Middle East
Doha Film Institute Autumn 2023: Funding News
Qatar’s Doha Film Institute selected 44 titles for its 2023 autumn funding round, including 33 features, two TV series in development and nine shorts.
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Chinese-Speaking Markets
Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum 2024: Full Line-Up
HAF has selected 26 in-development projects for this year’s edition, which is taking place March 11-13.
Chinese-Speaking Markets
CHINA RELEASE SCHEDULE: Imports & Co-Productions March-Dec 2023
Universal's Fast X was the highest-grossing import in China in 2023, ranking at number 12 in the year-end chart with $135m.
Africa
Berlin World Cinema Fund 2023: Funding News
Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund (WCF) awarded 11 production and three distribution grants in its latest funding round.
Middle East
Red Sea Souk Project Market 2023: Full Line-Up
Red Sea Souk selected 24 projects from the Arab and African region for its projects market, in addition to six works-in-progress.
News
QCinema Project Market 2023: Full Line-Up
QCinema Project Market, the official industry programme of the QCinema Film Festival, has selected 20 projects for its first edition.
Africa
Hubert Bals Script & Project Development Winter 2023: Funding News
Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund selected 10 projects for its 2023 Script and Project Development Support scheme.
Southeast Asia
Purin Pictures Autumn 2023: Funding News
Purin Pictures has selected four projects from the Philippines and one from Indonesia in its autumn 2023 funding round.
News
BUZZ LIST: Southeast Asia Projects In The Pipeline 2023
The list below highlights noteworthy Southeast Asian film projects that were completed and premiered at international film festivals in 2023. Nationality of the director is in brackets after their names, but nationality of the projects is harder to determine as most are multi-territory co-productions. ANDRAGOGY Dir: Wregas Bhanuteja (Indonesia) Prod:
News
Film Bazaar Co-production Market 2023: Full Line-Up
India’s Film Bazaar has selected 20 fiction projects and 12 documentary projects for this year’s Co-production Market in Goa.
Chinese-Speaking Markets
Pingyao Project Promotion 2023: Full Line-Up
China’s Pingyao International Film Festival selected 17 projects for this year’s Pingyao Project Promotion, including two projects from Shanxi province.
Chinese-Speaking Markets
Golden Horse FPP Features 2023: Full Line-Up
Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Project Promotion has selected 39 development projects and seven works-in-progress for the features section of this year’s edition.