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Ahead of the 63rd New York Film Festival kicking off next month, taking place September 26 through October 13, the Main Slate has now been unveiled, featuring 34 of the most acclaimed and anticipated films of the year.

Highlights include the world premieres of Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai and the previously announced Bradly Cooper’s Is This Thing On? as Closing Night, alongside new films by Bi Gan, Kelly Reichardt, Kathryn Bigelow, Lucrecia Martel, Christian Petzold, Claire Denis, Park Chan-wook, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Joachim Trier, Oliver Laxe, Kent Jones, Noah Baumbach, Jafar Panahi, Pietro Marcello, Laura Poitras, and more.

NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim stated: “​​Anyone who cares about film knows that it is an art in need of defending, like many of our core values today. Across all sections of the festival, the movies we have selected this year suggest that this safeguarding can take many guises: acts of rejuvenation and refusal,...

George Clooney’s “Jay Kelly,” Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” and Park Chan-wook’s “No Other Choice” have been added to the New York Film Festival lineup.

This year’s main slate will showcase 34 films, including Cannes prizewinners, Sundance darlings and Venice premieres.

“​​Anyone who cares about film knows that it is an art in need of defending, like many of our core values today,” said NYFF artistic director Dennis Lim. “Across all sections of the festival, the movies we have selected this year suggest that this safeguarding can take many guises: acts of rejuvenation and refusal, expressions of unease and joy, feats of imagination and commemoration. I am particularly struck by the diversity of approaches and forms among the films in this Main Slate, which affirms that the art of cinema is more than capable of thriving, even in difficult times.”

As previously announced, New York Film Festival will open on Sept.

New York Film Festival (September 26-October 13) has announced the main slate for its 63rd edition, with Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent, Kathryn Bigelow’s A House Of Dynamite, and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind on the roster.

Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25, Claire Denis’ The Fence, Kent Jones’s Late Fame, and Bi Gan’s Resurrection are also in the 34-strong line-up, alongside Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai – a metacinema centred on a production of Medea –one of two world premieres in selection alongside Bradley Cooper’s previously announced closing night film Is This Thing On?

As also previously announced,...

New York Film Festival, has unveiled the Main Slate of its 63rd edition with prize winners from top fests led by Cannes from Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident (Palme d’Or) and Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value (Grand Prix) to Oliver Laxe’s Sirât and Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling (joint Jury Prize winners), Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent, and Bi Gan’s Resurrection (Special Award).

From Berlin, Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Silver Bear for best leading performance for Rose Byrne) and Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25 (Silver Bear for best screenplay). Eleven Main Slate films are set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival including Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, Kent Jones’s Late Fame and Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice.

NYFF’s 34 Main Slate films from 26 countries feature two world premieres,...

After steadily rolling out some of its gala heavy-hitters, the New York Film Festival has today announced its full main slate lineup, including new films from Claire Denis, Park Chan-wook, Noah Baumbach, Kathryn Bigelow, Kahlil Joseph, Joachim Trier, Ira Sachs, and many more.

This year’s main slate includes films from 26 countries, among them two world premieres (including Bradley Cooper’s “Is This Thing On?” and Ulrich Köhler’s “Gavagai”), plus eight North American and 13 U.S. premieres.

The festival has also programmed a number of hits from other fests, including Cannes prizewinners like Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident,” Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” Oliver Laxe’s “Sirât,” Mascha Schilinski’s “Sound of Falling,” Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent,” and Bi Gan’s “Resurrection.” Berlin and Sundance hits are also on offer, including Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” and Radu Jude’s “Kontinental ’25.

New York Film Festival (September 26-October 13) has announced the main slate for its 63rd edition, with Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent, Kathryn Bigelow’s A House Of Dynamite, and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind on the roster.

Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25, Claire Denis’ The Fence, Kent Jones’s Late Fame, and Bi Gan’s Resurrection are also in the 34-strong line-up, alongside Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai – a metacinema centred on a production of Medea –one of two world premieres in selection alongside Bradley Cooper’s previously announced closing night film Is This Thing On?

As also previously announced,...

The 63rd New York Film Festival’s Main Slate will include new films from Noah Baumbach, Jafar Panahi, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook and more. Film at Lincoln center announced the 34 Main Slate films Tuesday.

