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Taipei-based sales agent and local distributor Swallow Wings Films has picked up Chen Hung-i’s drama thriller “A New Day.” It joins a bulging slate that the company will pitch to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin.

Chen, whose last films “As We Like It” and “The Last Painting” both played at the Rotterdam festival, previously pitched “A New Day” at the Golden Horse project market (Fpp) in 2021. It comprises a story about two men from different generations who fall in love due to a random encounter. It takes an accident to determine how their relationship will work out. The film, which leans on “Better Days” cinematographer Yu Jing-Pin, and stars Frederick Lee, Lavinia, Hank Wang and Oscar Chiu, is currently in post-production ahead of a 2023 release.

The company’s EFM lineup also includes “Kissing the Ground You Walked On,” a debut feature by Heng Fai Hong, which...

The way the parents’ actions and choices affect their children, even when they do not realize it, even when they have just good intentions, is a rather interesting topic that Asian cinema has explored repeatedly. Lai Kuo-an, after his rather successful, in the festival circuit, “A Fish out of Water” also deals with this particular theme, by inducing it with an element of surrealism.

Melody Go Round is screening at Busan International Film Festival

Melody and her parents have just moved into a borrowed mansion following her father’s bankruptcy, who decided to invest into Se Asia and ended up losing all their money. Her mother is now forced to work in a jewelry store, with their marriage essentially having ended, and them desperately trying to keep appearances for Melody’s shake. She, however, has already realized what is going on, while her mother’s affair and her father’s...

The voyeuristic Taiwanese suspense drama “Zoom Hunting” marks the directorial debut of Cho Li, who previously worked as producer on the likes of “Winds of September” and Singing Chen’s excellent “God Man Dog”. Co-written by Kelly Yang, the film is an elaborate puzzle revolving around half seen images of sex and murder, with Ning Chang (recently in “Black and White” and “What on Earth Have I Done Wrong?”) and Zhu Zhi Yin (“Lust, Caution”) as two sisters living in an apartment block, who start spying on a couple living opposite and get more than they bargained for. The film also features a strong supporting cast that includes Jack Kao (“Shinjuku Incident”), James Wen (“My Queen”), Zhou Hen Yin, and Michelle Krusiec (“Saving Face”). The plot kicks off as a fashion photographer called Ru Yi (Ning Chang) accidentally takes a picture of a couple (James Wen and Zhou Hen Yin...