Funding News
Purin Film Fund Awards $155k To Five Projects In Autumn 2026 Funding Round
Filmmakers including Indonesia's Makbul Mubarak and Vietnam's Thien An Pham received production grants in Purin's latest funding round.
Festivals
‘Safe Exit’ & 'Citizen Osama' Take Top Awards In El Gouna
Safe Exit scooped the Golden Star for best narrative feature, while Citizen Osama won both best documentary & best Arab documentary.
News
CHINA RELEASE SCHEDULE: Imports & Co-Productions Oct-Dec 2026
Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday are both scheduled for release in China in December.
Project Markets
Marrakech Atlas Workshops Reveals Line-up; Kleber Mendonça Filho Set As Patron
Marrakech International Film Festival has selected 30 projects from 14 countries for this year's edition of Atlas Workshops.
Southeast Asia
Indonesia’s JAFF Market Selects 21 Projects & IPs, Including Boo Junfeng’s ‘Trinity’
Indonesia’s JAFF Market, which is now on its third edition, has selected 11 feature film projects for its JAFF Future Project section and 10 pieces of intellectual property for JAFF IP Connection. The JAFF Future Project line-up includes one Australian film project, Rosie Lourde’s Wreck And Ruin,
Festivals
Iranian Director Majid Majidi’s ‘Midday Meal’ Scoops Busan Best Film Award
Eddie Cahyono's 'Ibuku' wins Busan Special Jury Prize; Shashank Walia's 'Birds In The Dark' picks up New Currents Award.
Funding News
German-Turkish CoPro Fund Announces Support For Seven Projects In 2026
Supported projects include new works by Onur Saylak, Tayfun Pirselimoğlu and French-Turkish directing duo Çağla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti.
Australia & New Zealand
Screen Australia Awards $11.8m In Funding To 75 Narrative Projects
Supported projects include Toni Collette's directorial debut and a feature from viral comedy group Sooshi Mango.
News
OSCARS 2027: Best Int'l Feature Submissions
New Zealand submits Mārama; UK picks Rehearsals For A Revolution; Iran's Midday Meal qualifies through Busan.
Funding News
Philippines Launches Two-Track System For International Co-production Fund
The Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) has adjusted its International Co‑Production Fund (ICOF) to provide two tracks for minority and majority co-productions. The Minority Track supports international projects where the Filipino producer holds a minority equity share and offers the following levels of support [US$ amounts
Australia & New Zealand
Screen Australia Announces $4m In Documentary Funding
Grantees include Australia-Germany co-production 'Saving Tuvalu' and a feature doc about the Bondi Beach terror attacks.
Africa
Durban FilmMart To Present 36 Projects In Rescheduled October Edition
Postponed edition of DFM has selected 36 African projects across fiction features & series, animation and documentary.
Africa
African Films 'Congo Boy' & 'Ben'Imana' Win Major Prizes At Pingyao Film Festival
While African cinema shone in the Roberto Rossellini Awards, Niu Niu's Final Payment took two prizes in the Fei Mu Awards.
Africa
Red Sea Fund Backs 30 Asian & African Projects In 2026 Funding Cycles
Grantees include Cannes Camera d'Or winner Ben'imana, Theja Rio's Angh and Kamila Andini's Four Seasons In Java.
News
BUZZ LIST: Southeast Asia Projects In The Pipeline 2026
UPDATED SEPTEMBER 28: The list below highlights noteworthy Southeast Asian film projects in various stages of production, along with films that have premiered at international film festivals from Berlin 2026 onwards. Nationality of the director is in brackets after their names, but nationality of the projects is harder to determine
Middle East & North Africa
Palestine Film Fund Selects Seven Projects For Second Funding Round 2026
Four features and three shorts were supported by PFI in its second funding round of 2026 with grants totalling €43,000
Festivals
Northeast India’s ‘Angh’ Wins Toronto Platform Prize; Qualifies For Oscars Consideration
Konyak-language film is eligible for the Oscars' Best International Feature category, even though another film, Marathi-language Gondhal, is India's official pick.
Middle East & North Africa
El Gouna Film Festival Unveils 23 Feature Projects; Launches CineGouna Series
Egypt's El Gouna Film Festival has selected 23 projects for this year’s edition of CineGouna Funding, which is scheduled to take place from October 15-23 during the festival. These projects are in addition to the six previously announced for the inaugural edition of CineGouna Series, bringing