VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam won two of the six major awards of the Vietnam International Film Festival 2010, which closed last night, October 21, in Hanoi. 

 
 
Nhat Kim Anh receives the Best Actress Prize.

The two awards for Vietnam include the Best documentary and short film for “Always Beside You” and the Best Actress for Nhat Kim Anh, who plays Cam in “The Fate of a Songstress in Thang Long”. 

 

"To play my role in The Fate of a Songstress in Thang Long, I had to learn a lot," Nhat Kim Anh says, "such as playing a 16-chord zither, singing ceremonial songs and expressing the character's inner feeling through crying with only one eye. I felt I grew up in this film and I'm proud of the role," she says.

 

The Documentary and Short Film Jury included Matthieu Poirot-Delpech from France, Juhani Alanen from Finland, and Vietnamese director Bui Dinh Hac.

 

"I really like Asian short films," says Alanen. "For me, Asian short films are windows to Asian countries. They tell me something about Asia that you cannot find from news or television."

 

The festival focused on East Asian and Southeast Asian films and attracted filmmakers, producers and businessmen from 30 countries and territories.

 

List of awards

 

Best feature film: Sand Castle, Singapore

 

Best documentary and short film: Always Beside You, Viet Nam

 

Best Actor: Ah Niu, Ice Kacang and Puppy Love, Malaysia

 

Best Actress: Nhat Kim Anh, The Fate of a Songstress in Thang Long, Viet Nam, and Fiona Sit, Breakup Club, Hongkong

 

Best Director: Boo Junfeng, Sand Castle, Singapore.  

Best Actress prize went to two contenders because of their excellence: Nhat Kim Anh of Viet Nam and Fiona Sit of Hongkong (China).

 

Movie stars at the closing ceremony:

 
The Best Director Award winnder: Boo Junfeng from Singapore
 
Vietnamese actress Tang Thanh Ha and Hong Kong Star Daniel Wu.
 

Vietnamese director Nguyen Thi Minh Hai receives the Best Documentary Film Prize for "Always Beside You".
 

Director Dang Nhat Minh and French cameraman Francois Cantonné present the Best Actor and Actress Awards.
 

Malaysian actor Ah Niu couldn't go to Vietnam to take the Best Actor Award so the prize was presented to his representative.
 

Nhat Kim Anh and the representative of Hong Kong actress Fiona Sit receive the Best Actress Awards.
 

Actress Do Hai Yen and Marco Mueller, Director of the Venice International Film Festival present the Best Director Award to Singaporean director Boo Junfeng (left).
 

Australian director Phillip Noyce and South Korean actress Kang Su Yoen announced the best feature film of the first Vietnam International Film Festival.