Vietnamese film about climate change available to rent online
The latest film by Vietnamese famed director Nguyen Vo Nghiem Minh is available to rent on vimeo.com, giving film fans a chance to indulge in the work of the renowned director.
A scene in Nuoc 2030 by Vietnamese famed director Nguyen Vo Nghiem Minh. The climate-themed film is being virtually screened on the website vimeo.com. (Photo courtesy of the producers)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - The latest film by Vietnamese famed director Nguyen VoNghiem Minh is available to rent on vimeo.com,giving film fans a chance to indulge in the work of the renowned director.
Entitled Nuoc 2030 (2030),Minh’s film is set in a fictional setting in which the south of Vietnam issubmerged in water.
The film was featured as part of the InterAsia Water(s) Graduate Conference,2021 by Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University on March 18. Atthis conference, the director also joined a Q&A session via Zoom with theaudience.
It is not the first time Minh’s film has been featured in a seminar on climatechange. In 2016, Nuoc 2030 was theopening film of European Climate Diplomacy Week. The director was also aspeaker at a seminar at the event after the film was screened.
Minh is a Vietnamese-American filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He holds a PhD inphysics and used to work as a lecturer before focusing on directing.
Nuoc 2030 was completed and premiered in 2013. In 2015, the filmwas re-introduced in HCM City during the 19th Vietnam Film Festival.
The film was also featured in the 64th Berlin International Festival in 2014.
A combination of various cinematic elements like mystery, romance and drama, Nuoc 2030 is set in the vast andbeautiful coastal regions of Vietnam in the near future when water levels haverisen due to global climate change.
South Vietnam is one of the regions most affected by climate change, whichcauses as much as half the farmland to be swallowed by water. To subsist,people have to live on houseboats and rely solely on fishing with a depletingsupply.
The story follows a young woman in her journey to find the truth about themurder of her husband whom she suspects was killed by the people of a floatingfarm.
In the process, she discovers the secret of that floating farm that employsgenetic engineering technology to cultivate vegetables that can be grown usingsaltwater thus can be produced much cheaper. However, this untested technologycan have dangerous health consequences for consumers that the farm wants tokeep secret.
The women end up finding out different versions of the truth about herhusband’s death and has to make a dramatic decision without knowing theabsolute truth.
This is the 65-year-old director's third film after MuaLen Trau (Buffalo Boy) in 2004 and KhiYeu Dung Quay Dau Lai (Don’t Turn Back When You Are In Love) in 2010.
He received many international accolades and awards for his directorial debutincluding the New Directors Silver Hugo Award at the Chicago International FilmFestival, the FIPRESCI Jury Award at the Palm Springs International FilmFestival, and Youth Jury Award at the Locarno International Film Festival./.
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