Following a 14-minute standing ovation after its premiere and glorious reviews from top film critics, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, starring Tilda Swinton, was awarded with the Prix du Jury at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. It’ll be Apichatpong’s sixth time at Cannes, he previously won the Palme in 2013. Memoria is co-produced by Rediance.
Together with six auteurs, Singaporean director Anthony Chen contributed to the pandemic-inspired omnibus film The Year Of The Everlasting Storm. Appropriately named The Break Away, starring Zhou Dongyu (Better Days) and Zhang Yu (An Elephant Sitting Still), Anthony Chen’s chronicle of the unprecedented moment takes a sincere look at a normal family during the lockdown. The Break Away is produced by Giraffe Pictures and Rediance, marking Rediance’s second production collaboration with Anthony Chen after Wet Season. Mainland China sales of the film will be handled by Rediance and The Match Factory.
Co-produced by Rediance, starring Zhang Yu and Ma Li, Manchurian Tiger is the seventh feature of Geng Jun, received its world premiere at the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival, where it has been awarded the top Golden Goblet award for best feature. His previous film, Free + Easy won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award in Sundance Film Festival and was received four major nominations at Taipei Golden Horse Award including Best Film and Best Director.
After premiering Petition as a special screening at Cannes 12 years ago, Chinese filmmaker and multi-media artist Zhao returns to Cannes with an ambitious documentary that looks at the dangers of nuclear energy. I’m So Sorry is selected in Cinema for the Climate program at Cannes. His last film Behemoth was selected for the main competition at Venice Film Festival at 2015. Read More
Featuring in the Director’s Fortnight strand, director Wei Shujun returns with Ripples of Life, whose last feature Striding into the Wind was the only Chinese feature film selected in Cannes’s 2020 Official Selection, while his short film received a special mention in 2018. This feature, starring Yang Zishan, takes cinema as its subject, as a film crew arrive in the isolated town of Yong'an.
Niu Xiaoyu’s debut feature Virgin Blue, produced by Blackfin Production, will screen in Locarno’s Concorso Cineasti del presente section. As a project, Virgin Blue has been selected in FIRST Feature Lab, HAF work-in-progress project and Work-in-Progress Lab Screenings at Pingyao IFF.
Rediance has recently picked up international rights to Whether The Weather Is Fine, directed by Philippines filmmaker Carlo Francisco Manatad, which will receive its world premiere at the upcoming Locarno film festival’s Concorso Cineasti del presente section. It marks Manatad’s feature debut after a string of acclaimed shorts that played in festivals including Locarno, Cannes Critics Week and Toronto. Read More
Selected for the shorts competition at Sundance, Mexican director Carlos Lenin’s new film world premieres in late January. The film explores systematic organized crime of forced disappearances in Mexico with heart-touching sensitivity.
As announced by the festival committee on March 4th, Chinese director Zhang Dalei’s Day Is Done has been awarded Silver Bear Jury prize of Berlinale Shorts. The festival commends that the film is “superbly crafted” and “transcends the duration of the short form”. Rediance is exclusively handling international sales for Day Is Done, and Zhang Dalei’s second feature film Stars Await Us.
This year at Berlinale, Rediance is proud to represent Come Here by Thailand’s Anocha Suwichakornpong, world premiering at Berlinale Forum. Come Here marks Rediance’s second time collaborating with Anocha Suwichakornpong after Krabi, 2562. Read More
Selected for the shorts competition at Sundance, Mexican director Carlos Lenin’s new film world premieres in late January. The film explores systematic organized crime of forced disappearances in Mexico with heart-touching sensitivity.
Eduardo Williams’ second feature film The Human Surge 3 has been selected from over 640 projects by Hubert Bals Fund for their Script and Project Development at Rotterdam. His debut feature The Human Surge was awarded Golden Leopard of ‘Filmmakers of the Present’ at the 69th Locarno. The Human Surge 3 will be one of Rediance’s upcoming production titles.
Rediance is exclusively handling Yulene Olaizola’s Venice Orizzonti film Tragic Jungle, for the territory of China. Yulene Olaizola’s known to be one of the most prolific female directors in Latin America, accredited by the most prestigious film international festivals including Cannes, San Sebastian, Rotterdam, Tribeca, etc. Tragic Jungle is her fifth feature film, and official selection at Hainan International Film Festival 2020.
