French filmmaker André Menras, who also holds a Vietnamese citizenship under the name Ho Cuong Quyet because he loves Vietnam very much and was anti-war activist and jailed for a few years in South Vietnam.
He made a documentary film “Hoàng Sa Việt Nam: Nỗi đau mất mát – La Meurtrissure,” which is a 56-minute long exploring the lives of the women and children left behind by fishermen husbands and fathers who have been killed or detained at sea and/or by the Chinese Navy. He qualifies Chinese Navy’s actions as terrorist acts.
Unfortunately, the film was banned in Vietnam even though he was trying to show to a small public in a coffee shop in Saigon. The Vietnamese government did not want to offend the Chinese government by showing their navy’s criminal acts at sea against Vietnamese fishermen.
André Menras has relied on youtube to spread his message, which has attracted about 42,000 views.
André Menras sets to tour some European countries in February to promote his documentary “Hoàng Sa Việt Nam: Nỗi đau mất mát – La Meurtrissure-Painful Loss.” The film, which premiered last June at a seminar on East Sea issues in Paris, is about the problems Vietnam faces due to China’s encroachment of her islands.
In an article from a French newspaper, L’Express, André Menras denied of being afraid about the possibility of being arrested by the Vietnamese authorities as several bloggers have recently been jailed. He said “I was not afraid of being arrested at 20, I am not going to be afraid at 66 year old now.”
In an email to Thanh Nien, Menras said he would urge people seeking peace and justice to apply as honorary citizens of Hoang Sa Archipelago to affirm Vietnam’s sovereignty over it.
His European tour will be supported by Vietnamese living in France, Germany, and the Czech Republic. In France, the screenings will begin after a meeting with students in Lyon on February 5. A screening in Toulouse on France’s southern coast will begin with a meeting with fishermen.
Screenings in Germany, the Czech Republic, and some other countries will follow. Menras said many people in France had encouraged his screening plans as well as Vietnam’s defense of its territorial rights.
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