A scene from the award-winning Vietnamese film Trang noi day gieng (Moon at the bottom of the well), which will be shown for free in Ho Chi Minh City March 17-18.

There will be free admission for all later this month when the Institute of Cultural Exchange with France (Idecaf) in Ho Chi Minh City screens the award-winning Vietnamese feature film “Moon at the bottom of the well.”

Back home on March 1, it picked up a Silver Kite for Best Picture at the Canh dieu vang (Golden Kite) national film awards.

The screenings on March 17 and 18 starting at 7:30 p.m. are part of a month of Vietnamese and French-language films organized by the French consulate in HCMC.

Whether there will be English subtitles or not has yet to be announced.

Free tickets are available from Idecaf at 31 Thai Van Lung Street, District 1.

Set in the old capital of Hue city, “Moon at the bottom of the well” began screening in the central town last Friday as a test case to guage the reaction of Vietnamese audiences.

A press conference to publicize the film will be held today at the Cinebox cinema in HCMC’s District 3.

In the US, the Institute of Vietnamese Culture and Education in New York has invited director Nguyen Vinh Son to introduce “Moon at the bottom of the well” to students at Cornell, Yale, Harvard and Princeton universities at the end of this month, the director said.

Son will discuss his picture with the audience after each screening.

Source: TN, TT