The eighth Helsinki Cine Aasia ended on Sunday March 15th. Eighteen films from East and Southeast Asia were screened during the four-day festival.
The most popular films at this year’s festival were the warm Tibetan family drama Balloon, which opened the festival, and the ambitious Chinese arthouse drama Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains.
Japanese films have always been audience favourites at Helsinki Cine Aasia. This year’s most popular Japanese films were the comedy-drama Only the Cat Knows, the serene and elegant Only the Cat Knows and the picturesque They Say Nothing Stays the Same.
Helsinki Cine Aasia’s guests were also Japanese. Director Amano Chihiro and actor Nagao Takuma participated in all screenings of their film Mrs. Noisy during the festival.
“Mrs. Noisy”
In addition to films, the festival weekend included discussions with experts that deepened and opened new perspectives into the themes of some of the films.
The most popular films at this year’s festival were the warm Tibetan family drama Balloon, which opened the festival, and the ambitious Chinese arthouse drama Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains.
Japanese films have always been audience favourites at Helsinki Cine Aasia. This year’s most popular Japanese films were the comedy-drama Only the Cat Knows, the serene and elegant Only the Cat Knows and the picturesque They Say Nothing Stays the Same.
Helsinki Cine Aasia’s guests were also Japanese. Director Amano Chihiro and actor Nagao Takuma participated in all screenings of their film Mrs. Noisy during the festival.
“Mrs. Noisy”
In addition to films, the festival weekend included discussions with experts that deepened and opened new perspectives into the themes of some of the films.
- 3/18/2020
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Helsinki Cine Aasia 2020 celebrates versatile Asian cinema
Celebrating its eighth edition, Helsinki Cine Aasia is the only festival of contemporary Asian cinema in Finland. This year the festival hosts the Finnish premieres of 18 films from eight East and Southeast Asian countries. In addition, a series of classic films based on traditional East Asian theater is screened at Kino Regina. Helsinki Cine Aasia takes place at Korjaamo, Kino Regina and Cinema Orion from Thursday March 12 to Sunday March 15, 2020.
Helsinki Cine Aasia 2020 opens with the Tibetan film “Balloon”. The latest film from Tibet’s best-known filmmaker Pema Tseden has already won accolades at several film festivals, including Venice and Chicago, as well as the main prize at Tokyo FILMeX. Set in Tibet in the 1980’s during the one-child policy, the warm-hearted and slightly humorous film illustrates the difficulties of combining the traditional with the modern. A Buddhist couple raising a herd of...
Celebrating its eighth edition, Helsinki Cine Aasia is the only festival of contemporary Asian cinema in Finland. This year the festival hosts the Finnish premieres of 18 films from eight East and Southeast Asian countries. In addition, a series of classic films based on traditional East Asian theater is screened at Kino Regina. Helsinki Cine Aasia takes place at Korjaamo, Kino Regina and Cinema Orion from Thursday March 12 to Sunday March 15, 2020.
Helsinki Cine Aasia 2020 opens with the Tibetan film “Balloon”. The latest film from Tibet’s best-known filmmaker Pema Tseden has already won accolades at several film festivals, including Venice and Chicago, as well as the main prize at Tokyo FILMeX. Set in Tibet in the 1980’s during the one-child policy, the warm-hearted and slightly humorous film illustrates the difficulties of combining the traditional with the modern. A Buddhist couple raising a herd of...
- 2/26/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Helsinki Cine Aasia will once again bring the best of contemporary Asian cinema to Helsinki in March. The festival opens with the award-winning Tibetan film Balloon.
The only festival of contemporary Asian cinema in Finland, Helsinki Cine Aasia, is celebrating its eighth edition between Thursday March 12th and Sunday March 15th, 2020. Through the festival selection, Helsinki Cine Aasia’s audience is provided with a view to current Asian cinema as well as the Asian cultures in a broader sense. The program consists of a selection of the most interesting, acclaimed and popular films from East and Southeast Asia over the past year.
Opening film: Traditional and modern collide in Tibet
Helsinki Cine Aasia’s opening film is Balloon (Qi qiu, 2019), the latest work from one of Tibet’s best-known filmmakers, Pema Tseden. “We are excited to bring rarely seen Tibetan cinema to Helsinki,” says festival director Eija Niskanen. “Films set...
The only festival of contemporary Asian cinema in Finland, Helsinki Cine Aasia, is celebrating its eighth edition between Thursday March 12th and Sunday March 15th, 2020. Through the festival selection, Helsinki Cine Aasia’s audience is provided with a view to current Asian cinema as well as the Asian cultures in a broader sense. The program consists of a selection of the most interesting, acclaimed and popular films from East and Southeast Asia over the past year.
