As previously announced, Thailand’s Chutimon ‘Aokbab’ Chuengcharoensukying will receive Screen International Rising Star Award.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema announced on Monday the updated roster of honourees at the upcoming 16th New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff).
China’s Duan Yihong and South Korea’s Gang Dong-won will receive the Star Asia Award, South Korea’s Jung Byung-gil will collect the Daniel E. Craft Award for Excellence in Action Cinema, and Eric Tsang will receive the Star Hong Kong Lifetime Achievement Award.
As previously announced, Thailand’s Chutimon ‘Aokbab’ Chuengcharoensukying will receive the Screen International Rising Star Award and stars in opening night selection Bad Genius.
Duan Yihong will receive his Star Asia Award on July 1 in recognition of his entire body of work and will be presented before screenings of Extraordinary Mission and Battle Of Memories.
This is the first time a Star Asia Award has been presented to an actor...
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema announced on Monday the updated roster of honourees at the upcoming 16th New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff).
China’s Duan Yihong and South Korea’s Gang Dong-won will receive the Star Asia Award, South Korea’s Jung Byung-gil will collect the Daniel E. Craft Award for Excellence in Action Cinema, and Eric Tsang will receive the Star Hong Kong Lifetime Achievement Award.
As previously announced, Thailand’s Chutimon ‘Aokbab’ Chuengcharoensukying will receive the Screen International Rising Star Award and stars in opening night selection Bad Genius.
Duan Yihong will receive his Star Asia Award on July 1 in recognition of his entire body of work and will be presented before screenings of Extraordinary Mission and Battle Of Memories.
This is the first time a Star Asia Award has been presented to an actor...
- 6/19/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The winners of the 2017 Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum have been announced.
Tommy Tom Chung-sing’s Impossible Split was presented with the Haf Award for a Hong Kong project at the close of this year’s Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf, March 13-15).
NARAtive Film 2017-2018, to be directed by Iranian filmmaker Ida Panahandeh and produced by Japan’s Naomi Kawase, won the Haf Award for a non-Hong Kong project. Both awards come with a cash prize of $19,000 (Hk$150,000).
Impossible Split, produced by Hong Kong director Adam Wong (The Way We Dance), is based on the true story of Hong Kong bowling athlete Wu Siu-hong, who was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 30. Panahandeh’s project is a contemporary Shakespeare adaptation with a female character in a main role.
The iQiyi award, presented by the Beijing-based streaming platform, went to Yang Long’s The Patient, produced by Zhou...
Tommy Tom Chung-sing’s Impossible Split was presented with the Haf Award for a Hong Kong project at the close of this year’s Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf, March 13-15).
NARAtive Film 2017-2018, to be directed by Iranian filmmaker Ida Panahandeh and produced by Japan’s Naomi Kawase, won the Haf Award for a non-Hong Kong project. Both awards come with a cash prize of $19,000 (Hk$150,000).
Impossible Split, produced by Hong Kong director Adam Wong (The Way We Dance), is based on the true story of Hong Kong bowling athlete Wu Siu-hong, who was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 30. Panahandeh’s project is a contemporary Shakespeare adaptation with a female character in a main role.
The iQiyi award, presented by the Beijing-based streaming platform, went to Yang Long’s The Patient, produced by Zhou...
- 3/16/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
The winners of the 2017 Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum have been announced.
Tommy Tom Chung-sing’s Impossible Split was presented with the Haf Award for a Hong Kong project at the close of this year’s Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf, March 13-15).
NARAtive Film 2017-2018, to be directed by Iranian filmmaker Ida Panahandeh and produced by Japan’s Naomi Kawase, won the Haf Award for a non-Hong Kong project. Both awards come with a cash prize of $19,000 (Hk$150,000).
Impossible Split, produced by Hong Kong director Adam Wong (The Way We Dance), is based on the true story of Hong Kong bowling athlete Wu Siu-hong, who was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 30. Panahandeh’s project is a contemporary Shakespeare adaptation with a female character in a main role.
The iQiyi award, presented by the Beijing-based streaming platform, went to Yang Long’s The Patient, produced by Zhou...
Tommy Tom Chung-sing’s Impossible Split was presented with the Haf Award for a Hong Kong project at the close of this year’s Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf, March 13-15).
