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Over the last few years, Chinese and Hong Kong films have delved into a small but noticeable trend of incorporating terror in locations that were originally places of communal experiences. Films like “Back Home” and “Yum Investigation” started the trend and it extends now to director Jack Lai‘s feature-film debut “Possession Street.” The incorporation of zombie horror and more traditional Taoist elements creates a thrilling survival horror-inspired feature now screening at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Possession Street is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam

Once a popular commercial center, Golden Treasure Plaza is now a rundown mall marked for demolition. Among its last remaining shopkeepers is Sam (Philip Keung), an injured stuntman who runs a DVD store with virtually no clientele. One fateful day, when Sam’s beloved daughter Yan (Candy Wong) comes for a long overdue visit, a storeowner accidentally breaches a supernatural barrier in the mall’s basement.

Busan International Film Festival (Biff) has revealed 30 titles chosen for the 2024 Asian Project Market (Apm), including upcoming features by award-winners Kirsten Tan, Iqbal H. Chowdhury, Woo Ming Jin and Daishi Matsunaga.

The investment and co-production market, which runs as part of Biff’s Asian Contents and Film Market (Acfm), is set to take place from October 5-8 in Busan, South Korea.

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This year’s Apm selection features an expanded variety of genres, including crime thrillers, horror, queer cinema, and animated films, alongside the more traditional selections of drama, comedy and romance. Organisers said...

Busan International Film Festival has revealed the 30 projects that have been selected for this year’s Asian Project Market (Apm), including several from Asian filmmakers who have previously had films selected for the Korean festival.

The line-up includes Dhakar Nagin, from Bangladeshi filmmaker Iqbal H. Chowdhury, who won Busan’s New Currents Award last year with The Wrestler. Also returning is Indonesia’s Wregas Bhanuteja with Levitating, after his film Photocopier screened in New Currents in 2021.

Other returnees include Japan’s Sotoyama Bunji with Life Redo List after Soiree screened at the festival in 2020, along with Asian Film Academy alumni Aigerim Satybaldy, a Khazakh filmmaker who is producing Leg from Uzbek filmmaker Shokir Kholikov; Sri Lanka’s Ilagno Ram with Rabbit Hole; and Myanmar’s Lin Htet Aung with Making A Sea.

Established filmmakers in the selection include Hong Kong documentary filmmaker Chan Tze-woon with Nothing Happened, Filipino indie filmmaker Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan,...

Hong Kong-based Mei Ah Entertainment brings a slate of new projects to Filmart, featuring stars including Shen Teng, Ma Li and Ekin Cheng.

Untouchable is a $23m crime action thriller set in Macau about a boxing champion-turned-lawyer who can’t stay away from the underworld. This marks the first action film of box-office sensation Shen, known for his comic roles in films such as Goodbye Mr. Loser.

Zhang Yuqi (The Mermaid) co-stars in the film directed by Wang Daqing (One Day) and produced by Shang Ke (Let The Bullets Fly).

Previously known as Twin Blades, Brave Girls pairs leading Chinese...