{"id":5033,"date":"2025-09-10T12:50:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/?p=5033"},"modified":"2025-10-08T17:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:03:14","slug":"opening-night-of-the-15th-european-vietnamese-documentary-film-festival-september-12-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dal_consolato\/2025\/09\/opening-night-of-the-15th-european-vietnamese-documentary-film-festival-september-12-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Night of the 15th European\u2013Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival (September 12, 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4979 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EU-VN_Documentary_Film_Festival_2025-1024x774.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EU-VN_Documentary_Film_Festival_2025-1024x774.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EU-VN_Documentary_Film_Festival_2025-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EU-VN_Documentary_Film_Festival_2025-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EU-VN_Documentary_Film_Festival_2025.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Consulate General of Italy in Ho Chi Minh City is pleased to invite you to the <strong>Opening Night of the 15th European\u2013Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival<\/strong>, which will take place on\u00a0<strong>Friday, September 12<\/strong>, at the\u00a0<strong>DCINE Ben Thanh<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The evening\u2019s program is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>7:00 PM \u2013 Screening of <strong><em>\u201cJourney of Love\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(2024)<\/strong>\u00a0by Vietnamese director\u00a0<strong>Le Anh Tuan<\/strong>;<br \/>\n7:50 PM \u2013 Screening of\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cCartapesta: Carnival of Fano\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(2024)\u00a0<\/strong>by Italian director\u00a0<strong>Andrea Lodovichetti<\/strong>, to whom we express our gratitude for kindly granting free screening rights.<\/p>\n<p>The documentaries will be screened in their original language with English\/Vietnamese subtitles.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis \u2013 \u201c<em>Journey of Love\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The film portrays charitable actions carried out by volunteers who provide transportation for disadvantaged patients from hospital to home and back. They were particularly active during the Covid-19 pandemic. This specific form of charity directly supports patients by sparing them travel expenses for each medical visit and offering psychological encouragement. Every day, hundreds of such trips are made throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis \u2013 \u201c<em>Cartapesta: Carnival of Fano\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2019s oldest Carnival: memories, archive footage, and a powerful imagination rooted for centuries in one city \u2013 Fano. A tradition of papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 and master float-makers who, generation after generation, have combined creativity, engineering, and craftsmanship to build the traveling stages known as allegorical floats. A mask,\u00a0<em>Vul\u00f3n<\/em>, meets a child. He knows nothing about the Carnival of Fano. And who better than a mask to guide him through parades, costumes, and sweets, and to tell him that Carnival is not just a festival but something more: a feeling, a state of mind that warms the heart of a city and its surrounding territory. And as the Carnival week draws to a close, someone is already ready for a new beginning\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&nbsp; The Consulate General of Italy in Ho Chi Minh City is pleased to invite you to the Opening Night of the 15th European\u2013Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival, which will take place on\u00a0Friday, September 12, at the\u00a0DCINE Ben Thanh. The evening\u2019s program is as follows: 7:00 PM \u2013 Screening of \u201cJourney of Love\u201d\u00a0(2024)\u00a0by Vietnamese director\u00a0Le Anh [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-5033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5048,"href":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033\/revisions\/5048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}