Film screening
Farewell Ha Long

The screening was banned by the Ministry of Culture. Reason: “The permission to film/shoot of the film “Farewell Ha Long” pertained for reportage only.” "The film is not suitable for a presentation in Vietnam at the moment."

Wed, 13.06.2018
7:00 PM National Documentary and Scientific Film Studio (Hanoi)

The screening was banned by the Ministry of Culture. Reason: “The permission to film/shoot of the film “Farewell Ha Long” pertained for reportage only.” "The film is not suitable for a presentation in Vietnam at the moment."


Nguyen Van Cuong (46) and his wife live in a self-made cabin located on a raft offshore Ha Long Bay in Northern Vietnam. Their only son Quy has been living ashore for seven years as he goes to school there. Things change radically when the government orders a resettlement of their floating village Tò Bò Nâu in 2014. The family that has been sleeping, cooking and working by the sea for generations, needs to face an uncertain future – ashore or offshore.
 

Duc Ngo Ngoc

© Lisa Ziegler

is a Vietnamese-German filmmaker. He was born 1988 in Hanoi and moved to Berlin at five. From 2010 to 2014, Duc studied Media Art and Design at the Bauhaus University Weimar. With 4 other filmmakers, he founded KAMMER11 Filmkollektiv in 2013. Since 2015, Duc has been studying a Masters in Film Directing at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF and did a guest semester at the Hanoi Academy of Theater and Cinema.                                                                 
Director and Scriptwriter: Đức Ngô Ngọc 
Production und Contribution: 42 Film GmbH (www.42film.de)
Release in Germany: 19.4.2018
Length: 98 min.
Camera: Pham Ngoc Lan
Montage: Gudrun Steinbrück, Tien Dat Nguyen
Tone: Ban Ga Nguyen, Kien Trung Bui, Duong Ngoc Hoa
Music: Martin Kohlstedt
Producers: Christoph Kukula, Eike Goreczka
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitle
98’

PREISE

Winner of Dialogue-Prize, 27th Film Festival Cottbus 2017
39th Film Festival Max-Ophüls-Preis 2018