NARAtive Film 2017-2018, to be directed by Iranian filmmaker Ida Panahandeh and produced by Japan’s Naomi Kawase, won the Haf Award for a non-Hong Kong project. Both awards come with a cash prize of $19,000 (Hk$150,000).
Impossible Split, produced by Hong Kong director Adam Wong (The Way We Dance), is based on the true story of Hong Kong bowling athlete Wu Siu-hong, who was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 30. Panahandeh’s project is a contemporary Shakespeare adaptation with a female character in a main role.
The iQiyi award, presented by the Beijing-based streaming platform, went to Yang Long’s The Patient, produced by Zhou...
- 3/16/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Asian Shadows is handling sales on the festival favourite.
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yang’s Soul On A String.
Hong Kong-based Asian Shadows is selling the film, which premiered at last year’s Shanghai International Film Festival, where it won best cinematography, before playing in Toronto, Busan, Chicago and Tallinn.
The film, which Film Movement plans to release in autumn 2017, follows a Tibetan cowboy who embarks on a mission to return a sacred stone to a holy mountain.
Asian Shadows also handled Zhang Yang’s previous film, Paths Of The Soul, which was released in North America by KimStim and Japan by Moviola in summer 2016.
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yang’s Soul On A String.
Hong Kong-based Asian Shadows is selling the film, which premiered at last year’s Shanghai International Film Festival, where it won best cinematography, before playing in Toronto, Busan, Chicago and Tallinn.
The film, which Film Movement plans to release in autumn 2017, follows a Tibetan cowboy who embarks on a mission to return a sacred stone to a holy mountain.
Asian Shadows also handled Zhang Yang’s previous film, Paths Of The Soul, which was released in North America by KimStim and Japan by Moviola in summer 2016.
- 3/14/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Author: Steven Neish
With the old-fashioned Western having long since ridden off into the proverbial sunset a new day is at last dawning on the genre in the east, and films as diverse as The Rover, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Theeb have wasted little time in exploring this fruitful new frontier. Now there’s another stranger in town, with Zhang Yang transplanting the familiar tropes to Tibet where he lets them intermingle with far less familiar traditions, in cinematic terms at least. Despite the director’s Chinese nationality, which in some quarters might be cause for some controversy amid cries of cultural appropriation, Soul on a String feels richly textured and credibly drawn. It is, after all, co-written by Tibet-born Tashi Dawa and performed entirely in Tibetan.
Soul on a String follows vagrant renegade Tabei (Kimba) on a redemptive pilgrimage to Palm Print Mountain, on a...
With the old-fashioned Western having long since ridden off into the proverbial sunset a new day is at last dawning on the genre in the east, and films as diverse as The Rover, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Theeb have wasted little time in exploring this fruitful new frontier. Now there’s another stranger in town, with Zhang Yang transplanting the familiar tropes to Tibet where he lets them intermingle with far less familiar traditions, in cinematic terms at least. Despite the director’s Chinese nationality, which in some quarters might be cause for some controversy amid cries of cultural appropriation, Soul on a String feels richly textured and credibly drawn. It is, after all, co-written by Tibet-born Tashi Dawa and performed entirely in Tibetan.
Soul on a String follows vagrant renegade Tabei (Kimba) on a redemptive pilgrimage to Palm Print Mountain, on a...
- 3/1/2017
- by Steven Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
This year’s event features an unprecedented increase in women directors and a new work-in-progress lab.
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Mar 13-15), which has its 15th edition this year, has revealed its lineup of 25 projects.
Unprecedentedly, nearly half of the projects are from female directors, about a third are by first-time directors and two rarely seen genres at Haf are included - science fiction and gothic thriller.
As with previous editions, Hong Kong has a strong presence with five projects, including Derek Chiu’s No.1 Chung Ying Street, a drama about the 1967 riots in Hong Kong; Sobel Chan’s The Goddess, a tribute to classic 1930s Chinese films; new director Sunny Chan’s Man On The Dragon, a comedy-drama about five middle-aged men who take part in a dragon boat competition; new director Tom Chung-sing’s Impossible Split, about a bowling athlete who becomes a world champion despite a fatal disease, produced by She...
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Mar 13-15), which has its 15th edition this year, has revealed its lineup of 25 projects.
