All Asia articles
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Reviews‘We Are Aliens’ review: Delicate, sophisticated Japanese animation tracks the fragility of boyhood
Kohei Kadowaki’s debut feature heads to Annecy after a Cannes premiere
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NewsZhong Kaifeng’s Shanghai competitor ‘Atlantic Rhapsody’ boarded by Rediance
EXCLUSIVE: The Chinese fantasy drama will play in the main competition of Shanghai.
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NewsShanghai film festival reveals 2026 Golden Goblet competition nominees
The selection is set to include the latest features by Reis Çelik, Nicolás Rincón Gille and Susanne Heinrich.
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NewsIndonesia’s Falcon Pictures swoops on 12 Cannes Competition films
EXCLUSIVE: Features including Palme d’Or winner ‘Fjord’ will also play at the Jakarta World Cinema festival.
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News‘Being Towards Death’ from ‘Detective Chinatown’ director Chen Sicheng scores UK deal
The film is set to open in the UK on June 5.
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NewsNa Hong-jin’s ‘Hope’ sells out in 200+ territories after Cannes premiere
Plus M Entertainment said it had achieved the highest overseas pre-sales in Korean film history.
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NewsSouth Korea launches committee to establish six-month theatrical window
Authorities aim to reach a deal by August.
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NewsCentral City Media to release Tracy Choi’s ‘Girlfriends’ across UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: The film stars Fish Liew, Jennifer Yu, and Eliz Lao.
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NewsDerek Yee-produced ‘Afterpiece’ to open 2026 Shanghai film festival
Keane Wong’s directorial debut marks the return of Stephen Fung to acting in Hong Kong cinema.
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FeaturesAsia’s film funding landscape sees post-Covid evolution
Film funds, debt and hybrid models complement soft money flows and co-productions in the region.
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Reviews‘The Station’ review: Moving Yemen-set drama explores the importance of community in the face of war
Yemeni-Scottish filmmaker Sara Ishaq’s debut bows in Cannes Critics’ Week
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Reviews‘Elephants In The Fog’ review: Sensitive, stirring debut is set at the heart of Nepal’s transgender community
Screenwriter and short filmmaker Abinash Bikram Shah’s engaging first feature bows in Cannes Un Certain Regard
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Reviews‘9 Temples To Heaven’ review: A poignant family road trip across contemporary Thailand produced by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Sompot Chidgasornpongse’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title balances ritual, memory and familial tensions with a light touch
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NewsJapanese stop-motion animation ‘The Bear Hunter’ set as first feature from Taiyo Kikaku
EXCLUSIVE: The stop-motion animation will mark the feature directorial debut of Takeshi Yashiro.
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NewsYutaro Seki’s ‘My Son’ wins Imagica Group financing prize backed by Kei Ishikawa
The award includes up to $440,000 (¥70m) in investment.
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News‘Missing Child Videotape’ director Ryota Kondo readies fresh horror ‘Afunruparo’
EXCLUSIVE: Produced by Synca Creations, filming is set to begin summer 2026.
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NewsJapan’s K2 Pictures boards Karim Ainouz’s English-language drama ‘Neon River’
EXCLUSIVE: The film will shoot in Japan in 2027.
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Reviews‘The Samurai And The Prisoner’ review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s handsome Japanese period drama is a staid siege mystery
Kurosawa’s Cannes Premiere title lacks the action of his previous pictures
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Reviews‘Colony’ review: ‘Train To Busan’ director Yeon Sang-ho returns with fun, forgettable zombie horror
The Seoul-set Cannes Midnight title stars Koo Kyo-hwan, Gianna Jun and Kim Shin-rock
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Reviews‘Dora’ review: K-pop star Kim Do-yeon heads July Jung’s feverish South Korean psychodrama
Jung follows ‘Next Sohee’ and ‘A Girl At My Door’ with Cannes Un Certain Regard title