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映画祭 · What's on the festival calendar — Asia first, then the world — the films each region is talking about, and what its press is covering

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Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo

Baska Sinema
Turkish cinemasFeatureA Woman AsleepA film by Vikki BardotTools: not stated

A Woman Asleep

Vikki Bardot

An English-language experimental feature made with AI. The Turkish distributor Baska Sinema took its theatrical rights on 25 September 2026.

Director: Vikki Bardot
Form: English-language experimental AI feature
Rights: Turkish theatrical rights to Baska Sinema, 25 September 2026
Made with: Not stated by the maker
Where: Turkish theatrical rights · Sep 2026

Read at Variety All films

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Variety, 25 September 2026 · checked 13 October 2026

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