Chinese-Speaking Markets
HAF Works-in-Progress 2025: Full Line-Up
Hong Kong International Film Festival Society has selected 15 projects for the Works-in-Progress (WIP) section of this year’s HAF.
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Europe
‘Fiume O Morte!’, ‘Raptures’ Win Top Prizes In Rotterdam
Igor Bezinović’s documentary Fiume o Morte! took the Tiger Award and the FIPRESCI prize at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). Swedish director Jon Blåhed’s Raptures won the top award in the Big Screen Competition. Combining documentary and dramatic reconstruction, Fiume o Morte! [PICTURED ABOVE] explores
Chinese-Speaking Markets
‘Ne Zha 2’ Becomes Highest-Grossing Chinese Film Of All Time
Lunar New Year release, an animation based on Chinese mythology, has overtaken the record set by war drama 'The Battle Of Lake Changjin'.
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Sundance & Rotterdam; Lunar New Year Box Office In China, Korea & Vietnam
Middle East
Doha Film Institute Autumn 2024: Funding News
Qatar’s Doha Film Institute (DFI) has selected 47 projects for its autumn 2024 funding round, including 11 from Qatari and Qatar-based creatives. The grantees include Palestinian director Razan Madhoon’s Gaza-set drama The Good Spirit; Moroccan-French filmmaker Sofia Alaoui’s thriller Tarfaya; and The Joyful 1926 by Algerian team
Chinese-Speaking Markets
HAF In Development 2025: Full Line-up
Hong Kong International Film Festival Society has selected 25 In-Development projects for this year’s HAF.
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India Box Office 2024: Why Are Hindi Films Struggling While Telugu Triumphs?
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Streamlined Guides: Imports At The China Box Office In 2024
It’s been a familiar story over the past few years – Chinese audiences have been focusing on local movies to the extent that even Hollywood films are not performing well at the China box office. But it’s easy to lose sight of what success looks like in such a
Chinese-Speaking Markets
Hong Kong Box Office Down 6% in 2024; Local Films Overtake Imports
Local films grossed 5.5% more than US studio titles, headed by Emperor Motion Pictures’ The Last Dance.
Chinese-Speaking Markets
CHINA RELEASE SCHEDULE: Imports & Co-Productions Jan-Dec 2024
Imported films had a market share of around 21% at the China box office in 2024, with US studio and Japanese anime titles the two most popular categories.
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Streamlined Guides: Indonesia – Distributors, Exhibitors, Festivals & Streamers
Indonesia’s box office may not have yet returned to pre-pandemic levels of admissions, but it’s a market that is growing, thanks to cautious cinema construction and a boom in the popularity of local films, and has plenty of room for further expansion. Admissions for 2024 are expected to
Funding News
World Cinema Fund Winter 2024: Funding News
Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF) awarded production funding to seven projects amounting to a total Euros260,000 in its latest funding round. The projects came from Argentina, Bangladesh, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Indonesia and Rwanda (see details below). The WCF jury also decided on the first TUI Care Foundation Award,