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“Two Blue Stripes” is the directorial debut of the Indonesian screenwriter and entrepreneur Ginatri S. Noer. A commercial success in its native country, this movie about an Indonesian teen couple’s pregnancy has won awards at the 2019 Bandung Film Festival and the 2019 Indonesian Film Festival.

“Two Blue Stripes” is Screening as Part of Asian Pop-up Cinema Season 12

Though the polar opposites, both economically and academically, Bima (Angga Yunanda) and Dara are a high school couple. One day, while fooling around alone in Dara’s house, one thing leads to another and Dara ends up pregnant. Shocked by what’s happened, Bima tries to run away and convince his girlfriend to have an abortion, but later realizesthe weight of his deed and decides to take responsibility and help Dara hide her pregnancy and finish school. Soon, the girl’s pregnancy is discovered and the couple has to bear the consequences of...

Korean specialty distributor D.O. Cinema has picked up local rights to Yuya Ishii’s “All The Things We Never Said,” which is bowing at the virtual edition of the Cannes Market, where it is represented by Hong Kong based sales agent Good Move Media.

“Things We Never Said” stars Taiga Nakano, Wakaba Ryuya and Yuko Oshima and is set for a fall festival bow, before theatrical releases confirmed for China, Japan and now Korea. D.O. specializes in releasing Japanese films in Korea and has previously handled several titles by Ishii (“Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue” and “The Great Passage”).

Jostling for top ranking on Good Move’s virtual slate is “Me and the Cult Leader,” a documentary about coming to terms with the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Directed by Atsushi Sakahara, it had a triumphant world premiere last week at the Sheffield Doc Fest.