to Berlin, will attend along with other officials. The director Nguyen Vo Nghiem Minh, director of photography Bao Nguyen, actress Quynh Hoa and their producers also arrived at Berlin to participate in the premiere along with directors and producers from nearly 50 countries.

According to Marcus Vu Manh Cuong, Director of Vietnamese Online Film Festival Yxine FF, who also lives in Germany, Panorama is one of the most significant sections of Berlin Film Festival.

The Panorama section is for "art house" films and is devoted to individual creativity and original aesthetics. Several directors such as Gus Van Sant and Pedro Almodovar were featured in Panorama early in their careers.

Nuoc 2030 was filmed in 2013, completed in 2014 and is based on the novella Nuoc Nhu Nuoc Mat of writer Nguyen Ngoc Tu.

The mystery thriller is set in 2030, when half of southern Vietnam has been submerged under seawater because of climate change so people harvest crops on floating farms. When Sao's husband dies, she starts to investigate his death and finds herself a job on a floating farm run by her former lover. Here, she discovers that genetically modified products pose a huge risks to human health.

Nuoc 2030 is the third Vietnamese movie selected for Panorama, after Giot Le Ha Long (The Tear Drop Pearl of Ha Long) in 1995 and Hotboy Noi Loan (Lost in Paradise) in 2012.