Opening film: Traditional and modern collide in Tibet
Helsinki Cine Aasia’s opening film is Balloon (Qi qiu, 2019), the latest work from one of Tibet’s best-known filmmakers, Pema Tseden. “We are excited to bring rarely seen Tibetan cinema to Helsinki,” says festival director Eija Niskanen. “Films set...
- 2/14/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
After highlighting the most overlooked films of 2019 with our 50 favorite movies that made less than $100K at the U.S. box office, today we’re putting a spotlight on the truly overlooked: the 30 films (and honorable mentions) that we loved on the festival circuit that are still seeking U.S. distribution.
Acting also as a 2020 preview, we hope that highlighting these titles spurs some distributor interests and a release in the next twelve months. Featuring favorites from Berlinale, Cannes, Locarno, Tiff, Nyff, and beyond, make sure to follow us on Twitter to get the latest distribution updates. As we move into a new decade, one can also track all of our festival coverage here.
Bait (Mark Jenkin)
For his debut feature, writer-director-cinematographer Mark Jenkin takes a parable about a contemporary fishing community under threat from wealthy outsiders and presents it in a style reminiscent of documentaries of the early 20th century,...
Acting also as a 2020 preview, we hope that highlighting these titles spurs some distributor interests and a release in the next twelve months. Featuring favorites from Berlinale, Cannes, Locarno, Tiff, Nyff, and beyond, make sure to follow us on Twitter to get the latest distribution updates. As we move into a new decade, one can also track all of our festival coverage here.
Bait (Mark Jenkin)
For his debut feature, writer-director-cinematographer Mark Jenkin takes a parable about a contemporary fishing community under threat from wealthy outsiders and presents it in a style reminiscent of documentaries of the early 20th century,...
- 1/6/2020
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
The directors of an eclectic array of six short films gathered earlier this month at The Landmark in Los Angeles for TheWrap and Shorts.TV‘s Short Film Showcase, where the filmmakers discussed their inspirations and the challenges behind their work. Joining TheWrap’s awards editor Steve Pond for a Q&a panel were filmmakers Chris McCaleb (“15 Minutes at 400 Degrees”), Bonnie-Kathleen Ryan (“Real.Live.Girl.”), Jeremy Merrifield (“Balloon”), Asher Jelinsky (“Miller & Son”), Pete Browngardt (“Curse of the Monkeybird: A Looney Tunes Cartoon”), and Mohammad Gorjestani (“Exit 12”). The panel followed a screening of the shorts introduced by Linda Olszewski, vice president of global acquisitions for Shorts.TV, which sponsored the showcase with TheWrap. Watch the full video above.
Read original story TheWrap’s Short Film Showcase: Recovering Veterans, Looney Tunes and More | Video At TheWrap...
Read original story TheWrap’s Short Film Showcase: Recovering Veterans, Looney Tunes and More | Video At TheWrap...
- 12/10/2019
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Wang Lina’s A First Farewell took awards for best director and best actress.
Pema Tsedan’s Balloon was named best picture while Wang Lina’s A First Farewell took awards for best director and best actress (Sonam Wangmo) at the first Golden Coconut Awards at China’s Hainan Island International Film Festival (Hiiff) on Sunday night (December 8).
Both films, in the Tibetan language and Uighur language respectively, coincidentally touch on ethnic minority issues in China.
The Golden Coconut Awards are a new addition this year, handing out cash prizes in 10 categories among films selected for the festival’s international competition for feature,...
Pema Tsedan’s Balloon was named best picture while Wang Lina’s A First Farewell took awards for best director and best actress (Sonam Wangmo) at the first Golden Coconut Awards at China’s Hainan Island International Film Festival (Hiiff) on Sunday night (December 8).
Both films, in the Tibetan language and Uighur language respectively, coincidentally touch on ethnic minority issues in China.
The Golden Coconut Awards are a new addition this year, handing out cash prizes in 10 categories among films selected for the festival’s international competition for feature,...
- 12/9/2019
- by 1100978¦Silvia Wong¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Pema Tseden’s drama “Balloon” won the Grand Prize at Tokyo Filmex’s 20th edition, which unspooled Nov. 23-Dec. 1 at two locations in central Tokyo.
