Premieres in streaming: 13 films online thanks to the collaboration between Far East Film and the MyMovies website.
The
28th edition of the
Far East Film Festival sees the renewal of its collaboration with the
MyMovies platform, allowing audiences to see
13 feature films directly from the Udine festival's official selection (starting from April 24 to May 2).
Qualitatively speaking, these 13 films represent a perfect cross-section of the FEFF, and on top of that they're all Italian, European or international premieres, which means they're a series of unmissable opportunities. So what exactly can we see?
Japan takes the lions share. There's
The Sickness Unto Love, which sees the return of the great Ryūichi Hiroki, a constant presence at the FEFF, with a problematic and poignant film that offers an unparalleled exploration of teenage love, murder and social media. Akira Nagai's
Suzuki=Bakudan is a tense thriller: as bombs explode, the police are locked in to interrogate the enigmatic possible attacker: but how to crack his psychology? Okuyama Yoshiyuki's
5 Centimeters Per Second, a live-action version of a famous anime, tells the story of a (possible) love story across three different periods of life, balancing adolescent romance with melancholy over the inexorable passage of time. Koyama Takashi's
All Greens is a lively comedy of teenage rebellion centred on an attempt to set up a business selling marijuana (which is strictly prohibited in Japan!) And finally, among the restored films, flying turtle Gamera, one of the main
kaiju (giant monsters), rears his the menacing head to take us back to 1965 with Yuasa Noriaki's
Gamera, the Giant Monster.
From South Korea comes
The World of Love, directed by Yoon Ga-eun, a director who specialises in using her exceptional skill at directing child actors to portray her very young protagonists. The third instalment in her "coming-of-age trilogy," the film sees a high school girl come into conflict with her classmates. Kim Tae-yong's melodrama
Number One, on the other hand, is based on a surreal premise: what would you do if every time you ate food your mother had made, you saw a number floating in the air that decreased with each meal?
Singapore is represented with Michael Kam's
The Old Man and His Car, a quiet and intense drama about the loneliness of old age and the possibility of overcoming it.
Taiwan offers family drama
Deep Quiet Room by Shen Ko-shang, while Indonesia and the Philippines participate respectively with Teddy Soeria Atmadja's hilarious detective adventure
Dopamine and highly anticipated metaphysical thriller
Filipiñana by Rafael Manuel. Also from the Philippines come two important restorations of films that left their mark on the history of world cinema: Mike de Leon's 1981
In the Wink of an Eye, a stark drama inspired by a real-life event, and Lino Brocka's 1988
Macho Dancer, a revealing exploration of the gay universe of the Manila of the day.
The link to the Mymovie platform is:
https://www.mymovies.it/one/festival/feff/2026/
All the movies are available only for Italy.