HA NOI (VNS)  — The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents (TPD) will present Crash (USA, 2004) and In a Better World (Denmark, 2010) in the second week of Oscar film month.

Tackling the subject of racial and social tensions in Los Angeles, California, Crash won the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing in 2006. In a Better World won the award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011.

The screenings of the Crash and In a Better World will start at 2pm and 7.30pm, respectively. The movies will be presented in their original languages with Vietnamese subtitles at Level 4, 51 Tran Hung Dao Street.

The screening is for educational purposes and entrance is free, but guests are welcome to donate to the TPD Centre's Young Cinema Fund.

Manzi Art Space is continuing a new series of experimental movie and video art screenings titled Chieu Bong (Vietnamese for Cinema). On Sunday, The Cremaster Cycle by Matthew Barney will be screened – a series of five visually extravagant films which took eight years to finish (1994-2002) and run for nearly eight hours.

The screening will start from 10am at Manzi Art Space, 14 Phan Huy Ich Street. Free entry. Viewers are free to come and go as they please. Please pre-register at manzihanoi@gmail.com before 2pm on Saturday.— VNS