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- Reviews
‘Happyend’: Venice Review 4p4f3
Neo Sora’s fiction debut follows a group of students in near-future Japan as they attempt to disrupt surveillance society
- News
Korean action film ‘Tristes Tropiques’ by Park Hoon-jung picked up for sales ahead of Toronto 211sj
The Korean filmmaker is known for ‘The Witch’ action franchise and ‘The Childe’.
- News
Metrograph acquires Venice surveillance drama ‘Happyend’ for North America 6qn32
The film by Neo Sora will next play Toronto, Busan and New York Film Festival.
- News
Taiwan’s Golden Horse project market reveals 63 film and series titles 5o706x
The selection showcases a mix of directors including Kiwi Chow and Hsieh Pei-ju and producers such as Fran Borgia and Sylvia Chang.
- News
Rediance boards China drama ‘Bound In Heaven’ ahead of Toronto premiere (exclusive) h196m
The film marks the feature debut of director Huo Xin.
- Reviews
‘Don’t Cry, Butterfly’: Venice Review 4v411z
A woman turns to the spirits to win back her philandering husband in this enigmatic Vietnamese debu
- News
Busan film festival to open with Park Chan-wook produced Netflix drama ‘Uprising’ amid ongoing challenges 6s73n
The festival in South Korea will honour Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa with the Asian Filmmaker of the Year award.
- Reviews
‘Phantosmia’: Venice Review 615d1o
Lav Diaz explores the legacy of harm and the power of late-life redemption in his latest meditative work
- Features
How Baltasar Kormakur recreated multiple time periods in Japan, Iceland, and London for ‘Touch’ 2j3qt
‘Touch’ follows Icelandic widower Kristofer who travels to Japan to find the woman he met and fell in love with in London 50 years before.
- Reviews
‘Mistress Dispeller’: Venice Review 573840
A ‘mistress dispeller’ seeks to break up an extramarital affair in this intimate Chinese documentary
- Reviews
‘Cloud’: Venice Review 2z2b4r
The cybernet gets viciously real in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest web-inspired thriller
- News
Japanese animation studios take record $2.34bn as sector booms g6xh
Features such as ‘Suzume’ and ‘The Boy And The Heron’ proved a significant contributor.
- News
Tokyo film festival launching ‘Women’s Empowerment’ section to champion female filmmakers 4e4428
The festival has also named Irie Yu as this year’s director in focus.
- News
Golden Scene boards Busan competitor ‘Montages Of A Modern Motherhood’ (exclusive) 86c1q
Marks the second feature of ‘Still Human’ director Oliver Chan.
- News
Finecut picks up ‘A Girl With Closed Eyes’ led by ‘Pachinko’ star Minha Kim 5y2e5q
The film will receive its world premiere at Busan International Film Festival.
- News
Busan film festival unveils New Currents, Jiseok 2024 competition titles 6n5e2x
Line-ups include features by Brillante Mendoza, Rima Das and Tom Lin.
- News
First look at Venice title ‘Broken Rage’, Takeshi Kitano’s Amazon MGM Studios feature 3q3a3s
The unorthodox feature is half gritty action feature, half comedy parody.
- News
Busan film festival to honour late ‘Parasite’ actor Lee Sun-kyun 3p1d67
The festival will screen six films starring the actor and bestow a posthumous Korean Cinema Award.
- News
Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘A Pale View of Hills’ being adapted by Japan’s Bunbuku, UK’s Number 9 3l567
The film will be directed by Kei Ishikawa, starring Suzu Hirose.
- Features
‘Stranger Eyes’ director Yeo Siew Hua on how his Venice Competition drama came close to being shelved 3h616w
The surveillance thriller is the first from Singapore to ever compete for the Golden Lion.