EXCLUSIVE: Taiwanese production and sales outfit Flash Forward Entertainment has unveiled new titles for Berlin‘s European Film Market (EFM), including fantasy romance Time Loop With the Moon and Moonlight, Ripples!.
Patrick Mao Huang leads Flash Forward, and he has co-produced titles like Karlovy Vary best director prize-winner Pierce, as well as Tiger Stripes, which picked up the Grand Prix at Cannes’ Semaine de la Critique in 2023.
Huang unveiled Time Loop With the Moon as a new title on the company’s slate for EFM. Currently in development, the fantasy-infused coming-of-age romance was adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Misa.
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The project follows a teenage girl who makes a wish to reunite with her lost friend. She soon wakes up in the past, inhabiting the body of another person on the night of a tragic event. Trapped in an endless time loop, she must unravel the mystery behind the past and break the cycle before it is too late. A unique blend of romance, suspense and supernatural intrigue, the film explores fate, memory, and second chances.
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Directed by Liu Zhong-Hua, fantasy mystery film Moonlight, Ripples! is currently in post-production and is expected to be completed in the second half of 2025. The film follows a man suffering from amnesia who wanders through a seemingly empty city, piecing together his past through three surreal encounters. As reality and imagination blur, he must confront buried memories that shaped his identity. Huang shared that the project is in advanced discussions to become a China-France co-production.
Another title on the Flash Forward slate is sci-fi drama series Millennium Town. The series will follow a group of people trapped in an endless loop in 1999, forced to confront their pasts as they search for an escape. The project was recently selected for Series Mania’s Serial Bridges in France.
Already making its way around the global pitching circuit, documentary film Mothers in Transit explores the world of cross-border surrogacy, following Taiwanese couples navigating surrogacy in Ukraine and Thailand amid shifting regulations. The project has already been showcased at Locarno Match Me!, TCCF Pitching Forum, and Doc by the Sea Taiwan Project, securing funding from Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture Production Grant, and is currently seeking European co-production partners.
Other titles on the company’s EFM slate include Blind Love, which made its world premiere in the Tiger Competition section at the recently-concluded International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The film is directed by Julian Chou and executive produced by Huang, and stars Ariel Lin, Ke-Xi Wu, and Jimmy Liu.
Taiwan-Italy co-production Deep Quiet Room and Francois Chang’s The Sleepless Girl round off Flash Forward’s slate in Berlin. The company is also actively developing four immersive projects in collaboration with partners from France and Denmark.