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The process of selecting and then screening movies for the Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) is a deeply personal experience for programmer Rada Šešić. “I will reveal to you one secret,” Šešić confides. “After I introduce the film and the maker, I stay in the cinema and listen to how the audience ‘breathes,’ how it reacts;…
Officially, Yao Chen was a part of the team judging the 26th Shanghai International Film Festival’s Projects initiative for in-development productions, but the actress-producer freely admits she came to town keen — as ever — to take on as many roles as possible. Yao was also actively seeking out production opportunities for her Bad Rabbit Pictures,…
While the Toronto International Film Festival was making headlines this week for its most immediate plans, the event’s CEO Cameron Bailey was 7,000 miles away and looking a little bit further into the future. This year’s TIFF has announced the first batch of highlights for its September 5-15 edition, including world premieres for the documentary…
For a world grown weary of familiar superheroes, fear not! A new hero is on the way — and he’s made out of poop. The Exreman – On the Road is the working title of a new production from Hong Kong’s Bliss Concepts, the company that produced the massive McDull franchise in the early 2000s,…
Japan’s box office climbed 4 percent to a post-pandemic high of $1.5 billion (221.5 billion yen) in 2023, driven again by a strong slate of anime and a steady return to theaters. Hollywood films maintained the same market share of around 31 percent as the previous year, though a very weak yen reduced earnings in…
China’s 5th Hainan Island International Film Festival (HIIFF) welcomed an esteemed roster of global movie figures including jury head and Palme d’Or-winning auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan when it opened on Dec. 16, with local state media hailing the event for building new platforms for filmmakers to “communicate and collaborate.” But the festival continues to be shadowed by…
Japan’s new production incentives scheme dominated the talk at the Motion Picture Association’s special talk session at the Tokyo International Film Festival on Wednesday. Officially launched in September, the 1 billion yen ($6.7 million) per project scheme is by far the largest from Japan to date, although it is smaller than the production incentives…
#NoBarbenheimer has been trending on Japanese Twitter over the last couple of days amid an angry response to the official U.S. Barbie account on the platform commenting on memes seen as using the atomic bombings as jokes. Posts featuring mashups of the Barbie and Oppenheimer films with explosions in the background and Barbie with her…
In the end, it was always going to come down to those youngsters. China’s FIRST International Film Festival, which has now 17 editions, prided itself on providing a platform on which the county’s next generation of filmmakers can reveal their talent. Fittingly, then, the event is attended by a predominantly young audience. They travel in…
Director Alan Zhang wasn’t entirely convinced that her first film would find an audience in China, but it has — and more — at the 17th edition of the FIRST International Film Festival. This annual indie cinema love-in — set way up near the Tibetan Plateau — almost guarantees a full house for every screening,…