Asian Producers Network

Held from 26 to 31 October 2026, the Asian Producers Network is a six-day producer development workshop and guided mentorship programme supporting the sustainable development of independent film producers.

Open to producers from across Asia, the programme admits a cohort of 12 to 15 participants for structured engagement with project development methodology, international financing strategy and co-production practice.

This year’s edition will consist of two programme tracks:
① ᴛʜᴇ ᴀᴘɴ ᴛʀᴀᴄᴋ, which includes the full Asian Producers Network curriculum,
② ᴛʜᴇ ᴀᴘɴ+ ᴛʀᴀᴄᴋ, which includes both the Asian Producers Network curriculum and the APN+ Pitching Forum.

The APN+ Pitching Forum is a high-level, curated platform for selected feature film producers across Asia, focusing on projects in the financing stage. Designed with a producer-centric philosophy, the forum offers participants the opportunity to pitch to a carefully handpicked industry-led panel, alongside targeted feedback and participation in structured meetings and strategic networking to achieve concrete outcomes such as project financing, co-production agreements and distribution pre-sales.

The Asian Producers Network curriculum offers a closed-door setting where participants can seek advice from industry experts through a series of guest lectures, individual consultation sessions and roundtable discussions. The programme will cover a broad range of topics, including project development and financing, international co-production, sales strategies, peer-to-peer review sessions, networking opportunities and access to key industry resources.

2026 Head of Studies

Fran Borgia is the founder of Akanga Film Asia. He has produced numerous critically acclaimed films, including A Land Imagined (2018), which won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. His producing credits include Yuni (Toronto Platform Prize 2021), Tiger Stripes (Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize 2023), Stranger Eyes (Venice Main Competition 2024), Village Rockstars 2 (Busan Jiseok Award 2024), Renoir (Cannes Main Competition 2025), Amoeba (Toronto Discovery 2025 / APSA Best Youth Feature Film), and Not a Hero (Berlinale Generation 2026). He is currently pursuing a PhD focused on Poetic Cinema at Auckland University of Technology (AUT).

Anup Poudel

Nepal
APN Track

Earvic Noay

Philippines
APN Track

Hyejin Kim

South Korea
APN Track

Mediha Didem Türemen

Türkiye
APN Track

Alix Whittaker

New Zealand
APN Track – Observer

Ali Raheem

Iraq, Oman
APN+ Track

A Handful of Keys to Infinity 

Released after years in prison for killing her husband, an angry woman returns to the village that cast her out, determined to win back custody of her only daughter, with no one on her side but a stranger who says he is an angel.

Director: Haitham Sulaiman

Fadhila Ristianty

Indonesia
APN+ Track

Holy Mother

A transgender woman discovers that she is mysteriously pregnant. In search of an explanation, she journeys to her submerged hometown, where memory, nature, and the body begin to merge.

Director: Sinung Winahyoko

Lai Junjie

Singapore
APN+ Track

After This I’m Good

After losing his job to a terminal diagnosis, an ageing construction worker desperately tries to reconcile with his estranged family for one last holiday together before he dies.

Director: None attached yet 

Lệ Diễm Hà

Vietnam
APN+ Track

Dear Sơn An

As a single mother with cancer prepares for her absence, her nine-year-old son drifts between faith and fantasy, facing adoption and losing her.

Director: Kim Quy Bui

Nikhil Chaudhary

India
APN+ Track

KABOOTAR

In an old monument in Delhi, an illegal squatter, a lost child, and a Japanese tourist form an unexpected bond through an ancient ritual of letter-writing. When the authorities threaten to end the ritual and take over the monument, the three must come together to defend their home and this newfound family.

Director: Ishan Sharma

Qiuping Han

China
APN+ Track

Ting Ting

On a summer afternoon, a girl is involved in a children’s gang fight and witnesses a woman being thrown from an elevated highway.

Director: Danting Chen

Li Huanwen

Singapore
APN+ Track

The Medium

After surviving an accident that killed his parents, KANG is bound against his will to the spirit world, destined to serve the Taoist Guardian of Hell. Now a jaded, tormented spiritual medium, he meets XUAN, a woman battling mental illness and hallucinations. In a relentless city of ghosts, memories, and fading spiritual traditions, their unlikely love becomes a refuge and a test as they tread the line between the living and the dead.

Director: Ler Jiyuan

Zarina Kissikova

Kazakhstan
APN+ Track

Taste of Shawarma After A Tipsy Night

A young provincial food courier falls for an older art-gallery owner and slowly realizes he has become the replacement for the husband she cannot let go of.

