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Day for Night have announced they’ll release it in UK and Irish cinemas on 8 November. I was expecting a bigger distributor, not an Asian cinema specialist, considering it’s a mainly UK production by UK staff. But, on the upside, it’s a distributor that cares about the cinema experience (and about accessibility for people with hearing or sight loss) and won’t send it direct to streaming.

I can only find festival screenings in Northern America, so it appears the movie still isn’t licensed there. If you don’t mind it being standard-def, the South Korean DVD has English subtitles. But it could yet get a direct-to-streaming release in HD in the US, I’d guess most likely on MUBI for a movie like this.

I recommend creating an account at https://mubi.com/t/web/global/Od66GsFR then clicking the + at https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/next-sohee

Even if you cancel your subscription before you’re charged, you can still get an email alert when anything added to your watchlist becomes available.

It won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard category at Cannes, so I’m sure it will. It’s coming to UK and Irish cinemas on just 30 August this year.

It recently had two screenings in Australia https://www.sff.org.au/program/browse/black-dog and I’m sure it will be licensed there before too long.

It’s been so long since the license announcement that I thought Picturehouse had given up on it and would send it direct to video, but it’s finally coming in August. As usually happens in this country, when you have to wait for ages for anything, whether it’s buses or the return of Chinese art-house movies to cinemas, two are coming along in quick succession, as “Black Dog” from Cannes this year is also releasing in August.

I don’t know which you’re in, but it’s coming to cinemas in several countries in July and August this year.

It’s finally in cinemas with English subtitles in Northern America from 26 July 2024 https://kimstim.com/film/only-the-river-flows and in the UK and Ireland from 16 August https://filmdistributorsassociation.com/release-schedule/past-present-and-future-releases/?filmSearch=Only+the+River+Flows

I don’t know if you can specifically because I don’t know where you are, but it’s coming soon to cinemas in the US and Canada, the UK and Ireland, and possibly other countries at around the same time in the next two months (see my comment above). For other countries, you could try searching for the title and the country and see if anything turns up.

Now in cinemas in the UK (and Ireland?). Descriptive subtitles and audio description are available. Locations are listed at https://www.day-for-night.org/next-sohee

If you happen to be in the UK or Ireland, it’s currently on national release in cinemas there: https://www.day-for-night.org/next-sohee

Yes, in South Korea and maybe some other countries in which it was already released in cinemas long ago. See https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/923344/watch?translate=false&locale=KR

Whereas in the UK, for example, it’s only just been released in cinemas, so the home release is still a few months off. Though the movie premiered in 2022, it wasn’t released nationally in South Korea till 2023 and still getting cinema releases in other countries this year.

It’s now out in UK and Irish cinemas from Modern Films; at least some locations are listed at http://modernfilms.com/evildoesnotexist but check your local art houses if you don’t see any of them listed and let them know about it if they’re not playing it.

There’s a screening on 3 May in LA with Hamaguchi. I’d guess the national release will roll out after that, but I haven’t found a date for it. The most one can do for now is pay attention to the social accounts of its co-distributors:
http://filmswelike.com (for Canada)
http://janusfilms.com
http://bit.ly/m/sideshow

Though it was released earlier in some countries, it’s not out nationally in Japan till a few days from now, on 26 April, so a May release is not long to wait in relation to that.

It opened in New York this weekend http://ifccenter.com/films/egoist with more locations in at least the US to follow. Paying attention to the distributor’s Facebook Page http://facebook.com/StrandReleasing seems the only way to find out about them as neither its web page for the movie nor its X account have been updated with any.

The Page also posted about (but didn’t actually link to) this interview with Matsunaga for the release http://gaycitynews.com/interview-egoist-director-daishi-matsunaga

It’s now out in cinemas/theatres in Northern America: https://strandreleasing.com/films/the-breaking-ice/

No, not the same day as a world premiere in Cannes. The typical order is world premiere in Cannes/Berlin/Venice, screenings in other festivals, national cinema releases in some countries, then online releases. Some skip the local cinema release and go directly online in some countries or have a simultaneous cinema and online release. But premiering in Cannes makes movies more likely to have full cinema runs than if they premiered anywhere else.

And it’s been played in many other public screenings at festivals worldwide since its premiere in Un Certain Regard (including near me), not only private industry ones (though many were in the last six months). MDL’s rule is to use the date of the first public screening, so that people who saw the movie in previews can rate it.

It’s now out in the UK; https://www.facebook.com/centralcitymedia.intl/posts/pfbid02Z8evZSiPYTANEwN3WMM3gQJohwADbEXrkkmGRSWC4DNTYFsVqiPJYpDUhSmD4VjRl has a list of locations.

Meanwhile, http://www.magnumfilmsglobal.com/the-moon-thieves has dates and locations for Oceania and Northern America.

They are often distributed by Well Go USA https://wellgousa.com so you might want to follow or keep checking that company’s SNS accounts. NEON and other less specialist distributors are also possibilities for this, though.

It already played with English subs when it premiered in Berlin on 16 February https://www.berlinale.de/en/2024/programme/202409500.html before it played without them in South Korea.

It will be released in the UK with English subs “soon”, according to https://www.facebook.com/Kmovies.UK/posts/pfbid02EFc3BHzCnJPBXMxy4enHgUeVhtf5ui42WZRMBocexPTpSiz28WBJpYAdBJVXPEWDl – and that distributor tends to release Korean movies only a few months after South Korea.

I’m sure it will also be released with subs in other English-speaking regions.

If you can get to the UK, it will be released there soon after South Korea: https://www.facebook.com/Kmovies.UK/posts/pfbid02EFc3BHzCnJPBXMxy4enHgUeVhtf5ui42WZRMBocexPTpSiz28WBJpYAdBJVXPEWDl

Though, if it’s even being released in UK cinemas, I’m sure it will be released in many other countries, if some months later and maybe direct to home media.