Unprecedentedly, nearly half of the projects are from female directors, about a third are by first-time directors and two rarely seen genres at Haf are included - science fiction and gothic thriller.
As with previous editions, Hong Kong has a strong presence with five projects, including Derek Chiu’s No.1 Chung Ying Street, a drama about the 1967 riots in Hong Kong; Sobel Chan’s The Goddess, a tribute to classic 1930s Chinese films; new director Sunny Chan’s Man On The Dragon, a comedy-drama about five middle-aged men who take part in a dragon boat competition; new director Tom Chung-sing’s Impossible Split, about a bowling athlete who becomes a world champion despite a fatal disease, produced by She...
- 1/18/2017
- by screenasia@yahoo.com (Silvia Wong)
- ScreenDaily
The Toronto International Film Festival is mere weeks from kicking off, yet the annual fall fest is showing zero sign of slowing down when it comes to announcing the titles that will round out this year’s event. Today’s announcement brings with it a number of Cannes favorites, including Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or-winning “I, Daniel Blake,” Olivier Assayas’ divisive Kristen Stewart-starring “Personal Shopper” and Pedro Almodovar’s “Julieta.”
Read More: Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘American Honey,’ ‘La La Land’ and ‘Birth of A Nation’
The slate will also play home to the Dardenne Brothers’ latest, “The Unknown Girl,” which has reportedly been through an edit since it debuted at Cannes earlier this year. Other standouts from Cannes include Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “Aquarius,” Boo Junfeng’s “Apprentice,” Cristian Mungiu’s “Graduation,” Brillante Ma Mendoza’s “Ma’ Rosa” and Cristi Puiu’s “Sieranevada.
Read More: Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘American Honey,’ ‘La La Land’ and ‘Birth of A Nation’
The slate will also play home to the Dardenne Brothers’ latest, “The Unknown Girl,” which has reportedly been through an edit since it debuted at Cannes earlier this year. Other standouts from Cannes include Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “Aquarius,” Boo Junfeng’s “Apprentice,” Cristian Mungiu’s “Graduation,” Brillante Ma Mendoza’s “Ma’ Rosa” and Cristi Puiu’s “Sieranevada.
- 8/16/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Asian Shadows has picked up international rights to Zhang Yang’s award-winning drama Soul On A String.
Zhang’s second film set in Tibet after docudrama Paths Of The Soul, the film recently won best cinematographer for Guo Daming’s work at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
The action drama follows a hunter who is tasked with taking a sacred stone to a holy mountain, encountering an odd assortment of characters along the way.
Produced by a group of Chinese investors including LeTV Pictures, the film is based on two novels by Tibetan writer Tashi Dawa, written in the Magic Realism style in the 1980s.
Meanwhile, Asian Shadows has sold Zhang’s Paths Of The Soul, which received its world premiere at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, to Cinefile for the UK.
The Hong Kong-based sales company has also closed two sales to France: Wang Bing’s documentary Ta’ang has gone to Les...
Zhang’s second film set in Tibet after docudrama Paths Of The Soul, the film recently won best cinematographer for Guo Daming’s work at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
The action drama follows a hunter who is tasked with taking a sacred stone to a holy mountain, encountering an odd assortment of characters along the way.
Produced by a group of Chinese investors including LeTV Pictures, the film is based on two novels by Tibetan writer Tashi Dawa, written in the Magic Realism style in the 1980s.
Meanwhile, Asian Shadows has sold Zhang’s Paths Of The Soul, which received its world premiere at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, to Cinefile for the UK.
The Hong Kong-based sales company has also closed two sales to France: Wang Bing’s documentary Ta’ang has gone to Les...
- 7/11/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Chinese director Liu Jie’s De Lan won best film at this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival, while Vito Palmieri’s See You In Texas won the grand jury prize.Scroll down for full list of winners
Liu’s rural tale revolves around a loan officer who travels to a remote village and strikes up a complicated relationship with a Tibetan woman. The director is currently working on Hide And Seek, a Chinese adaptation of a Korean thriller, co-financed by Village Roadshow Pictures Asia.
Palmieri’s See You In Texas tells the story of a young Italian woman who has to make difficult decisions when she is offered an opportunity to perfect her horse-riding skills on a ranch in Texas.
