SALES INQUIRIES
Canoe Film
Caroline Stern
caroline@canoe.film
TERRITORIES AVAILABLE
World excl. Canada & Japan
AKASHI
directed by MAYUMI YOSHIDA
100 min / romantic drama / canada / japanese & english
Akashi is a multigenerational love story told across parallel timelines. When struggling artist Kana returns to Tokyo for her grandmother’s funeral, she uncovers a decades-long affair that changes how she sees love, legacy, and her own future.
STATUS: Completed, International Premiere Available
CAST: Mayumi Yoshida, Hana Kino, Ryo Tajima, Chieko Matsubara, Kunio Murai
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Musubi Arts & Experimental Forest Films, in association with Watermark Media
WORLD PREMIERE: Vancouver International Film Festival 2025
ACCOLADES: Audience Choice (VIFF 25), Best Canadian Feature (WFF 25), Best Canadian Feature (CFF 26)
DISTRIBUTOR (CANADA): KinoSmith
DISTRIBUTOR (JAPAN): Rabbit House
SALES INQUIRIES
alief SAS
Miguel Govea
miguel@alief.co.uk
TERRITORIES AVAILABLE
World excl. US, Canada & Korea
MONGRELS
directed by JEROME YOO
90 min / drama / canada / korean & english
Mongrels is the portrait of a grieving Korean immigrant family seeking a new life in Canada, amidst a wild dog infestation that devastates a prairie town in the 1990s.
STATUS: Completed, Rights Available
CAST: Sein Jin, Jae-Hyun Kim, Da-Nu Nam, Candyce Weir, Jedd Sharp, Morgan Derera
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Musubi Arts in association with Hodu Mob Films
WORLD PREMIERE: Vancouver International Film Festival 2024
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE: Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024
ACCOLADES: Horizon Award (VIFF 25), FIPRESCI Prize (POFF 25), Special Jury Prize (POFF 25), Best Narrative Feature (CAAM 25)
DISTRIBUTOR (US + CANADA): Game Theory Films
DISTRIBUTOR (SOUTH KOREA): Film Choice
JUDAS TREE
written and directed by Susan Bayani
political drama / canada / farsi & english
When Sabä discovers that the man who tortured her in an Iranian prison is on trial in Canada, she sets out to testify and reclaim her voice, but doing so threatens to expose the secret she has hidden from her husband and son—and risk tearing her family apart.
STATUS: 80% Financed; in search of Sales Agents and Co-Producers, Equity Investors
ESTIMATED BUDGET: 1.125 million EUR
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Musubi Arts & Understory Films
PRODUCERS: Nach Dudsdeemaytha & Sepehr Samimi
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Jordan Hart & Daniel Bekerman (Scythia Films), Sara Blake (Ceroma Films), Carol Whiteman (Women in the Director’s Chair)
SUPPORTED BY: Telefilm Canada, New Dawn Fund, Creative BC, Women in the Director’s Chair
BFF
written and directed by Mayumi Yoshida
horror / canada & UK / english
When 12-year-old Miki visits her former best friend at a lavish English estate, she hopes to reconnect but instead finds herself exoticized, excluded, and slowly unraveling in a place where her identity is treated as a spectacle rather than a person. A quiet psychological horror about girlhood, cultural alienation, and the silent rebellion of self acceptance.
STATUS: Development; in search of co-dev funding, Co-Producers
ESTIMATED BUDGET: 3-3.5 million EUR
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Musubi Arts
PRODUCERS: Mayumi Yoshida & Nach Dudsdeemaytha
THE GULF
directed by Jerome Yoo
written by Adam De Souza & Jerome Yoo
coming of age drama / canada / english
An anti-coming-of-age story about three teens who, instead of graduating from high school, run away to join The Evergreen, a remote commune on the gulf island off the coast of the Pacific Northwest.
STATUS: Development; in search of co-dev funding, Co-Producers
ESTIMATED BUDGET: 1.75-2 million EUR
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Wallop Film & Musubi Arts
PRODUCERS: Martin Glegg & Nach Dudsdeemaytha
SLUGFEST
directed by Kim Albright
written by Kim Albright & Anna Maguire
action / canada & thailand / thai & english
Two 40-year-old women disobey their strict Asian parents, unleash their killer Muay Thai skills and take slug psychedelics to find freedom.
STATUS: Development; in search of co-dev funding, Co-Producers
ESTIMATED BUDGET: 3-3.5 million EUR
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Musubi Arts
PRODUCERS: Nach Dudsdeemaytha
PRODUCERS: Lori Lozinski (Violater Films)