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Hong Kong Filmart launches documentary market

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:11:14 +0000

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Hong Kong Filmart is launching a three-day documentary event at this year’s edition.

Hong Kong Filmart is launching a documentary event, Asian Side of the Doc (ASD), at this year’s edition of the film, TV and digital entertainment market (March 22-25).

Sponsored by Europe’s MEDIA programme and following the model of French event Sunny Side of the DOC, ASD is expected to attract more than 150 film, TV and new media executives from Asia, Europe and North America.

In addition to the buying and selling of documentaries, the three-day event will also include workshops, screenings, pitching sessions and networking events.

For the sixth year running, Filmart will take place under the umbrella of Entertainment Expo 2010, which this year encompasses nine events between March 22 and April 18, including the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), the Hong Kong International Film Festival and the Hong Kong Film Awards (see details below).

Filmart organisers, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), also said that more than 500 exhibitors from over 20 countries and regions have signed up for this year’s market. Highlights also include two conferences: Europe/Asia: A New Era For TV And Film Cooperation; and Computer-Generated Animation In A World After Avatar.

In addition, the Association of Motion Picture Post Production Professionals is organising a series of programmes, seminars and workshops on 3D film.

Full list of Entertainment Expo events:

Filmart (March 22-25)

Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (March 22-24)

Hong Kong International Film Festival (March 21-April 6)

Asian Film Awards (March 22)

Hong Kong Film Awards (April 18)

Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards (March 12-21)

Hong Kong Music Fair (March 20-22)

IFPI Hong Kong Top Sales Music Award (April 7)

Digital Entertainment Leadership Forum (March 23)

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Are you ready for 34th HK Film Festival

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:10:46 +0000

It’s a year of tiger and it’s also a year for Chinese film, with more and more money coming into Chinese film industry, 2010 is going to be a huge year for Chinese cinema, if you are up for a peek in Chinese film market, you should really join 34th HK Film festival 2010, meet more people in the same industry.

Here is a link of the submission page:

http://www.hkiff.org.hk/en/news20100125.html

Also worth reading here:

The price of festivals

Bright Shadow Films might show up in the festival as well, We will meet you there!

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In need of cash, Hollywood looks to India, China

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:12:17 +0000

This Article Originally From:Reuters

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Disney’s $4 billion purchase of “Iron Man” moviemaker Marvel Entertainment signals a possible wave of media industry consolidation, but the cash to do deals may come from India or China, not Hollywood or Wall Street.

Even before Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) and Marvel Entertainment Inc (MVL.N) made their announcement on Monday, Hollywood watchers said Indian firm Reliance ADA Group’s recent $325 million investment in Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks movie studio was a sign that opportunity exists for similar deals.

As the recession took hold in late 2007, Hollywood saw financing from U.S. hedge funds and banks dry up, and experts say Indian and Chinese firms are now in a better position to invest. For its part, Hollywood needs overseas cash to continue expanding globally where growth opportunities are strongest.

“If you have capital to invest, you can probably cut a better deal now than any time in the last ten years,” said Larry Gerbrandt, principal at consultancy Media Valuation Partners.

“A lot of Indian and Chinese companies have excess capital these days and Hollywood, aside from the fact there’s a certain glamour factor, those (Indian and Chinese) markets also need content, so there’s interesting deals to be made.”

Sky Moore, an attorney who worked with Reliance as it put together the DreamWorks financing package, said a bigger deal could be in the offing within two years.

“I think the bigger move is buying a studio, and I don’t know if it will be (a company from) India or China, but I think somebody is going to buy a studio,” Moore said.

STUDIO TARGETS

The Disney/Marvel deal fueled speculation DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc (DWA.O), maker of the “Shrek” movies and a separate company from DreamWorks Studios, could be next on the acquisition target list because of its solid position in the marketplace and focus on the lucrative family market.

Moore and Gerbrandt also named Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc as a potential acquisition target, although they said they had no specific information of any deal in the works.

