Projects by Mag Hsu from Taiwan, Kiwi Chow from Hong Kong, and Japan’s Akira Ikeda were among those selected.
Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (Fpp) has revealed a record 48 film projects, including projects by Mag Hsu, Chang Jung-chi and Lin Yu-hsien from Taiwan, Kiwi Chow, Chapman To and Jevons Au from Hong Kong, and Akira Ikeda and Yukinori Makabe from Japan.
The Fpp project market is one of the key events under the Golden Horse umbrella. Scheduled to take place from November 15-17 during the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, its attendance of international filmmakers and guests...
Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (Fpp) has revealed a record 48 film projects, including projects by Mag Hsu, Chang Jung-chi and Lin Yu-hsien from Taiwan, Kiwi Chow, Chapman To and Jevons Au from Hong Kong, and Akira Ikeda and Yukinori Makabe from Japan.
The Fpp project market is one of the key events under the Golden Horse umbrella. Scheduled to take place from November 15-17 during the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, its attendance of international filmmakers and guests...
- 9/23/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Anti-war films have a long and varied history in Japanese cinema history, with there being many different takes on this common topic across anime and live-action. With “The Blue Danube”, writer-director Akira Ikeda attempts to make his mark on this sub-genre of sorts. Devoid of any emotion or engaging characters, the film, along with its central themes, gets lost in its suffocating style.
“The Blue Danube” is screening as part of Japan Cuts
The film follows Ichiro Tsuyuki (Kou Maehara), a soldier living in a small town, fighting a war against an unknown enemy that resides across the river. He follows a mundane and repetitive routine that involves periodically shooting towards the enemy from 9am till 5pm, with a break for lunch, of course. However, things take a turn in Ichiro’s life when he’s reassigned to the town’s marching band and begins to hear an alluring tune...
“The Blue Danube” is screening as part of Japan Cuts
The film follows Ichiro Tsuyuki (Kou Maehara), a soldier living in a small town, fighting a war against an unknown enemy that resides across the river. He follows a mundane and repetitive routine that involves periodically shooting towards the enemy from 9am till 5pm, with a break for lunch, of course. However, things take a turn in Ichiro’s life when he’s reassigned to the town’s marching band and begins to hear an alluring tune...
- 8/31/2021
- by Tom Wilmot
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: New York’s Japan Society has unveiled the full line-up for the 15th edition of Japan Cuts: Festival Of New Japanese Film, the largest celebration of Japanese cinema in North America.
Running August 20 – September, the hybrid online and in-theater event will welcome 27 features and 12 short films including 32 films available online throughout the U.S. and 14 screenings of eight films on the big screen in Japan Society’s auditorium.
The fest will kick off with the U.S. Premiere of Soushi Matsumoto’s sci-fi coming-of-age story It’s A Summer Film! The title will be presented online and in person.
Also in person will be the fest’s centrepiece presentation, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Venice Film Festival Silver Lion-winning Wife of a Spy, a thriller tale of suspicion, betrayal and love set during WWII. The film’s star, Yu Aoi, will be the recipient of this year’s Cut Above Award from the Japan Society,...
Running August 20 – September, the hybrid online and in-theater event will welcome 27 features and 12 short films including 32 films available online throughout the U.S. and 14 screenings of eight films on the big screen in Japan Society’s auditorium.
The fest will kick off with the U.S. Premiere of Soushi Matsumoto’s sci-fi coming-of-age story It’s A Summer Film! The title will be presented online and in person.
Also in person will be the fest’s centrepiece presentation, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Venice Film Festival Silver Lion-winning Wife of a Spy, a thriller tale of suspicion, betrayal and love set during WWII. The film’s star, Yu Aoi, will be the recipient of this year’s Cut Above Award from the Japan Society,...
- 7/20/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Rotterdam programmers always had a knack for screening “weird” Japanese films, as in the case of Akira Ikeda for example. “Shell and Joint” definitely follows that “legacy”.
“Shell and Joint” is screening at the International Film Festival Rotterdam
The film comprises of a series of vignettes, where various character interact, with a capsule hotel, insects and a number of existential topics providing the connection among them. The main sketch revolves around two reception attendants, a man and a woman who happen to be childhood friends, who talk about suicide in a rather surrealistic way, since the woman has made multiple attempts herself, but blames it all on bacteria that control her mind.
Apart from them, the sauna room in the hotel is a recurring setting, where a number of people discuss mostly about sex, men for their erection and women for the perversions of men and their performances in bed.
“Shell and Joint” is screening at the International Film Festival Rotterdam
The film comprises of a series of vignettes, where various character interact, with a capsule hotel, insects and a number of existential topics providing the connection among them. The main sketch revolves around two reception attendants, a man and a woman who happen to be childhood friends, who talk about suicide in a rather surrealistic way, since the woman has made multiple attempts herself, but blames it all on bacteria that control her mind.