Among other winners, Finnish filmmaker Antti Jokinen picked up best director for Flowers Of Evil; Liu Ye won best actor for his performance in Cao Baoping’s Cock And Bull; and Naomi Fujiyama took best actress...
Liu’s rural tale revolves around a loan officer who travels to a remote village and strikes up a complicated relationship with a Tibetan woman. The director is currently working on Hide And Seek, a Chinese adaptation of a Korean thriller, co-financed by Village Roadshow Pictures Asia.
Palmieri’s See You In Texas tells the story of a young Italian woman who has to make difficult decisions when she is offered an opportunity to perfect her horse-riding skills on a ranch in Texas.
Among other winners, Finnish filmmaker Antti Jokinen picked up best director for Flowers Of Evil; Liu Ye won best actor for his performance in Cao Baoping’s Cock And Bull; and Naomi Fujiyama took best actress...
- 6/20/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Werner Herzog’s thriller Salt And Fire will have its world premiere at the festival.
Longman Leung and Sunny Luk’s Cold War 2 [pictured], the sequel to Edko Films’ hit 2012 action thriller, will open this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival (June 11-19).
Meanwhile, Werner Herzog’s Salt And Fire, Bruce Beresford’s Mr Church and Cao Baoping’s Coke And Bull are among the films selected for the Golden Goblet Awards (see full list below).
As previously announced the competition jury is headed by Emir Kusturica and also includes Atom Egoyan, Daniele Luchetti, African filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako (Timbuktu), Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden (Tharlo), Hong Kong actress Karena Lam and Chinese writer Yan Geling.
Japanese filmmaker Kazuo Hara will oversee a separate jury for documentaries, while Swiss animation director George Schwizgebel heads the jury for animated films.
Siff also unveiled nominations in six categories for the Asian New Talent Awards, which has a jury...
Longman Leung and Sunny Luk’s Cold War 2 [pictured], the sequel to Edko Films’ hit 2012 action thriller, will open this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival (June 11-19).
Meanwhile, Werner Herzog’s Salt And Fire, Bruce Beresford’s Mr Church and Cao Baoping’s Coke And Bull are among the films selected for the Golden Goblet Awards (see full list below).
As previously announced the competition jury is headed by Emir Kusturica and also includes Atom Egoyan, Daniele Luchetti, African filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako (Timbuktu), Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden (Tharlo), Hong Kong actress Karena Lam and Chinese writer Yan Geling.
Japanese filmmaker Kazuo Hara will oversee a separate jury for documentaries, while Swiss animation director George Schwizgebel heads the jury for animated films.
Siff also unveiled nominations in six categories for the Asian New Talent Awards, which has a jury...
- 6/3/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Chinese drama centres on the culture of hit-and-run incidents in the country.
Hong Kong-based Asian Shadows has picked up worldwide rights excluding China and North America to Johnny Ma’s Old Stone (Lao Shi), which premiered in the Forum strand of last month’s Berlin Film Festival.
The film, which marks Ma’s feature debut, follows a taxi driver in a small Chinese town who faces losing his job, friends and family after refusing to follow custom and do a hit-and-run.
Produced by C2M Media and Shanghai Junrui Cultural Communication Co, the film will receive its Asian premiere in the Young Cinema Competition at the upcoming Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hkiff). It also has two press and industry screenings at Filmart. Producers on the film include Wu Xianjian, Chi-an Lin, Jing Wang and Sarah Stallard.
Asian Shadows has also sold French rights to Wang Bing’s documentary Ta’ang, which also premiered...
Hong Kong-based Asian Shadows has picked up worldwide rights excluding China and North America to Johnny Ma’s Old Stone (Lao Shi), which premiered in the Forum strand of last month’s Berlin Film Festival.
The film, which marks Ma’s feature debut, follows a taxi driver in a small Chinese town who faces losing his job, friends and family after refusing to follow custom and do a hit-and-run.
Produced by C2M Media and Shanghai Junrui Cultural Communication Co, the film will receive its Asian premiere in the Young Cinema Competition at the upcoming Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hkiff). It also has two press and industry screenings at Filmart. Producers on the film include Wu Xianjian, Chi-an Lin, Jing Wang and Sarah Stallard.
