Japanese Film Festival 2014 – Passion

Ha Noi: 10 – 19 Oct 2014

National Cinema Center

87 Lang Ha, Ba Dinh, Hanoi

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Da Nang: 14 – 16 Nov 2014

Le Do Cinema

46 Tran Phu St, Hai Chau Dist., Danang City

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Vung Tau: 31 Oct – 02 Nov 2014

Dien Bien Cinema

32 Do Chieu St., Ward 1, Vung Tau City

The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam proudly presents Japanese Film Festival: PASSION 2014 from 10 October – 16 November 2014 in Hanoi, Danang, and Vung Tau.

Japanese Film Festival is one of the most anticipated annual events of the Japan Foundation and it is widely known that its free tickets are quickly run out in a few days, thanks to the enthusiastic Japanese film fans in Vietnam.

This year’s film festival focuses on the introduction of Japanese films under the theme of “PASSION”. We will screen Eight Japanese films, which relate with passion; a passion that looks comical, a passion that keeping their determination quietly, a passion to fight toward better future… . We hope you enjoy various Japanese passions in these films.

The festival’s opener is ROBO-G (dir. Shinobu Yaguchi/2012), is already screened some cities in Vietnam and got many laugh and a favorable reception. Comical scientists and strange robot will appear screen in Hanoi at last!

Film Festival Information

Film list:

1. One Million Yen Girl

(2008/dir. Yuki Tanada)

2. Feel the Wind

(2009/dir. Sumio Omori)

3. Bushido Sixteen

(2010/dir. Tomoyuki Furumaya)

4. Shodo Girls!!  

(2010/dir. Ryuichi Inomata)

5. In His Chart

(2011/dir. Yoshihiro Fukagawa)

6. Peak –The Rescuers-  

(2011/dir. Osamu Katayama)

7. Tomorrow’s Joe

(2011/dir. Fumihiko Sori)

8. Robo-G

(2012/dir. Shinobu Yaguchi)

Film screening schedule

In Hanoi

In Vung Tau

In Danang

Language: All films will be screened with both English and Vietnamese sub-title.

The admission is free, but the audience is advised to obtain the free tickets at following venues.

Hanoi:

Ticket distribution starts from 10:00 on Saturday 27 September 2014 04 October 2014

At The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam

27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam

Opening hours: 09:30 -12:00/13:30-17:30 on weekdays,

09:30-11:30/12:30-18:00 on Saturdays, closed on Sundays

Each person can get maximum 4 tickets.

Da Nang:

Ticket distribution starts from Monday 10 November 2014

At Le Do Cinema, 46 Tran Phu St, Hai Chau Dist., Danang City

For more information on ticket distribution, please contact to the cinema.

Vung Tau:

Ticket distribution starts from Monday 24 October 2014

At Dien Bien Cinema, 32 Do Chieu St., Ward 1, Vung Tau City

“That’s New – What’s Next” – Graphic Art Exhibition of Benjamin Badock

Opening: Thu 09 Oct 2014, 6 pm

Exhibition: 10 Oct – 02 Nov 2014

Goethe Institut

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học, Ba Đình, Hà Nội

The Goethe-Institut presents Benjamin Badock, one of the most seminal and original graphic artists in Germany, with a selection of 34 works on paper. Benjamin Badock is the third artist to receive the artist residency grant from the Cultural Foundation of Saxony for Vietnam. In December 2014, Benjamin Badock will be awarded the prestigious Sprengel award in Germany for his artistic oevre.

You could always know more about Benjamin through his two artist talk in Hanoi and HCMC.

Benjamin Badock was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz) in 1974. He studied art at the Eesti Kunstiakadeemia in Tallinn, Estonia, and at the Braunschweig Academy of Fine Arts (2001 – 2008). He was a master student of Professor Olav Christopher Jenssen in 2009. The artist lives in Leipzig. He was recently awarded the Sprengel Prize for Visual Arts 2014 by the Lower Saxony Sparkassen Foundation.