Rumors of MGM’s potential sale have surfaced for years. The storied Hollywood studio faces looming payments on $3.7 billion of debt from a 2005 buyout of the firm, and earlier this week it replaced its CEO and hired a turnaround expert.

Chinese film studios are strengthening ties with their peers across the Pacific. The Huayi group, which Morgan Stanley called “China’s Warner Bros for tomorrow,” has said it is seeking capital to expand and has developed movies with Hollywood majors such as Sony Pictures. Its larger rival, The China Film Group, is reportedly keen on developing projects in the United States as well.

India’s expanding reach into Hollywood has included Reliance’s purchase of about 50 U.S. theaters and Indian entertainment company UTV’s investment of tens of millions of dollars over the last three years in several movies, including “The Happening” and “The Namesake,” Moore said.

“It’s not about bringing Bollywood to Hollywood, it’s about mainstream worldwide English-language entertainment,” he said.

Hollywood studios have also made big investments in India. Warner Bros, a division of Time Warner Inc (TWX.N), has signed multi-picture deals with Indian companies People Tree Films and Ocher Studios.

Twentieth Century Fox, a division of News Corp (NWSA.O), has started a joint venture with Asian broadcaster Star to create films for India under the name Fox Star Studios.

Foreign investment in Hollywood is nothing new, of course. In the 1990s, German tax credits spurred production of U.S. movies, and before that Japan’s Sony Co (6758.T) in 1989 bought Columbia Pictures. Sony also has a stake in MGM.

David Molner, managing director of Screen Capital International, a media and entertainment financing firm, said that absent foreign investment, Hollywood could simply have to endure a slowdown due to lack of capital.

“Either the Asians lead the pack or we have a lull,” he said. “Mostly because they’re probably going to be the fastest out of the blocks as the economy recovers.”

(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Tim Dobbyn, Phil Berlowitz)

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Transformers II Getting Huge in China

admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:43:11 +0000

If you are in China and you are planning on watch Transformers II in the cinema, you will see how popular this film it is in China, I just found this article in Variety.com and it seems this movie’s box office has gone huge all over the world.

Here is the article from Variety(By PAMELA MCCLINTOCK)

Aside from its whopping five-day domestic tally — the second highest of all time — Paramount’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” broke records in several countries overseas, leading to a massive $387.3 million worldwide through Sunday, one of the best global launches ever.

The five-day opening gross of $201.2 million from 4,234 theaters domestically easily eclipsed the $152.4 million earned by “Spider-Man 2,” which previously held the five-day record for a Wednesday launch. And “Transformers 2″ nearly matched the best five-day gross of all time: $203.8 million for WB’s “The Dark Knight.”

Overseas, the action tentpole opened to an estimated $162 million, the fourth best international opening of all time, after “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” ($216.3 million), “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” ($193 million) and “Spider-Man 3″ ($164.9 million). The sequel’s foreign cume was $186.1 million when factoring in the $24.1 million earned the previous weekend in the U.K. and Japan.

Although the Michael Bay-helmed pic sucked up most of the oxygen at the box office, other pics scored notable numbers. Disney-Pixar’s “Up” surpassed Par’s “Star Trek” to become the year’s highest-grossing title at the domestic B.O. (The film’s cume through Sunday was an estimated $250.2 million, boosted by the added charge for 3-D tickets.)

Warner Bros.’ “The Hangover” passed $200 million at the worldwide B.O. Domestically, it saw $17.2 million from 3,525 for a cume of $183.2 million. Abroad, film earned $10.1 million from 1,250 runs in 29 markets for a cume of $46.2 million and worldwide tally of $229.2 million.

Several specialty titles popped, including Summit Entertainment’s “The Hurt Locker.” Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, the film posted a per-screen average of $36,000 as it opened in four theaters in L.A. and New York, grossing an estimated $144,000.

The weekend’s only wide release besides “Revenge of the Fallen” was Cameron Diaz-Abigail Breslin drama “My Sister’s Keeper.” The film saw modest biz in grossing $12 million from 2,606 runs to come in No. 5 for the weekend.

