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High Octane’s Newest Slasher, The Last Laugh. The film’s a Giallo inspired Horror flick from the mind of The October People who have brought past horror gems such as Hunting Grounds, Invoking, and Ayla. From: Writer & Director Jeremy Berg Starring: Steve Vanderzee, Eric Stone, Lowell Deo, Angelo Dimarco, Jeffrey …

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The touching real-life tale of a Turkish sergeant who saves a small Korean girl becomes long, heart-tugging fiction in Ayla: The Daughter of War, directed by Can Ulkay. The story is well-known both in South Korea and in Turkey, and was told in the 2010 South Korean doc Kore Ayla, which inspired the present film. A documentary feeling still persists in Yigit Guralp’s screenplay, which struggles to stay focused while faithfully recounting a passel of real-life incidents.

Ismail Hacioglu headlines a professional Turkish cast as the patriotic, level-headed but warm-hearted young officer, with little Kim Seol (who made her bow as a...

21 Best Foreign Language Film submissions and 16 Golden Globe submissions make this festival an important event in Los Angeles.

Now in its third year, The Asian World Film Festival is held at the Arclight in Culver City. While still dealing with growing pains, especially finding its audience, it still hosts a great community of film lovers and filmmakers. My wish is that next year it will reach farther to the Asian filmmaking community in L.A. and to the ethnic communities of L.A. who would love to see the works of their homeland filmmakers which are making their way toward Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Language Films.

Awff Jury President Lisa Lu

The winner this year of multiple prizes was the South Korean submission A Taxi Driver. This funny and very serious film is so important today, and with the best publicist for the Academy Awards, Pogodin & Associattes, it...

“This is an international film first. The story is international – you can't find this kind of story anywhere,” director Can Ulkay said of Ayla: The Daughter of War, which will be the Turkish entry for Best Foreign Language Film this year. Based on a true story in 1950 during the Korean War, the film follows Sergeant Süleyman, who risks his own life to save a young, ill girl with no parents who is left freezing in the cold. If Ayla receives a nomination, it will be the…...

The final deadline for submitting each country’s film for consideration for the foreign-language Oscar was October 2. Last year 85 were finally deemed eligible by the Academy; this year the number is a record 92. Haiti, Honduras, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mozambique, Senegal and Syria are first-time entrants. These films are vying for the initial shortlist of 9, and final five nominations to be announced on January 23. See the final list below.

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The frontrunners include Sweden selected Ruben Östlund’s hilarious Palme d’Or-winner “The Square” (October 27, Magnolia Pictures), an art-world satire shot in majority Swedish with some English from stars Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, and Dominic West, thus giving Östlund another shot after “Force Majeure” was a surprise 2015 Oscar omission.

Germany’s choice, Fatih Akin’s “In the Fade” (December 27, Magnolia Pictures), won Best Actress for Diane Kruger at Cannes.

Cast of “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” on the Red Carpet

In Cannes this year, children played significant parts in Competition films by Todd Haynes (“Wonderstruck”), a grownup film about children, in Bong Joon-ho’s “Okja” about a child’s best friend, a huge animal, who is to be used by a multinational company as food, and in “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”.

Todd Haynes, Millicent Simmonds, Jaden Michael and Roy Price at the Amazon “Wondesrstruck” Party in Cannes

In Directors’ Fortnight “The Florida Project” by Sean Baker, children played all the key roles, with an especially outstanding performance by the eight year old Brooklynn Prince who plays the lead as a precocious six year old who with her friends live carefree lives in stark contrast to the lives of their struggling parents.

He was 11 years old when Pio Amato from Calabria, Italy played his first role in...