As scheduled, earlier yesterday afternoon (Wednesday, June 15, 2022), with the ratio of 449 out of 467 National Assembly delegates saying “Yes,” the National Assembly of Vietnam (NA) officially approved the Cinema Law. The new Cinema Law (henceforth in this article referred to as the Law) will come into effect from January 1, 2023. Although the final version of the Law is currently non-available and has been set to be gazetted only in late June 2022, some…

On May 25, 2022, the Draft Cinema Law (amended) (“Draft Law”) was discussed at the 3rd session of the 15th National Assembly. Compared with the version of the Draft Law previously submitted to the National Assembly, this new draft has many progressive amendments, with regulations revised and presented more clearly and coherently. In particular, concerning film dissemination in cyberspace, the Draft Law has been supplemented with several new regulations and mechanisms to provide useful support…