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Seeing oneself through someone else’s eyes can be illuminating, but it can also be quite intoxicating — especially when said eyes belong to an artist eager to look at everything around him as fodder for his own artmaking. Koya Kamura’s “Winter in Sokcho” (an adaptation of Elisa Shua Dusapin’s novel by the same name) stages that very tension between a French-Korean young woman and an older French illustrator. The two forge an odd kinship that is as tenuous as it is enticing and which proves, throughout Kamura’s wistful twinned portrait of alienation, hard to maintain and harder still to understand.

The life Soo-Ha (Bella Kim) finds herself living in the small fishing town of Sokcho is structured by a rote kind of routine. Despite the scholarly aspirations that had first driven her to study literature, Soo-Ha now works at a boarding house where she cooks and cleans...

After a series of short films, scripts, and an acting career, Stéphane Ly-Cuong writes and directs his first feature film, “In The Nguyen Kitchen”, a musical comedy that addresses the identity issues faced by second-generation adults as they balance their careers and cultural heritage.

In The Nguyen Kitchen is screening at Cinemasia

Yvonne Nguyen (Clotilde Chevalier) is an actress and singer living in Paris, struggling to land a role in a major show rather than settling for odd little parts in penniless productions. Notoriously, it’s not easy to manage a career in the entertainment industry, but for Yvonne it’s even more challenging, as her Vietnamese heritage restricts her to secondary roles as a generic pan-Asian character. To get by, she promotes a brand of Vietnamese egg rolls in supermarkets, dolled up in a garish national costume. To make matters worse, her boyfriend’s lack of understanding of her...

CinemAsia Film Festival 2025 presents its full program for the 17th edition, running March 6-11 in Amsterdam. Featuring 38 handpicked films – of which 27 feature films and 11 shorts, including 1 world and 4 European premieres – the lineup spans blockbusters, art-house gems, and independent productions.

Hosted at Eye Filmmuseum, Studio/K, Rialto De Pijp, and Rialto Vu, CinemAsia invites audiences on a cinematic journey through Asia’s rich storytelling, stunning visuals, and diverse cultural perspectives.

Grand Opening & Closing Films

Opening Film – Happyend by Neo Sora (Dutch premiere) – Director present at the festival.

The festival opens with the highly anticipated Happyend by Japanese-American filmmaker Neo Sora. Set in a dystopian near-future Tokyo overshadowed by an impending catastrophic earthquake, this visually stunning film explores identity and friendship in a world dominated by control and uncertainty.

Closing Film – Fly Me To The Moon (Hong Kong 2023) by Sasha Chuk (Dutch premiere) – Director present.

CinemAsia 2025 closes with Fly Me to the Moon,...

CinemAsia Film Festival returns on March 6-11, 2025 to Amsterdam, at Studio/K, Rialto De Pijp, Rialto Vu, and Eye Filmmuseum presenting the diversity and depth of Asian cinema. Highlights include the New Visions section, spotlighting the fresh voices of 10 emerging filmmakers. The festival closes with Fly Me to the Moon, the multi-awarded directorial debut by Sasha Chuk and produced by Stanley Kwan. Directors Sasha Chuk (Fly Me to the Moon) and Jota Mun (New Visions film Between Goodbyes) will attend the festival in person.

Closing Film: Dutch premiere of Fly Me to the Moon

(Hong Kong 2023) | Dutch premiere – Director and actress Sasha Chuk present at the festival.

Based on Sasha Chuk’s semi-autobiographical novel, Fly Me to the Moon follows two sisters who migrate from Hunan to Hong Kong in 1997, facing poverty, identity struggles, and their father’s addiction. Spanning two decades, from the Handover in 1997 to 2017, this deeply humanistic drama,...

Emilia Pérez had quite a contentious win at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards. The French-made, primarily Spanish language musical beat fan favorites like Anora, Wicked, and The Substance for Best Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy, despite containing what many have deemed controversial material. Emilia Pérez, essentially, follows the story of Emilia Pérez, a former cartel kingpin in Mexico who undergoes gender-affirming surgery and leaves her crime-ridden past behind with the help of a corrupt lawyer, all told through an absurdist musical style.

The film stars Karla Sofía Gascón in the titular role, as well as a supporting cast of the likes of Zoe Saldaña ( who took home the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress), Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz. With such forces and wins behind it, why has Emilia Pérez been so polarizing?Here's a breakdown.