In other holdover action, Fox’s “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” crossed the $200 million mark internationally as it grossed $5.2 million from 4,000 runs in 62 territories for a foreign cume of $202.3 million and worldwide tally of $365.5 million.

Sony continued to see strong international results for “Terminator Salvation,” which grossed $10.1 million for the sesh from 7,470 theaters in 70 markets for a foreign cume of $193.7 million. Accounting for territories where Sony isn’t distributing, pic’s total foreign gross is $219.5 million.

The romantic comedy “The Proposal,” from the Mouse House, continued to click. The Sandra Bullock-Ryan Reynolds starrer dipped 45% to an estimated $18.5 million from 3,058 runs; cume is $69 million. The pic grossed another $7.2 million overseas for the weekend, putting the worldwide cume at $91.7 million in its first 10 days.

On the domestic front, Focus Features’ dramedy “Away We Go” landed in the No. 10 spot in its fourth week, grossing $1.7 million as it expanded into 495 locations for a per-screen average of $3,390 and cume of $3.4 million.

And Woody Allen’s “Whatever Works,” from Sony Pictures Classics, grossed $386,286 in its second frame for a per-screen average of $11,036 and cume of $765,433.

Miramax’s Michelle Pfeiffer period piece “Cheri” grossed $408,000 as it opened on 76 screens for a per-location average of $5,368.

Not having such a good weekend domestically was Sony’s Jack Black-Michael Cera laffer “Year One,” which tumbled 70% in its second frame to $5.8 million for a domestic cume of $32.3 million.

But the big news, of course, is the “Transformers” sequel, the first tentpole since “Dark Knight” to truly rocket into the B.O. stratosphere.

Paramount co-chair Rob Moore said the pic played to a much broader audience than its predecessor, noting that the first time around, males made up 60% of the audience. This time, that number dropped to 54%.

More important to Moore: Despite negative reviews, more than 90% of those polled as they left theaters said the sequel was as good as, or better than, the first.

“To us, that’s the most compelling data point,” Moore said. “The thing that works so much about this franchise is the level of optimism and fun that’s inherent in it. It transports you to a world that stretches reality but is a ton of fun.”

Par execs were particularly pleased, since the studio pegs the pic’s production and worldwide marketing at $350 million — which the film already surpassed in five days.

In terms of just the three-day weekend, “Transformers 2″ grossed $112 million domestically. That, plus the $163 million international opening, makes for a worldwide weekend bow of $274 million, the third best after “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World End” ($356.1 million) and “Spider-Man 3″ ($315.9 million).

The international haul was led by China at $21.9 million — the biggest opening of all time for an English-language movie. While it played strongest in Asia, “Revenge of the Fallen” performed ahead of the first film in almost every market, proving that the franchise has taken hold, Paramount prexy of international distribution Andrew Cripps said.

“Transformers,” which Par and DreamWorks debuted over the Fourth of July holiday in 2007, opened to $70.5 million domestically on its way to cuming $319.2 million in North America and $700 million worldwide.

Imax also participated in the “Transformers 2″ bounty. The pic played on 169 Imax screens domestically. Five-day opening gross at Imax sites was a record $14.4 million.

The “Transformers” franchise was among the projects that reverted to Paramount after its split with DreamWorks, although Steven Spielberg remained an exec producer on the sequel and DreamWorks’ logo appears at the opening of the pic and in ads.

Adam Goodman, who arrived at Par six months ago from DreamWorks, helped guide both “Transformer” pics. Just days before the “Transformers” sequel opened, Paramount chair-CEO Brad Grey announced that Goodman was being upped to Paramount Film Group prexy as production toppers John Lesher and Brad Weston were exiting the studio.

Grey also lauded Bay’s ability to connect with audiences. He said the entire Par family is “proud to be behind him, and we look forward to our collaboration with him in the future.”

“Transformers 3″ is tentatively slotted to open July 1, 2011.

