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First image released from film, which shot in Finland and will shoot in China in October.

The Yellow Affair has boarded international sales for Mika Kaurismaki’s new film Master Cheng, and will discuss the film with buyers in Toronto.

Kaurismaki has wrapped the Finnish portion of the shoot for Master Cheng, which he also produces for his own Marianna Films. The co-production companies are Huang Yaqui’s QianJi Culture Co. Ltd (China) and Iain Brown’s By Media (China/UK).

The film shot July 16 to Aug 23 in Finnish Lapland, including Raattama, Kittilä, Muonio, Ylläs and Sodankylä. In October, it...

The latest film of Mika Kaurismäki, the Brazil-based older brother of "Le Havre" director Aki, takes the filmmaker back to his home country of Finland. As generic as its title, "Road North" is a road-trip movie in which an adult son, Timo (Samuli Edelmann), gets to hang out with his unknown and oversized father, Leo (Vesa-Matti Loiri), and — surprise! ­— the unlikely duo find that they share more than they initially expected. Timo is a finicky concert pianist and his boozing, smoking and stealing old man seems to be his complete opposite, though several comedic setpieces (including a musical one, one of the film’s highlights) reveal they are cut out from pretty much the same cloth. Idiosyncratic in a rather more generic manner than one usually gets from either of the Kaurismäki brothers, "North" at least boasts some nice camerawork as the duo move into the direction of Lapland. Veteran actor Loiri,...