SYNOPSIS
How the land given by the government to the farmers near Da Nang is taken back by the local authorities who give them to foreign investors to build tourist complexes and golf courses.
CREDIT
Director: Đoàn Hồng Lê
Genre: Documentary
Production: Varan Việt Nam
Cinematography: Trần Xuân Quang
Sound: Đoàn Hồng Lê
Editing: Dirk Schreier | Aurélie Ricard
REWARDS, FESTIVALS AND DIFFUSIONS
International Creative Documentary Festival
La Rochelle, France | 2013
States General of Documentary Film
Lusas, France | 2019
Festival Image de ville (City Image Festival)
Port-de-Bouc, France | 2021
Festival du Film
La Rochelle (France) | 2013
Millenium Film Festival
Brussels (Belgium) | 2013
EthnosFest
Athens (Greece) | 2013
Festival Cinema et Rural life
La Biolle (France) | 2012
Caméra des Champs
Ville-sur-Yron (France) | 2011 | Jury Prize
YxineFF
Vietnam | 2011
Traces of life
Clermont-Ferrand (France) | 2010
Corsica.doc
Ajaccio (France) | 2010
Viet Film Fest
South California (USA) | 2010
Vietnam International Film Festival
Hanoi (Vietnam) | 2010
IFCinéma, platform of the French Institute
Media library of the Quai Branly Museum
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