HANOI: Canada’s ‘Remember’ won the best feature-length film and its actor Christopher Plummer grabbed the best actor at the 4th Hanoi International Film Festival, which concluded on Saturday.
Mexico’s ‘Three Variation on Ofelia’ won the best short film title and Hasmine Killip in the Philippines’ ‘Family’ bagged home the best actress in a leading role. The Filipino film’s director Eduardo Roy Jr got the best director title and Pham Ngoc Lan, director of Vietnam’s ‘Another City’ won the best director in the short film category.
The five-day festival featured 146 films from 43 countries and territories, and many of its jury members and guests are foreign and Vietnamese film stars.
‘Remember’ is a 2015 Canadian-German drama thriller film directed by Atom Egoyan and written by Benjamin August. Starring Christopher Plummer, Bruno Ganz, Jürgen Prochnow, Heinz Lieven, Henry Czerny, Dean Norris and Martin Landau, the film was theatrically released in Canada on October 23, 2015, in Germany on December 31, 2015, and in the United States by A24 on March 11, 2016. The film, about an elderly Holocaust survivor with dementia who sets out to kill a Nazi war criminal, received mostly positive reviews and won a few film festival awards. At the 4th Canadian Screen Awards, August received the Award for Best Original Screenplay and Remember was also nominated for Best Motion Picture.
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