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The 82nd Golden Globes is now in the books, and two nominees, in particular, have a lot to celebrate — Emilia Pérez and Shōgun. Both the film and television series led the night with four Golden Globes wins each.

Emilia Pérez came into the Awards show with a whopping 10 nominations, so its success shouldn't come as too much of a surprise, and Shōgun was the second-most-nominated television series behind The Bear. However, Shōgun won each of its four nominations — Best Television Series - Drama, Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series - Drama, Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series - Drama, and Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role on Television. Notably, both the acclaimed film and television series are already on streaming platforms.

As a Netflix original film, Emilia Pérez has been streaming on the platform since November 13, 2024, following its...

The 82nd Golden Globes is now in the books, and two nominees, in particular, have a lot to celebrate — Emilia Pérez and Shōgun. Both the film and television series led the night with four Golden Globes wins each.

Emilia Pérez came into the Awards show with a whopping 10 nominations, so its success shouldn't come as too much of a surprise, and Shōgun was the second-most-nominated television series behind The Bear. However, Shōgun won each of its four nominations — Best Television Series - Drama, Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series - Drama, Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series - Drama, and Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role on Television. Notably, both the acclaimed film and television series are already on streaming platforms.

As a Netflix original film, Emilia Pérez has been streaming on the platform since November 13, 2024, following its...

Netflix found a lot of success with the acclaimed movie Emilia Pérez, and its latest accolade is some pretty high praise from revered filmmaker James Cameron.

In an interview for the Ringer Movies podcast, the Titanic, Terminator 2, and Aliens director shared his thoughts on Emilia Pérez. Though Cameron must be very busy, given his continued work on multiple Avatar sequels, he still made time to give Emilia Pérez repeated viewings. The director also praised the movie for its originality, describing it as a one-of-a-kind film that just was not like any other that he'd ever seen before.

Related 'I Heard [James Cameron] Was Angry': Josh Brolin Clarifies Reason He Refused Avatar 2 Role

Director James Cameron reportedly resented the Dune actor for rejecting the role.

"What I saw that blew me away was Emilia Pérez. I have seen it three times now," Cameron said while discussing recent movies with veteran producer Gale Anne Hurd.

2024 has been an excellent year for movies of all genres - there have been some great blockbuster films that finally brought audiences back to the theaters, and plenty of more subtle indie hits that are now gathering steady acclaim for the 2025 Oscars and awards season. But throughout all of this, 2024’s catalog has been filled with moving stories that have stirred audiences’ emotions and made us cry. Several of these films have even been among the highest-grossing movies of 2024.

There’s no clear recipe for how to make the audience cry, but rather it comes from authentic, human stories that project an important message through their characters. This isn’t easily done, and in many ways, making the audience cry is a clear indicator that any drama has achieved its goal fairly well. It proves that there’s some compassion and universality in the story, which is all that anybody could hope for.

Paris-based company The Party Film Sales has boarded international rights to “Aicha,” Mehdi M. Barsaoui’s follow-up to the Venice-premiering “A Son,” and “Transmazonia” by Pia Marais (“Layla Fourie”).

WME Independent is repping North America and multi-territory deals on “Transmazonia.” Both films are in post-production and will be teased by The Party Film Sales at the European Film Market where the company will unveil promo-reels.

Set in contemporary Tunisia, “Aicha” is inspired by true events and tells the story of Aya, a woman in her late 20s who lives with her parents, feeling trapped in a life without prospects. One day, she’s involved in a bus crash while commuting to work. As the sole survivor of the accident, she realizes it could be her chance to start a new life. She flees to Tunis under a new identity, but everything is soon compromised after she witnesses a police blunder.

Paris-based sales company is kicking off sales for the projects at Unifrance’s Rendez-Vous in Paris this week

Paris-based sales company The Party has added an eclectic blend of new titles to its 2024 line-up including Sophie Fillières’ posthumous This Life of Mine, Oscar nominated Four Daughters director Kaouther Ben Hania’s next film and a Franco-Vietnamese musical comedy.

The Party is kicking off sales at Unifrance’s Rendez-Vous in Paris this week for Fillières’ seventh feature, the comedy drama This Life Of Mine.

Fillières died in July 2023, at age 58, shortly after completing filming - sending shockwaves through the French film industry.