VIETNAM DAYS IN INDIA

On the occasion of the state visit to India of H.E. Mr. Tran Dai Quang, President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, there will be a one-day artist camp, exhibition and screening of feature films from Vietnam. The films will be screened as part of the IIC’s Film Club programme activities

 

ON 3 MARCH FROM 10:00 TO 18:00 IN THE MAIN VERANDAH

 

Indo-Vietnamese Artist Camp 

With Vietnamese artists: Dao Thi Lien Huong, Bui Hu’u Hung, Nguyen Xuan Nghi, Ngo Ba Thao, Chu Anh Phurong, Le The Anh, Le Durc Tung, Doan Van Duc, Ngo Thi Bihn Nhi and Nguyen Tien Hung

 

And Indian artists: Tanmoy Samanta; Nupur Kundu; Harshvardhan Swaminathan; Kanchan Chander; Shalina Vichitra; Manish Pushkale; Akhilesh Yadav; Laishram Meena Devi; Nin Taneja; Mahula Ghosh and Gitanjali Sanon

 

Organised in collaboration with Seher 

  

3 TO 5 MARCH 2018, ART GALLERY, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX, 11:00 TO 19:00

The Vietnam Culture Space  –  Colours of Vietnam

An exhibition that brings together Vietnam’s culture, arts, tangible and intangible heritage and also presents the important landmarks in the bilateral relations between Vietnam and India through documentary photographs taken in the last 45 years

 

On view are photographs on Vietnam’s cultural heritage, its traditional costume such as the Ao Dai – Vietnamese formal dress; handicrafts including traditional ceramics, bamboo and rattan work, lacquer painting, shell in-lay work and bronze casting. Also on view are traditional musical instruments made of bamboo and lacquer, and an installation “Rhythm of the City” introducing modern life in Vietnam.

 

The exhibition also includes photographs of Vietnam today with its dynamic economic development and hardworking people; and rare archival photographs on the landmarks of Vietnam-India relations such as the visit of President Ho Chi Minh to India and the visit of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to Vietnam

 

 

 

ON 3 MARCH 2018 AT 19:15 IN C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM

The Heart Mission (S? M?nh Trái Tim)

(100 min; 2016; dvd; English subtitles)

Written & directed by Duc Thinh

 

Nominated for the Vietnamese Golden Kite Award for Best Feature Film 2017, this action/romance film is about a group of bomb disposal experts who come to a village in the Central Highland of Vietnam to detect and clear the mines left over from the war

 

ON 12 MARCH 2018 AT 18:30 AT C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM

The Scent of Burning Grass (Mùi C? Cháy)

(97 min; 2012; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Nguyen Huu Muoi

 

Film based on memoirs from real-life soldiers having fought in the 81-day defence of the Quang Tri citadel against US-backed South Vietnamese forces in the summer of 1972

 

ON 13 MARCH 2018 AT 18:30 AT C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM

 

ON 15 MARCH 2018 AT 18:30 AT C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM

The Tailor (Cô Ba Sài Gòn)

(100 min; 2017; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Tran Buu Loc & Kay Nguyen

 

A romantic comedy about Vietnamese women living in Sài Gòn (now Ho Chi Minh city) in the 1960s. The film’s story follows a famed áo dài (the traditional Vietnamese long dress) tailor, Thanh Mai in 1969 Saigon and her cavalier daughter Nhu Y

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam)