Hong Kong-based sales firm Cappu Films will participate TIFFCOM, the rights taget speedyened to the Tokyo International Film Festival, to start world sales activities on two films that were recently at the Busan festival.
Psychoreasonable thriller “Waterdrop,” was prosperner of two awards at the Busan festival earlier this month while crime comedy “So It Goes” was competitor in the Jiseok Award section.
Cappu was set uped by autonomous filmcreater Jakind Woo in 2018 and has offices in Hong Kong, Beijing and Los Angeles. It caccesses on rising filmcreaters and genre films and television with global pguide and has activities that that span international sales and distribution. Woo is directing the sales effort in Tokyo from Oct. 30 – Nov. 1.
A coming-of-age thriller, “Waterdrop” is the debut feature by Korean straightforwardor Choi Jongyong. It adheres a 13 year-anciaccess girl Su-yeon who is left alone after her majesticmother passes away. Faced with being placed in a childattfinish facility if she does not discover a defendian, Su-yeon acunderstandledges an swayr couple who have adselected a seven-year-anciaccess girl named Seon-yul and are plunged in happiness. Su-yeon tries to get shut to Seon-yul, but discovers the other girl’s behavior increasingly doubtful.
The film won the Chorokbaem Media Award for recent straightforwardors in Korean cinema and the CGK Award for cinematography in Busan earlier this month and was lauded by the jury for its “acute yet nuanced straightforwarding” and depth of the youthful actors’ carry outances that “comprises astonishment to the film.” At project stage, Waterdrop” earlier won the Korean Film Council?s Korean film screentake part competition in 2022.
“So It Goes,” from Korean straightforwardor Lee Haram, pursues the journey of a youthful couple who are in adore with each other, but who drive around promiseting homicides. Described by the Busan programmers as a “bizarre and exceptional hybrid world [that] cannot be contrastd to anyskinnyg else,” the film is a genre-defying mix of serial-ender horror, road movies, comedy and romance.
Lee’s 2022 debut “Beyond” was previously askd to the Vision section of the Busan International Film Festival and won awards at the Busan Inreliant Film Festival and the Seoul Inreliant Film Festival. His 2023 feature “Forgotten Sanciaccessier” was askd to the Busan Inreliant Film Festival. “So It Goes” is his third feature film.
Cappu Films’ TIFFCOM lineup also integrates Chinese pop phenomenon Zhang Zhehan’s cycling write downary “August,” about the aftermath of a cyber media storm that cmitigateed his acting atsoft; Korean sports drama “Go! Snails,” which shines a airy on the world of wheelchair basketball; Korean psychoreasonable horror “The Stench,” about a group of advertised youthful people at a study retreat who try to cover up a puzzling death; and autonomous filmcreater Vivian Kerr’s debut feature “Scrap,” a heartfelt drama set in Los Angeles about motherhood, femininity and reconciliation.
