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Reviews‘Happyend’: Venice Review 2ky2i
Neo Sora’s fiction debut follows a group of students in near-future Japan as they attempt to disrupt surveillance society
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Korean action film ‘Tristes Tropiques’ by Park Hoon-jung picked up for sales ahead of Toronto 603023
The Korean filmmaker is known for ‘The Witch’ action franchise and ‘The Childe’.
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Metrograph acquires Venice surveillance drama ‘Happyend’ for North America 566s1n
The film by Neo Sora will next play Toronto, Busan and New York Film Festival.
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NewsTaiwan’s Golden Horse project market reveals 63 film and series titles p6d4a
The selection showcases a mix of directors including Kiwi Chow and Hsieh Pei-ju and producers such as Fran Borgia and Sylvia Chang.
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Rediance boards China drama ‘Bound In Heaven’ ahead of Toronto premiere (exclusive) 4j5a1u
The film marks the feature debut of director Huo Xin.
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Reviews‘Don’t Cry, Butterfly’: Venice Review 2a1i5n
A woman turns to the spirits to win back her philandering husband in this enigmatic Vietnamese debu
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NewsBusan film festival to open with Park Chan-wook produced Netflix drama ‘Uprising’ amid ongoing challenges 1u3014
The festival in South Korea will honour Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa with the Asian Filmmaker of the Year award.
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‘Phantosmia’: Venice Review 172d20
Lav Diaz explores the legacy of harm and the power of late-life redemption in his latest meditative work
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FeaturesHow Baltasar Kormakur recreated multiple time periods in Japan, Iceland, and London for ‘Touch’ t5v38
‘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.
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‘Mistress Dispeller’: Venice Review 6463p
A ‘mistress dispeller’ seeks to break up an extramarital affair in this intimate Chinese documentary
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Reviews‘Cloud’: Venice Review 116m1p
The cybernet gets viciously real in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest web-inspired thriller
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Japanese animation studios take record $2.34bn as sector booms k2b6
Features such as ‘Suzume’ and ‘The Boy And The Heron’ proved a significant contributor.
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NewsTokyo film festival launching ‘Women’s Empowerment’ section to champion female filmmakers u3v53
The festival has also named Irie Yu as this year’s director in focus.
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NewsGolden Scene boards Busan competitor ‘Montages Of A Modern Motherhood’ (exclusive) 2i5a4a
Marks the second feature of ‘Still Human’ director Oliver Chan.
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Finecut picks up ‘A Girl With Closed Eyes’ led by ‘Pachinko’ star Minha Kim 1x6j25
The film will receive its world premiere at Busan International Film Festival.
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NewsBusan film festival unveils New Currents, Jiseok 2024 competition titles 5x6e5g
Line-ups include features by Brillante Mendoza, Rima Das and Tom Lin.
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First look at Venice title ‘Broken Rage’, Takeshi Kitano’s Amazon MGM Studios feature 6h3j6s
The unorthodox feature is half gritty action feature, half comedy parody.
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NewsBusan film festival to honour late ‘Parasite’ actor Lee Sun-kyun 6c6n1d
The festival will screen six films starring the actor and bestow a posthumous Korean Cinema Award.
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘A Pale View of Hills’ being adapted by Japan’s Bunbuku, UK’s Number 9 3p5p2h
The film will be directed by Kei Ishikawa, starring Suzu Hirose.
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Features‘Stranger Eyes’ director Yeo Siew Hua on how his Venice Competition drama came close to being shelved 33o24
The surveillance thriller is the first from Singapore to ever compete for the Golden Lion.
