Glorious Ashes

Box Office Around The World

Filmstill für "Glorious Ashes" – Filmstill für "Glorious Ashes"

On three weekends in August, the Schlüter Courtyard becomes a meeting place for film enthusiasts from all over the world with summery drinks and snacks. The open-air festival invites you to talk to international film stars and presents six current cinema productions that are box office hits in their countries of origin but have not yet been shown on the big screen in Germany.

Glorious Ashes: Bùi Thạc Chuyên / Vietnam 2022 / 117 Min. / Romance, Drama / Vietnamese with English subtitles

Jealousy, spurned love, an arsonist and three women who know exactly what they want – that’s what this village drama from the Mekong Delta is all about. With fantastic images of an unreal beautiful landscape, the film tells of the relationships between people whose lives are deeply intertwined by traditions which they carry on but at the same time revolt against. There are many secrets in the enchanted village in the Mekong Delta, where people travel to the market by boat over overgrown canals, collect crabs in mangroves and where women can also cover roofs. But in this film, the idyll is not an exotic backdrop for backward-looking romance. Hậu is unhappily married to Dương, who is manically and desperately in love with Nhàn, who lives on the opposite bank of the river with a chronic arsonist. The jealousy drama with a surprising outcome takes place under the watchful, curious eyes of the neighborhood, as do the older Loan’s unconventional attempts to free herself from the trauma of rape.This movie is like an abduction into a world where words have little power. The director received multiple awards for his features and documentaries in Vietnam and abroad.

Programme

7:30 pm: Talk with Vanessa Vu (journalist) and Dorothee Wenner (moderator) in German and Vietnamese

8:30 pm: Film

 

- 8 EUR, reduced 4 EUR

- FSK 12

- Entrance: Portal 5.

- Note: A severe thunderstorm may lead to the cancellation of the event.

- English, Vietnamese

- Belongs to: Box Office Around The World

Next date:

• Date Saturday, 31/August/2024 19:30
• Venue Humboldt Forum: Schlüterhof (Berliner Schloss)
• Address Schloßplatz 5, 10178 Berlin-Mitte