Free entrance.

Exhibition “Minimal Asian” to Celebrate Twelve Years of Module 7

Exhibition: 18 Oct – 09 Nov 2014, 9 am – 7 pm

Module 7

83 Xuân Diệu, Tây Hồ, Hà Nội

Founded in 2002, Module 7 is a leading company in interior design consultancy in Hanoi with many innovative products pursuing their own style of simplicity, sophistication, elegance inspired by Asian cultural essence.

The design of Module 7 is the seamless combination of contemporary design and Vietnamese cultural essence. Products are designed and made in traditional craft villages across the country. Each item holds long-standing cultural values of traditional artisanal know-how with a resonance of modernity.

On October 18th, we are going to hold a 12 year celebration with an interior exhibition titled “Minimal Asian” by designer and founder of Module 7 Pham Kieu Phuc.

A dozen year celebration is also an occasion for us to express and share our passion and vocation in preserving and raising the value of handicraft production methods using local materials such as: woods, ceramics, bronze, bamboo and lacquer. You are also invited to the whole aspect and insight of our works, from products development process to interior design projects as well as skillful craftsman portraits through video clip made by our team.

To Phạm Kiều Phúc, designer and founder of Module 7, contemplating to express not only the form but the hidden spirit of Asian decor is an exciting challenge, an open road that she has an opportunity to work in the present context where the craftsmanship is rich but lacks of competitiveness due to the absence of a suitable design thinking.

“Good design, to my mind, is the realization of a concept in which all the details are justified, where everything is necessary but there is no excess, where the function perfectly suits the context that give born to the idea. Our conical hat is a typical example.

There are my guides in creating objects and interior design. I am inspired by the serenity I have felt working with craftsmen and reflecting on their work. I do all I can to instill the knowledge they have given me into every object or piece of furniture I make. My final products are no longer mere craft objects, they always contain a core of tradition.”

Sculpture Showcase “New Form: Sculpture – Architecture – Space”

Opening: Fri 10 Oct 2014, 2 pm

Exhibition: 10 Oct – 04 Nov 2014

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

Exhibition New Form II

Artists: Phạm Thái Bình, Thái Nhật Minh, Khổng Đỗ Tuyền, Hoàng Mai Thiệp

Curator: Nguyễn Anh Tuấn

Manzi Art Space and New Form sculpture group cordially presents a piece of experimental sculpture named “New Form: Sculpture – Architecture – Space”. The exhibition is an activity in New Form project phase II, 2014 – 2015.

NEW FORM is an experimental sculpture project, which aims to overcome stereotypes of traditional sculpture and to open up new directions in thinking and creative possibilities of this art form. NEW FORM was founded by sculptors living and working in Hanoi with the desire to develop their career and to find new creative directions as well as experience a professional working environment.

In phase II, New Form project aims towards the connection of sculpture works with architectural living space in reality. The dialogue characteristics between the artworks are placed in the communicative ability with architecture, interior, and usage of that space. This dialogue has created special challenges when sculptures aren’t just dealing with its traditional inner relation such as shapes, materials, surfaces, colours, and aesthetics… but also with the correlation between sculpture and architectural space in the shape and function. This has to do with the environment, light, air, time, weather, the available context, and the changeable context as well as with the viewers’ behaviours and attitude to arts. As it isn’t just purely for the visual satisfying display, art has transformed into an intervention, intrusion and being parallel with movements, feelings, psychologies in everyday life activities.

The works of Thai Nhat Minh is a sculpture experiments with its role to connect the current space with the concept. Minh tries to find the connection between the inner and outer space, interior and exterior space by implementing at the gallery’s windows. The sculptural shapes were pressed flat and shown in a reflective material. The space in and outside interfered through the gaps of the window frames creating a visible visual connection for the audience.

The showcase of Pham Thai Binh took inspiration form the strong influence of architecture and modern design language to sculpture. Leaving the sculptures based on fixed forms, the works of Binh has developed towards site-specific installations and modularity.

