Streamlined

Korea & Japan Extraordinary Attorney Woo [Photo: ASTORY] PART TWO: Who is paid when a Korean drama succeeds, where that leaves the industry now, and what the next three installments will cover Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a series that looks at the Korean content industry – how it evolved, where it stands now and which business models it could be adopting in the future.

Korea & Japan Descendants Of The Sun [Photo: N.E.W.] PART ONE: Where Korean drama's strengths came from; why the hits don't pay the people who make them, and what the next 18 months decide Editor's Note: This is the first installment in a series that looks at the Korean content industry – how it evolved, where it stands now and which business models it could be adopting in the future.

Australia & New Zealand Grantees include Australia-Germany co-production 'Saving Tuvalu' and a feature doc about the Bondi Beach terror attacks. Saving Tuvalu Screen Australia has announced more than $5.7 million in production and development funding across 47 documentary projects.

South Asia Elephants In The Fog This edition of Streamlined is taking a close look at the Nepali film industry, which received a huge boost this year with the Cannes award and international sales success of Abinash Bikram Shah’s Elephants In The Fog.

Africa Durban FilmMart To Present 36 Projects In Rescheduled October Edition Postponed edition of DFM has selected 36 African projects across fiction features & series, animation and documentary. Middle East & North Africa El Gouna Film Festival Unveils 23 Feature Projects; Launches CineGouna Series Egypt's El Gouna Film Festival has selected 23 projects for this year’s edition of CineGouna Funding, which is scheduled to take place from October 15-23 during the festival.

Africa Postponed edition of DFM has selected 36 African projects across fiction features & series, animation and documentary. Durban FilmMart 2026 Durban FilmMart Institute (DFMI) has selected 36 projects for the Pitch and Finance Forum of this year’s Durban FilmMart (DFM). All projects are from the African continent and span fiction features and series; animated features, series and shorts, and documentary features and series (see full list of selected projects below).

African cinema shone at the tenth edition of China’s Pingyao International Film Festival (September 24-30), with features from the Central African Republic and Rwanda taking top honours in the Roberto Rossellini awards. Rafiki Fariala’s musical drama Congo Boy, a co-production involving CAR, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and France, was awarded the Best Film prize, while Rwandan feature Ben'imana, directed by Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, claimed the Jury Award.

Africa Grantees include Cannes Camera d'Or winner Ben'imana, Theja Rio's Angh and Kamila Andini's Four Seasons In Java. Four Seasons In Java Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Fund has awarded grants to 30 projects from the Arab world, Asia and Africa in its first two funding cycles of 2026.

Korea & Japan Downside Of AI Overviews; Is Korea Recovering?; Indonesia 2026 H1 Box Office In the week that Spider-Man: Brand New Day is tearing up the box office in multiple international territories, Streamlined is taking a look at whether the Korean market is recovering and what’s going on in Indonesia, where Spider-Man is already the highest-grossing film of the year.

Middle East & North Africa Four features and three shorts were supported by PFI in its second funding round of 2026 with grants totalling €43,000 On The Sea Road The Palestine Film Institute (PFI) has selected four features and three short films in various stages of development, production and post-production for its second funding round of 2026, with support totalling €43,000.