Apart from them, the sauna room in the hotel is a recurring setting, where a number of people discuss mostly about sex, men for their erection and women for the perversions of men and their performances in bed.
- 1/24/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Plot71% Acting67% Directing70% 70%Overall Score Reader Rating: (1 Vote)69%
In the Tiger Award Competition of this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam, one of the 3 winners, which also includes Lee Seo-Jin’s debut film Han Gong-Ju, was director Akira Ikeda’s Anatomy of a Paper clip. In a film that the jury described as an observation of absurd human behavior in a poetic fashion, Ikeda introduces his audience to Kogure, a man who slaves his days away as a paper clip bender in a local factory. His boss is mean, his co-workers are feeling just as lifeless as he does, and his daily life consists of repetitions of the day before.
Like the jury mentioned about the film, director Ikeda took the decision to tell his story in a poetic fashion. It turns the film into true “art house cinema”, where a lot is left to one’s interpretation. The strange...
In the Tiger Award Competition of this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam, one of the 3 winners, which also includes Lee Seo-Jin’s debut film Han Gong-Ju, was director Akira Ikeda’s Anatomy of a Paper clip. In a film that the jury described as an observation of absurd human behavior in a poetic fashion, Ikeda introduces his audience to Kogure, a man who slaves his days away as a paper clip bender in a local factory. His boss is mean, his co-workers are feeling just as lifeless as he does, and his daily life consists of repetitions of the day before.
Like the jury mentioned about the film, director Ikeda took the decision to tell his story in a poetic fashion. It turns the film into true “art house cinema”, where a lot is left to one’s interpretation. The strange...
- 2/8/2014
- by Thor
- AsianMoviePulse
Every year, at the end of Januari, avid cinema lovers in The Netherlands get excited. Why? Cause it means the International Film Festival Rotterdam, aka the Iffr, is about to start again! Coming Wednesday, 22nd of January until the 2nd of February, it is that time of the year again.
With its first edition dating back to 1972, the Iffr has been around for about 4 decades, being not only the biggest film festival in The Netherlands, but also one of the biggest in the world. With films from all over the globe the festival is a pure treat for film lovers and every edition has many visitors from different countries coming to see as many films as possible in the period of 12 days. Filmmakers themselves visit the festival to screen their films, with many of them having their world premiere at the festival.
With over 100 films being screened, the Asian cinema...
With its first edition dating back to 1972, the Iffr has been around for about 4 decades, being not only the biggest film festival in The Netherlands, but also one of the biggest in the world. With films from all over the globe the festival is a pure treat for film lovers and every edition has many visitors from different countries coming to see as many films as possible in the period of 12 days. Filmmakers themselves visit the festival to screen their films, with many of them having their world premiere at the festival.
With over 100 films being screened, the Asian cinema...
- 1/21/2014
- by Thor
- AsianMoviePulse
Above: Something Must Break
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014
Tiger Awards Competition
Afscheid van de Maan/Farewell to the Moon by Dick Tuinder (Netherlands, 2014, world premiere)
Visual artist Dick Tuinder’s second feature revolves around 12-year-old Dutch and his family in the hot summer of 1972, when the Americans launch their last mission to the moon. Tuinder contrasts the tragicomic adventures of his protagonists with the lost illusions of that transitional year, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and approaching oil crisis. Iffr showed many of Tuinder’s short films, as well as his first feature Winterland (2009).
Anatomy of a Paper Clip by Akira Ikeda (Japan, 2013, European premiere)
Akira Ikeda's crazy and funny second feature is a dark fairytale revolving around Kogure, a paperclip bender in a paperclip factory, a man without characteristics and a stoical loser. One day he finds a butterfly in his flat. She becomes his wife,...
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014
Tiger Awards Competition
Afscheid van de Maan/Farewell to the Moon by Dick Tuinder (Netherlands, 2014, world premiere)
Visual artist Dick Tuinder’s second feature revolves around 12-year-old Dutch and his family in the hot summer of 1972, when the Americans launch their last mission to the moon. Tuinder contrasts the tragicomic adventures of his protagonists with the lost illusions of that transitional year, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and approaching oil crisis. Iffr showed many of Tuinder’s short films, as well as his first feature Winterland (2009).
Anatomy of a Paper Clip by Akira Ikeda (Japan, 2013, European premiere)
Akira Ikeda's crazy and funny second feature is a dark fairytale revolving around Kogure, a paperclip bender in a paperclip factory, a man without characteristics and a stoical loser. One day he finds a butterfly in his flat. She becomes his wife,...
- 1/10/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has completed the lineup for its Hivos Tiger Awards Competition.
These 10 titles join the five previously announced. All 15 first or second features will compete for three equal Tiger awards worth €15,000 each.