Asian Shadows has also sold French rights to Wang Bing’s documentary Ta’ang, which also premiered...
- 3/15/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Zhang Yang: "It's true, I have no religious beliefs. However, the shooting, as well as the movie was a process of rediscovering myself and hopefully for the audience, too" Zhang Yang's Paths Of The Soul (Kang rinpoche) - which screens at Glasgow Film Festival this week - takes us on a pilgrimage alongside a group of Tibetan Buddhists who are making the ardous trek to Lhasa, kow-towing in prayer around every 10 steps. It's a film that considers the dedication of faith and it took considerable commitment on the part of the director and crew as well, as they followed the 'actors' for a year, living with them as they travelled the pilgrimage route. The film is embellished with narrative but firmly based on fact, with Yang going to considerable lengths to find a village of pilgrims who would be willing to take on the additional acting duties.
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- 2/24/2016
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Photo by Darren HughesMidway through A Touch of Sin (2013), Jia Zhang-ke’s violent and reality-inspired account of China’s seismic economic shifts, a massage parlor receptionist played by Zhao Tao is attacked suddenly by a non-descript businessman, who beats her with a fistful of renminbi while shouting, “Isn’t my money good enough? Not a prostitute? Who is then?” Jia documents the assault in a two-minute, unbroken closeup, whipping the camera from side to side with each blow. By the end, Zhao’s cheeks and neck are flush from exertion and physical contact, which is an interesting intrusion of documentary into such a fantastic scene. She reaches for a hidden knife and then, with a swift slash to the man’s chest, becomes transformed into a wuxia warrior. A Touch of Sin seems to have marked a shift in Jia’s filmmaking, away from the contemplative, docu-realist style that...
- 2/13/2016
- by Darren Hughes
- MUBI
Read More: Tiff List 2015: All the Films That Played at Toronto (Plus Criticwire Grade Averages) Icarus Films and Kimstim have acquired U.S. distribution rights to Zhang Yang's "Paths of the Soul," which first debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. The film will have its North American premiere at the Museum of Modern Art during its 2016 Documentary Fortnight festival later this month. "Paths of Soul" blurs the line between documentary and fiction as it follows a group of Tibetan villagers who make a Buddhist "bowing pilgrimage," which involves laying their bodies flat on the ground after every few steps along the 1,200 mile road to the holy capital of Tibet. Filmed over the course of a year with non-professional actors and no script, Yang has created a mesmerizing study of faith. The contract for the distribution of "Paths of the Soul" was signed by Isabelle Glanchant for Chinese Shadows International and.
- 2/3/2016
- by Kristen Santer
- Indiewire
Hong Kong-based sales company Asian Shadows has picked up world rights (outside Greater China) to Tibetan director Pema Tseden’s Tharlo, which will receive its world premiere in Venice’s Orizzonti section.
Adapted from Pema Tseden’s novel, the film follows a 40-year-old Tibetan shepherd, who can recite Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book from memory, but whose quiet life changes when he is asked to go to the city to have his photo taken for his first ID card.
The film, which premieres in Venice on September 4, has also been selected for Busan’s Window on Asian Cinema section. It was produced by Beijing-based Heaven Pictures, which also produced Berlinale title River Road and Kaili Blues, which premiered in Locarno.
“Tharlo is typical of Tibetans of the present generation,” said Pema Tseden. “This is a story that shows them in a state of confusion, disorientation and desensitization. The film is in black-and-white as the ruggedness in the...
Adapted from Pema Tseden’s novel, the film follows a 40-year-old Tibetan shepherd, who can recite Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book from memory, but whose quiet life changes when he is asked to go to the city to have his photo taken for his first ID card.
The film, which premieres in Venice on September 4, has also been selected for Busan’s Window on Asian Cinema section. It was produced by Beijing-based Heaven Pictures, which also produced Berlinale title River Road and Kaili Blues, which premiered in Locarno.
“Tharlo is typical of Tibetans of the present generation,” said Pema Tseden. “This is a story that shows them in a state of confusion, disorientation and desensitization. The film is in black-and-white as the ruggedness in the...
- 9/2/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Films set to show at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff), updated as announcements are made in the run up to the event.
Tiff will open on September 10 with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts.
Tiff 40
Key: Wp = world premiere; Nap = North American premiere; IP = international premiere; Cp = Canadian premiere.
