FESTIVALS: Uncle, Summer Knight triumph at Tokyo film festival
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.
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FESTIVALS: Wet Season, The Fever win top awards in Pingyao
Maya Da-Rin’s The Fever won best film in the Roberto Rossellini awards, while Anthony Chen’s Wet Season won best film in the Fei Mu Awards.
Read moreFESTIVALS: Rom, Haifa Street win Busan’s New Currents Award
Vietnamese drama Rom, directed by Tran Thanh Huy, and Iraqi filmmaker Mohanad Hayal’s Haifa Street both won New Currents Awards at this year’s BIFF.
Read moreFESTIVALS: Korea’s Height Of The Wave wins special jury prize in Locarno
Special mentions went to The Science Of Fictions, directed by Indonesia’s Yosep Anggi Noen, and Maternal, from Italy’s Maura Delpero.
Read moreFESTIVALS: Mosaic Portrait, Ode To Nothing to premiere in Karlovy Vary
Zhai Yixiang’s Mosaic Portrait and Dwein Baltazar’s Ode To Nothing are among the films screening in competition at this year’s Karlovy Vary film festival.
Read moreFESTIVALS: Still Human takes two top prizes in Udine
Oliver Chan’s Still Human won both the Audience Award and the Critics Award at this year’s edition of the Udine Far East Film Festival (FEFF) in Italy.
Read moreFESTIVALS: A First Farewell, You Have The Night score at HKIFF
Lina Wang’s A First Farewell and Ivan Salatic’s You Have The Night won the top prizes at this year’s Firebird Awards at the Hong Kong International Film Festival.
Read moreFESTIVALS: Wang Xiaoshuai wins two Silver Bears in Berlin
Wang Xiaoshuai’s So Long, My Son picked up two Silver Bears, for best actress (Yong Mei) and best actor (Wang Jingchun), at this year’s Berlin film festival (February 7-17).
Read moreFESTIVALS: Present.Perfect wins Tiger Award in Rotterdam
Zhu Shengze’s Present.Perfect, a documentary about Chinese live streaming, was presented with the Tiger Award at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Read moreFESTVALS: Ayka wins grand prize at Tokyo Filmex
Sergey Dvortsevoy’s Ayka won the grand prize at this year’s Tokyo Filmex, while Pema Tseden’s Jinpa took the special jury prize.
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