On Thursday 24 April the international spotlight will light up Udine. Two opening titles: Chinese comedy
Green Wave and South Korean horror
Dark Nuns.
2025 Golden Mulberry Awards to Tsui Hark and Sylvia Chang.
Chinese comedy
Green Wave and South Korean horror
Dark Nuns will officially be opening the
27th edition of the Far East Film Festival on Thursday 24 April. The international spotlight will then remain on the
Teatro Nuovo and the
Visionario until
Friday 2 May when animated love story
The Square and irresistible J-Pop triumph
Ya Boy Kongming! - The Movie will mark the curtain coming down on this year's
FEFF.
The
2025 line-up counts
77 titles in total (49 in competition and 28 out of competition)
all telling stories of time and of society and coming from
12 countries. More precisely, 8 world premieres, 16 international premieres, 20 European premieres and 19 Italian premieres.
A real one-way ticket to contemporary Asia. A 9-day
full immersion: screenings from morning to night, talks, a live daily press review and stars walking the red carpet, all without obviously forgetting the
Focus Asia industry section, the journalistic insights of
Bambù, the educational focus of the
FEFF Campus and the over
100 Far East Film Events that will transform
the heart of the city into a multicoloured Asia Zone.
Two
Golden Mulberries for Lifetime Achievement will be awarded this year: the first to
one of the greatest dreamers of all time - the legendary
Tsui Hark, who will be accompanying his latest blockbuster
Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants to
Udine, and the other to iconic actress, singer, director, screenwriter, producer and radio DJ
Sylvia Chang, who we will once again be able to see in the timeless
Shangai Blues by
Tsui Hark himself (one of the gems of the restored classics section) as well as admire in brand new family drama
Daughter’s Daughter.
Events
that absolutely must not be missed include this year's journey
into the lands of the imagination: a journey to which the festival is dedicating
a retrospective,
a book (
Yōkai and Other Monsters: from Asian Folklore to Cinema) and an
exhibition-event without precedent in Italy -
Mondo Mizuki, Mondo Yōkai. The
FEFF has selected
12 films ranging from horror and fantasy to supernatural comedies (
2 impossible-to-find cult movies have been specially digitised by the Korean Film Archive for the occasion) and every possible facet of the joy of being terrified will be present and correct, just as they will in the pages of the
collection of essays edited by
Giorgio Placerani and splendidly illustrated by
Francesca Ghermandi.
The jewel in the crown of the journey is exhibition-event
Mondo Mizuki, Mondo Yokai: 100 original pieces of artwork, magazines, books, documents, critical texts and videos reconstructing the universe of
Shigeru Mizuki. It's only the second exhibition in Europe dedicated to the famous Japanese
mangaka and it will be bursting into the rooms of
Casa Cavazzini, the Udine Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,
from the 26th to the 30th of August under the curatorship of Canicola, Vincenzo Filosa and Mizuki Productions. And on the occasion of the exhibition, Canicola will be publishing the book
Il Mondo delle Fessure Rotonde, featuring stories from the magazine
'Garo', previously unpublished in the West.