Arts & Entertainment

Pianist Hinrich Alpers & violinist Bui Cong Duy perform works by Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms.

Vietnamese International Master (IM) Tran Tuan Minh is the surprise leader of the HDBank Cup International Open Chess after three rounds in HCM City.

Hollywood film director Jordan Vogt-Roberts believed that Vietnam would soon be a destination favored by international tourists after the success of the film "Kong: Skull Island", and that his mission was to promote Vietnam through the box office.

A film about the renowned punk band Rebel Riot in Yangon, Myanmar by Andreas Hartmann.

Talk session by photographer Maika Elan and specialist Oguri Ayako on “Hikikomori” (adolescents or adults who withdraw from social life).

Improvisation comedy show by The Rotten Grapes - the one and only English-speaking Comedy club in Hanoi.

Exhibit ten circular paintings displayed in Fairy by artist Do Hiep.

Group exhibition of paintings on papers by 3 painters Do Duc, Hoang Dinh and Bui Viet Dung.

One of a few fictional feature films about parenting a child with autism, directed by a mother of an autistic child.

Joyful series of four short 3D puppet animations following the journey of the 8-year-old bear Leon and his friends through the 4 seasons.

Eight bands from the Hanoi Enthusiastic Music Club will be playing songs by Tokyo Skaparadise Orchestra, Superfly, Michael Jackson and some originals.

German pianist Boris Schönleber will play pieces by the German composers Richard Wagner, Robert Schumann and Austrian composer Hugo Wolf.

Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts told the Channel NewsAsia that he expects that the film will encourage more people to visit Vietnam, and hopes they go and explore Vietnam, fall in love with the landscapes, the people, the culture and the food.

Music night which introduces the style Jazz Manouche, featuring pre-war Vietnamese romantic songs played in this style.

All members of the council for appointment and dismissal of tourism ambassador set up by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism agreed to choose Director Vogt-Roberts, director of the film “Kong: Skull Island”, as the new tourism ambassador of Vietnam in the 2017-2020 tenure at their meeting in Hanoi on March 9.

“Sing Street” - latest musical film (2016) by the director of ‘Once’ and ‘Begin Again’.

The animated film tells the adventures of Félicie, a young girl who left her hometown of Brittany at the age of 11 to come to Paris with a dream of becoming a star ballerina.

A profound portrait of humanity created in 60 countries by photojournalist-director Yann Arthus-Bertrand in 2 years.

Interactive performance inspired by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s “No Mud, No Lotus” lecture.

Screening of the comedy movie “Macho man” within the framework of a screening program of 10 most popular German movies of the past years in 10 consecutive weeks.