Elia Suleiman will lead the jury, also comprised of of Nanouk Leopold, Edwin, Violeta Bava and Kiki Sugino.
The selections (listed in full below) including Dutch artist Dick Tuinder’s second feature after Winterland, a 1972-set Dutch family story entitled Farewell To The Moon; Syria-set debut feature Arwad by Samer Najari and Dominique Chila; Busan audience award winner Han Gong-ju by Lee Su-jin; producer Luis Minarro’s first fiction feature Falling Star, about the lonely king of Spain in 1870; and Mark Jackson’s Us production War Story starring Catherine Keener.
The titles confirmed today are:
Farewell To The Moon (Afscheid van de Maan)
Dick Tuinder (Netherlands, world premiere)
Arwad
Samer Najari and Dominique Chila (Canada)
Casa grande
Fellipe Barbosa (Brazil, world...
These 10 titles join the five previously announced. All 15 first or second features will compete for three equal Tiger awards worth €15,000 each.
Elia Suleiman will lead the jury, also comprised of of Nanouk Leopold, Edwin, Violeta Bava and Kiki Sugino.
The selections (listed in full below) including Dutch artist Dick Tuinder’s second feature after Winterland, a 1972-set Dutch family story entitled Farewell To The Moon; Syria-set debut feature Arwad by Samer Najari and Dominique Chila; Busan audience award winner Han Gong-ju by Lee Su-jin; producer Luis Minarro’s first fiction feature Falling Star, about the lonely king of Spain in 1870; and Mark Jackson’s Us production War Story starring Catherine Keener.
The titles confirmed today are:
Farewell To The Moon (Afscheid van de Maan)
Dick Tuinder (Netherlands, world premiere)
Arwad
Samer Najari and Dominique Chila (Canada)
Casa grande
Fellipe Barbosa (Brazil, world...
- 1/10/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
First five films selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards announced.
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has revealed the first five titles selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition, which aims to give up-and-coming talent “the opportunity to shine on a global stage. They are:
Concrete Clouds, Lee Chatametikool
(Thailand/Hongkong/China, 2013, European premiere)
New York based-currency trader Mutt returns home to Bangkok after the death of his father amidst the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s. He faces past family and relationship issues in this first feature by Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s editor. This project received Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund support for script and project development.
Happily Ever After, Tatjana Bozic
(Croatia, 2013, world premiere)
Filmmaker Tatjana Bozic grew up in Croatia before the Balkan War and ended up settling in The Netherlands. Her first feature-length documentary is a tragicomic portrait of her own love life. She revisits her past love affairs in a desperate effort to save...
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has revealed the first five titles selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition, which aims to give up-and-coming talent “the opportunity to shine on a global stage. They are:
Concrete Clouds, Lee Chatametikool
(Thailand/Hongkong/China, 2013, European premiere)
New York based-currency trader Mutt returns home to Bangkok after the death of his father amidst the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s. He faces past family and relationship issues in this first feature by Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s editor. This project received Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund support for script and project development.
Happily Ever After, Tatjana Bozic
(Croatia, 2013, world premiere)
Filmmaker Tatjana Bozic grew up in Croatia before the Balkan War and ended up settling in The Netherlands. Her first feature-length documentary is a tragicomic portrait of her own love life. She revisits her past love affairs in a desperate effort to save...
- 12/10/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
First five films selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards announced.
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has revealed the first five titles selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition, which aims to give up-and-coming talent “the opportunity to shine on a global stage. They are:
Concrete Clouds, Lee Chatametikool
(Thailand/Hongkong/China, 2013, European premiere)
New York based-currency trader Mutt returns home to Bangkok after the death of his father amidst the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s. He faces past family and relationship issues in this first feature by Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s editor. This project received Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund support for script and project development.
Happily Ever After, Tatjana Bozic
(Croatia, 2013, world premiere)
Filmmaker Tatjana Bozic grew up in Croatia before the Balkan War and ended up settling in The Netherlands. Her first feature-length documentary is a tragicomic portrait of her own love life. She revisits her past love affairs in a desperate effort to save...
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has revealed the first five titles selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition, which aims to give up-and-coming talent “the opportunity to shine on a global stage. They are:
Concrete Clouds, Lee Chatametikool
(Thailand/Hongkong/China, 2013, European premiere)
New York based-currency trader Mutt returns home to Bangkok after the death of his father amidst the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s. He faces past family and relationship issues in this first feature by Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s editor. This project received Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund support for script and project development.
Happily Ever After, Tatjana Bozic
(Croatia, 2013, world premiere)
Filmmaker Tatjana Bozic grew up in Croatia before the Balkan War and ended up settling in The Netherlands. Her first feature-length documentary is a tragicomic portrait of her own love life. She revisits her past love affairs in a desperate effort to save...
- 12/10/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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