The German Film Festival is bringing new German-language film highlights to Vietnam this September, sure to thrill audiences with a versatile program in addition to an exciting special guest from Germany.

The Goethe-Institut will open the festival on the 6th of September 2015 inHanoi.

A selection of the newest and most popular films from Germany will be shown in Hanoi, Da Nang, Hue and HCMC. In its 6th annual year, the festival will showcase the remarkable dynamism and creativity of the German film industry, genres ranging from thriller to drama and comedy.

The organizers will present in more than 30 screenings – in original German language with Vietnamese and English subtitles or voice-over – selected films which have been particularly successful in cinemas around the world as well as at the Berlin Film Festival and other festivals.

Among special guest will be the young director, screenwriter and actor Tali Barde, who will present his film “For No Eyes Only” in Hanoi and HCMC, and will be available to answer questions from the audience.

In 2015 German films capture historic as well as current topics as they deal with the power of digital media, with traditions and cultural distinctions. This year’s German Film Festival in Vietnam offers the audience a selection of eight film highlights from renowned directors and with famous German actors.

The Festival Films:

The opening film "Who am I – No system is safe" is a pacy and visually striking cyber-thriller about a gang of computer hackers with a dangerous Russian group and European cyber police on its trail.

The portrait of a German soldier in Afghanistan Inbetween Worlds explores questions of affinity and otherness, trust and failure. What remains of the ideals of human dignity when you are caught up in a daily struggle for survival?

Two of this year’s films tell the story of little boys who all of a sudden are on their own: Jack is a 10-year-old who runs away with his brother and embarks on a dangerous and disturbing journey across Berlin. In Run boy, run!, Academy Award winner Pepe Danquart tells the true story of an eight-year-old refugee, escaping from the ghetto of Warsaw, who manages to be one step ahead of his pursuers for three years because of his courage and an incredible instinct for survival.

For no eyes only is what the teenager Sam observes when he hits upon a hacking software that enables him access to external webcams and lets him witness a suspicious situation.

A lone rider high up in the alps, a wedding that comes with a terrible tradition and the mysterious death of two brothers is the setting of the visually stunning Euro-Western The Dark Valley.

Not my day is the story of Till Reiner who finds a way out of his early midlife crisis when his bank is being robbed and he bonds with his kidnappers – a crime-comedy-road movie for the whole family. Fantasy fans shouldn’t miss Vampire Sisters as it follows Silvania and Dakaria from Transylvania to a small town in Germany, where they have to suit to the everyday life of humans and hide their vampire identity – even more so as it turns out their neighbor is a vampire hunter…

The German Film Festival 2015 promises a great selection of films with many exciting, moving and inspiring moments for film lovers and for the whole family.

Tickets for all films are free.

Free tickets are available in the locations one week before the festival starts.

Free tickets from 1st September, noon at:
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc
Tel. (04) 37 34 22 51/52/53 (ext. 9)

In Hue
Center for Culture & Information
41A Hung Vuong, Hué

Da Nang
Le Do Cinema
46 Tran Phu, Hai Chau, Da Nang

PHP & Cinema Center Da Nang
68 Tran Phu, Hai Chau, Da Nang

In Ho Chi Minh City
Goethe-Institut Ho Chi Minh City
18, Duong so 1, Cu xa Do Thanh, Dist. 3, Ho Chi Minh City
Tel.: + 84 8 38326716 / + 84 8 38326765

The movies will be screened in:

Hanoi: Sun 06 Sep – Sun 13 Sep

National Cinema Centre

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Hue: Thu 10 Sep – Tue 14 Sep

Center for Culture & Information

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Da Nang: Fri 11 Sep – Sun 20 Sep

Le Do Cinema

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HCMC: Sat 12 Sep – Fri 18 Sep

Cinebox Cinema