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Kang Bo’s Kingdom Of The Insomniacs has picked up the top Busan Award at the Asian Project Market (Apm) in South Korea.

The 27th edition of the Apm wrapped on Tuesday evening (October 8) after four days, taking place at the Asian Contents & Film Market (Acfm) during the Busan International Film Festival (Biff). A total of 30 feature film projects from across Asia met with potential finance, co-production partners and international distributors.

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Chinese fantasy drama Kingdom Of The Insomniacs marks Kang Bo’s second narrative feature and follows mushroom farmers plagued with insomnia and an aging disease.

Kingdom Of The Insomniacs, directed by China’s Kang Bo, won the Busan Award at the close of this year’s Asian Project Market (Apm) at Busan International Film Festival.

Produced by Xie Meng, the project follows a group of mushroom farmers plagued with insomnia and an aging disease. After his father dies, a young member of the community tries to extricate himself from this wicked kingdom. Kang Bo is a documentary filmmaker whose debut narrative feature Family At Large, starring Hu Ge, is currently in post-production.

Hum, from US-Philippines filmmaker Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, was the only project to win multiple prizes – picking up the Artekino International Award and the Sorfond Award. Produced by Hannah Schierbeek and Alemberg Ang, the project tells the story of a rodeo couple who are haunted when mysterious ecological changes threaten to destroy the stadium they live in.

This year’s Apm introduced two...

Japan’s Happinet Phantom Studios is to handle world sales of Yoko Yamanaka’s Desert Of Namibia, which is set to world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes.

The drama marks the second feature of rising Japanese writer-director Yamanaka, who became the youngest director to premiere in Berlin aged 20 with her debut Amiko in 2018.

Her latest stars Yumi Kawai, whose credits include award-winning Plan 75, which played in Un Certain Regard in 2022, and Venice Horizons 2022 title A Man. A new look at Kawai in the film can be seen above.

She plays Kana, a bipolar 21-year-old who is directionless and...

The film’s production company Bridgehead is handling sales to Europe, with Toho handling the rest of the world.

Japanese filmmaker Ryota Nakano’s The Asadas has been sold to France’s Art House Films, Nk Contents in South Korea and Cai Chang International in Taiwan.

The film, inspired by the life of celebrated photographer Masashi Asada, is handled internationally by its production company Bridgehead for European territories and by its distributor Toho for the rest of the world.

Starring Kazunari Ninomiya (Letters From Iwo Jima) and Satoshi Tsumabuki (The Assassin), the film was released theatrically in Japan on October...

12 projects are seeking European partners at this year’s event.

Colombian director Simón Mesa Soto - whose 2014 short film Leidi was a Palme d’Or winner - is causing buzz at this year’s edition of the Paris Co-Pro Village (June 20-22) with his debut feature Amparo.

The film, about a mother’s struggle to keep her son out of military service, is one of 12 upcoming productions being presented at the event.

Organised by the team behind the Les Arcs European Film Festival, the three-day Co-Pro Village is aimed at connecting international filmmakers and their producers with French and European partners.