Chinese Speaking
Tamil-language drama Pebbles, directed by Vinothraj P.S. and produced by Rowdy Pictures, won the Tiger Award at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
Festivals
Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s Writing With Fire won the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
Festivals
Yujiro Harumoto’s A Balance and Pak Ruslan’s Three were presented with the New Currents Award at this year’s Busan International Film Festival (October 21-30).
Middle East
Maria Sodahl’s Hope received the Grand Prize at this year’s Skip City International D-Cinema Festival in Japan, which took place virtually and wrapped on October 4.
Europe
Kiyoshi Kurosawa won best director at this year’s Venice film festival for Wife Of A Spy, while India’s Chaitanya Tamhane took best screenplay for The Disciple.
Chinese Speaking
Derek Tsang’s youth drama Better Days won the top prize, the Golden Mulberry, at Italy’s Far East Film Festival in Udine, which took place as a virtual event (June 26-July 4).
Chinese Speaking
Taipei Film Festival has announced the 12 films selected for this year’s edition of its International New Talent Competition.
Festivals
Happy Old Year, directed by Thailand’s Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, won the Grand Prix best picture award at the this year’s Osaka Asian Film Festival.
Europe
Mohammad Rasoulof’s There Is No Evil has won the Golden Bear at the 70th Berlinale, while Hong Sangsoo won the Silver Bear for best director for The Woman Who Ran.
Festivals
Line-up includes the Japan premieres of recent festival favourites such as Kim Cho-hee’s Lucky Chan-sil, Wong Yee-lam’s My Prince Edward and Liang Ming’s Wisdom Tooth.
Chinese Speaking
Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s The Cloud In Her Room takes top prize in Rotterdam, while Special Jury Award goes to Kim Yonghoon's Beasts Clawing At Straws.
Chinese Speaking
Frelle Petersen’s Uncle won the Tokyo Grand Prix Award at this year's TIFF, while You Xing's Summer Knight took best film in the Asian Future section.