Director: Amir Amenov

Adar Ng

Singapore
APN Track

Feicien Feng

Hong Kong
APN Track

Morgan Leigh Stewart

New Zealand
APN Track

Nadine Asmar

Lebanon
APN Track

Oyundari Khurelbaatar

Mongolia
APN Track

Robert Rodriguez

Philippines
APN Track

Abu Shahed Emon

Bangladesh
APN+ECG Track

A Foolish Man

 

After accidentally escaping death row during a nationwide uprising, Yakub — a man who always dreamed of becoming a policeman — returns to a world where the law itself has collapsed, and the uniform he once longed for might now mark him for death.

Betty Hu

USA/China
APN+ECG Track

Uncle Hiep’s Casino

 

Somewhere between his mother’s house and his uncle’s illegal casino, an ex-prisoner finds a new life.

Clarissa Zhang

China
APN+ECG Track

The Silent Fire

 

 

A quiet 17-year-old teenager, numbed by exam-driven training, slips into a night class run by a female worker in an aerospace factory workshop — where movement begins to breathe in him again.

Loy Te

Cambodia/France
APN+ECG Track

Cherry Bomb

 

Kwan and Juvie, drifting apart, set out on a road trip in an attempt to ignore the increasingly obvious reality that they want different things from life.

Mark Wee

Singapore
APN+ECG Track

The Most Fantastic Time Of My Life

 

Retiring teacher Lily Wong mysteriously inherits a trove of unpublished comics by her long-lost friend Charlie Chan, and uncovers a life of unfulfilled dreams and hidden stories that blur art and history, myth and memory.

Milad Khosravi

Iran
APN+ECG Track

Mellow Pink

 

 

Roham, trapped in his self-imposed modeling world, loses his luxurious life after a flamingo attack. But this fall pushes him beyond his passive, pre-designed existence, into a world where he fights even for the smallest freedom.

Sarah Kang

South Korea
APN+ECG Track

Sea Pineapple

 

 

When the father she had killed over and over in her dreams dies without ever saying sorry, Yeon-gyo doesn’t grieve—she feels relief. But as she confronts the shadow of his violence within herself, she begins to learn not how to forgive him, but how to live beyond him.

Teresa Kwong

Hong Kong
APN+ECG Track

Chifan

 

 

Pandemic lockdown forces a Chinese-Belgian mother to confront generational wounds buried in her sacrificed self and disconnected marriage, threatening the perfect life she built.

Tsang Tsui Shan

Hong Kong
APN+ECG Track

Chifan

 

 

Pandemic lockdown forces a Chinese-Belgian mother to confront generational wounds buried in her sacrificed self and disconnected marriage, threatening the perfect life she built.

Annie Song

China

Dinosaur Boy

While preparing for the Hong Kong Football League, Jiaming accidentally digs up a “dinosaur egg” at school.

Bavaneedha Loganathan

Sri Lanka

Watermelon Girl

Amidst the Sri Lankan civil war, a mysterious fog draws a pregnant girl to a remote hillside village with a cursed past.

Boi Kwong

Singapore

Untitled project

When a series of elaborate and grisly murders rocks the entire city, Detective Cheng struggles to crack the case.

Harry Zhuang Weifu & Henry Zhuang Weiguo

Singapore

Bright Days

When a Roblox map turns students into monsters, three teens uncover a conspiracy and bravely fight for their freedom.

Haziqah Azemi

Malaysia

Garek

A troubled Muslim woman tracks her boyfriend down to marry him and escape jail for being pregnant out of wedlock.

Joel Neo

Singapore

At The Edge of The Sea

Strange accidents start happening when Nam’s father becomes the first in a series of men to fall into a deep sleep.

Khin Warso

Myanmar

A Bus To Tomorrow

A transgender bus driver faces everyday obstacles in his quest to lead a normal life and provide for his wife.

Koval Bhatia

India

Rehearsal for a Funeral

An aspiring actor from a village grapples with religious taboo and anxiety when cast as a corpse in a theatre show.

Lyza Anggraheni

Indonesia

RAIB The Most Mysterious Man

A leather craftsman returns to find strangers in his home and, while investigating, is driven to acts of persecution.

Nazgul Dolotkeldieva

Kyrgyzstan

18th Birthday

A girl tries to make her schoolmate fall in love with her when she finds out that she was born with both male and female reproductive organs.

Phạm Gia Quý

Vietnam

Portrait of a Misty Sun

In colonial Indochina, two young artists find their romance, dreams and hopes increasingly entangled with rising political turmoil.

Wilfredo Manalang

Philippines/USA

What’s Left of Us

In a world ravaged by a mysterious disease that erases memories, a family struggles to survive and stay together.

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