GALASBeeba Boys (Canada), Deepa Mehta, WPDemolition, Jean-Marc Vallée WPDisorder (Maryland) (France-Belgium), Alice Winocour NAPThe Dressmaker (Aus), Jocelyn Moorhouse, WPEye In The Sky (UK), Gavin Hood WPForsaken (Canada), Jon Cassar, WPFreeheld (Us), Peter Sollett, WPHyena Road (Canada), Paul Gross, WPLolo (France), Julie Delpy, NAPLegend (UK), Brian Helgeland, IPMan Down (Us), Dito Montiel NAPThe Man Who Knew Infinity (UK), Matt Brown, WPThe Martian (Us), Ridley Scott, WPMiss You Already (UK), Catherine Hardwicke WPMississippi Grind (Us), Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden CPMr. Right (Us), Paco Cabezas WPThe Program (UK), Stephen Frears, WPRemember (Canada), Atom Egoyan, NAPSeptembers Of Shiraz (Us), Wayne Blair, WPStonewall ([link...
Tiff will open on September 10 with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts.
Tiff 40
Key: Wp = world premiere; Nap = North American premiere; IP = international premiere; Cp = Canadian premiere.
GALASBeeba Boys (Canada), Deepa Mehta, WPDemolition, Jean-Marc Vallée WPDisorder (Maryland) (France-Belgium), Alice Winocour NAPThe Dressmaker (Aus), Jocelyn Moorhouse, WPEye In The Sky (UK), Gavin Hood WPForsaken (Canada), Jon Cassar, WPFreeheld (Us), Peter Sollett, WPHyena Road (Canada), Paul Gross, WPLolo (France), Julie Delpy, NAPLegend (UK), Brian Helgeland, IPMan Down (Us), Dito Montiel NAPThe Man Who Knew Infinity (UK), Matt Brown, WPThe Martian (Us), Ridley Scott, WPMiss You Already (UK), Catherine Hardwicke WPMississippi Grind (Us), Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden CPMr. Right (Us), Paco Cabezas WPThe Program (UK), Stephen Frears, WPRemember (Canada), Atom Egoyan, NAPSeptembers Of Shiraz (Us), Wayne Blair, WPStonewall ([link...
- 8/25/2015
- ScreenDaily
Anne Sewitsky‘s Sundance preemed Homesick, Cannes preemed Romanian imports from Radu Muntean‘s One Floor Below and Corneliu Porumboiu‘s The Treasure along with Athina Rachel Tsangari‘s Locarno shown Chevalier are just four of the film titles in the just announced Contemporary World Cinema programme for Tiff. Among the other noteworthy titles in what is mostly a mix of world preems and North American premieres we find Grímur Hákonarson‘s Rams (just picked up by Cohen Media), Alex van Warmerdam well-received Locarno comedy Schneider vs. Bax , the world preem for Sion Sono’s The Whispering Star, and the Oscilloscope Laboratories picked up Ciro Guerra‘s Embrace Of The Serpent. Here are today’s selections that were added to the already announced Canadian items.
25 April (New Zealand), Leanne Pooley Wp
3000 Nights (Palestine-France-Jordan-Lebanon-uae-Qatar), Mai Masri Wp
An (Japan-France-Germany), Naomi Kawase Nap
The Apostate (Spain-France-Uruguay), Federico Veiroj Wp
As I Open...
25 April (New Zealand), Leanne Pooley Wp
3000 Nights (Palestine-France-Jordan-Lebanon-uae-Qatar), Mai Masri Wp
An (Japan-France-Germany), Naomi Kawase Nap
The Apostate (Spain-France-Uruguay), Federico Veiroj Wp
As I Open...
- 8/18/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Due to the large volume of films that the Toronto International Film Festival screens every year, participants often find themselves unsure of how to decide what to see. To that end, festival organisers often distribute the films into numerous programmes to reflect commonalities among them. The Contemporary World Cinema Programme, to that end, looks at the features from filmmakers from around the world, showcasing the talents being displayed from numerous countries.
The full lineup for the 2015 Tiff Contemporary World Cinema Programme has now been announced, adding to the previously announced slate of Canadian Films in the Programme. The films, as well as their official synopses, can be seen below.