The movies come from 26 countries and include two world, eight North American and 13 U.S. premieres. Some titles will first debut at other festivals. Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” Park’s “No Other Choice” and Kent Jones’ “Late Fame” are all playing the 82nd Venice Film Festival before crossing the Atlantic to New York City.

Cannes winners in the Main Slate include Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or winner “It Was Just an Accident”; Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” which took the Grand Prix; Jury Prize winners Oliver Laxe’s “Sirât” and Mascha Schilinski’s “Sound of Falling”; Best Director- and Best Actor-winning “The Secret Agent” from Kleber Mendonça Filho; and Bi Gan’s “Resurrection,...

The awards circuit is making a key stop in the Big Apple this year.

On Tuesday, the New York Film Festival announced 34 films for their main slate lineup.

The Main Slate will showcase films from 26 countries, featuring two world premieres, eight North American premieres, and 13 U.S. premieres, including award‑winning titles from Cannes and Berlin. The lineup includes Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident (winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival) and Rose Byrne, recipient of the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance at the 2025 Berlinale for Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.

Also featured is Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler, which is set to premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival before releasing on Netflix.

The festival has also added the world premieres of Nothing Is Lost, Ben Stiller’s documentary about his parents,...

The Malaysia International Film Festival (MIFFest) proudly announces the official programme lineup for its highly anticipated 8th edition, set to take place from 19 to 27 July 2025. Staying true to its mission as a cultural bridge between Malaysian and global cinema, this year’s MIFFest places a spotlight on bold, diverse, and impactful storytelling from around the world. In its ongoing celebration of cinematic legends, the 8 th MIFFest is proud to pay tribute to the iconic Ti Lung with the Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the Extended Special Programme under the Master At Work series.

This year’s Malaysia Golden Global Awards (Mgga) sets the stage for an electrifying competition, with several standout titles leading the nominations. These critically acclaimed films reflect the depth and diversity of global storytelling celebrated at MIFFest. The Malaysia Golden Global Awards (Mgga) takes place on 26 July 2025 at Zepp Kuala Lumpur. The event will be streamed...

South Korea’s Finecut has landed multiple sales of What Does That Nature Say To You by auteur Hong Sangsoo, who serves on the competition jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Deals have been closed for the UK (Institute of Contemporary Arts for theatrical rights), Austria and Switzerland (Filmgarten), China (Beijing Hugoeast Media for non-theatrical rights), ex-Yugoslavia (Discovery d.o.o.), Finland (Bks Cinema) and Japan (Mimosa Films).It previously sold to the US, France, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Spain and Taiwan.

The story centres on a young poet who drops off his girlfriend at her parents’ impressive home and bumps into her family,...

What Does That Nature Say to You unfolds across eight unmarked chapters, guiding us through a single day in which poet Donghwa journeys from his cramped Seoul life to the crest of Junhee’s family estate. The film uses a deliberately blurred lens, an optical metaphor for the poet’s own partial sight, both literal and existential.

Bits of conversation drift like smoke—cigarette breaks by an ancient temple, a midday meal at a bibimbap stand, the ritual of garden wandering—measured yet uneasy, as if reality itself hesitates to reveal its full shape. Father-in-law Oryeong’s casual charms mask a silent examination; sister Neunghee’s barbs expose the gulf between aesthetic idealism and inherited privilege; mother-poet Sunhee remains absent yet felt in every quiet corner.

In its spare imagery, the film becomes a meditation on perception: how we reconstruct the self through fragmented glimpses of place and language. Each crash zoom is a jolt,...

Exclusive: Cinema Guild has acquired North American distribution rights on the restored films of French filmmaker Luc Moullet.

Cinema Guild will mount a touring theatrical retrospective of Moullet’s work starting at Film at Lincoln Center in New York in August. Moullet, one of the last remaining members of the French New Wave, will attend the opening.

The films included in the acquisition are Brigitte and Brigitte, The Smugglers, A Girl is a Gun, Anatomy of a Relationship, Origins of a Meal, The Comedy of Work, and Parpaillon.

