Filipino director Sheron Dayoc’s The Gospel Of The Beast won the top Golden Star Award for best Southeast Asian film at the first Ho Chi Minh City International Film Festival (Hiff) in Vietnam, which also saw several titles dropped from the final programme due to censorship by local authorities.
The Gospel Of The Beast marks the first feature in seven years from Dayoc and tells the story of a teenage boy who accidentally kills his classmate and runs away with an older man he barely knows, forming a unique father-son relationship. It premiered at Tokyo in October.
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The Gospel Of The Beast marks the first feature in seven years from Dayoc and tells the story of a teenage boy who accidentally kills his classmate and runs away with an older man he barely knows, forming a unique father-son relationship. It premiered at Tokyo in October.
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- 4/15/2024
- ScreenDaily
The Gospel Of The Beast, directed by the Philippines’ Sheron Dayoc, picked up the Golden Star Award for Best Southeast Asian Film at the first edition of the Ho Chi Minh City International Film Festival (Hiff) in Vietnam.
Nicole Midori Woodford’s Singapore-Japan collaboration, Last Shadow At First Light, won multiple awards in the festival’s Southeast Asia competition, including the Jury Prize, best cinematography (Hideho Urata), best screenplay (Nicole Midori Woodford) and best visual effects (Laokoon VFX).
Oasis Of Now, directed by Malaysia’s Chee Sum Chia, took awards for best director and best actress for Vietnam’s Tạ Thị Dịu, who plays an immigrant in the film. Singaporean drama Wonderland won awards for best actor (Mark Lee) and best supporting actor (Peter Yu), while best supporting actress to Rawipa Srisanguan for Thailand’s Solids By The Seashore.
Indonesian action drama 13 Bombs was awarded with best sound design...
Nicole Midori Woodford’s Singapore-Japan collaboration, Last Shadow At First Light, won multiple awards in the festival’s Southeast Asia competition, including the Jury Prize, best cinematography (Hideho Urata), best screenplay (Nicole Midori Woodford) and best visual effects (Laokoon VFX).
Oasis Of Now, directed by Malaysia’s Chee Sum Chia, took awards for best director and best actress for Vietnam’s Tạ Thị Dịu, who plays an immigrant in the film. Singaporean drama Wonderland won awards for best actor (Mark Lee) and best supporting actor (Peter Yu), while best supporting actress to Rawipa Srisanguan for Thailand’s Solids By The Seashore.
Indonesian action drama 13 Bombs was awarded with best sound design...
- 4/15/2024
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
The inaugural Ho Chi Minh City International Film Festival (Hiff) in Vietnam has unveiled its line-up of about 100 films, including 12 each for the Southeast Asia competition and for the first or second film competition, with directors Anne Fontaine and Hirokazu Kore-eda among its guests.
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The Asian premiere of French biopic Bolero will open the festival on April 6. Director Fontaine and leading actor Raphaël Personnaz will be present for the film’s Asian premiere, which will take place at the city’s historic Opera House.
Further notable festival guests include acclaimed Japanese director Kore-eda who will receive...
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The Asian premiere of French biopic Bolero will open the festival on April 6. Director Fontaine and leading actor Raphaël Personnaz will be present for the film’s Asian premiere, which will take place at the city’s historic Opera House.
Further notable festival guests include acclaimed Japanese director Kore-eda who will receive...
- 3/21/2024
- ScreenDaily
After years of hiatus, Vietnamese Le Binh Giang returned with two films this year, “Rock-a-bye Baby”, which seems like a continuation of the excellent “KFC” he directed back in 2016, and “Jackpot Island”, a commercial flick that was promoted as the sequel to “Kumanthong”, a movie Le Binh Giang directed along Ham Tran and Phan Gia Nhat Linh. Unfortunately, this is also the worst work of his we have seen so far, essentially ripping off Hollywood cheap horror movies.