Chinese female director Han Shuai’s directorial debut Summer Blur has won the FIPRESCI Award at Busan, after being rewarded Feimu Jury Prize at the 4th Pingyao International Film Festival.
Much anticipated second feature by Chinese director Zhang Dalei, Stars Await Us, is one of the main competition titles at the 24th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. The film will have its international premiere during the festival which is held from 13-29th of Nov, 2020.
The Best Is Yet to Come directed by WANG Jing and produced by JIA Zhang-ke enters the Competition of Venice Orizzonti, as the only Chinese film in the section. It will then make its North American premiere in Toronto IFF.
LAVA tells a story about a committed C-pop performer struggles in an aspiring girl group. The director Qu Youjia’s Together Apart won Best Short Film at FIRST IFF and was selected in IFFR 2020’s Bright Future section.
The Firebird Award (The Best Film) and Best Actress of HKIFF’s Young Cinema Competition has gone to Chinese filmmaker Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s debut feature The Cloud in Her Room and the main actress Jin Jing. Previously, The Cloud in Her Room had won Tiger Award at IFFR 2020.
The 21th Jeonju International Film Festival’s Grand Prize in the International Competition has gone to Gao Ming’s Damp Season, which premiered in IFFR Bright Future section. The prize goes to Rediance again after the 2019 winner From Tomorrow on, I Will.
Competing in 10 international projects, Miguel Gomes's unfinished feature film Savagery, co-produced by Rediance, won the grand jury prize and 50,000 Swiss francs prize at Locarno Film Festival.
The prestigious Tiger Award 2020 goes to Chinese filmmaker Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s debut feature The Cloud in Her Room. The Blackfin Production’s new title held its world premiere at this year’s IFFR and has impressed the jury with its “innovative personal language” that “explores the fantasy of cinema”.
Rediance has picked up two titles in the run-up to the EFM – Niu Xiaoyu’s debut feature Virgin Blue and Sean Wang's Epic of a Stone, a Dutch-Chinese documentary. Read More
Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art have announced the complete lineup for the 49th annual New Directors/New Films, March 25–April 5. Out of its 27 selected features, The Cloud in Her Room, this year’s IFFR Tiger Award winner, is to hold its US premiere.
A Blackfin Production, female director Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s debut feature will have its World Premiere at the 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in January, which follows her 22-year-old protagonist as she returns to Hangzhou, where she was born, for the New Year's celebration. The Cloud in Her Room has won the WIP award at the 2nd Pingyao IFF in October.
Rediance has picked up international rights to three Chinese-language films that will premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) next month, including Tiger Competition title The Cloud in Her Room, Gao Ming’s Damp Season, which receives its world premiere in IFFR’s Bright Future main programme, and Qu Youjia’s Together Apart, which plays in Bright Future Mid-length. Read More
The Tilda Swinton-chaired Jury decided that the Jury Prize go to Zhai Yixiang’s second feature Mosaic Portrait and Abdulmohsen Aldhabaan’s Last Visit.
Balloon has recently won Grand Prize at 20th Tokyo FILMex, Best Screenplay at 50th Chicago IFF, Special Jury Award at IFF of India, Goa, Best Film at 13th Lisboa & Estoril FF, Best film at 13th Five Flavours Asian FF and Best Picture and Best Actress at 2nd Hainan Island IFF.
Wang Mu’s Climb on My Old Suffering and Geng Jun’s Assassin and Postcards have both won project awards at the festival’s H!Action project market.
At the 56th Golden Horse Awards, Yann Yann Yeo notched Best Actress among Wet Season’s six nominations including Best Narrative Feature.
Pema Tseden’s Balloon is nominated for Best Feature Film and Best Screenplay; Ben Rivers and Anocha Suwichakornpong for Achievement in Directing for their collaboratition Krabi, 2562; Teoh Gay Hian for Achievement in Cinematography for his excellence in The Science of Fictions.