Khong Do Tuyen continues to deploy the art direction of combining the rope structure from phase I. Following this way; he uses the ropes to create the structure of the space. Tuyen uses the walls, windows and the entire gallery ceiling as the space for sculpture. The artist’s experiment expanded the sculpture possibility. It isn’t just integrating but also changing the architecture space and also shows the connection between architecture space and sculpture space can be a unified piece.

This is the first time Hoang Mai Thiep joined New Form project. He showed a piece of sculpture combining with site-specific installation. Having the inspiration from the family tree – the popular family genealogy in rural life, Thiep uses the wooden blocks in many different sizes to mount on the large walls of the room. The conceptual elements of the work is expressed through the installation of the blocks in a random way, the empty and solid of each block, as well as the ambition to show the complex content through the sculpture language.

The participation of Pham Dam Ca brought graphical solution for the showcase of the sculptures. They aren’t just present with the auxiliary function for the sculptures. The graphic language of Dam Ca goes along with the works in the spirit of a specialized graphic solution for the art exhibition, and to be dissected to intentionally independent fragmented segments and pieces. This is a concise expression in visual and graphic language in parallel to the development of sculpture form and space.

To understand in a simple way, architecture is a work of creating spaces to serve the function of human lives. However, architecture isn’t just the physical space with the divided spaces of specific function. That is also the structure of human lives such as space structure, thinking structure, relationship structure or aesthetic structure. When sculpture starts to find a way to intervene, intrude in that space, it is not only the process of seeking and adapting with architecture but it has the ability to shift, change or even redefine architecture spaces by its visual elements and time concept. When architecture has oriented more and more to the universality in public space, uniqueness in small and medium spaces with its own meanings, sculpture also needs to shift and change to bring out the suggestions. That is the objective of New Form project and the spirit of this exhibition.

Exhibition “Information Transmitted by Horse Riding”

Opening: Tue 30 Sep 2014, 6 pm

Exhibition: 30 Sep - 26 Oct/2014

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the installation exhibition by Trieu Tuan Long.

At first glance, the exhibition is merely a herd of seven horses calmly grazing in a meadow. If we look more closely, these horses are carefully crafted from Boi papers, a Vietnamese traditional material, and are covered with randomly arranged pictures conveying meaningful life lessons. Is social media network gradually dominating our life? Transmitting information by horse riding enables us to search for information, screen and make them ours. But most importantly, it allows us to live more slowly.

Free entrance.

Celebrate French Culture with Sofitel Wine Days 2014

22 Sep – 31 Oct 2014

Sofitel Plaza Hanoi

1 Thanh Nien Road, Ba Dinh, Hanoi

As an ambassador of French culture, Sofitel Plaza Hanoi will join Sofitel Luxury Hotels around the world to celebrate this year’s grape harvest in France through a dedicated event “Sofitel Wine Days” from September 22nd to October 31st.

Embrace a touch of French gastronomy with the magnifique fusion of selected French wines and appetizing dishes, created to elevate all your senses. Guests are invited to savour the most sought-after French wines from renowned wineries such as Rothschild, Guigal, Alain Chabanon, Daumas Gassac, Brumont, Trimbach, Jadot, and Bordeaux.

Imbued with a sense of timeless elegance and French art de vivre, Sofitel Wine Days promise to graciously delight all palates.

Special offers:

• 25% discount for French wines in “Voyage du Vin” menu

• Selection of 20 French Wines of the Month at attractive prices at Brasserie Westlake and Song Hong Bar

• Selection of 20 wines from The Great Bordeaux Region at special rates at Ming Restaurant

• Signature dishes with wine pairing at Song Hong Bar and Summit Lounge

For more information, contact:

Sofitel Plaza Hanoi

1 Thanh Nien Road, Ba Dinh Dist., Hanoi

Phone: 84 (0)4 3823 8888 extension 5301

E-mail: H3553-FB1@sofitel.com