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The 31st Vesoul International Film Festival Asian Cinema, chaired by the international jury of the great Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke, presents the complete feature films of Jia Zhang-ke, in the presence of his muse, the actress Zhao Tao.

Two honorary Cyclos d’or are awarded to them during the opening ceremony at the Théâtre Edwige Feuillère.

92 films, including 47 unreleased ones, make up the official selection.

The fiction and documentary competitions offer a selection of 17 films from Bhutan, China, Korea, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Philippines, Malaysia, Yakutia, etc., judged by 7 juries and presented by the film teams:

Bhutan: I The Song by Dechen Roder – French premiere

Burma: Ma – Cry of silence by The Maw Naing – French premiere

China (Hong Kong): To Kill a Mongolian Horse by Jiang Xiaoxuan – French premiere

Korea: The Land of Morning Calm by Park Ri-woong – French premiere

Iran: The Witness by Nader Saeivar – French premiere

Japan:...

The 24th entry in an on-going series of audiovisual essays by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin. Mubi will be showing Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Creepy (2016) from August 5 - September 4, 2017 in the United States.Note: No essential element of the plot of Creepy is divulged or spoilt in this video essay or the accompanying text below.Hubert Niogret, in his review of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Creepy in Positif (July/August 2017), suggests: “There is always, in this director’s work, a particular view of social behaviour in this country of Japan where rules are numerous – above all when it comes to politeness, and the civil exchanges between individuals.” Niogret also notes that, beyond the “V-cinema” period (1994-1998) of relatively cheap, quickly made films within the genres of horror, fantasy and ghost tales, Kurosawa’s more recent works tend to introduce their supernatural elements (when these exist) only gradually and indirectly. Indeed, both...

Directors’ Fortnight, the parallel section at the Cannes Film Festival will host four panel discussions. One of them is titled ‘Multiplicities of Indian cinema – Bollywood: the tree obscuring the forest?’

The panelists for the discussion on May 23, 2012 will be Anurag Kashyap (Gangs of Wasseypur), Pierre Salvadori (Srf), Hubert Niogret (productor/film critic), Patrick Frater (journalist), Sunil Doshi (producer) Sudhir Mishra (screenwriter, director).

‘In the West, Indian cinema is little known and is reduced to Bollywood, whereas this kind of film only accounts for a quarter of annual production. But India, a land of 1.2 billion inhabitants and 21 languages, the biggest motion picture market in terms of volume, produces hundreds and hundreds of other kinds of films, while remaining impervious to Western films. A look at an atypical, multi-form and effervescent film industry.’

The other topics for panel discussion are Cinema in Arab Nations today, New adventurousness in French cinema and New names in Latin-American cinema.