| Festivals: |
WISH YOU WERE HERE - world premiere as the opening film on 19 October: China Film Week (Tokyo International Film Festival) (19-26 October 2018) - North American Premiere on 10 November 2018: Hawaii International Film Festival (8-18 November 2018) - closing film on 16 November: Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (8-16 November 2018) |
| 10/04/18: |
On 3 October BLESSED BENEFIT had its German TV premiere on
arte. |
| 07/08/18: |
CENTAUR has been released on DVD by
good!movies
in Germany and by
Epicentre Films
in France.
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| 06/18/18: |
My work on WISH YOU WERE HERE is done. Immensely beautiful film by Kenneth Bi, starring Faye Yu, Takao Osawa and introducing
Ayane Kinoshita. Our soloists were quite busy this time. Fantastic violin solos by Stefan Pintev, and Riccardo Rocchi was
equally busy with some tricky guitar parts. The final mix in Taipei was awesome. In the meantime a first teaser has been released: |
| 02/23/18: |
BLESSED BENEFIT is now available on DVD in Germany under the title GELOBT SEI DER KLEINE BETRÜGER. |
| 02/09/18: |
CENTAUR was the closing film at this year's
Festival International des Cinémas d'Asie. |
| 01/20/18: |
The soundtrack to CENTAUR is now available on CD as well. |
| 12/14/17: |
CENTAUR was last shown at the
Dubai International Film Festival. |
| 12/09/17: |
At the Festival Autorskog Filma the award for Best
Cinematography went to Khasan Kydyraliyev for CENTAUR. Congratulations! Aktan Arym Kubat's movie was also nominated for the Cultural Diversity Award of the UNESCO at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and was last shown at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. My music for CENTAUR is now available digitally. A CD release will follow. 
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| 11/20/17: |
Aktan Arym Kubat won the "Award of the President of the Republic of Belarus for humanism and spirituality in cinema" for
CENTAUR at the
Minsk International Film Festival Listapad.
Congratulations! The film was also shown in competition at this year's Malatya International Film Festivals as well as at the Arras Film Festival and the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg. |
| 11/08/17: |
Aktan Arym Kubat won the award for Best Actor at this year's
Asian World Film Festival
for his performance in CENTAUR: „Raw, powerful natural and bold.“ Congratulations! |
| 11/05/17: |
After its theatrical run, BLESSED BENEFIT will be out on DVD in Germany on 23 February 2018. |
| 10/28/17: |
The German trailer for CENTAUR has been released: |
| 10/21/17: | CENTAUR was part of this year's Mumbai Film Festival. |