Often dubbed the “prince of shoestring cinema,” Moullet was one of the later filmmakers associated with the pioneering generation of French New Wave artists.

At the age of 18, Moullet joined the ranks of Cahiers du Cinéma, where he was the first to champion Hollywood B-directors like Samuel Fuller and Edgar G. Ulmer. Following the footsteps of other Cahiers alums like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut,...

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Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo‘s latest Berlinale competition entry “What Does That Nature Say to You” has secured distribution deals across multiple territories, Seoul-based sales agent Finecut has revealed. The film has been picked up by Arizona Films (France), Ama Films (Greece & Cyprus), Minerva Pictures (Italy), L’atalante Cinema (Spain), Cola Films (Taiwan) and The Cinema Guild (U.S.).

Hong’s minimalist drama, which follows a young poet who spends a day with his girlfriend’s family, marks the director’s 12th film to screen at the Berlinale. The pic stars Ha Seongguk and Kwon Haehyo.

According to Finecut, the film’s world premiere in Berlin was met with laughter and enthusiasm, with Hong’s signature subtle humor resonating strongly with audiences and international buyers alike.

The prolific filmmaker has become a Berlinale darling in recent years, collecting an array of Silver Bear awards. Hong won the Silver...

What Does That Nature Say To You by prolific South Korean auteur Hong Sangoo has secured distribution in key European territories following its premiere in Competition at the Berlinale.

Sales agent Finecut has closed deals for France (Arizona Films), Italy (Minerva Pictures) and Spain (L’atalante Cinema) as well as Greece and Cyprus (Ama Films). The film has also been picked up for Taiwan (Cola Films), having previously been sold to the US (The Cinema Guild).

The story centres on a young poet who drops off his girlfriend at her parents’ impressive home and bumps into her family, leading to...

Finecut, a leading Korean sales house, announced multiple deals for occult animation Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning and added further sales for multi-sensory horror Noise.

Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning, an adaptation of a best-selling novel in Korea with a record of 10 million copies sold and 238 million views online, has been acquired by Pro Films (Bulgaria), Polyband (Gas), Cineplex (Latin America), Cola Films (Taiwan).

The film follows Father Park, a doctor-turned priest who must protect a naïve yet powerful child from his corrupt master within a secretive, magic-wielding temple or risk repeating the same tragedy that he took up the cross to prevent. The film has been invited to numerous animation film festivals following its premieres at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia.

The animation is produced by Locus Animation Studios, a leading animation and VFX studio known for Red Shoes And The Seven Dwarfs,...

Finecut has sold Hong Sangsoo’s Berlinale premiere What Does That Nature Say To You to the South Korean filmmaker’s regular US distributor Cinema Guild.

‘What Does That Nature Say To You’ review

Hong’s 33rd feature stars his longtime collaborator Kwon Haehyo in the story of a young poet who unravels after a boozy day at his girlfriend’s family house. Ha Seongguk, Kang Soyi, Cho Yunhee and Park Miso round out the key cast.The drama scored 2.7 on Screen’s Berlinjury grid.

Cinema Guild will release the film in theaters this year. Company president Peter Kelly negotiated...

On the heels of its premiere in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, Hong Sang-soo’s “What Does That Nature Say to You” has found U.S. distribution with Cinema Guild.

The movie marks the prolific South Korean director’s 33rd movie and follows an impressive streak of six consecutive years at the Berlinale.

Cinema Guild, which recently collaborated with Hong on his previous film “A Traveler’s Needs,” will release “What Does That Nature Say to You” in theaters in the U.S. later this year. Produced by Jeonwonsa Film, the fim is represented internationally by Finecut.

“What Does That Nature Say to You” follows Donghwa (Ha Seongguk), a fledgling poet in his thirties who rejects material aspirations and seeks to lead a life dedicated to truth and beauty. On a lazy afternoon, he drives his girlfriend, Junhee (Kang Soyi), back to her parents’ home outside Seoul. In the driveway,...

Working in the Korean film industry for more than 30 years, veteran actor Kwon Hae-hyo has collaborated with some of the biggest names in the scene and witnessed Korean cinema’s rise as a global cultural powerhouse.

