Former Memento sales chief Tanja Meissner, German producer Roman Paul and Film Constellation’s Fabien Westerhoff are among the mentors on the three-module programme.

Former Memento sales chief Tanja Meissner, German producer Roman Paul and Film Constellation’s Fabien Westerhoff are among the mentors on the three-module programme.
Anthony Chen, Fruit Chan and Marco Mueller are among the filmmakers producing projects from emerging filmmakers at this year’s HAF.
Biplob Sarkar’s The Stranger, selected for Film Bazaar Recommends, also received an award from Prasad Labs and Qube.
Titles to screen across Film Bazaar sidebars include Varun Grover’s All India Rank, Devashish Makhija’s Joram and Kanu Behl’s Agra.
Project market organised by India’s National Film Development Corp is taking place as an in-person event for the first time since 2019.
Busan was busy but how much business was being done? How India’s censorship regime is starting to look a lot like China’s. And Southeast Asia’s new festival circuit.
Audiences started to return to cinemas this summer, but business is more reliant than ever on a small number of big hits.
While Bollywood pins its hopes on the release of Brahmastra: Part One – Shiva, arthouse drama Return To Dust becomes a surprise hit in China.
As growth begins to stall in more mature markets, the streamers are increasing their focus on producing Asian content.
A New Old Play was named best film in the Chinese section, while Mediterranean Fever took best film in the World section.