A parade in Da Nang. The city will host the Pacific Alliance Film Festival on December 6-8 (Photo: VNA) Da Nang (VNS/VNA)- The central city of Da Nang, in cooperationwith the embassies of Chile, Columbia, Peru and Mexico, will host the Alianzade Pacifico (Pacific Alliance) Film Festival on December 6-8.
The city’s culture and cinema centre said the eventaims to introduce the best films to local audiences and visitors during thethree-day festival.
It said the film, Violetta Went to Heaven,directed by Andrés Wood of Peru, will start the event at 7.30pm onDecember 6 at Le Do theatre.
It features the extraordinary story of the iconicpoet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns forChileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood (Machuca) traces theintensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins tointernational fame, her defence of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.
The Kids are Back, a comedy, directedby Mexican Hugo Lara, will continue the event at 4pm on December 7.
A retired couple have to defend serenity at homeagainst an unpredicted menace: their kids.
The couple is ecstatic about their new lives asempty-nesters, with the whole house to themselves and lots of free time attheir disposal. This new-found serenity, however, soon comes to ascreeching halt as each of their three adult kids move back home, one rightafter the other. Overwhelmed with the situation, they hatch a plan to sabotagethe kids and restore their tranquility.
Old Friends, with Peru’sdirector Fernando Villerán, tells of the misadventures of three lifelongfriends in their 80’s who, on a whim and in an act of defiance, decide to stealthe urn containing the ashes of their departed comrade to take him on a tour oftheir old neighbourhood. Along the way, they stop off at some of theirfavourite hangouts for one last hurrah.
It will be screened at 7.30pm on December 7.
The film festival will end with Lila’s Book,an animation by Columbian Marcela Rincón, at 4pm on December 8.
Lila, a character in a children's story book, suddenlyfalls out of her paper world and ends up trapped in a place she doesn't belongand so starts this great adventure where Lila discovers that the only personwho can save her is Ramon, the owner of the book who hasn’t read it for manyyears.
๊ All films are dubbed in Vietnamese, and tickets arefree and can be picked up at the cinema at 46 TranStreet from 9am to 8pm./.
