Film week opens to celebrate 80 years of Party's first platform on culture
A ceremony was held at the Vietnam Cinema Centre in Hanoi on February 25 to kick off a film week celebrating the 80th anniversary of the “Outline of Vietnamese Culture”, the first platform on culture launched by the Communist Party of Vietnam.
The film week opens at the Vietnam Cinema Centre on February 25 (Source: VOV)
Hanoi (VNA) – A ceremony was held at the Vietnam Cinema Centre in Hanoi on February25 to kick off a film week celebrating the 80th anniversary of the “Outline ofVietnamese Culture”, the first platform on culture launched by the CommunistParty of Vietnam.
The film week, takingplace nationwide until March 3, is jointly organised by the Ministryof Culture, Sports and Tourism’s Cinema Department, the National Cinema Centre,and the departments of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of centrally-run cities andprovinces.
Ten films to be screened during the week includefour feature movies, four documentaries and two animated films which featurePresident Ho Chi Minh, the country, people and culture of Vietnam.
A national science conference will also be held on February 27 tomark the anniversary of the culture platform. The event will take place inperson in Hanoi and online in 63 other locations across the country.
A scene of a documentary film screened at the event (Source:VOV)
The conference agenda specified two key contents: "Theory andpractical significance of the Outline of Vietnamese Culture" and"Vietnamese culture and people - The ideological basis and driving forceof the country's growth in the new period".
In 1943, by applying Marxism and the guidelines of the Party and leaderNguyen Ai Quoc, Party General Secretary Truong Chinh wrote the Outline onVietnamese Culture (also known as the 1943 Outline on Culture), stressingthat the content, nature, organisation and development orientation of acultural revolution can only be associated with the national liberationrevolution and a cultural revolution can be realised when the political revolutionhas succeeded.
The document defined that Vietnamese culture,consisting of ideology, learning, and arts, “will be liberated by thedemocratic revolution and freed from shackles to catch up with the world'sneo-democratic culture”./.
A special music show marking the 80th anniversary of the “Outline of Vietnamese Culture”, the first platform on culture launched by the Communist Party of Vietnam, is scheduled to be held at Hanoi Opera House on February 28 evening.
A film week celebrating the 80th anniversary of the “Outline of Vietnamese Culture”, the first platform on culture launched by the Communist Party of Vietnam, will take place from February 25 to March 3 nationwide, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Eighty paintings created between 1945 and 1954 by 30 Vietnamese artists will be displayed at the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum in Hanoi from February 24 to March 3 to mark the 80th anniversary of the Outline of Vietnamese Culture.
The 80th anniversary celebration of the Outline of Vietnamese Culture – the first platform on culture launched by the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1943 – will feature a seminar, an exhibition, an art programme, and a week-long film screening.
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Coming to the Vietnamese booth, visitors had the chance to take part in a bamboo dance, a workshop on painting woven bamboo or rattan, or quizzes about Vietnam.
The film week opens at the Vietnam Cinema Centre on February 25 (Source: VOV) 
A scene of a documentary film screened at the event (Source:VOV) 
