Middle East & North Africa

Cairo Film Connection 2024: Full Line-Up

Cairo Film Connection, the funding platform of Cairo International Film Festival, has selected 18 projects from the Arab world for its tenth edition.

Streamlined Guides

Streamlined Guides: Indonesia - Overview, Studios & Producers

Indonesian films have already broken the all-time annual admissions record at the local box office this year, within just nine months, with horror comedy Agak Laen topping the box office and other local titles taking the next five places in the top ten. Meanwhile, Indonesian arthouse films continue to

Festivals

‘Rhythm Of A Flower’ Wins Golden Gateway Award In Mumbai

Amit Dutta's hand drawn animation took the top award in Mumbai's South Asia Competition.

Middle East & North Africa

Marrakech Atlas Workshops 2024: Full Line-Up

Marrakech International Film Festival has selected 27 projects for the seventh edition of the Atlas Workshops.

News

Film Bazaar Co-production Market 2024: Full Line-Up

India’s Film Bazaar has selected 21 feature projects and eight web series for this year’s Co-Production Market.

Festivals

‘MA - Cry Of Silence’, ‘The Land Of Morning Calm’ Win Busan New Currents Awards

Kim Jiseok Awards went to Indian filmmaker Rima Das’ Village Rockstars 2 and Taiwanese director Tom Lin Shu Yu’s Yen And Ai Lee.

Streamlined Insights

BUSAN 2024: Should Asia’s Content Biz Consider Policy To Respond To Inflation, Monopoly & AI?

The outdoor billboards towering over the streets of Centum City during this year’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) said it all. One was for the second season of Netflix’s Hellbound and the other for Disney’s Gangnam B-Side, both of which were premiering in BIFF’s On

Middle East & North Africa

CineGouna Funding 2024: Full Line-Up

Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival has selected 21 projects from 13 Arab countries for the seventh edition of CineGouna Funding.

Africa

OSCARS 2025: Best International Feature Submissions

Rolling list of submissions for the Best International Feature category of the Oscars from Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

News

BUZZ LIST: Southeast Asia Projects In The Pipeline 2024

The list below highlights noteworthy Southeast Asian film projects that were completed and premiered at international film festivals in 2024. 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. UPDATE October 14: MA

Chinese-Speaking Markets

Pingyao Gives Top Awards To ‘Karst’, ‘The Sparrow In The Chimney’

Yang Suiyi’s Karst about a woman reconnecting with her childhood in Guizhou Province, won best film in the Fei Mu Awards for up-and-coming Chinese filmmakers at this year’s Pingyao International Film Festival (September 24-30). Swiss director Ramon Zurcher’s The Sparrow In The Chimney won

Chinese-Speaking Markets

Taiwan Creative Content Fest 2024: Full Line-Up

Taiwan Creative Content Fest has selected 42 projects and 20 pieces of IP for the Pitching section of its 2024 edition.

Streamlined Guides

Streamlined Guides: Indian Web Series Writers & Showrunners

A vast amount of investment has flowed into Indian streaming content with more than 1,500 original titles released across various platforms between 2016 and 2023, according to local analysts Ormax Media. Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have both prioritised India in their local-language content drives, while several other

Korea & Japan

Tokyo Gap Financing Market 2024: Full Line-Up

Tokyo Gap Financing Market has selected 20 projects for its fifth edition, including five from Italy.

Chinese-Speaking Markets

Pingyao Project Promotion 2024: Full Line-Up

China's Pingyao International Film Festival has selected 16 projects for this year’s Pingyao Project Promotion.

Streamlined Insights

What Venice & Toronto Revealed About The Current State Of World Cinema

After a relatively buoyant if not exemplary Cannes, this year’s autumn festival season is expected to be a bellwether of the current health of the global film industry. Do we still have an independent sales business? Do we have many strong awards contenders, despite Hollywood strikes and other disruptions?

Africa

AUTUMN FESTIVALS 2024: Titles Selected From Asia, Africa & Midde East

UPDATED AUGUST 26: A list of films selected for Locarno, San Sebastian, Venice & Toronto from Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Chinese-Speaking Markets

Golden Horse FPP Features 2024: Full Line-Up

Golden Horse Film Project Promotion has selected 38 film projects and 13 film works-in-progress (WIP) for its features section.