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Ky Nam Inn (Leon Le) Vietnam

Ky Nam Inn
Leon Le
Vietnam. 2025. 140 min

Ten years after the war, Saigon is still in the midst of reconstruction. Widowed Ky Nam runs a small restaurant in a communal housing complex, where residents share a central courtyard and know every detail of each other’s lives. She has adopted and is raising Su, a French–Vietnamese mixed-race child. One day, Khang, a young man translating Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince into Vietnamese, moves into the unit upstairs. With his privileged background and natural charm, it is only natural that he draws the attention of those around him. Yet from the very first day, Khang finds himself gradually drawn to Ky Nam, who once saved him from a crisis. The highlight of this film, which evokes the tenderness of a romantic watercolor painting, is the late sequence in which the two walk through the streets of Saigon all night, enacting a dreamlike farewell ritual. Carried along by the young man’s narration, the scene leaves their shared story suspended in an eternal present.

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Hirokazu Koreeda Honoured at Imagineindia 2026

The japanese director will be given Honorary Award at the 25th edition of the Festival to be held in Madrid from 1 to 16 September 2026.

Hirokazu Kore-eda (born 6 June 1962) is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor. He began his career in television and has since directed more than a dozen feature films, including Nobody Knows (2004) and Still Walking (2008).

He won the Jury Prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival for Like Father, Like Son and the Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival for Shoplifters.

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Raindrops on A Roof (Zhou Jiali) China

Raindrops on A Roof
Zhou Jiali
China. 2025. 106 min

Single mother Shi’ning visits a ‘spiritual salon’ out of curiosity and joins a group activity that promises to erase the past. At first glance, only Shi’ning seems to be obsessively attached to the loss and trauma she, her three siblings, and her mother experienced. But in reality, everyday life is often harsh for her mother and younger brother Shi’an as well. Ordinary images, such as an orange sock hanging on the clothesline, a wardrobe where a child hides, a stripped mannequin, or an old sweater trigger painful reminders of both personal and historical trauma for this family. Zhou Jiali’s feature debut Raindrops on a Roof suggests that what matters is not cutting out memories like burning photographs but bringing pain into the open and facing one another—much like the family working together to restore their mother’s cheap, shrunken sweater.

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Susana Fialho, Jury at Imagineindia

Writer / Director / Actress
Susana Fialho Mota, born in Lugo (Galicia) of Portuguese origin. She trained as an actress at Colegi del Teatre (Barcelona) and at William Layton’s Theatre Laboratory (Madrid). She started working in theatre when she was only 16 years old and at the age of 18, she formally enrolled in these two schools of Dramatic Art, which are among the most
important and prestigious in Spain. At the end of her studies, she began to work in TV series and theatre at the same time that she made her debut in Cinema with Albert Boadella, a renowned theatre director who was carrying out a daring cinematographic project with his theatre group (Els Lloglars). Soon after, she would work again with another well-known director, Sigfrid Monleòn, in a film about the poet and writer Jaime Gil de Biedma. A choral film in which Susana would play an important role.

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Nazgul Omurzhanova wins Best Editing at Imagineindia 2025

She has won the Best Editing Award along with Bakyt Mukul for the film Deal at The Border (Dastan Zhapar Ryskeldi) Kyrgystan.

Nazgul Omurzhanova (born in 1999 in Kyrgyzstan) is a film editor and filmmaker whose work bridges emotional storytelling with poetic visual rhythm. She graduated from Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University with a degree in Communication and Media Studies, specializing in Radio, Television, and Cinema.

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Shoma A. Chatterji incorporates to Imagineindia as Jury

Shoma A. Chatterji is an Indian film scholar, author and freelance journalist. She has been the recipient of a number of awards including the National Film Award for Best Film Critic in 1991 and the National Awards for Best Writing on Cinema for her study of the works of Aparna Sen in the publication, Parama and Other Outsiders: The Cinema of Aparna Sen (2002). Notably, she is the only woman to have won both the national awards. She is the author of several biographies including those on Pramathesh Barua, Ritwik Ghatak and Suchitra Sen.

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Guests 2025

FILIZ ZENGIN

ANGELA DOGANCAY (Director Museum)

SUSANA FIALHO (Actress, Director, Writer)

JOSÉ LUIS CHECA PONCE (Russian Cultural Centre)

MANUEL NUÑEZ (Yunus Emre Cultural Centre)

ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ (Asian Bookshop)

EUGENIO RIVERA (Director Magazine Entreletras)

CARLOS SUCHOWOLSKY (Writer)

ANA MARÍA VICO (Director)

MAYTE ARIZA (Actor,s Coach)

MENENE GRAS (Programme Director of Casa Asia)

CEREN UÇAKER (Turkish Embassy)

Riverstone (Lalith Rathnayake) Sri Lanka

Riverstone
Lalith Rathnayake
Sri Lanka. 2025. 120 min

There have been many instances where suspected underworld criminals have been killed while in police custody, ostensibly in shootouts while accompanying officers to show arms caches. It is widely held by the general public that while the rule of law has been severely compromised, the police have, on such occasions, acted arbitrarily and with disregard for due process.
It is not the police nor the particular officers but the particular governments that require such suspects to be eliminated. The police merely execute their wishes. For this, relevant officers are offered the carrot of possible promotions. This film discusses the thoughts and concerns of three officers as they travel together to a destination marked for the assassination of a suspect with whom they have no quarrel whatsoever.

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Wong Kar Wai honoured at Imagineindia with Lifetime Achievement Award

The director will be honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award at the 25th edition of Imagineindia to take place in Madrid.

Wong Kar Wai is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, and producer. His films are characterised by nonlinear narratives, atmospheric music, and vivid cinematography involving bold, saturated colours. A pivotal figure of Hong Kong cinema, Wong is considered a contemporary auteur and ranked third on Sight and Sound’s 2002 poll of the greatest filmmakers of the previous 25 years. His films frequently appear on best-of lists domestically and internationally.

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