Ten documentaries from Germany, Italy, Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Vietnam will be screened in Hanoi at the second annual International Documentary Week from June 21 to 25.

They include “The Giant Buddhas,” “The Temple of Literature,” “In Purgatory,” “The altar of the mother,” “Home from home,” “Et Elle créa la femme” (And Elle has created women), “Métamorphose d'une gare” (Metamorphosis of a station), “Der Heimatboden” (The native soil), "J’ai besoin de vous, parents" (I need you, parents), and “La Ville au bord du Fleuve Rouge” (City on the edge of the Red River).

The works provide an insight into the cultural diversity, spiritual life, cultural heritage and the lives of women in Vietnam and the European countries, according to the Goethe Institute, one of the festival organizers.

A highlight would be “Home from home” by South Korean director Sung-Hyung Cho. Produced by a German company, it tells the story of three South Korean women who serve as guest workers in West Germany in the 1970s and return home with their German husbands after a 30-year absence to spend the rest of their lives in what is known as the German Village in Namhae.

The films, selected by the embassies of Italy, France, and Switzerland and the Wallonia-Brussels Delegation together with the institute, will be screened at the Vietnam National Documentary and Scientific Film Studio.

A Vietnamese documentary and a foreign one on a similar theme will be screened every night.

Admission will be free.

source:tuoitrenews