Mohammad Rasoulof’s There Is No Evil has won the Golden Bear at the 70th Berlinale, while Hong Sangsoo won the Silver Bear for best director for The Woman Who Ran.
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MENA region SVOD service to stream Fremantle series Baghdad Central and The Luminaries, among other titles.
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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.
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Pan-Asian streamer recently closed a $50m funding round with investors including Fidelity International.
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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.
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New shows include a reboot of Malaysia’s Kopitiam and a sequel to Hong Kong drama Psycho Detective.
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Asia and US-based OTT chiefs predict Chinese and Thai content will follow the Korean wave into diverse international markets.
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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).
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Breaking its own non-theatrical policy, the streamer also confirmed that The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs and Bird Box will be released theatrically.
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Thai director Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s Manta Ray won best film in the Orizzonti section of this year’s Venice film festival (August 29-September 8).
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