In the meantime, “Revenge of the Fallen” is expected to remain a sizable B.O. force in the coming days, looming over such new fare as 20th Century Fox’s 3-D toon “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs,” which opens Wednesday.

Also opening Wednesday is Universal’s Johnny Depp gangster pic “Public Enemies.”

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The 12th Shanghai International Film Festival 2009 concludes

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:33:10 +0000

Award for Best Feature Film
ORIGINAL directed by Antonio Tublén / Alexander Brøndsted
Jury Comments: Using this title for a film is dangerous, almost suicidal. But the film more than met the challenge the title lays down. A light, touching and subversive study of mental illness that is compassionate and never sentimental. From the opening image of a fish tank being peeled open to the Mexican wrestlers tumbling in the heroes’ mind we know we had found the best film …… ORGINAL!
Jury Grand Prix
THE SEARCH directed by Pema Tseden
Jury Comments: The most challenging film we saw, almost a meditation in patience as well as an exercise in it for the viewer, uncompromising but funny and humane too. We look forward to many more films from Tibet.
Jury Award
EMPIRE OF SILVER directed by Christina Yao
Jury Comments: To the director and her cast and crew for the detail and craft on such an epic scale and in such extraordinary locations. And for reminding us, especially at this time that bankers should be kind and righteous.
Award for Best Director
Julius Sevcik for NORMAL
Jury Comments: A dazzling and technically bold director in command of all elements delivering his challenging vision of the serial killer genre.
Award for Best Actor
Sverrir Gudnason in ORIGINAL directed by Antonio Tublén/Alexander Brøndsted
Jury Comments: Is he acting, fantasizing, fooling everyone – and himself – or is he simply crazy – we never really know. What we know is that this young actor’s brilliant, sensitive, humorous and vulnerable performance is absolutely mesmerizing.
Award for Best Actress
Simone Tang in ACHING HEARTS directed by Nils Malmros
Jury Comments: For the control and clarity of complex emotions perfectly captured by a performance that lures us in until we find ourselves, like the young hero, repulsed.
Award for Best Screenplay
Fabio Bonifacci/ Giulio Manfredonia for WE CAN DO THAT
Jury Comments: Their screenplay documents with wit and clarity – a true story of the way political philosophy can intersect with social need and build something truly transforming
Award for Best Cinematography
Nicolas Guicheteau / Hans Meier for NOWHERE PROMISED LAND
Jury Comments: This is the most contentious decision. It is not in the classical tradition but more an acknowledgement that cinematography in the modern era can be about ways of seeing; what you look at and how it looks back at you.
Award for Best Music
Hyoung-woo ROH for ROUGH CUT
Jury Comments: Modern, pulpy, deliberately undermining and enlivening the gangster genre

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The Shanghai Film Festival 2009 Market Session is Finished

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:44:49 +0000

Hello Everyone, it was nice to meet everybody during the Shanghai Film Festival 2009, the market session is coming to an end, but our manager Charlie Moretti still busy with meeting up old contacts and new friends. Did we mention that we met Halle Berry?

We need to thank all the visitors who been to our booth during previous days, this year’s festival is bigger than last year, and we managed to meet a lot more people than before, we hope that you found the opportunity during the film market as well, just in case you missed our booth, here is a picture of it.

We will have a lot more info updated these days, stay around!

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Suggestions for Fresh Film Directors

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:25:23 +0000

This Post Originally from here.

Yu Nan, one of the jury members for the Asian New Talent Award during the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival, had an exclusive interview with correspondent from Daily News yesterday. As a jury member, Yu Nan expressed her excitement to see so many spirited works, and she hoped these fresh film directors could stick to their own style, not to be distracted by material gain. Besides work, for the first time, Yu Nan replied to questions related to love in her real life and confessed that she was hoping for true love.

