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At the core of “Regretfully At Dawn”’s masterfully composed shots of serene, rural plains and sublime human encounters lies a journey of acceptance for the changing seasons of life. Thai writer-director Sivaroj Kongsakul‘s sophomore feature is a thoroughly delicate and silently wrenching tale on the shifting bonds between an elderly war veteran and his young granddaughter, each rediscovering the world through their own eyes. Recently competing under San Sebastian International Film Festival’s New Directors Section, and now making its run at Busan International Film Festival and San Diego Asian Film Festival, the arthouse drama tows an uneven tone, but nevertheless boasts evocative and heartfelt performances, delivering an experience of time that is bittersweet, yet hopeful.

Regretfully at Dawn is screening at San Diego Asian Film Festival

Sequestered in a quiet village town, Yong (Surachai Juntimatorn) raises his granddaughter Xiang (Machida Sutthikulphanich), accompanied by their loyal pet dog Rambo.

Thai auteur, Sivaroj Kongsakul made his feature directorial debut with “Eternity,” which screened at festivals including Busan, Rotterdam and Hong Kong back in 2010. Having waited for over a decade, Kongsakul has chosen to entwine the fates of an old man, a little girl and a young soldier in his second feature, “Regretfully at Dawn.”

The new film is confirmed to premiere in the New Directors section at the San Sebastian festival and will follow that shortly after with an appearance xx in Busan International Film Festival in October.

The film is very different from “Eternity” and from Kongsakul’s recent TV work.

In a small province not far from Bangkok, the life of Yong Junjam at first seems typical of an old man. The traces of his past as a soldier are also evident. Even though he currently feels unwell, Yong spends every day with the dream of building a tree-house by himself,...

Spain’s San Sebastian Film Festival has unveiled a 10-title lineup of its New Directors competition, the festival’s biggest sidebar, which takes in “Turn Me On,” the new feature from Michael Tyburski, helmer of Sundance hit “The Sound of Silence.”

Starring Bel Powley and Nick Robinson and sold by Film Constellation, “Turn Me On,” a sci-fi romantic comedy, joins buzz titles in the section, such as “In the Name of Blood,” a Nice-set Georgian mafia movie from Georgia’s Akaki Popkhadze, prized at Clermont Ferrand for his latest short, and “Gulizar,” the first feature from Turkish moviemaker Belkis Bayrak, about a young victim of sexual assault in the run-up to her wedding.

Also selected for New Directors are “Winter in Sokcho,” from French-Japanese director Koya Kamura, starring Roschdy Zem and Bella Kim, and “Regretfully at Dawn,” a drama set in a province near Bangkok directed by Thai helmer Sivaroj Kongsakul.

Bridge Stretching Down Under

Australian streamer Stan has acquired rights to both seasons, totaling 20 episodes, of the Malaysian adaptation of Scandinavian crime series “The Bridge.” The agreement, brokered by Lyle Bettson-Barker, SVP Australia and New Zealand from Banijay Rights, represents the first time that Stan has acquired a Malaysian drama series.

The Asian version of “The Bridge” was initially commissioned by Viu and HBO Asia in 2018, after Double Vision, part of the Vision New Media group, introduced Viu to the format. It broadcast to across 23 territories in the combined footprints of Viu and HBO Asia and was also shown on Viu in South Africa.

The title has garnered more than 20 regional awards and nominations across its two seasons, making it the most awarded drama in Malaysian history.

Season one faithfully follows the original show, and sees a dead body found on the border between Malaysia and Singapore, necessitating an investigator...

The classic wuxia novels written by the late Louis Cha, better known by his pen name Jin Yong, are a popular source of inspiration when it comes to films, TV series and even comics adaptations. Therefore it is not a surprise that this version, produced by iQIYI, China's most-watched video streaming giant network is yet another adaptation from Yong's “Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain” which was first serialized in the local papers back in 1959.

Watch The Hidden Fox on iQIYI

Set during the Qing Dynasty, Lord Tian Gui Nong, a descendant of one of the four bodyguards of the short-lived Emperor Li Zi Cheng of the previous Shun Dynasty, believes that bodyguard Hu Yi Dao (Wu Sha Chiang) has the map to a huge hidden treasure and together with his henchmen Tao Bai Sui (Ray Lui) and Bao Shu (Chun Yu Shan Shan), plots a scheme to retrieve it.