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The movie begins in the past, with the story of Huynh, a shaman who turned out to be member of Kumanthong, a dark fanatical sect, and his relationship with deafmute village girl Soi, which ended up with a ritual named fetus sacrification. Years later, a group of young friends, couple Tam and Linh, Kim, a girl who also seems to have something going on with Tam,...
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The movie begins in the past, with the story of Huynh, a shaman who turned out to be member of Kumanthong, a dark fanatical sect, and his relationship with deafmute village girl Soi, which ended up with a ritual named fetus sacrification. Years later, a group of young friends, couple Tam and Linh, Kim, a girl who also seems to have something going on with Tam,...
- 8/19/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The 46-title line-up was announced on Wednesday (April 19).
The inaugural Danang Asian Film Festival (Danaff) is set to be Vietnam’s first film festival organised regionally, following the promulgation of a new Cinema Law that came into effect in January this year.
Danaff is jointly organized by Vietnam Association of Film Promotion and Development (Vfda) and Da Nang Municipal People’s Committee, with the support of the Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema (Netpac). It will run from May 9-13 in the coastal city of Da Nang, situated in central Vietnam.
Vfda chairwoman and director of Danaff Ngo...
The inaugural Danang Asian Film Festival (Danaff) is set to be Vietnam’s first film festival organised regionally, following the promulgation of a new Cinema Law that came into effect in January this year.
Danaff is jointly organized by Vietnam Association of Film Promotion and Development (Vfda) and Da Nang Municipal People’s Committee, with the support of the Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema (Netpac). It will run from May 9-13 in the coastal city of Da Nang, situated in central Vietnam.
Vfda chairwoman and director of Danaff Ngo...
- 4/20/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Veteran festival programmer, Anderson Le has teamed up with a group of Asian-American and Asian filmmakers to launch creative studio East. Its objective is hatching pan-Asian stories for a global audience.
The new outfit will have offices in Ho Chi Minh City and Los Angeles and have activities that stretch from development, financing and production through to consulting. Its triple remit covers localized genre films, Pan-Asian streaming series, and arthouse fare.
The East team comprises co-founders Bao Nguyen, Phan Gia Nhat Linh, filmmaker Ham Tran, producer Jenni Trang Le, attorney Linh Truong, startup executive Lee Ngo and Le, who has worked on Asian film programming at the Hawaii International Film Festival, Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy, and the Singapore International Film Festival.
“(It is) an opportune time to collectively come together and develop high-caliber content for the robust Vietnamese theatrical market and the emerging interest of major streaming...
The new outfit will have offices in Ho Chi Minh City and Los Angeles and have activities that stretch from development, financing and production through to consulting. Its triple remit covers localized genre films, Pan-Asian streaming series, and arthouse fare.
The East team comprises co-founders Bao Nguyen, Phan Gia Nhat Linh, filmmaker Ham Tran, producer Jenni Trang Le, attorney Linh Truong, startup executive Lee Ngo and Le, who has worked on Asian film programming at the Hawaii International Film Festival, Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy, and the Singapore International Film Festival.
“(It is) an opportune time to collectively come together and develop high-caliber content for the robust Vietnamese theatrical market and the emerging interest of major streaming...
- 2/12/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Korean box-office smash Miss Granny has been subject to a spate of remakes across Asia since its 2014 debut. Leste Chen's Chinese effort 20 Once Again was released back in January of last year before Sweet 20, the debut feature from director Phan Gia Nhat Linh, sailed to the top of the Vietnamese charts in December. This April will see the release of Japan's own take on the story.Ayashii Kanojo sticks to the successful formula of previous versions as Baisho Mitsuko takes up the role of the cantankerous grandmother who enters a mysterious photo studio only to leave in the body of her twenty-year-old self. Played by Tabe Mikako, the now youthful Katsu undergoes a makeover and enters a singing contest leading to the opportunity...
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- 1/7/2016
- Screen Anarchy
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