Directed by Kang Bo and produced by Meng Xie, Kingdom of the Insomniacs is a thriller set in an old forest farm, where fungus farmers are plagued with insomnia and an aging disease. After his father dies, a juvenile tries to extricate himself from this wicked kingdom.
Once starred in acclaimed films such as Jia Zhangke’s 2015 Cannes Palme d’Or contender Mountains May Depart and Liu Jie’s De Lan, Chinese actor Dong Zijian presents his directorial feature debut My Friend An Delie, inspired by the homonymous novel. Dong also stars in the film, along with Liu Haoran whose credits include the Detective Chinatown franchise and The Breaking Ice.
Starring Ni Ni, Zhou You and Liao Fan, veteran screenwriter Huo Xin’s “auspicious directorial debut” won great press review in Toronto and San Sebastian. It’s “a contained and serene drama about love, romance and death”and “a beautiful tale launched into the void against the impertinence of the world”.
Starring Ni Ni, Zhou You and Liao Fan, veteran screenwriter Huo Xin’s directorial feature will premiere on September 6 in Toronto’s Centrepiece section and go on to play in San Sebastian’s main competition. Brimming with stark romance and brutal honesty, Bound In Heaven is a spellbinding modern take on the classic tale of love and fate.
A sequel to Ben Rivers’ 2011 documentary Two Years at Sea, Bogancloch is named after the place where the protagonist Jake Williams lives, nestled in a vast highland forest of Scotland. The beautiful work will have its world premiere in Locarno main competition.
Portuguese director Miguel Gomes’ latest feature Grand Tour combines film scenes shot in studios and frames from an Asian trip, “creating a continuous cinematic time”. Rediance launched sales for Chinese-speaking territories in Cannes.
Set in the botanical garden of a medieval university town in Germany, Silent Friend is centered around a majestic tree observing humans. The film - set in different eras (1908, 1972, 2020) - tells three human stories shaped and transformed by the plants surrounding them. It’s the first time Tony Leung stars in a European production, co-produced by Rediance. (Read More)
Based on the homonymous book by shaman and Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa and French anthropologist Bruce Albert, THE FALLING SKY portrays the indigenous community of Watorikɨ and marks Eryk Rocha’s 10th feature film, and his 3rd time at Cannes where he won the L’Oeil d’Or Award for CINEMA NOVO in 2016.
Sleep With Your Eyes Open, Nele Wohlatz’ second feature, premiered in Berlinale’s Encounters Competition and won the FIPRESCI Prize. It’s recognized by the committee as "a mesmerizing contemplation on hyper-globalization. Exploring the convulsion of migrant stories coming together, the charismatic protagonist mirrors the lives of nomadic workers."
She Sat There Like All Ordinary Ones, debut feature of Rhode Island School of Design alumni Youjia Qu, was awarded Berlinale Generation 14plus Best Film Special Mention. Described by the Youth jury as “love at first sight,“ the film is “rich with a quiet beauty and rife with symbolism, it offers a window into the lives of these two teens and their intricate personalities, and permits the viewer entry into a world that is not their own.”
Represented and produced by Rediance, Chinese up-and-coming director Qu Youjia’s debut feature She Sat There Like All Ordinary Ones will compete in Berlinale Generation 14plus. The film tells the story about the late bloomer Zhuang who accidentally takes the blame for the theft of a starting gun by fellow student Meng on their first encounter.
Locarno’s Golden Leopard for Best First Feature winner Nele Wohlatz brings her second feature to Berlinale Encounters. “The cast combines newcomers with professional actors, including Wang Shin-Hong who has frequently worked on Midi Z films such as Ice Poison and The Road To Mandalay, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (120 BPM), Chen Xiao Xin and Liao Kai Ro.” (Screen) Read more
Chinese young director Huang Shuli will compete in Berlin with a new short film, Goodbye First Love, telling about a re-encounter in Hamburg. His previous work Will You Look At Me (2023) premiered at the 61st La Semaine De La Critique Cannes Film Festival 2022 where it was awarded Queer Palm for Best Short Film, and later won Short Film Jury Award at Sundance Film Festival 2023.