25 April, directed by Leanne Pooley, making its World Premiere
Award-winning filmmaker Leanne Pooley utilizes the letters and memoirs of New Zealand soldiers and nurses along with state of the art animation to tell the true story of the 1915 battle of Gallipoli.
The full lineup for the 2015 Tiff Contemporary World Cinema Programme has now been announced, adding to the previously announced slate of Canadian Films in the Programme. The films, as well as their official synopses, can be seen below.
25 April, directed by Leanne Pooley, making its World Premiere
Award-winning filmmaker Leanne Pooley utilizes the letters and memoirs of New Zealand soldiers and nurses along with state of the art animation to tell the true story of the 1915 battle of Gallipoli.
- 8/18/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Potential awards season contenders Truth from James Vanderbilt and Marc Abraham’s I Saw The Light starring Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams land world premiere slots, while Paco Cabezas’s Mr. Right will close the festival.
London is the subject of the seventh annual City To City programme that features world premieres of Tom Geens’ Couple In A Hole starring Paul Higgins and Kate Dickie and Michael Caton-Jones’ Urban Hymn with Letitia Wright and Shirley Henderson. Elaine Constantine’s Northern Soul gets a North American premiere.
The world premiere of Catherine Hardwicke’s Miss You Already is among five additions to the galas alongside Mr. Right, an action comedy starring Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick.
Matthew Cullen’s Martin Amis adaptation London Fields and David Gordon Green’s Our Brand Is Crisis get first public screenings in the Special Presentations roster with I Saw The Light.
Tiff top brass also unveiled the Contemporary World Cinema section, featuring...
London is the subject of the seventh annual City To City programme that features world premieres of Tom Geens’ Couple In A Hole starring Paul Higgins and Kate Dickie and Michael Caton-Jones’ Urban Hymn with Letitia Wright and Shirley Henderson. Elaine Constantine’s Northern Soul gets a North American premiere.
The world premiere of Catherine Hardwicke’s Miss You Already is among five additions to the galas alongside Mr. Right, an action comedy starring Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick.
Matthew Cullen’s Martin Amis adaptation London Fields and David Gordon Green’s Our Brand Is Crisis get first public screenings in the Special Presentations roster with I Saw The Light.
Tiff top brass also unveiled the Contemporary World Cinema section, featuring...
- 8/18/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Michael J. Werner’s Fortissimo Films was surprisingly almost shut out from showing in any of the sections at Cannes (they’re repping the Un Certain Regard title Miss Lovely), which only means they’ll got plenty in the coffers for the near future. Loaded in Asian fare, among the titles that stick out from the pack is recent Tribeca winner Una Noche from Lucy Mulloy, and for the near future Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s next film, What Masie Knew (see pic above), John Cameron Mitchell’s How to Talk to Girls at Parties and let us not forget the best picture of the year so far in, Antonio Campos’ Simon Killer.
Beijing Flickers (You-zhong) by Yuan Zhang
Full Circle (Fei Yu Lao Ren Yuan) by Yang Zhang
Marley by Kevin MacDonald
Bugis Street Redux by Yonfan
Camera by James Leong
Corman’S World: Exploits Of A...
Beijing Flickers (You-zhong) by Yuan Zhang
Full Circle (Fei Yu Lao Ren Yuan) by Yang Zhang
Marley by Kevin MacDonald
Bugis Street Redux by Yonfan
Camera by James Leong
Corman’S World: Exploits Of A...
- 5/17/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
For the fifth year running, we tally up the Other Year's Best -- the films that made it to DVD (or onto U.S. home video in any format) but not to theatrical, which generally meant they posed too much of a marketing challenge. As in, the films were either too odd, too original, too archival, too subtle, too something. DVDs still stand as our go-to B-movie-distribution stream of choice, although as I've barked every year, video debuts are still not eligible for any year-end toasts or trophies. Except ours.
10. "Parking" (Chung Mong-hong, Taiwan) At first blush a Taiwanese riff on "After Hours," this measured little odyssey is more realistic, evoking those all-night odysseys we've all had, when time evaporates and tiny logistical dilemmas drive us insane and eventually it's morning and something about our lives is different. Chung doesn't spring for laughs when you think he will -- he holds back,...
