Indian filmmaker Nidhi Saxena’s directorial debut “Sad Letters of an Imaginary Woman” has unveiled a first trailer and poster ahead of its world premiere at the 29th Busan International Film Festival this October. The film will screen in the “A Window on Asian Cinema” section. The trailer offers a glimpse into a poignant world where […]

BTS members RM and Jung Kook are both set to launch feature-length documentary films within the next month. “RM: Right People, Wrong Place,” directed by Lee Seok-joon and distributed by CJ 4DPLEX, will have its debut at October’s Busan International Film Festival. The film “tells the story of the production of [RM’s] second solo album, ‘Right […]

Thai auteur, Sivaroj Kongsakul made his feature directorial debut with “Eternity,” which screened at festivals including Busan, Rotterdam and Hong Kong back in 2010. Having waited for over a decade, Kongsakul has chosen to entwine the fates of an old man, a little girl and a young soldier in his second feature, “Regretfully at Dawn.” The new […]

AFRICA AMPLIFIES Netflix presented its upcoming South African content lineup at MIP Africa on Tuesday. The slate includes series “Love Never Lies: South Africa,” a reality show featuring six couples testing their trust with lie detectors. Premieres Nov. 29. The streamer also unveiled several films. “Happiness Is,” the latest instalment in the romantic comedy franchise, […]

The Busan International Film Festival will expand its screening program by some 8% in what it calls “an effort to maintain a scale befitting Asia’s top film festival.” This is despite a 50% cut in government financial support. The festival will open on Oct. 2 with “Uprising,” a star-studded period drama from Netflix that was […]

STREAMING SENSATIONS The Busan International Film Festival‘s sixth annual Asia Contents Awards and Global OTT Awards has revealed its nominees across 11 competitive categories. PTS Taiwan’s “Imperfect Us” leads with five nominations, followed by Indonesian Netflix series “Cigarette Girl” with four. Wong Kar-wai‘s series debut “Blossoms Shanghai” (Tencent Video) and Korea’s “A Killer Paradox” (Netflix) […]