Throughout those three decades, Kwon has also developed a formidable pairing with prolific filmmaker Hong Sang-soo, appearing in 12 of his films so far. Besides starring in Hong’s films, Kwon has acted in titles like Train to Busan sequel Peninsula, crime thriller Bogota: City of the Lost and legal drama Juror 8.

Arriving at the Berlinale for the world premiere of Hong’s latest film, What Does that Nature Say to You, Kwon tells Deadline that he is drawn to Hong’s distinct long-take, pensive style, which repeatedly offers a fresh and liberating challenge for him as an actor.

“With other films, you know from start to finish what it’s going to be, but with director Hong Sang-soo,...

The last time Hong Sangsoo failed to feature in a Berlinale program, Childish Gambino’s “This is America” was in the charts and Green Book was on its way to beating Roma at the Oscars. In just those six years, the festival has witnessed three different creative directors, weathered a global pandemic, and buckled under the weight of its own political fealty. Which is to say: some things change, but the Hong remains the same. He is still tiring to his detractors. He is still a reassuring ever-presence to his devotees. If, like I, you happen to be one of the latter, you’ll probably find much to enjoy in What Does that Nature Say to You, the director’s latest comic melodrama and the closest he has yet come to remaking Meet the Parents.

As low-key and delightful as last year’s A Travelers Needs, but without Isabelle Huppert to steal the show,...

No figure in world cinema is as productive as South Korean one-man band Hong Sang-soo, or as consistent in exploring variations on similar themes, always from a fresh angle. With such a prolific output — he has 33 features under his belt, all but three of them made since 2000 — they can’t all be perfectly formed jewels. But when the pieces fit together, they can be uniquely satisfying, finding nuance in simplicity, poetry in the mundane, deeper meaning in the most seemingly innocuous exchanges. What Does That Nature Say to You (Geu jayeoni nege mworago hani) is one of Hong’s more captivating recent entries.

The lives of artists, chance meetings, leisurely meals, cigarette breaks and drunken humiliations are all staples of Hong’s films that resurface in this account of the unplanned introduction of a young poet to the family of his girlfriend of three years, who has somehow never mentioned his existence to her parents.

The Parent Trap: Sang-soo Takes Sideways Swipe at Social Etiquette

A constant purveyor of how subtle social cues are obliterated by the lowered inhibitions of alcohol, Hong Sang-soo unveils his meatiest narrative in years with What Does That Nature Say To You. The set-up is familiarly threadbare, with numerous lackadaisical interactions between some sort of creative type confronted by new people whose orbits slowly circle one another as they engage in an eat/drink/be merry scenario. But it builds to a surprisingly weighty climax in a third act which is more confrontational about duplicitous human behaviors than most of his past works.…...

The Hong Sangsoo universe has always orbited artists of one stripe or another — wandering filmmakers, poets, and other writers, some more erratic than others. A recurring theme is the serenity and emotional salve that art can provide, along with an alternative to more ordinary, well-traveled roads through life. But in What Does That Nature Say to You, Hong takes a hard look at the artistic pursuit and at sincerity in relationships, with a seemingly straightforward story that has a bit of a sting in its tail.

The opening scene has a charming ambiguity: a man and a woman sit in a car parked at the side of a road, as if it’s the shy farewell at the end of a date. In fact, Donghwa (Ha Seongguk) is dropping off his girlfriend, Junhee (Kang Soyi), at her family’s home after a long drive. Impressed by the big house Donghwa joins her for an impromptu visit. And in the serendipitous manner of Hong’s films, a “meet the parents” scenario soon gets underway.

Part of the appeal of Hong’s deftly scripted films is being in the moment with characters who, beyond perhaps some vague idea of taking a trip, seem to be reacting on the fly with a beguiling openness. That organic quality can wear on those who (for some odd reason) have gone to a Hong film expecting a plot that moves like clockwork, and What Does That Nature Say to You does hold its cards close. For a long time, Donghwa is simply getting to know Junhee’s father (Kwon Haehyo), a friendly man who is full of kind words for his daughter’s boyfriend (and even his beat-up 1990s car).

