All Asia articles
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Reviews‘Sinsin And The Mouse’ review: Verbose, meandering two-hander sees strangers connect in Taipei
Yukinori Makabe’s Glasgow Film Festival premiere is adapted from a short story by Banana Yoshimoto
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News‘The King’s Warden’ hits landmark 10 million admissions in South Korea
The period drama is the first film in two years to reach the box office milestone.
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NewsAmazon MGM Studios hires Warner Bros Discovery exec Buddy Marini to head Japan
The industry executive was previously CEO of Hulu Japan.
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NewsNikkatsu boards ‘Unchained’ starring Wataru Ichinose of Netflix sumo series ‘Sanctuary’
EXCLUSIVE: The upcoming feature is directed by Keisuke Yoshida and is set for launch at Filmart.
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NewsZaven Najjar’s ‘Allah Is Not Obliged’ wins top prize at Japan’s Niigata animation festival
Runner-up jury award presented to ‘Nimuendajú’ by Tania Anaya.
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NewsChina Lunar New Year box office down 39.5% on 2025 as ‘Pegasus 3’ leads releases
Box office hit $830m over the holiday period.
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NewsCannes Film Festival names Park Chan-wook jury president
Best director winner will become the first South Korean to preside over Cannes jury.
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News12 genre projects selected for Great Migrations lab for East and Southeast Asian filmmakers
EXCLUSIVE: The lab is backed by the BFI Creative Challenge Fund.
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News‘Night King’ leads Hong Kong to 53% YoY box office rise over Chinese New Year
Overall takings for Hong Kong and Macao reached $5.1m (HK $39.7m) from February 16-19.
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FeaturesSata Cissokho on how Berlin's World Cinema Fund is bringing together Global South filmmakers with Euro producers
WCF support goes directly to the local production rather than the European minority co-producer.
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NewsPiece of Magic, GKids partner on multi-territory release of ‘All You Need Is Kill’
The Japanese animated feature is set to roll out across Europe.
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NewsCPH:DOX title ‘Cambodian Beer Dreams’ boarded for world sales
EXCLUSIVE: Film will have world premiere in CPH:DOX’s F:Act award competition.
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NewsEx-Sony Pictures boss Michael Lynton issues mea culpa over ‘The Interview’
2014 dark comedy drew threats from North Korea and led to notorious Sony hack.
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Reviews‘Sleep No More’ review: A decaying Indonesian wig factory hides a dark secret in Edwin’s outré horror
The filmmaker’s follow-up to Locarno winner ’Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash’ bows as a Berlin Special Screening
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Reviews‘The Day She Returns’ review: Hong Sangsoo’s slight, ponderous character study stars Song Sunmi
Sunmi’s expressive performance lifts the director’s slow-burning Berlin Panorama title
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Reviews‘A New Dawn’ review: Slight Japanese debut pairs delicate 2D animation with story of resistance
Yoshitoshi Shinomiya’s Berlin Competition title is set in a legendary fireworks factory scheduled for destruction
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Reviews‘Filipiñana’ review: A wealthy Manila country club plays host to this poised, potent study of power and corruption
Filipino director Rafael Manue’s enigmatic debut is executive-produced by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhiangke
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Reviews‘We Are All Strangers’ review: Anthony Chen’s involving drama charts generational tensions in contemporary Singapore
Berlin Competition drama follows ‘Ilo Ilo’ and ‘Wet Season’ to close the filmmaker’s ‘Growing Up’ trilogy
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News‘Sunshine Women’s Choir’ becomes Taiwan’s biggest ever local film at box office
The prison drama has taken $17.4m to date.
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Reviews‘Salvation’ review: Emin Alper weaves timely tale of prophecy, paranoia and blood feuds in rural Turkey
The director’s second Berlin competition title follows two warring clans in the Turkish mountains