VietNamNet Bridge – The historical and martial art film directed by Victor Vu won the prize of the jury for feature films at the 2nd Hanoi International Film Festival.

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The festival closed on the evening of November 29. The closing ceremony took place at the Hanoi Friendship Culture Palace.

After 5 days, the jury selected winning works in different categories. Vietnam’s movie “Blood Letter” took the award of the jury, the second most important prize for the feature film category.

In a press conference held several hours before the award ceremony, German director Jan Schuett, the chief judge of the feature film category, said Victor Vu’s “Blood Letter” was quite outstanding compared to other Asian films competing at the festival.

With a cost of VND25 billion ($1.2 million), this movie was launched early this year and received good feedback.
 
Victor Vu said: "It is a pleasure to attend and see my colleagues at the festival. This is a very special occasion. This prize is a great encouragement to me. "

The Best Feature Film Award is for the most outstanding film while the Prize of the Jury is for the movie that may not be the best, but it is a good film that the jury wants to encourage and introduce to the audience. This is the second most important award in the festival.

Another Vietnamese film competing in the festival, “Passion” by Phi Tien Son, was not highly appreciated by both experts and the audience.




The movie that won the top prize this year – The Best Feature Film – is “Shackled” of the Philippines. This is a film with the subject of theft. Director Lawrence Fajardo said it was the first time his movie attending an international film festival and it won a prize.

“Night of Silence”, the Turkish film which was considered as a brilliant candidate for the Best Feature Film Award, won the encouragement prize of the Asian Cinema Network - NETPAC, the Best Actor (Ilyas Salman) and the Best Director (Reis Celik).

The Best Director Award was presented to two directors, Reis Celik of “Night of Silence” and Iskandar Usmonov of Tajikistan with the movie “Telegram”.

The Best Actress Award went to a very young star - Qiang Li - in the Chinese film “Song of Silence”. However, both the Best Actress and Best Actor were not present at the award ceremony last night.

The closing night happened fast and simply, within an hour and a half.

The list of the prize winners:

- Encouragement Award of the Asian Cinema Network - NETPAC: Night of Silence - Turkey
- Special Prize of the jury for short film: cartoon Yellow Cow - Vietnam
- The Jury Award for Feature Film: Blood Letter - Vietnam
- Best Actress: Qiang Li (Song of Silence) - China
- Best Actor: Ilyas Salman (Night of Silence) - Turkey
- Best Director: Reis Celik (Night of Silence, Turkey) and Iskandar Usmonov (Telegram, Tajikistan)
- Best Short Film: Bermula Dari A (Starting from Letter A) - Indonesia
- Best Feature Film: Shackled - Philippines

Pictures of the closing night of the festival:




Compiled by T. Van