Audiences in Vietnam will have an opportunity to experience over 40 screenings, which have been presented worldwide and at various international film festivals. The works are in the original German language with Vietnamese and English subtitles or voice-over.

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A scene of “24 Wochen”. (Source: the Goethe Institute) 

The movie entitled “24 Wochen” (24 weeks) will open the film festival in Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City with a presentation by its Director Anna Berrached. “24 Wochen” is a story of a couple who have a nine-year-old daughter and are expecting their second child. As they learn that their child will not be born healthy, they thought at first that they would be able to cope with the challenge. But the closer it gets to the due date, the more the wife begins to worry about the future of her unborn child, as well as that of her family and her career, and after many discussions and arguments she realizes that she will have to make a decision on her own.

The film is the second movie by Berrached, which premiered at the Berlin International Film and received 16 awards including three awards for best director and the Silver Award German Film Prize 2017.

Audiences can see Berrached as a leading actress in the 2017 drama Millenials and will have the chance to meet and talk with her after each 70-minute screening in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on September 8 and 10.

Other movies include the dramas Berlin Syndrome; Wild; Tiger Girl; Under Sandet; the comedies The Lotzmann Family at the Barricades and Tschick; and the documentary Happy, which were made in 2016 and 2017.

Tickets for all screenings in Hai Phong, Da Nang and Hue are free, while in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, tickets can be purchased at a nominal price of VND 20,000 each.

Translated by Trung Thanh