The 9th Vietnam Film Festival was held from November 28 to December 2, 1990, in Nha Trang, Vietnam, with the slogan: "For artistic creativity and perfecting socialist Vietnamese people, for the development of national cinema" (Vietnamese: "Vì sự sáng tạo nghệ thuật và hoàn thiện con người Việt Nam xã hội chủ nghĩa, vì sự phát triển của nền điện ảnh dân tộc").[1]
Event
This film festival has 108 films participating. For the first time, the festival opened an additional film section for the direct-to-video feature film category.
There is not a single Golden Lotus for feature film, direct-to-video film, children and animated film. The jury only awarded the Golden Lotus for two documentaries about Leader Hồ Chí Minh: "Hồ Chí Minh: Chân dung một con người" and "Hồ Chí Minh: Hình ảnh của Người".[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
The film "Gánh xiếc rong" was highly appreciated but also caused a lot of controversy among the judges. In the end, it was only received the Silver Lotus award.[12]