DIRECTOR'S FORTNIGHT LINE-UP

It's tough for Asian movies in film festivals this year, and it's probably just going to get tougher. With many of the big productions set for late-summer releases the pickings are a little lean and Cannes is reacting accordingly. Director's Fortnight just announced its line-up and it contains only two Asian films.

One is the previously announced THE HOST from Bong Joon-Ho and the other is the Japanese psychological thriller, YUREU, directed by Miwa Nishikawa, a female director who is considered something of a protege of Hirokazu Kore-eda (he produced her first film and she was an assistant director on his DISTANCE).