E&W Films

21/06/2025

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"9 Temples to Heaven is a delightfully sharp and tender road-trip comedy that sneaks up on you with its emotional depth. What begins as one man’s desperate attempt to outwit a prophecy becomes a richly layered exploration of generational conflict, cultural tradition, and the chaos of love in all its imperfect forms. The film’s witty writing, warm ensemble cast, and its ability to balance absurdity with sincerity—offering an unexpected Thai family story that is as funny as it is heartfelt."

We are happy to announce the projects selected for this year’s Sørfond grant. Nine outstanding productions from Palestine, Ethiopia, Rwanda, India, Jordan, Thailand, China/Iran, Indonesia, and the Philippines are selected for the grant. Read more about the selected projects here: https://www.sorfond.no/news/nine-projects-selected-for-the-s%C3%B8rfond-grant-in-2025

15/05/2025

"Mongrel" receives 10 nominations at the Taipei Film Awards:

Best Narrative Feature
Best Director
Best Leading Actor
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Production Design
Best Costume
Best Sound Design

The 27th Taipei Film Festival today May 15 announced the nominees for the 2025 Taipei Film Awards during a press conference. The nominations were led by Dead Talents Society with 14 nods. Yen and Ai-Lee and Mongrel followed closely with 12 and 10 nominations respectively. Also revealed were the nomi...

01/05/2025

🥹 thank you Purin Pictures!

22/04/2025

Sonny Calvento's "Mother Maybe" receives Film Philippines' International Co-Production Fund support! 💪

09/04/2025

...to be working with best buddies Sunny Yu and Arvin Chen at In Bloom Films, on the followup to Sunny's beautiful debut "The Kids"!

https://variety.com/2025/film/global/reza-rahadian-zarrar-kahn-udine-focus-asia-selection-1236364693/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJjbPVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHiRDlJ9NvfiuJzIDoF_XRVlmScKwYQmpnqum9pEuCl8_Srl3fdaFhBuCRofl_aem_4Et2gBYwdqJR4TYf3yi8gA

Udine's Focus Asia 2025 unveils 18 projects including Reza Rahadian's directorial debut and Zarrar Kahn's latest.

26/01/2025

Transient Workers Count Too - TWC2 😍

26/12/2024

It’s been a good year for E&W Films.

Upcoming films include “Mother Maybe” by Sonny Calvento and “9 Temples to Heaven” by Sompot Chidgasornpongse, and maybe one or two more…

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09/12/2024

🤯 Nice way to cap off the year, at the Singapore International Film Festival!

"Mongrel" wins Best Asian Feature Film:

"From the opening shot of MONGREL to its very last, the frame composes a dense, shadowy and violent world, sculpting elements of stillness and movement, light and darkness, sound and silence, into a viscerally pulsing film body. It is an innovative and wounding proposal for the aesthetics of cinematic knowledge, which weighs upon us the savage, multi-stratified layers of contemporary slavery, through the dark labyrinth of forced migration, where survival and death lie side by side.”

And "Viet and Nam" wins Best Director and the FIPRESCI Award:

“From the glittered pits of a dark mine to the ghostly memories of a battlefield in VIET AND NAM, we are invited to dream up a world where the veil between the dead and the living is pierced, intertwining history, love, and loss. The rhythms and gravities of the world are allowed to breathe in each shot-rigorously framed, yet transcending mere naturalism. With a poetic embrace of light in the darkest depths, TRƯƠNG MINH QUÝ creates a profoundly resonant cinematic language of tenderness, wonder and desire.”

"An unclassifiable film that crosses borders and blurs the boundaries between labor and love, past and present, the tragic and the transcendental, and the limited and the liberated. Like its migrant characters, its mysterious narrative and language expand our understanding of the human condition through moving image. For its underground love story that persists in its placelessness, we are thrilled to present the FIPRESCI Award to Việt and Nam by Trương Minh Quý."

07/12/2024

"Viet and Nam" receives the Silver Hanoman Award at JAFF19. 😍

30/11/2024

…Best Cinematography at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards!

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