In addition to Wet Season’s two major wins, Rediance’s upcoming projects The Cloud in Her Room and Climb on My Old Suffering have won WIP award and Project Promotion award respectively. Read More
Heavy Craving will have its international premiere at Busan, while Balloon, Krabi, 2562, The Science of Fictions are to have their Asian premieres.
Five years after Ilo Ilo, which won Caméra d'Or at Cannes and Best Feature Film at the Golden Horse Awards in 2013, Singaporean director Anthony Chen strikes again with the old cast in his new feature Wet Season. Rediance-represented Krabi, 2562 (Moving Ahead) and Balloon will also have screenings during TIFF 2019.
Tibetan New Wave key figure Sonthar Gyal’s (Ala Changso – Grand Jury Prize & Best Screenplay, Shanghai International Film Festival) new feature will compete among others for the prime award of Golden Shell.
The Science of Fictions (Concorso internazionale), by Indonesian director Yosep Anggi Noen, has won the Special Mention at Locarno Film Festival. It also won the 19th Boccalino d’Oro Awards given by the Independent Film Critics.
After Jinpa, his collaboration with Wong Kar Wai, which won Best Screenplay at Orizzonti last year, Tibetan film director Pema Tseden returns to Orizzonti this year with his new drama Balloon, which explores the relationship between reality and soul.
The leading actor Tsai Jia-yin won Best New Talent for her "natural and smooth performance" through the film. The film also won the International New Talent Competition's Audience Choice Award.
The 72nd Locarno Film Festival has just released its film lists today. This year Rediance has all its competitive sections covered with three films it represents. They are The Science of Fictions by Yosep Anggi Noen from Indonisia, The Dove and the Wolf by Carlos Lenin from Mexico, and Krabi, 2562, a collaboration of British artist Ben Rivers and Thai director Anocha Suwichakornpong, slotted respectively in International Competition, Filmmakers of the Present and Moving Ahead.
Demetrios Matheou of Screendaily describes the film as "a masterfully constructed, mesmerisingly mysterious drama, which packs a hefty emotional punch through its teenage protagonist."
The director Tian Zhuangzhuang, DP Hou Yong and Zuo Heng from China film Archive in attend. “Tian Zhuangzhuang explores the soul of the Tibetan people in The Horse Thief.”
Memoria stars Tilda Swinton and Jeanne Balibar and is scheduled to start shooting in Colombia in August. Gomes’ Savagery is based on Euclides da Cunha’s Backlands, a non-fiction account of the war between Brazilian soldiers and a group of religious zealots in 1890s Bahia. Read More
…after the Belgian director’s second feature Hellhole premiered at this year’s Berlinale. Saadia Bentaieb plays the main role of Ghost Tropic, “a road movie but on foot”.
Tibetan filmmaker Sonthar Gyal already finished his new film Lhamo and Skalbe after won the Grand Jury Prize and best screenplay in Shanghai 2018. Taiwanese films Hsieh Pei-ju’s first feature Heavy Craving is nominated in International New Talent Competition of Taipei Film Festival. Read More
The 20th Jeonju International Film Festival’s Grand Prize in the International Competition has gone to Ivan Markovic and Wu Linfeng’s From Tomorrow On, I Will, premiered in the Berlinale Forum.
An impressive, artistic and breathtaking documentary that goes beyond war and death and is a deep, devastating and deeply moving portrait of life and characters which you won’t forget. This is only the debut feature of the director but it shows an incredible sense of artistic ambition.
An impressive, artistic and breathtaking documentary that goes beyond war and death and is a deep, devastating and deeply moving portrait of life and characters which you won’t forget. This is only the debut feature of the director but it shows an incredible sense of artistic ambition.
Berlinale award-winning, Golden Horse Best Film An Elephant Sitting Still, opens at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York. Actor Zhang Yu, Dinda Elliott, Aliza Ma, Nicolas Rapold join the Film Comment Talk.
From Tomorrow, I Will, which plays in the Berlinale Forum, heads the festival slate of indie Chinese sales company Rediance. The suburban drama is co-directed by China’s Wu Linfeng and Ivan Markovic, who hails from the former Yugoslavia.
Xing Jian’s Winter After Winter follows the harsh life of a family during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. The film will celebrate its world premiere at IFFR Bright Future and compete for Göteborg’s Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award.
