Mya Bollaers (as Lola) and Benoît Magimel (as Phillip, Lola’s father) seen in Lola vers la mer (Encounter). The movie will open the Francophone Film Week 2020 on September 23 (Photo: allocine.fr)Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Cinema lovers will have a chance to enjoyinternational award-winning films when the Francophone Film Week 2020 kicks offnext week.
Organised by the Wallonia-Brussels Delegation in Vietnam, the screenings, partof the activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the InternationalOrganisation of La Francophonie, will take place over four days, from September23 to 26, at the National Documentary and Scientific Film Studio.
Audiences will be offered a cultural journey through four excellent movieswhich were produced or co-produced by French-speaking Belgian cinematographersin 2018 and 2019.
The film event will open with Lola vers la mer (Encounter) byLaurent Micheli, who probes the pain of a widowed man (played by BenoitMagimel) facing his daughter, Lola (played by Mya Bollaers) through this drama.
At the Magritte Cinema Awards 2020 in Brussels in February, the movie won twoawards, Best Supporting Actress and Best Production Design.
On September 24, the movie Troisièmes noces (Third Wedding) by DavidLambert will be presented. The movie is about Martin, a 50-year-old widowed gayman living in Brussels, who gets into a marriage of convenience with20-year-old Congolese immigrant Tamara. Different in every way, these twopeople do all they can to convince the authorities that their marriage is real– and end up loving each other, each in their own way.
At the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival in 2018, the movie was nominated forBest Film, Best Scenario, and Best Music.
The Francophone Film Week will continue with the screening of themulti-awarded-wining Pour vivre heureux (To Live Happily) onSeptember 25.
Co-directed by Dimitri Linder and Salima Sarah Glamine, the romantic film isabout a young couple from Brussels, Amel and Mashir who live a secret lovestory that, under the weight of family traditions, brutally threatens to collapse.The day Mashir's family decide to marry him to his cousin Noor, who is alsoAmel's friend, their whole world falls apart.
The drama movie Nuestras Madres Nos mères (OurMothers) by César Díaz will be screened on September 26.
A co-product between Guatemala and Belgium, the movie is set in Guatemala,where is riveted on the trial of the military officers who started the civilwar. The victims’ testimonies keep pouring in. Ernesto, a younganthropologist at the Forensic Foundation, identifies people who have gonemissing. One day, through an old lady’s story, Ernesto thinks he has found alead that will allow him to find his father, a guerillero who disappeared duringthe war.
At the Cannes Film Festival 2019, the film was granted a Palme d’Or for BestCamera.
In addition, it also won the SACD Prize (La Société des Auteurs CompositeursDramatiques or the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers) at the CannesInternational Critics' Week 2019./.
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