Entertainment

A week of free film screenings is to be launched in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from November 6 to 12 to commemorate the 21st Vietnam Film Festival, which will take place later this month.

First there was Tutu, the "African Mona Lisa" sold last year for 1.5 million dollars. Then a second portrait by revered Nigerian painter Ben Enwonwu, called Christine, sold in mid-October, for 1.4 million dollars.

A wide variety of attractive activities are being held at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in Hanoi from November 1-30, aiming to honour the cultural quintessence of Vietnamese ethnic groups.

The Vietnam-Korea Culture and Culinary Festival 2019 will take place in Ly Thai To Square near Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi from November 8-10, the Republic of Korea (RoK) Embassy in Vietnam announced at a press briefing in Hanoi

A local film festival in suburban Tokyo has come under fire for dropping a movie examining views on the highly controversial issue of sex slavery and Japan's wartime military brothels.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has dismissed the head of the Cinema Department, Nguyen Thi Thu Ha, following the approval of Abominable at local cinemas.

Ho Chi Minh City will host Miss Charm International 2020, the first competition of its kind in the world, in early next year.

The 2019 ‘Art in the Forest’ exhibition (AIF 2019) offically opened in Flamingo Dai Lai Resort in the northern province of Vinh Phuc on October 26.

From October 25 to November 3, “Hermès Heritage – In Motion” will be open to visitors at Hanoi’s Temple of Literature, completely free of charge.

The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam is set to hold a J-Dance vol.2 event at the Youth Theater in Hanoi across two days on November 1 and 2.

A USD420 million racetrack complex in Hanoi’s the outlying district of Soc Son is set to open next year.

A street dance programme named ‘Dance Dance Asia ―Crossing the Movements 2019’, featuring three dance works created by a collaboration of emerging directors and dancers from across Asia, will take place October 24-26.

The 5th Hanoi cherry blossom festival will be held in the heart of the capital city from March 27-30, according to representatives of the municipal Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Master of Italian body language Luca Vullo and his mother, Angela Gabriele, will for the first time showcase the extraordinary skill of Italian people to communicate without words but using only the body language in an amusing show.

Award-winning movie Land of Mine will open the Danish Film Festival which will take place in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from October 26-31.

French violinist Régis Pasquier and Japanese pianist Yoko Kaneko are set to take the stage for a classical music performance, including well-known classical pieces by Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and César Franck at the L’Espace French Cultural