Holiday service guide: what`s open and when in Hanoi. Here are the ones we recommend.

Indian Film Screening: “Oh My God”
Come to join the film screening of “Oh My God”, a comedy drama directed by Umesh Shukla. The film features Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal and Mithun Chakraborty.
Kanji Mehta, an atheist, runs an antique shop. For him, god is just a business proposition. When a small earthquake destroys his shop and his isnurance claimwas dismissed citing ‘act of god’ clausesKanji sues god and his god man and religious heads to recover his losses. No one is willing to argue his case till a god incarnationsteps in.
Entrance to the film screening is free and open to all age groups. The film is subtitled in both Vietnamese and English with a duration of 2 hours and 10 minutes.
Time: Friday December 28 at 6:00 pm
Venue: Swami Vivekananda Cultural Center, 63 Tran Hung Dao street, Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi
Family movie month: “Boyhood” (2014)
Boyhood is a coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater, and Ethan Hawke. Filmed from 2001 to 2013, Boyhood depicts the childhood and adolescence of Mason Evans Jr. (Coltrane) from ages six to eighteen as he grows up in Texas with divorced parents (Arquette and Hawke). Richard Linklater’s daughter Lorelei plays Mason’s sister, Samantha.
Production began in 2001 and finished in 2013, with Linklater’s goal to make a film about growing up. The project began without a completed script, with only basic plot points and the ending written initially. Linklater developed the script throughout production, writing the next year’s portion of the film after rewatching the previous year’s footage. He incorporated changes he saw in each actor into the script, while also allowing all major actors to participate in the writing process by incorporating their life experiences into their characters’ stories.
Boyhood premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically on July 11, 2014. The film competed in the main competition section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, where Linklater won the Silver Bear for Best Director. It was nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, winning Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress for Arquette; five BAFTA awards, winning for Best Director and Best Film; and six Academy Awards, winning Best Supporting Actress for Arquette.
Time: Friday December 28 at 7 pm
Venue: The Center for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents, 51 Tran Hung Dao Str, Hanoi
The Path of Tea
“The Path of Tea” is an event by Heritage Space and Tân House. Vu Thien Tan – founder of Tân House will tell the stories of her journey with tea for the last 8 years. In the cozy space of Heritage Space in a winter day, event participants will get the chance to enjoy 04 types of tea brewed by Ms. Tan herself – vị thủy, lạc vân, chrysanthemum and lavender tea.
Time: Saturday December 29 from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Venue: Heritage Space, 1st Floor, Dolphin Plaza, 6 Nguyen Hoang/28 Tran Binh, My Dinh 2, Hanoi
![]() Indian Film Screening: “Oh My God”.
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Kanji Mehta, an atheist, runs an antique shop. For him, god is just a business proposition. When a small earthquake destroys his shop and his isnurance claimwas dismissed citing ‘act of god’ clausesKanji sues god and his god man and religious heads to recover his losses. No one is willing to argue his case till a god incarnationsteps in.
Entrance to the film screening is free and open to all age groups. The film is subtitled in both Vietnamese and English with a duration of 2 hours and 10 minutes.
Time: Friday December 28 at 6:00 pm
Venue: Swami Vivekananda Cultural Center, 63 Tran Hung Dao street, Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi
Family movie month: “Boyhood” (2014)
![]() Family movie month: “Boyhood” (2014).
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Production began in 2001 and finished in 2013, with Linklater’s goal to make a film about growing up. The project began without a completed script, with only basic plot points and the ending written initially. Linklater developed the script throughout production, writing the next year’s portion of the film after rewatching the previous year’s footage. He incorporated changes he saw in each actor into the script, while also allowing all major actors to participate in the writing process by incorporating their life experiences into their characters’ stories.
Boyhood premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically on July 11, 2014. The film competed in the main competition section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, where Linklater won the Silver Bear for Best Director. It was nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, winning Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress for Arquette; five BAFTA awards, winning for Best Director and Best Film; and six Academy Awards, winning Best Supporting Actress for Arquette.
Time: Friday December 28 at 7 pm
Venue: The Center for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents, 51 Tran Hung Dao Str, Hanoi
The Path of Tea
![]() The Path of Tea.
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Time: Saturday December 29 from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Venue: Heritage Space, 1st Floor, Dolphin Plaza, 6 Nguyen Hoang/28 Tran Binh, My Dinh 2, Hanoi
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