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IndieWireAmerican Film Market Will Rethink Networking Through Partnership with Indie Creator Platform Callo Exclusive: AFM will offer badge holders access to the operating system to enable filmmakers to more easily connect with buyers, financiers, and sales agents.

Film IrelandIrelandShort Film Review: Fat Peter Lonsdale looks at Dolores Rice’s powerful short Fat . Actor and filmmaker Dolores Rice is a meteoric Irish talent, and it shows immediately.

Asian Film FestivalsAsia44th Busan International Short Film Festival – Call for Entry 2027 The Busan International Short Film Festival (South Korea) is accepting international short films until January 11, 2027.

Directors NotesUKExclusive First Look at the BIFA 2026 Best British Short Film Longlist Announcing the BIFA 2026 Longlist for Best British Short Film Directors Notes’ heart and soul has always been short film, so partnering with the British Independent Film Awards to announce the 15…

Cartoon Brew2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Monitor’ Director Michael Berardini The anxieties of new parenthood become blood-freezing, supernatural horror in this indie short that opened the 2026 Annecy Festival.

VarietyAgents and Indie Producers Argue Incentives Alone Won’t Fix Hollywood’s Ills It doesn’t mean much to anyone under 45, but for older folks in Hollywood, the term “fin-syn” evokes a golden age of mansions, yacht parties and cutting-edge TV.

The Hindu — MoviesIndiaRoundglass Sustain’s short film A Spring Against All Odds to be showcased at international film festival The film, one of 48 films selected for Film SouthAsia (FSA), an international documentary film festival to be held in Kathmandu from November 27–29, 2026, is based on a script by Radhika Raj and has…

IF MagazineAustralia‘The commitment to authenticity was, some might say, extreme’: Jennifer Peedom makes her narrative feature debut with ‘Tenzing’ After more than 20 years filming in the Himalayas and on Everest, Jennifer Peedom makes her narrative feature debut with 'Tenzing'.

Directors NotesUKCraig Bingham Demonstrates How “Restraint Breeds Creativity” with His Mythic Fantasy Sci-Fi Short ‘FARANOOKA’ When we think about low-budget independent filmmaking, our first instinct might be to imagine grounded, realistic narratives set within recognisable worlds.

Asian Film FestivalsAsia20 Must-see short films from the 30th ifva Festival (Part 2) We continue with our list of short films you shouldn’t miss at the ifva Festival (Hong Kong) which is taking place from October 9 – 24, 2026 at the Louis Koo Cinema (Hong Kong Arts Centre).

Asian Film FestivalsAsia20 Must-see short films from the 30th ifva Festival (Part 1) These are twenty short films you shouldn’t miss at the ifva Festival (Hong Kong) which is taking place from October 9 – 24, 2026 at the Louis Koo Cinema (Hong Kong Arts Centre).

Film InquiryRHYTHM IS A DANCER: Lauren Caster’s Heartfelt Indie Debut Rhythm is a Dancer is the kind of indie that wears its heart on its sleeve. A passion project from writer-director-star Lauren Caster , it is deeply personal while remaining broadly relatable.

Directors NotesUKFive Shoots, One Year and Zero Fundraising Shape Bertil Nilsson’s Intimate Identity-Shifting Feature Debut ‘Masc’ With Directors Notes celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2026, we’ve had the privilege of watching countless filmmakers make the leap from short film to features.

Celluloid JunkieEveryone Wants to Market Independent Films Earlier. So Why Doesn’t It Happen? A working session at the Venice Production Bridge attempted to unpick the varying priorities of producers, distributors and sales agents, raising some uncomfortable questions.

Directors NotesUKFrom Cosmic Head Explosions to Awkward Third Wheels: 11 Short Films to Discover at Encounters Film Festival 2026 While much of the film industry’s attention will soon turn towards the BFI London Film Festival , for those of us more deeply embedded in the short film world, it’s festivals like Encounters that…

Directors NotesUK10 Unforgettable Short Films DN Spotted at Sarajevo Film Festival 2026 Like every August, the Sarajevo Film Festival returns as the largest and most important film festival in the Balkans.

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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