List of titles selected for Cannes Official Selection, Critics Week and Directors Fortnight from Asia, Africa and the Middle East with sales agents where known.
Category: SOUTH ASIA
FESTIVALS: Osaka Asian To Open With Ho Cheuk Tin’s ‘Over My Dead Body’
Hong Kong black comedy Over My Dead Body will receive its world premiere as the opening film of this year’s Osaka Asian Film Festival (March 10-19).
India’s ProducerLAND Launches Project Accelerator Programme ‘Ascent’
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.
HAF Announces Line-Up Of 28 Development Projects For 2023 In-Person Edition
Anthony Chen, Fruit Chan and Marco Mueller are among the filmmakers producing projects from emerging filmmakers at this year’s HAF.
‘Mithya’, ‘Bahadur’ Win Work-in-Progress Awards At India’s Film Bazaar
Biplob Sarkar’s The Stranger, selected for Film Bazaar Recommends, also received an award from Prasad Labs and Qube.
‘Joyland’, ‘Nice View’, FFI, NSOC And Other Issues Facing The Oscars’ Best International Feature Category
Pakistan, China, India & Nigeria all raised eyebrows with their Oscars submissions this year.
NFDC Unveils Work-In-Progress Lab & Film Bazaar Recommends
Titles to screen across Film Bazaar sidebars include Varun Grover’s All India Rank, Devashish Makhija’s Joram and Kanu Behl’s Agra.
India’s Film Bazaar Announces 20 Projects Selected For Co-production Market
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 Business; India Becoming The New China; Southeast Asian Festival Circuit
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.
Summer Box Office Picks Up In East Asia, But It’s All About The Blockbusters
Audiences started to return to cinemas this summer, but business is more reliant than ever on a small number of big hits.