The festival, slated to last five days, aims to honour movietalents and outstanding movies with humanitarian and art values.
It also provides a platform for Vietnamese and internationalmovie artists to share professional expertise, contributing to expandingVietnam’s movie market in the region and the world, popularising Vietnam andits people and culture to international friends.
The event was held for the first time in 2010.
Throughout the past five editions, the organising boardreceived entries from Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, the Republicof Korea, India, Argentina, France, Mexico, Romania, Iran, Poland, amongothers./.