(VOVworld) – More than 1,000 artists and film makers are attending the fourth Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF), which opened Tuesday in Hanoi.

Leaders of the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism chaired a press conference on HANIFF (Photo: Hoang Ha)

The five-day festival will feature 146 films from 43 countries and territories including the US, Britain, France, India, and Japan. Vietnam will introduce two feature films: “I See Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass” and “Jackpot” and 10 short films. Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Vuong Duy Bien said: “The film festival is a place for Vietnamese and foreign film makers to share their experience in the film industry and a chance for us to promote the image of Hanoi to foreign friends”.