Sundance-Winning Iranian Filmmaker’s ‘Rainy Dreams’ Explores Children’s Nightmares Amid Displacement at Hong Kong Financing Forum

‘Good Trip’, ‘The Sea Speaks His Name’ Win WIP Awards At Close Of Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum

Good Trip, directed by Hong Kong filmmakers Norris Wong and Wong Hoi, and The Sea Speaks His Name, from Indonesia’s Yosep Anggi Noen, were presented with the Works-in Progress (WIP) Awards at the close of this year’s Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF, March 17-19).  Produced by Mabel Cheung, Good Trip is the story of a young woman who smuggles her terminally ill father out of a hospital to address his unfulfilled wishes. The Sea Speaks …

Sundance-Winning Iranian Filmmaker’s ‘Rainy Dreams’ Explores Children’s Nightmares Amid Displacement at Hong Kong Financing Forum

Alireza Ghasemi’s “Rainy Dreams” combines live action and animation to explore the dreams of displaced children waiting in limbo in Calais, France, transforming their nocturnal visions into animated sequences including a candle sealed in a crate, a circus of judgment and a boy without a shadow. The France-Iran co-production, which won the Cannes Docs Award […]