10. "Parking" (Chung Mong-hong, Taiwan) At first blush a Taiwanese riff on "After Hours," this measured little odyssey is more realistic, evoking those all-night odysseys we've all had, when time evaporates and tiny logistical dilemmas drive us insane and eventually it's morning and something about our lives is different. Chung doesn't spring for laughs when you think he will -- he holds back,...
- 12/9/2010
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
Slick, polished, compelling entertainment with impeccable production values, Zhang Yang's multi-faceted character drama Driverless would make quite the advert for the new, modern China if not for the impressive collection of problems, poor decisions and psychological issues the protagonists have to struggle with.
It centres around a single event where several people happen to cross paths, and yes, the narrative starts with that event, then cuts repeatedly backwards in time to show how everyone came to be in the same place at once. (What were these films compared to before Alejandro Iñárritu came along, anyway?)
Their problems all stem from the hectic pace of urban life on the mainland; there's the career executive (Liu Ye, City of Life and Death, The Underdog Knight) whose marriage is running on fumes and whose university sweetheart (Gao Yuanyuan, Season of Good Rain, City of Life and Death) has just turned up out...
It centres around a single event where several people happen to cross paths, and yes, the narrative starts with that event, then cuts repeatedly backwards in time to show how everyone came to be in the same place at once. (What were these films compared to before Alejandro Iñárritu came along, anyway?)
Their problems all stem from the hectic pace of urban life on the mainland; there's the career executive (Liu Ye, City of Life and Death, The Underdog Knight) whose marriage is running on fumes and whose university sweetheart (Gao Yuanyuan, Season of Good Rain, City of Life and Death) has just turned up out...
- 8/11/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Quickcard Review
Getting Home (Luo Ye Gui Gen)
Directed by: Zhang Yang
Cast: Zhao Benshan, Hong Qiwen, Song Dandan
Running Time: 1 hour 35 minutes
Rating: Unrated
Release Date: November 27, 2009
Global Lens 2009
Plot: An older man brings his dead friend to his home in the Three Gorges Dam region to be buried and reunited with his ancestors. It’s a buddy movie between a man and a corpse.
Who’S It For? People who like foreign films, not fans of Weekend at Bernie’s.
Overall
I had to draw the Weekend at Bernie’s comparison early on because although this isn’t a wacky ’80s comedy, it does involve a relationship between a living man and one who is dead. Zhao (Benshan) carts his deceased friend, Liu, home across much of China because of a promise he once made. The film walks a fine line between buddy comedy between a living and...
Getting Home (Luo Ye Gui Gen)
Directed by: Zhang Yang
Cast: Zhao Benshan, Hong Qiwen, Song Dandan
Running Time: 1 hour 35 minutes
Rating: Unrated
Release Date: November 27, 2009
Global Lens 2009
Plot: An older man brings his dead friend to his home in the Three Gorges Dam region to be buried and reunited with his ancestors. It’s a buddy movie between a man and a corpse.
Who’S It For? People who like foreign films, not fans of Weekend at Bernie’s.
Overall
I had to draw the Weekend at Bernie’s comparison early on because although this isn’t a wacky ’80s comedy, it does involve a relationship between a living man and one who is dead. Zhao (Benshan) carts his deceased friend, Liu, home across much of China because of a promise he once made. The film walks a fine line between buddy comedy between a living and...
- 11/27/2009
- by Megan Lehar
- The Scorecard Review
- Finally making an apparition in theatres this coming August 17th is New Yorker Films’ Sunflower. Also making an apparition is the film’s poster image. Zhang Yang (who is currently working on a spiritual journey type of feature that crosses into the Tibetan landscape) directed the San Sebastián Int. Film Festival favorite and Toronto film festival 2005 premiered film. An autobiographical portrait, this is about the changing Chinese society between the 1970s and the 1990s. Focusing on the years 1976, 1987 and 1999 - in the lives of Zhang Gengnian and his son, Xiangyang. In the years leading up to 1976, when The Cultural Revolution and the reign of the notorious ŒGang of Four¹ were coming to an end, Zhang Gengnian was an absentee father. Condemned to spending six years in a rural ŒCadre School¹ - a labor camp where he was to be politically "re-educated" - Gengnian missed Xiangyang¹s formative years. At nine-years-old,
- 8/9/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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