Everest: The Little Yeti(Abominable) is an animated film co-produced by the American DreamWorks studio and the Chinese company Pearl. The film tells the story of a Chinese girl named Yi who accidentally discovers a snowman named Yeti on her roof in Shanghai (China) and tries to find a way to bring Yeti back to the Himalayas.
Since the end of September, the film has been heavily promoted in Vietnam, many cinemas have introduced it as one of the "good movies of October" and started showing it on October 4, 2019. However, on the afternoon of October 13, some images from the film were spread on social networks, including a map hanging in Yi's room marking the famous places she wanted to visit, but on the map there were broken lines similar to China's "cow tongue line". Therefore, after 10 days of showing, the film was stopped showing in all cinemas nationwide.
Regarding the incident, the Cinema Department said it would take responsibility for the error in the censorship process and on October 14, the Department held a meeting to find a solution. "We are urgently re-checking the film versions because now that the film is digital, there will be many different versions, including the trailer. From the results of that work, we will come up with a final solution."
With the rapid development of cinema in recent decades, the film censorship mechanism is facing many shortcomings. Last year, the film Operation Red Sea produced by China included illegal claims of sovereignty over the East Sea but was still approved and released in our country. In addition, on the afternoon of October 14, 2019, the film Rom by Tran Dung Thanh Huy was also fined 40 million VND by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for participating in the Busan Film Festival (Korea) without permission.