The film, which premiered in the Horizon’s section of this year’s Venice Film Festival, examines the sex lives and mores of rural folk in the director’s native Tibet. Tseden also won grand prizes at two previous editions of the Asian-focused Filmex.
Winner of the second-place Special Jury Prize was Chinese director Gu Xiaogang’s “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains.” The director’s feature debut, it was also the closing film in the International Critics’ Week section at this year’s Cannes festival and has festival play in Singapore.
Special Mentions went to Cambodian director Neang Kavitch’s “Last Night I Saw You Smiling” and Nanako Hirose’s “book-paper-scissors,” while “Silent Rain” by Ryutaro Nakagawa scooped the audience award. Hirose and Nakagawa’s...
The film, which premiered in the Horizon’s section of this year’s Venice Film Festival, examines the sex lives and mores of rural folk in the director’s native Tibet. Tseden also won grand prizes at two previous editions of the Asian-focused Filmex.
Winner of the second-place Special Jury Prize was Chinese director Gu Xiaogang’s “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains.” The director’s feature debut, it was also the closing film in the International Critics’ Week section at this year’s Cannes festival and has festival play in Singapore.
Special Mentions went to Cambodian director Neang Kavitch’s “Last Night I Saw You Smiling” and Nanako Hirose’s “book-paper-scissors,” while “Silent Rain” by Ryutaro Nakagawa scooped the audience award. Hirose and Nakagawa’s...
- 12/1/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Pema Tseden (པད་མ་ཚེ་བརྟན།), born in 1969, is the first Tibetan alumni of the prestigious Beijing Film Academy. He also studied Chinese-Tibetan translation and worked as a teacher and a civil servant. He is not only the sensitive and highly regarded director, portraying the modern Tibet with attention, accuracy and poetic touch, but also esteemed writer, whose works have been translated into several languages. Although portraying ethnic minorities is a delicate topic in China, so far he has managed to deal with censors well, as all of his movies got approval.
During the 13th edition of Five Flavours Asian Film Festival, where his latest movie “Balloon” was awarded the Grand Prix, we talked with him about the literature, misrepresentation of Tibet, living between the languages, Ingmar Bergman and the sense of loneliness.
I grew up watching movies about Tibet, shot from the Western perspective. What I remember is...
During the 13th edition of Five Flavours Asian Film Festival, where his latest movie “Balloon” was awarded the Grand Prix, we talked with him about the literature, misrepresentation of Tibet, living between the languages, Ingmar Bergman and the sense of loneliness.
I grew up watching movies about Tibet, shot from the Western perspective. What I remember is...
- 11/26/2019
- by Joanna Kończak
- AsianMoviePulse
Taika Waititi’s provocative Nazi comedy “Jojo Rabbit” has been set as the opening night gala screening at the fourth edition of the International Film Festival & Awards Macao.
The festival packs together a competition section that includes recent festival favorites Gitanjali Rao’s animation “Bombay Rose,” and barely fictionalize modern-day slavery drama “Buoyancy,” by Rodd Rathjen, alongside gala screenings of “Shaun The Sheep 2: Farmageddon,” and Japan’s “Dance With Me,” by Shinobu Yaguchi.
A strong Chinese presence includes “Better Days,” by Derek Tsang; Cannes Critics Week film “Dwelling In The Fuchun Mountains,” by Gu Xiaogang; “To Live To Sing,” by Johnny Ma; and Singaporean director Anthony Chen’s “Wet Season.”
The World Panorama strand films by celebrated directors, includes “The Invisible Life Of Eurídice Gusmao,” winner of Un Certain Regard, “Little Joe,” for which Emily Beecham won best actress in Cannes, and “Proxima,” for which director Alice Winocour won...
The festival packs together a competition section that includes recent festival favorites Gitanjali Rao’s animation “Bombay Rose,” and barely fictionalize modern-day slavery drama “Buoyancy,” by Rodd Rathjen, alongside gala screenings of “Shaun The Sheep 2: Farmageddon,” and Japan’s “Dance With Me,” by Shinobu Yaguchi.
A strong Chinese presence includes “Better Days,” by Derek Tsang; Cannes Critics Week film “Dwelling In The Fuchun Mountains,” by Gu Xiaogang; “To Live To Sing,” by Johnny Ma; and Singaporean director Anthony Chen’s “Wet Season.”
The World Panorama strand films by celebrated directors, includes “The Invisible Life Of Eurídice Gusmao,” winner of Un Certain Regard, “Little Joe,” for which Emily Beecham won best actress in Cannes, and “Proxima,” for which director Alice Winocour won...
- 11/5/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.