Donghwa is a poet by profession, as he keeps saying, and that delights Junhee’s father, whose wife (Cho Yunhee) also writes poetry. Junhee’s family is well off — her father apparently owns the hill where the house sits — and there’s an echo of the class undertones in Hong’s A Traveler’s Needs, in which Kwon Haehyo played an affable, wealthy man with a fondness for music (and a wife who’s a bit skeptical of their visitor). Gradually Donghwa’s hang-time with the girlfriend’s fam starts to show small signs of strain during an outing to a temple and restaurant, and then a home-cooked chicken dinner.

The problem is that Donghwa’s life as a thirtysomething poet begins to look less and less substantial, maybe more of a lifestyle choice than a full-fledged calling. Junhee’s homebody sister keeps pointing out, with some satisfaction, that Donghwa has a fallback plan because his father is a wealthy attorney. The sort of sentiments that sound like bohemian wisdom in other Hong movies have a try-hard ring from Donghwa: “A life spent pursuing beauty is good … right?” he says, as if reassuring himself as well. When he prostrates himself at the memorial tree for Junhee’s grandmother, the gesture impresses her father, but again, it’s a bit much.

Hong has never been above puncturing the pretensions of his shambling artist characters, but it’s striking how the family’s open-hearted welcome eventually pales before Junhee’s mother’s doubts at the dinner table. Hong again employs the long table-time takes that have witnessed the mortification of so many drunken characters, this time skewering Donghwa. But in the process we come to understand the father’s initial sincere embrace as a real form of trust, one that is granted but can also be withdrawn. These parents might love poetry but they’re also vetting their daughter’s suitor, and their hilariously withering post-dinner evaluation shows they are not naive.

But before that, this multi-chapter film unfolds for so long as a relatively mild encounter between the young couple and her family that one keeps wondering when the other shoe will drop. Unlike some of Hong’s trickier narrative schemes, the visit unfolds in a linear manner over just about 24 hours. Given Donghwa’s increasingly apparent unremarkability, the story coasts for a while on the family’s subtle interplay: the subtle passive-aggression among the sisters (as Junhee gets increasingly frustrated with her boyfriend), and the way the warmth of Hong all-star Kwon Haehyo prevails until Cho Yunhee cuts in with motherly reality checks.

It’s all a big contrast to the portrayal of the older poet in Hong’s In Our Day, a lone but lionized figure who happily tipples the afternoon away. Donghwa might not even have the chops for his chosen career, judging from reactions to his poetry. In the end, What Does That Nature Say to You lands as a quietly bruising portrait in failure, not lacking in compassion but also not indulging in easy romantic illusions.

Title: What Does That Nature Say to You (Geu jayeoni nege mworago hani)

Festival: Berlin (Competition)

Director-screenwriter: Hong Sangsoo

Cast: Ha Seongguk, Kwon Haehyo, Cho Yunhee, Kang Soyi, Park Miso

Sales agent: Finecut

Running time: 1 hr 48 mins...

If you’re familiar with Hong Sangsoo, you might think you know what to expect from “What Does That Nature Say to You.” The Korean DIY extraordinaire pumps out new movies practically between meals, each with its own naturalistic observations about characters engaging in casual chatter, but whose disarming malaise resides deep within. His 33rd feature holds true to that broad approach, with soothing conversations eventually giving way to a handful of revelations stemming from repressed opinions. However, it’s also Hong’s most formally experimental work in some time, for reasons that may not initially be obvious.

Shot on notably lo-fi, blurry video, the story begins with struggling thirty-something poet Donghwa (Ha Seongguk) dropping his girlfriend Junhee (Kang Soyi) off at her parents’ suburban hillside home, only to discover that it’s much fancier and more sprawling than he’d assumed, or been led to believe. They don’t...

Korean sales company Finecut has announced multiple deals for upcoming occult animation Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning and horror title Noise, ahead of Berlin’s European Film Market (EFM).

Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning, an adaptation of a best-selling novel in Korea with over 10 million copies sold and 238 million views online, has been acquired by Pro Films (Bulgaria), Polyband (Gas), Cineplex (Latin America) and Cola Films (Taiwan).

The film follows Father Park, a doctor-turned priest who must protect a naive yet powerful child from his corrupt master within a secretive, magic-wielding temple or risk repeating the same tragedy that he took up the cross to prevent. The film premiered last year at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia.