After winning awards from Locarno, San Sebastian, Thessaloniki and Mexico, Eduardo Williams’ second feature, The Human Surge 3 got the first place of Film Comment’s Best Films to be distributed and in the list of Sight&Sound’s 50 best films of 2023. The film will be theatricallly released in North America and France in 2024.
It was announced at the closing ceremony of the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival that the late Tibetan New Wave pioneer Pema Tseden’s Venice-selected Snow Leopard won the Grand Prix. With creative focus fixated on his native Tibetan plateau, Tseden finished shooting the film before his sad passing in May 2023. This film carries on the legacy as "a testament to Tseden’s gift for telling stories that are deeply rooted in Tibetan culture yet retain a universal cinematic vision.” (Screen)
The late Tibetan director Pema Tseden’s Snow Leopard centers on an argument between a father and his son over a snow leopard which broke into their sheep pen and killed nine rams. His previous films, Balloon, Jinpa and Tharlo all premiered in Venice Orizzonti.
Starring Huang Jue (Long Day’s Journey Into Night) and Li Meng (A Touch of Sin, Absence), Short Story, the new short film of Wu Lang has been selected in Orizzonti Short Films Competition. Wu lang’s first feature Absence premiered at Berlinale Encounters 2023, while the namesake short competed in Cannes in 2021.
The Human Surge 3, second feature of Argentine filmmaker Eduardo Williams who won the Golden Leopard of Filmmakers of the Present at Locarno in 2017 with The Human Surge, enters the main competition of 76th Locarno Film Festival. The film tells a story about different groups of friends wandering in a rainy, windy and dark world. They spend time together to get away from their depressing jobs, meandering constantly towards the mystery of new possibilities.
The Un Certain Regard selected title and the fourth film of Singaporean director Anthony Chen, has been acquired for France, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Spain and worldwide inflight. It will hit theaters soon in Mainland China on August 22nd.
Produced by China’s Canopy Pictures, starring Zhou Dongyu, Liu Haoran and Qu Chuxiao, the film is the first China production directed by Anthony Chen, a Singaporean filmmaker who won the Camera d’Or at Cannes in 2013 with his debut feature Ilo Ilo.
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival revealed the selection for this year’s Jeonju Cinema Project pitching programme, including Eduardo Williams’ feature project The Human Surge 3 in post-production. His debut The Human Surge won the Golden Leopard – Filmmakers of the Present in Locarno while his shorts premiered at Cinéfondation, Quinzaine and Berlinale.
The Best Film Award of Berlinale’s Encounters’ competition goes to Belgium director Bas Devos’ fourth feature Here. This “poetic, highly pictorial, urban tableaux” is “visual storytelling at its most instinctive and tender”, it also won a FIPRESCI award.
Directorial debut of Chinese young director Qu Youjia, whose short film Together Apart won awards at FIRST Film Festival Xining and screened in IFFR. His feature project Lava was selected for Busan Asian Project Market and Berlinale Co-production Market.
Rediance has announced three titles participating at this year’s EFM. Belgian director Bas Devos’ fourth feature Here and Chinese director Wu Lang’s debut Absence are selected in the Encounters’ competition while Zhang Dalei brings his latest short film All Tomorrows’ Parties back to Berlinale Shorts competition.
