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23/08/2025

Happy Birthday, Park Chan Wook! 🎬🥟⁠
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Known for his striking visual style and tales of lust and vengeance, Park Chan-wook is one of the most celebrated South Korean filmmakers in modern-day cinema.⁠
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While pushing the boundaries of visual storytelling, his films offer a thoughtful and nuanced exploration of human relationships, often centring the theme of revenge. Notably, his ‘Vengeance Trilogy’ (‘Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance’, 2002; ‘Oldboy’, 2003; ‘Lady Vengeance’, 2005) serves as a poignant examination of the complexities surrounding the desire for revenge and the ripple effects that a single choice can have, causing lasting devastation across families and lifetimes. 🔨⁠
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What is your favourite Park Chan Wook film? Let us know in the comments below

Row 1: 'Thirst' (2009)⁠
Row 2: 'Lady Vengeance’ (2006)⁠
Row 3: 'Oldboy’ (2003)

21/08/2025

NEW! ⁠: Eerie events threaten to upend the sedentary life of a girl on the precipice of adulthood in ‘Glint’.⁠
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17-year-old Helena has a lot on her mind. As she grapples with growing fears about her impending adulthood, she distances her loved ones. Her single mother strives—in vain—to connect with her, and her oldest friend desperately encourages her to go to a party. But Helena is paralysed and remains bound to her bed. That is, until an old dress takes on a new form and a familiar noise becomes deafening 🐦‍⬛⁠

Tap to watch on NOWNESS ASIA 🎬 https://www.nowness.asia/series/the-young-ones/glint-teenage-horror

18/08/2025

Neo Sora's ‘A Very Straight Neck’ starring Sakura Ando has won the Pardi di Domani: Concorso Corti d'Autore Competition at Locarno Film Festival 🐆⁠
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A surreal short film inspired by the graphic novel ‘I Will Go Ahead’ by Japanese artist Momoe Narazaki, ‘A Very Straight Neck’ drifts between dreams, memory and reality to explore the intricacies of the human experience.⁠ 🎞️

02/07/2025

29/06/2025

‘Farewell My Concubine’ by Chen Kaige 🎞️⁠
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Witness an epic tale of unrequited romance and tragedy in this period drama by Chen Kaige. ‘Farewell My Concubine’ starring Leslie Cheung and Zhang Fengyi as two Peking Opera performers whose relationship begins to devolve when one meets a beautiful courtesan, played by Gong Li, causing their partnership to become engulfed in a wave of jealousy and betrayal. 🪭⁠

Tap to explore more narrative shorts on NOWNESS ASIA 🔗 https://www.nowness.asia/series/nowness-shorts

26/06/2025

NEW! ​'Fat Dance', a collaboration between director Paphawee Jinnasith and choreographer Song Ravinan, is a celebration of beauty beyond rigid norms. The dance is set in a butcher’s stall, a “distinctly Asian” location. It’s a metaphor for beauty’s narrow definition as it is a place where things are constantly measured, priced, and sold, before being judged and valued.

Watch now on NOWNESS ASIA 🩰 https://www.nowness.asia/series/just-dance/fat-dance

25/06/2025

A group of q***r creatives from Thailand question the definition of normal in this stunning short film by Korn Pat. ‘Normal Is an Illusion’ is part of our latest selection ‘Becoming Queer’ for 🏳️‍🌈

Watch now on NOWNESS ASIA 🔗 https://www.nowness.asia/story/normal-is-an-illusion-korn-pat

24/06/2025

This 🏳️‍🌈, dive into our curated selection of short films that celebrate tales of q***r becoming from a range of filmmakers, representing a spectrum of stories and experiences.

Featuring 'OHYUNG & Matt Evans: What U Wanna Do' by Jas Lin, ‘Normal is an Illusion’ Korn Pat and ‘Urritjara ' by Tim Georgeson, and much more. 🎥 Watch now on NOWNESS ASIA

19/06/2025

NEW! : In a live performance art piece, Berlin-based contemporary artist Anna Uddenberg seeks to question the audience’s social consciousness, asking how the performance of authority and division can direct the “flow of human movement"⁠

Tap to watch now on NOWNESS ASIA 🎥https://www.nowness.asia/picks/premium-economy

18/06/2025

Meet Oshiruko Chan: a forever 17-year-old Sweetheart. She enjoys dressing up and all things cute, as well as DJing, going to the club, skateboarding, and eating taiyaki. Most of all, she wants to be everybody’s friend 💜

Tap the link in bio to watch on NOWNESS ASIA 🎥⁠

Scenes from the Tokyo life of a multi-talented Perfect Sweetheart

15/06/2025

Celebrate this year with this curated selection of poignant narrative shorts that feature heartwarming depictions of fatherhood 🩵⁠
Featuring, Champi by Omi Zola Gupta, Miss World by Georgia Fu and Honolulu by Maya Tanaka. Watch more on https://www.nowness.asia/ 🎬

13/06/2025

Submissions are now open for the Asian Short Film Fund (ASFF) — launched by NOWNESS ASIA in partnership with HKIFF — to support emerging filmmakers across Asia.⁠ 📣⁠
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We’re proud to announce the 2025 jury: acclaimed filmmakers Anthony Chen, Stanley Kwan Kam-pang, and Park Ki-Yong. ⁠
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This August, we’ll shortlist ten projects from the submissions to pitch to the jury. From there, three winning projects will be selected and announced later in the month. Each will receive one-on-one mentorship and up to $35,000 USD in funding.⁠ 🎬 ⁠
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The completed films will be screened at the 50th Hong Kong International Film Festival in 2026.⁠
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Only 2 days left before submissions close!
Tap to submit now → http://asff.hafapplication.com 🔗 ⁠
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