The animation is produced by Locus Animation Studios and it will have a wide release on February 21 in South Korea.

Noise has been picked up...

Korean sales powerhouse Finecut is ramping up its slate ahead of Berlin’s European Film Market (EFM), securing a raft of international deals for its animated occult thriller “Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning” and multi-sensory horror film “Noise.”

“Exorcism Chronicles,” which bows theatrically in Korea on Feb. 21, has been snapped up by Pro Films for Bulgaria, Polyband for German-speaking territories, Cineplex for Latin America, and Cola Films for Taiwan. The supernatural toon, adapted from a Korean literary sensation that moved 10 million copies and gained 238 million online views, follows a doctor-turned-priest protecting a supernaturally gifted child from dark forces within a mystical temple.

The project comes from animation house Locus Animation Studios, the outfit behind “Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs,” which saw theatrical rollouts in over 120 territories. “Exorcism Chronicles” has already built festival buzz following premieres at both Annecy and Sitges.

Meanwhile, Finecut has expanded the reach of “Noise,” its genre...

South Korean sales agency Finecut has closed distribution deals with territories across Europe, Asia and Latin America for upcoming occult animation Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning and thriller Noise.

Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning has been acquired for Bulgaria (Pro Films), Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Polyband), Latin America (Cineplex) and Taiwan (Cola Films).

The paranormal horror, based on Lee Woo-hyuk’s 1994 novel Toemarok, follows a doctor-turned priest who must protect a powerful child from his corrupt master within a mysterious, magical temple.

Produced by Locus Animation Studios and marking the feature directorial debut of Kim Dong-chul, it is set for release in...

The Berlin Film Festival celebrates its 75th year with new leadership and fresh new cinema from around the world. New artistic director and former BFI London Film Festival leader Tricia Tuttle joins co-directors of programming Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz to help reposition the Berlinale’s profile among the great global film festivals and lure bigger-name filmmakers in the process.

That’s begun to pay off already this year, with new films from Germany’s own Tom Tykwer (supernatural opening night family drama epic “The Light”), Ira Sachs (“Peter Hujar’s Day”), Michel Gondry, Michel Franco (“Dreams”), Radu Jude (“Kontinental ’25”), Richard Linklater (“Blue Moon”), Hong Sangsoo (“What Does That Nature Say to You”), Lucile Hadžihalilović (“The Ice Tower”), and of course Bong Joon Ho (“Mickey 17”) sprinkled throughout the sections.

Meanwhile, Todd Haynes heads up the jury, which also includes filmmaker Nabil Ayouch, costume designer Bina Daigeler, actor Fan Bingbing,...

Seoul-based sales outfit Finecut has closed a series of initial deals for thriller-drama A Girl With Closed Eyes ahead of Berlin’s European Film Market (EFM).

Starring Kim Minha from Apple TV+’s hit series Pachinko, A Girl With Closed Eyes has been acquired by Red Castle Group (Commonwealth of Independent States), The Klockworx Co., Ltd. (Japan), Media4Fun (Poland), Cola Films (Taiwan) and Aeonbeta (Vietnam).

A Girl With Closed Eyes follows a murder suspect (played by Kim) and a detective (played by Moon Choi from Okja) with a shared past. They are reunited through the murder of a bestselling author, uncovering hidden truths as the investigation deepens.

The film is the directorial debut of Chun Sunyoung, whose short film Good Night was invited to Cannes Critics’ Week.

A Girl With Closed Eyes had its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival last year and it will also screen as...

South Korean sales outfit Finecut has closed a raft of key deals for thriller A Girl With Closed Eyes ahead of its market premiere screening at the European Film Market (EFM).

The film, which stars Minha Kim from Apple TV+ series Pachinko, has been acquired for Japan, Poland (Media4Fun), Taiwan (Cola Films), Vietnam (Aeonbeta) and Cis (Red Castle Group) ahead of Berlin.

The story centres on a murder suspect and a detective with a shared past, reunited through the killing of a bestselling author, where hidden truths are uncovered as the investigation deepens.

Kim, who has secured several award nominations...