Produced by Anthony Chen as the first Singapore-South Korea film, Ajoomma by He Shuming has been licensed to Sidus for South Korea, Coral Content for Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, Clover Films for Vietnam, Encore Inflight for airline rights and Cai Chang International for Taiwan. The film is set to have its theatrical release in Taiwan on December 23, 2022. More sales beckon. Read more
Ajoomma is making its world premiere in the New Currents competition at Busan. In addition to four Golden Horse nominations, the film is chosen as Singapore’s official submission to the 2023 Oscars. It centers around the fiscinating phenomena of Korean culture obsession, and a self discovery journey of a middle-aged Sinagporean woman. Rediance handles international sales. Read more
Oscilloscope has acquired North American rights to Ann Oren’s Piaffe, which debuted in Locarno this summer and played in the Zabaltegi-Takalera competition at San Sebastian. The distributor is planning a theatrical release in 2023. Rediance handles worldwide sales. Read more
Piaffe, the first narrative feature by Berlin-based visual artist and filmmaker Ann Oren, will receive its world premiere at Locarno this August. Shot on 16mm, the film follows an introvert foley artist and marks Oren’s artistic transition from video art and installation to cinema. Rediance handles international sales. Read more
Argentine director Eduardo Williams is set to start filming his second feature The Human Surge 3 this summer in Taiwan, the film will capture the private daily lives and thoughts of a group of young people. Williams’ debut feature The Human Surge won the Pardo d’oro for Best Film at Filmmakers of the Present of the 69th Locarno. Rediance will produce as well as represent this new film. Read more
Rediance has pre-acquired Belgian director Bas Devos’ untitled new project, which started filming in May. Set in Brussels, the film revolves around a potential love story between a Romanian worker and a Belgian-Chinese student. Devos’ previous feature Ghost Tropic, also a Rediance title, was selected by Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2019. Read more
Written and directed by Argentine director María Silvia Esteve, The Spiral is selected by Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. Esteve’s debut documentary Silvia premiered at IDFA, and her short film Criatura won the Best Auteur Short Film at Locarno. Her upcoming documentary Mailin is the winner of the IDFA Bertha Fund and double award winner at the Visions du Réel Industry as the project with the highest international potential. Worldwide sales by Rediance.
Starring Zhang Yu and Ma Li, Geng Jun’s new feature Manchurian Tiger is invited to the Competition section of Far East Film Festival 2022 in Udine, Italy. It was awarded the Golden Goblet award for Best Feature Film at the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival and released theatrically in China this past January. Appearance in Udine will mark its international premiere. Produced and international sales by Rediance.
Hot Docs Festival 2022 recently revealed its lineup, including Sean Wang’s documentary A Marble Travelogue about the odyssey of a piece of white marble stone from Greece to China, and Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s expressive personal essay film Jet Lag, respectively in the Changing Face of Europe and the Markers programs. After its world premiere at Berlinale Forum, Jet Lag was also invited to MoMA Doc Fortnight. Both documentaries are represented by Rediance.
Far Away Eyes is Taiwanese director Wang Chun-Hong's debut feature, which will be in the Burning Lights Competition at Visions Du Réel 2022. The film outlines a brief moment in the life of a young man living in Taipei with reflections on his yearnings and endeavors. Rediance’s other title A Marble Travelogue by Sean Wang will be competing in Wide Angle.
The Breaking Ice was filmed in China’s northern Jilin province, and stars Zhou Dongyu (Oscar-nominated Better Days), Liu Haoran (hit franchise Detective Chinatown) and Qu Chuxiao (The Wandering Earth). Rediance is taking on worldwide sales. Read More
Zheng’s debut feature The Cloud In Her Room was awarded the Tiger Award at Rotterdam in 2020. Both films are represented by Rediance.
A Marble Travelogue is the second documentary by Chinese director Sean Wang, it follows marble from its homeland in Greece to China, where it is processed for sale back to the West in the age of market economy and globalization. The film world premieres in Amsterdam with all sold-out screenings. It’s produced by Muyi Film and TOAG, international sales by Rediance.
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
The International Generation Jury awards the Grand Prix for the Best Feature Film in the Kplus competition to Chinese female director Han Shuai’s debut film Summer Blur. Summer Blur previously also won the FIPRESCI Prize of Busan’s New Current and Jury Award at Pingyao International Film Festival.
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.
