IDECAF shows 5 French films in October

September 29, 2016 - 09:00

Two feature films, two documentaries and an animation will be part of the monthly film screening programme at the Institute of Cultural Exchange with France (IDECAF) in October.

Poster of film Le Roi et l’Oiseau
Viet Nam News

HCM CITY — Two feature films, two documentaries and an animation will be part of the monthly film screening programme at the Institute of Cultural Exchange with France (IDECAF) in October.

Two films include Je fais le mort, a comedy written and directed by Jean-Paul Salomé, which was screened at the Rome Film Festival under the title Playing Dead, and Mon Ame par Toi Guérie (One of A Kind), a drama directed by François Dupeyron.

Documentaries are Il était une forêt (Once Upon a Forest) by Oscar-winning filmmaker Luc Jacquet, and La cour de Babel (School of Babel) by Julie Bertuccelli.

Le Roi et l’Oiseau (The King and the Mockingbird) is a 1980 traditionally animated feature film directed by Paul Grimault. It received the Louis Delluc Prize, an award for French film, in 1979.

The films will be screened with Vietnamese subtitles at 3pm every Saturday. The venue is at 28 Lê Thánh Tôn Street in District 1.

The entrance fee is VNĐ50,000 and VNĐ40,000 for students. — VNS

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