Yu Nan has already had some experience of being a jury member on International Film Festival overseas ahead of the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival, but she told the reporter that this time she felt very familiar and a sense of achievement. “I feel honored, because to be a jury member means that people already recognized my acting; and I feel very familiar, because I can speak native language to communicate with people and meet so many old friends. The get-togethers are most exciting.”
As for the evaluating criteria to this Asian New Talent Award, Yu Nan laughed and continued, “Each jury member has his own taste, but we will get together and discuss over it. The exchanges of ideas are valuable.” Yu Nan indicated that she had viewed four pieces of works so far to compete for the award, among them two were very impressive. However, being a jury member, she declined to reveal those names. She went on to comment, “I am so glad to see vitality and creativity all over these works, and each piece of work has its own style. I hope these fresh film directors could stick to their own style and not to be lead by material gain, including the awards. I firmly believe these film directors are the promising ones on international film festivals in the future.” As for the debate on “art or business” by Wang Xiaoshuai and Lu Chuan during the forum the day before, Yu Nan smiled and said, “maybe different directors have different perspectives towards films. But from my point of view, whether it’s business film or art film, the key lies in its good quality.”

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Opening Film Revealed: Global premiere of He Ping’s latest production

admin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:55:54 +0000

As one of the most anticipated films of the year, WHEAT, directed by He Ping, one of the greatest filmmakers of the time, is confirmed to premiere as the opening film of the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival.

He Ping was the jury chairman for SIFF’s Asian New Talent Award 2006 while the film is produced by Classics Media and PolyBona.

Wheat is the latest production of He Ping, a masterpiece concentrating 6 years of great effort after his Warriors of Heaven and Earth in 2003. The film has been progressing in a low profile ever since the very beginning. However, as the latest work by an extraordinary director among the 5th generation, WHEAT is regarded by the insiders as one of the most expected films of the year after the film’s trailer and poster being released at home and abroad.

With spectacular scenes, rich details, a well-connected story and lyrical visual language, while at the same time revealing a cultural connotation rarely seen in Chinese entertaining films these years, WHEAT was commented by a well-respected filmmakers as “an entertaining film for learned people”.

WHEAT will obviously be the most surprising Chinese film of the year and will change totally the aesthetic experience of the audience.

In addition to the top-class director, a group of top-class actors and actresses including Fan Bingbing, Huang Jue, Wang Xueqi, Wang Zhiwen and Wang Ji join the film. Besides, famous for his discovering and fostering young film talents, He Ping offers Du Jiayi and Wang Jiajia important roles. This makes both the insiders and the audience looking forward to seeing the film.

Actually, from the beginning of the year, SIFF started to discuss with the director and the producer of the film on the possibility of WHEAT’s being the opening film of SIFF 2009. Although the two sides are both excited about the idea, the producer didn’t make a final decision since the real short time for the post-production and director’s willing not to bring down the artistic and industrial criteria. After 6 months’ post-production, WHEAT caught up with the schedule and is now on its way.

“I will try my best to make the perfect integration of art, entertainment and film techniques as always.” said He Ping. For a film with perfect scenes, this remark is the best promise. “He has always been so slow in shooting films. This time he spent 6 years making a film, it must be a most expected one.” a highly expectiation of his fans on the internet.

As is early released, SIFF’s film of this year is unprecedented both in quantity and quality, which is most surprising. Now that WHEAT will open the festival, naturally people will be more looking forward to this grand meeting.

Director He Ping and his staff will hold a press conference in Shanghai on June 12th, after which does it begin the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival.

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Support Documentaries, the Newly Emerging Force

admin — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:34:04 +0000

No funding, no technological support, no broadcast platform, and no specific medium of communication? The only criterion for selection is simply a good idea. DocuChina Filmmaker Plan will provide support, giving access to a broader stage.

As the main part of the 15th Shanghai TV Festival, the final of the 3rd “DocuChina Filmmaker Plan” will be held through this international platform from 8th, June to 11th, June 2009, including two-day master training and one-and-a-half-day international proposal bidding along with an award ceremony. The 250 proposals the organizing committee has received are rich in subject, extensive in perspective, and attentive to folkways and folk customs. All these documentary proposals also attach great importance to social reality, arts ecology and political & economic phenomena.

