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Indian animated feature Heirloom won two awards at the closing of this year’s Hkiff Industry Project Market (March 11-13) in Hong Kong, where 21 cash and in-kind awards worth $223,000 were handed out.

Heirloom, which will be the feature debut of Upamanyu Bhattacharyya and is produced by Arya A Menon and Shubham Karna, won the Wip award for a non-Hong Kong project as well as being one of five films selected for the Haf goes to Cannes programme.

It centres on a married couple who come into conflict when the husband inherits a handloom trade and wants to maintain traditions while...

It is one of the lasting paradoxes of language that, even though you may have an elaborated range and knowledge in your mother tongue, there are always clear limitations to what you can express. Especially for an artist, avoiding the silence when it comes to overcome these limitations, has to be the invention of a new language through working with the linguistic foundation available or, when it comes to art or film, use images and sound. In his 2019 feature “For Rei” Japanese director Yukari Sakamoto explores the idea of not being able to express yourself, the personal crisis this might lead to and how there are possibilities to overcome them which, in the case of the film, bring you right back to your origins.

“For Rei” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival

At the center of the film, we have Rei (An Ogawa), a student of philosophy, who has...