India is ending its decades-long absence from the Palme d’Or this year with Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light lining up against the likes of Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness and Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis for the major prize of the Cannes Film Festival. Kapadia’s feature – which follows two …

Diversity, both in content and in terms of the characters explored, appears to be the driving force behind a number of Taiwan-backed productions spread out across this year’s Cannes Film Festival program. For producer Lynn Chen, who has come to the festival with the drama Mongrel, screening in this year’s Directors’ Fortnight …

“Golden Horse Goes to Cannes” is looking to make a splash on the Croisette, marking a collaboration with the festival’s Marché du Film that aims to showcase the “diversity, vigor and bold competence of Taiwan cinema, ranging from epic, romance, comedy, fantasy and gender awareness.” The reality of that promise, …

When Daisy Shang first came to Cannes in 2008, the Chinese animation industry was still really just starting to find its feet, and billion-dollar franchises must have seemed like a dream. As the executive president of Fantawild Holdings and chairwoman of Fantawild Animation tells it now, animated productions that pushed their box …

China‘s Xixi Pictures has arrived at the 61st MIPTV buoyed by a slate of recent successes that have helped the Shanghai-based production house celebrate its fourth anniversary, but the company is nevertheless keen also to share with the international content community what’s on the immediate horizon. Over the past 12 …

There’s a moment capturing the spirit that drives Agnieszka Zwiefka’s documentary Vika! and it involves the character at the center of the film — an 84-year-old Lithuanian-born Polish DJ — as she sums up her dress sense, as much as she does her life “The older I get, the more colorful …

The China Pavilion has set up shop in the middle of this year’s Hong Kong Filmart for the third year running as it aims to share the story of the evolution of the country’s film industry. Organizers the China Film Co-production Corporation (CFCC) have brought data with them, they say …

Eiko Ishibashi provides more than just music for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s movies, with her compositions being central to the Japanese filmmaker’s dramas, so much so that they take on the life of a supporting character. There have been consecutive Asian Film Awards (AFA) wins for Ishibashi’s work on, first, the Oscar-winning …

China’s 5th Hainan Island International Film Festival (HIIFF) welcomed an esteemed roster of global movie figures including jury head and Palme d’Or-winning auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan when it opened on Dec. 16, with local state media hailing the event for building new platforms for filmmakers to “communicate and collaborate.”  But the festival …

Director Alan Zhang wasn’t entirely convinced that her first film would find an audience in China, but it has — and more — at the 17th edition of the FIRST International Film Festival. This annual indie cinema love-in — set way up near the Tibetan Plateau — almost guarantees a …

In the end, it was always going to come down to those youngsters. China’s FIRST International Film Festival, which has now 17 editions, prided itself on providing a platform on which the county’s next generation of filmmakers can reveal their talent. Fittingly, then, the event is attended by a predominantly …

China’s film community has made its way to the high hinterlands of Xining for the annual festival that champions the cause of the country’s independent voices while giving emerging talent a platform on which to announce themselves the world. The FIRST International Film Festival runs from July 23, marking its …