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CineuropaEuropeApulia unveils €5 million film fund and wider industry push at Venice - Venice 2026 – Venice Production Bridge VENICE 2026: The region has laid out a multi-pronged strategy spanning production incentives, project development, market access, digital innovation and international partnerships

CineuropaEuropeReview: It Will Happen Tonight - Venice 2026 – Competition VENICE 2026: Nanni Moretti once again adapts Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo with a passionate melodrama that oscillates between the joyful and the melancholic, and packs in all the hallmarks of his cinema

CineuropaEuropeInterview: Boris Hadžija, Hoda Taheri • Directors of I Plant My Hand in the Garden - “Our films are always somehow in a continuous conversation with one other” - Venice 2026 - Giornate degli Autori VENICE 2026: The directing duo blur autobiography and fiction to explore what it means to be a family, amid migration, identity and parenthood

CineuropaEuropeInterview: Lili Horvát • Director of My Notes on Mars - “I am drawn to exceptionally intelligent female characters who dare to make bold and surprising decisions” - Venice 2026 - Giornate degli Autori VENICE 2026: The Hungarian director talks about her third feature, a film that, while intertwining science fiction and intimacy, investigates the fear of losing a loved one

CineuropaEuropeReview: Diane in the Loop - Venice 2026 - Orizzonti VENICE 2026: Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni apply their distinctive signature to a new genre, the modern western

CineuropaEuropeReview: Les Indes - Venice 2026 – Giornati degli Autori VENICE 2026: Pauline Julier and Nicolas Chapoulier’s beautifully lensed film accompanies a painting of a queen-to-be through war-torn lands

CineuropaEuropeSpain’s Impulse Cinema and Italy’s Fandango enter strategic partnership - Industry / Market - Spain/Italy The cross-border pact aims to open up new co-production pathways while strengthening the international reach and sales prospects of projects originating from both companies

CineuropaEuropeReview: Our Share of Sand - Venice 2026 - International Film Critics’ Week VENICE 2026: Shalini Adnani crafts a praiseworthy debut feature film about a young teenager waking up to the guilt-ridden complexity of her environment

CineuropaEuropeReview: Eklipse - Venice 2026 – Orizzonti VENICE 2026: In his semi-biographical drama, Manuel Wetscher tests the friendship between two boys when it comes to light that one of their fathers has AIDS

CineuropaEuropeInterview: Cédric Kahn • Director of A Place to Heal - "I wanted to make a visceral, joyful film about a terrible subject" - Venice 2026 – Competition VENICE 2026: The French filmmaker explains why he decided to tackle young people's mental health and how he infused documentary material with fiction

CineuropaEuropeInterview: Werner Herzog • Director of Bucking Fastard - “The film is unique in its form of narration – it has the logic of a dream” - Venice 2026 – Competition VENICE 2026: The legendary German director tells us about his return to fiction filmmaking, his collaboration with Rooney and Kate Mara, and the movie’s dedication to David Lynch

CineuropaEuropeReview: Jupiter - Venice 2026 – Out of Competition VENICE 2026: Denis Ménochet carries a nation’s fate on his shoulders in Alexandre Smia’s gripping and effective nuclear thriller, inspired by the current geopolitical reality

CineuropaEuropeReview: A Place to Heal - Venice 2026 – Competition VENICE 2026: Cédric Kahn brilliantly stages a highly dynamic and lively ensemble film set at the heart of a child and adolescent psychiatry unit

CineuropaEuropeThe International Film Distribution Summit teams up with the Marché du Film - Hamburg 2026 - Filmfest Hamburg Industry Days The Cannes market will partner with the Hamburg-based gathering, which will run from 29 September-1 October, and will also support its Best International Innovation Distribution Award

CineuropaEuropeReview: House of the Wind - Venice 2026 – Orizzonti VENICE 2026: Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu delivers a highly authentic debut feature film about an elderly Cameroonian mother trying to preserve her bond with her children who have moved to Europe

CineuropaEuropeIra Sachs to chair the San Sebastián jury - San Sebastián 2026 The Golden Shell jury led by the US filmmaker will comprise Genki Kawamura, Catherine Paillé, Alice Braga, Patricia López Arnaiz, Bill Skarsgård and Mike Goodridge

CineuropaEuropeInterview: Alina Marazzi • Director of The Girl with the Leica - "We wanted to restore visibility to a woman forgotten by history" - Venice 2026 – Orizzonti VENICE 2026: The Italian director talks to us about her portrait of Gerda Taro, Robert Capa’s partner and colleague, and the first female photojournalist to die on the battlefield

CineuropaEuropeReview: Falling House - Venice 2026 – Orizzonti VENICE 2026: An Iranian family man loses his house and his nerve in Mohsen Gharaei’s often intriguing, but ultimately uneven, drama

CineuropaEuropeSandra Hüller to play Wolfgang Herrndorf in Maria Schrader’s Work and Structure - Production / Funding - Germany/France The German-French co-production will adapt the late writer’s celebrated autobiographical diary, with Komplizen Film leading the project and StudioCanal handling worldwide sales

CineuropaEuropeReview: No Pain - Venice 2026 - Venice Open Out of Competition VENICE 2026: The screenplay behind Gianni Amelio’s muddled romantic fable lacks the rhetorical resources needed to make the plot plausible

CineuropaEuropeEuropean titles submitted for the Oscars race - Oscars 2027 European countries reveal their titles submitted for the Best International Feature Film Award at the 2027 Academy Awards

CineuropaEuropeReview: Bucking Fastard - Venice 2026 – Competition VENICE 2026: Werner Herzog's latest sees Ireland as the setting for an absurd fable on identity, inspired by the extraordinary real-life Chaplin twins, from York

CineuropaEuropeReview: I Plant My Hand in the Garden - Venice 2026 – Giornate degli Autori VENICE 2026: Straddling autobiography and fiction, Hoda Taheri and Boris Hadžija’s debut feature film probes family, identity and belonging, challenging the roles society assigns us

Festivals

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

On view

On screens this week the newest stills from the region's press

The wire the region's press, translated

How Asia watches in 2026 from the industry's own reports

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About

Cinepuuulse is a magazine, a radar and a diary about Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — read from Tokyo.

Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku, the old word for the silver screen; it is the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean. A magazine, because every week one film is worth reading about slowly. A radar, because we count what the region's screens are talking about — box office, festivals, directors, anime, streaming — and show it as it moves. A diary, because a seal is set each day in that day's colour, and the days add up.

We read the local press in its own languages and bring it over in English: the Japanese film sites, the Korean trade papers, the Chinese culture desks, the Vietnamese and Thai entertainment pages. Everything here links back to the people who made it; the images belong to their authors.

Cinepuuulse will keep changing. New sources, new signals, new ways of looking — a little better each week, never finished. If a film here made you want to buy a ticket, that is enough.

Thank you for reading. ありがとうございます。