Award-winning Asian and Southeast Asian shorts are highlighted in the 27th International Short Film Festival Berlin (interfilm Festival). From 15 to 20 November 2011, the six-day short film festival showcases 500 […]

One of the highlights of the 52nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival, running from 4 to 13 November 2011, is Balkan Survey, which includes eight full-length features in its Main Section representing the best […]

This year’s CILECT (Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision – International Association of Film and Television Schools) Conference will be held in Prague from 30 November to 2 […]

The 34th Rencontres Henri Langlois  (International Film Schools Festival) happens in Poitiers from 2 to 11 December. This year, the Festival shortlisted 40 films from 1323 entries from all over the globe.  All […]

The 26th edition of the Fribourg International Film Festival starts to roll from 24 to 31 March 2012.

Twelve films vie for the festival’s top award, the Regard d’Or, which includes a prize of  CHF 30,000. In […]

The 10th Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) from March 19 to 21 is like a big “blind-dating” event where filmmakers meet with investors, producers, sales agents and distributors—hopefully to secure […]

The 13th Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) is calling for entries to its Jeonju Project Promotion market’s Work In Progress Production Support Program. Aimed to help promote and support the […]

By way of awarding a total of three prizes, the FilmFestival Cottbus, together with the East-West cooperation market connecting cottbus (coco), launches itself into the new festival season. During the […]

“Halaw (Ways of the Sea)” by Filipino director Sheron Dayoc and “Lost In Italy”, a UK/Italy co-prod by Craig Viveiros, tied for the Best of the Fest Award (World Narrative Feature category) at the 2011 New York […]

The 9th edition of Beefeater In-Edit’s Barcelona International Music Documentary Festival will pay tribute to Murray Lerner, one of the key figures of American music documentary filmmaking.  Ranking alongside docu […]

Fifteen shorts and one full-length film from ASEF-affiliated countries participated in the 5th Annual Atlanta Horror Film Festival held September 15 – 17, 2011. Countries represented include Australia, Austria, […]

The 36th Toronto International Awards (TIFF) came to a close last Sunday with the announcement of this year’s winners.  Unlike other festivals, TIFF touts itself as a “people’s festival” since the three main […]

The recently held 16th edition of the Busan International Film Festival attracted a total of 196,177 viewers during its nine-day run. This surpassed the overall audienceship records of the past years – 182,046 in […]

The Korean Film Archive (KOFA) has announced that it is partnering with Google to put 70 classic Korean films on Youtube this May. The free video-on-demand films with English subtitles will be available for […]

The Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) and Fox International Productions (Greater China) have announced five film projects that will be considered as finalists and compete for the inaugural edition of the […]

Love in the Buff, a quirky romantic comedy by director Pang Ho-Cheung opens the 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF). The film takes up from Pang’s 2010 hit Love in a Puff with its chain-smoking […]

As a filmmaker, Peter Ho-Sun Chan defies classification. Born in Hong Kong and receiving higher education in the United States, Chan is more than a Hong Kong filmmaker; his work reflecting multiple cultures […]

Eight titles from China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and the Philippines vie in the Young Cinema Competition of the 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival. They include Song of Silence by Chen Zhuo […]

Georges Franju (1912-1987) occupied a pivotal but often overlooked position in French cinema as director, archivist and critic. With Henri Langlois, Franju founded the Cercle de Cinema and co-founded the […]

Close to a hundred titles in seven programs make up the Exhibition highlights of the 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival.

Hong Kong Panorama 2011-2012

• Vulgaria by Pang Ho-cheung
• On The Edge of […]