At present, 15 nominees have just been selected, and they are The Story of Milk: culture and gene, The Lake, The Post Couple, A Hard Dream, The Community, The psychologist, The Three Gorges, The different Competition, The accident is always happened, Business Establishment, The Er Ma people, Internet-addicted, A colorful Life, Friends, The Industry chain. On 6th June, these 15 nominees will have the opportunity to present to the whole world their stories of great originality in fierce competition. The juries, made up of internationally recognizable documentary specialists and directors, will announce the 5 winners of Excellent Proposal Award as well as 1 Media Award winner at the Award Ceremony to be held on 11th June.

The current filmmaker plan has invited distinguished guests and juries, among whom there are the internationally famous director Jia Zhangke whose works 24 City and Still Life have won many international awards, the well-known screenwriter Ning Caishen for his My Own Swordsman, and the Shanghai comedian Zhou Libo reputed for his Shanghai-style stand-up Chat about the Past Thirty Years. Other guests and juries are also of great prestige like director Peng Xiaolian, Zhou Bin and host Wan Feng.

As the non-profit platform for newly emerging Chinese documentary makers, “DocuChina Filmmaker Plan” constantly bears the hope of these documentary lovers. Some outstanding items that distinguished themselves at the 2nd “DocuChina Filmmaker Plan” have recently been produced one by one. The growth of these young and promising directors from the “Filmmaker Plan” has witnessed how a script could be finally turned into a documentary. From 7th June on, three documentaries will be successively on documentary channel “Documentary Editorial Office”. These documentaries are the Lost Village in Desert, telling a story about the conflict and struggle between humans and nature, Cock Fighting, a reflection of the fighting between people through the fighting between cocks, and Pregnancy, a story about how pregnancy could change the destiny of a woman and a family as a whole.

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The 12th Shanghai International Film Festival Asian New Talent Award

admin — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:19:46 +0000

Title: Days with You

Country : Japan

Year : 2008

Director: Amiy Mori

Running time: 103

Synopsis

Two childhood friends who grew up in a town that used to be called “Town of Falling Stars” are reunited after an 11 year interval. While an old landmark planetarium is about to be demolished and the star lights about to be replaced with neon lights in their hometown, the two confront their harsh fate. Believing in the miracle of the constellation meteor shower…

Title: Prince of cockfighting

Country : Philippine

Year : 2008

Director: Yeng Grande

Running time: 115

Synopsis

This is the story of Joey…The prodigal son who came back home. Only this time , he overstayed his welcome.

Joey, an Actor who was very passionate in cockfighting (Cockfighting is the most popular national pastime in the Philippines). When Joey’s best gamecock lost to a unknown breed of gamecock named “prinsipe sabong”, he was frantic and livid. Joey could not work and lost appetite as an actor. He was obsessed with the identity of prinsipe sabong and its whereabouts. He then quit showbiz. He decided to go back home to his province & look for that gamecock . It was rumoured to be bred in his Hometown. But no one could be sure.

Upon return, he was surprised to find out their house became like an orphange! His Father decided to adopt children. He was very much against it, but his brother was fine with it. The ruckus started. What made it worst is the pressence of Celine. Celine is the girlfriend of his brother, whom Joey later fell in love with…

Title: vacation

Country : Japan

Year : 2008

Director: Kadoi Hajime

Running time: 115

Synopsis

Hirai, a middle-aged prison guard, is getting married to Mika, a single mother. Hirai has not been able to spend enough time with her son due to busy work, and the child has not opened up his mind to Hirai yet. In the prison, those who volunteer to support the execution of an inmate receive a vacation for a week leading up to the date of the execution. No guard likes to do the job because of its closeness to the death of inmates who they spend a long time with. Finding in need of time with his new family, Hirai decides to take up the position and go on a trip.

