The ‘Gap Go Mua Thu’ (Autumn Meeting 2017) is running in Da Nang until tomorrow, 5 December.  This annual international cinema event is being attended by a total of 100 people from at home, and such foreign countries as South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan Japan, Denmark, Brazil and France.

Director Tran Anh Hung during a lecture at the Autumn Meeting (Photo: sggp.org.vn)

The 9-day event features cinematic exchanges between movie industries of participating countries, along with training courses in acting, design (costume, scenic, lighting/sound), make-up, stage direction and other related aspects. 

The intensive courses are being taught by such renowned artistes as Vietnamese French Director Tran Anh Hung, South Korean actress Lydia Park, movie star Moon So-ri and director Yim Soon Rye, plus Vietnamese-born French actress Tran Nu Yen Khe.

Moon So-ri is best known for her role in the 2002 South Korean film Oasis in which she played a woman with severe cerebral palsy who became involved in a difficult romance with an intellectually challenged man.  The Busan-born actress’s performance in Oasis helped Moon So-ri receive a Marcello Mastroianni Award for Emerging Actress at the Venice International Film Festival the same year.

Tran Anh Hung was an Oscar nominee and Cannes Camera d'Or winner in 1993 for ‘Scent of Green Papaya’; more recently, director of the 2010 adaptation of Haruki Murakami's hit novel ‘Norwegian Wood’.  Mr Hung’s movies showing a profound contemplation of life in Viet Nam are both critically and commercially successful.

Within the framework of the Autumn Meeting 2017, a round-table discussion, entitled ‘Women Film Women Live’ honouring the remarkable efforts made by female directors in promoting the progress of the movie industry.  Present at the discussion were Nguyen Hoang Diep from Viet Nam, Anocha Mai from Thailand, and Uisenma Borchu from Mongolia.

Furthermore, there are screenings of movies by directors Tran Anh Hung, Davi Chou, Anocha Mai and Nguyen Hoang Diep, in Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City.

First held in 2013, the non-profit Autumn Meeting is an annual cinema event co-founded by a group of young Vietnamese filmmakers looking to organise a meeting where younger generations can learn more about experience from their predecessors.