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Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte (aka The Four Times), one of treasured discoveries at Cannes this year is among those selected in small but sweet Visions section -- a grouping of films that are definitely bending the narrative form. Other noticeable titles include Wang Bing's The Ditch, Ance director Federico Veiroj's A Useful Life and what should make for an interesting evening in Vincent Gallo's Promises Written in Water. Here are the selected titles, several began their life at Cannes this year.

In mid April, the 29th Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony was held and Bodyguards and Assassins swept most of the major award categories: grabbing Best Film, including the Best director award, Best supporting actor award, Best Cinematography award, Best Art Director, Best Costume Make Up Design Award, Best Action Choreography and Best Original Film Score award, for a tally of eight.

When Hideo Nakata was mentioned as a possibility, and then named today, I honestly thought it was a misprint and that they mislabeled the pic - but I think we can elevate our expectation level for Chatroom because of scribe Enda Walsh's participation in the project -- she penned Steve McQueen's debut film which I mentioned above. I predicted a healthy Hungarian presence this year, and Ágnes Kocsis' Adrienn Pál is the first mention for that country.

Korea’s Mother won the top honor at the 4th Asian Film Awards, picking up Best Picture, while Chinese and Hong Kong films sweeped the other major award categories. After the grand opening of HKIFF on Sunday night, the ceremony has been held on the following day, adding an extra kick to the film festival. Bong Joon-ho’s murder mystery predictably won in a category that has previously been dominated by Korean films.

No surprises at the 35th Cesars, as A Prophet cleaned up in all major categories it was nominated in: Best Film, Best Director (Audiard), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography (Stephane Fontaine), Best Editing (Juliette Welfling), Best Art Direction (Michel Barthelemy) and last but not least, one of my top 5 performance of the year, Niels Arestrup won for Best Supporting...