Title: A Wednesday

Country : India

Year : 2008

Director: NEERAJ PANDEY

Running time: 103

Synopsis

A Wednesday is a thriller set almost in real time in this city. It tells the story of certain events that unfold between 2 & 6 pm on a particular Wednesday. Events which do not exist in any record but which deeply affected the lives of those involved.

Prakash Rathod is the Commissioner of Police, Mumbai. He was in his office just like any other day till the time he gets a call from a Man. What and why is the crux of the story that has been kept a closely guarded secret. The Case is not supposed to be a precedent.

Title: Be calm and count to 7

Country : Iran

Year : 2008

Director: Ramtin lavafipour
Running time: 89

Synopsis

On an island in the south of Iran, the lives of several people are unintentionally tied to each other: the father of a thirteen-year old boy named Moto has smuggled few people out of Iran, and has not yet returned home; Moto, involved in goods smuggling, is looking for signs of his father; another, a man who is an intermediary in goods smuggling has a wife and child living in Tehran. The man is not satisfied with wife’s intention for emigrating abroad, and feels helpless as he is losing his last hope for a better life. And, finally, a bride, whose groom has left her on the first night of their marriage!

Title: Scandal Makers

Country : South Korean

Year : 2008

Director: Hyeong-Cheol Kang

Running time: 108

Synopsis

Mid 30′s Nam Hyeon-su is a popular radio DJ and entertainer (who was even more popular in his younger days as a teen idol).
One day, Hwang Jeong-nam suddenly appears and tells Hyeon-su that he is her father. Furthermore, she informs him that he is now a grandfather to her young son, Ki-dong. Jeong-nam then follows Hyeon-su everywhere he goes. This causes the media to take notice and mistakenly identify Hyeon-su and Jeong-nam as a couple. A complicated scandal then erupts.

English Title: The days

Country : Singapore

Year : 2008

Director: Boi Kwong

Running time: 92

Synopsis

Based on a true story – “THE DAYS” tells a cautionary tale between two brothers, set between 1989 and 1990. In a misguided effort to teach BABY independence, and to make him feel protected, ZI LONG brings him into his own gang of delinquents, introducing him to his group nicknamed “The 4 Heavenly Kings” – DOG, the silent fighter; COCKROACH, the loudmouth and TAUPER, the motorbike riding free soul together with their surrogate leader JEREMY TAN. Unknowingly, his decision has thrown them both into a tumultuous and violent world that will, in different ways, imprison them both.

Title: JALAINUR

Country : China

Year : 2008

Director: Zhao Ye

Running time: 92

Synopsis

Jalainur, near the border of China and Russia, is an open-pit colliery with over-100-years of history and the unusual sight of steam trains in service. Now the huge pit is almost empty, the steam trains will be retired and a large number of colliery workers are facing the crisis of being laid off. The idea of this film comes from an old Chinese saying, “Even if I accompany you for thousands of miles, finally we must bid farewell.”

The two protagonists, Old Zhu and Zhizhong, have worked closely together. One day Zhizhong finds that Old Zhu is not at the colliery where he has worked for over 30 years and he left to be with his daughter who lives near the border. Zhizhong gets on the road and manages to follow Old Zhu all the way and finally decided to leaves him when Old Zhu’s daughter shows up. Zhizhong wanders around at the border, he misses the train to go back to work that day.

The entire film is shot on actual location in Jalainur.

Title: Walk to School

Country: China

Year: 2008

Director: Peng Jia Huang, Peng Chen

Running time: 90

Synopsis

Wawa is a 7-year-old, living the mountain area. He envies his sister, Naxiang, for she can go to school every day. To go to school, Wawa must use the tramline. However, his mother never allowed him to do so. She promised to let him play the tramline only if his father is back from work in the “big city”.

Yet, Wawa was so curious about the other side of the mountain that he secretly went across the valley by the tramline. What happened in school deeply impressed him. With the coming of a new teacher from the “big city”, Wawa’s life was changed…

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