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There had to be so much whirling around in Tony Leung Chiu-wai’s mind as the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) was drawing to a close. Important decisions were pending in his role as the jury head for the event’s main Golden Goblet competition, and there was a masterclass full of hungry young minds, ready to…
The continued blurring of the lines between film festivals and tech showcases has been witnessed in Shanghai across the past week, as panels, screenings and assorted displays of where the film industry stands and where it may be headed played out in real time. The scene was set during an opening press conference for the…
Reis Çelik’s Night of Blindness (Kas Film) has emerged as one of the early front-runners in the Shanghai International Film Festival’s main competition, offering audiences a gripping, tension-soaked experience as it follows one night in the life of a woman trying to escape her homeland during the Turkish military coup of 1980. And you’d be…
The creative minds at Animaccord faced a challenge most animation studios would envy: Where do you take a character who has racked up 235 billion views on YouTube? The answer, it turns out, is somewhere entirely new — and that’s what has fans of the plucky, adventurous Masha buzzing ahead of the release of Masha…
Hong Kong’s beleaguered film industry is looking to rekindle the passion for its movies that once reached fever pitch across Asia during its glory days, with a series of high-profile “gala presentations” that are sharing the city’s stars — and its box office successes — with the region. Wilfred Wong, chairman of the Asian Film…
Hollywood studios and craftspeople may be busy agonizing over the proper role of AI’s potential within the film industry, but Chinese studios aren’t slowing down. Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li and a legion of the all-time greats of martial cinema are about to get an AI makeover. In a sign-of-the-times announcement at the…
A mystery has been resolved this week at the Shanghai International Film Festival as Peter Chan’s re-worked version of She’s Got No Name helped open the event, before going on an almost-immediate limited release on 120 screens spread across this vast city. The acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker’s decision to split the film – which made…
Wang Tong taps into shared global concerns over an aging population in his feature debut Wild Nights, Tamed Beasts — but the filmmaker also showcases just how far contemporary Chinese filmmakers are willing to push the boundaries of genre. The film is part-thriller, part-twisted romance, part-dark, social commentary-driven drama, with the distinctive fringe-of-society shadows that…
The 29th edition of Hong Kong Filmart opened Monday and saw the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) thronging with people, in a pleasing throwback to the pre-pandemic days of the event. The Hollywood Reporter was right in the thick of things on the main exhibition floor, mingling with the crowds and scouring the…
As Shogun was bathing in the glory of its record 18 wins at the Emmy Awards ceremony at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater in September, Japanese director Takeshi Fukunaga was caked in mud and sweat in a small village on Hokkaido. He was there with a tiny crew to shoot a bear ritual of the indigenous…