Previously titled simply as Mogadishu, veteran director Ryoo’s highly anticipated action drama stars Kim Yoon-seok ( 1987: When The Day Comes), Zo In-sung ( The Great Battle) and Huh Joon-ho ( Default). Contact: Showbox Escape From Mogadishu * (S Kor) Parasite star Song Kang-ho heads a cast that also includes Lee Byung-hun ( The Man Standing Next) and Jeon Do-yeon ( The Housemaid). The King director’s latest feature is a highly anticipated disaster film about the events surrounding an aeroplane that is forced to make an emergency landing following an unexpected disaster. Contact: CJ Entertainment Emergency Declaration (S Kor) Moho Film is producing with CJ Entertainment backing and distributing. The film stars Park Hae-il ( The Host) as a detective drawn to a mysterious widow (Tang Wei) while investigating her husband’s death. The Handmaiden director and Cannes regular is in production on his latest feature with an aim to wrap in March. Contact: HKIFF Collection Decision To Leave (S Kor) Tan made wave with her debut Love Conquers All, which received Busan New Currents Award and Rotterdam Tiger Award. The film is produced by Malaysia’s Woo Ming Jin and Bianca Balbuena from the Philippines as part of B2B A Love Supreme, a six-title film project put together by Hong Kong International Film Festival Society and China’s Heaven Pictures. The cast also includes Pete Teo ( Ghost In The Shell) and Bront Palarae ( Folklore). Pioneering Malaysian New Wave director Tan Chui Mui appears in front of the camera in her latest film as a washed-up actress who goes through martial arts training for a comeback role while searching for her identity. Contact: Diversion Barbarian Invasion (HK, Malay, Phil) Thailand-based lead producers Mai Meksawan and Chatchai Chaiyon previously produced Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s Manta Ray, which won best film in Venice’s Horizons sidebar in 2018. This four-way co-production has secured Singapore’s IMDA Southeast Asian coproduction grant. His second feature is a spiritual time-shifting drama following a woman from her carefree 20s in 1960s rural Thailand to present-day Bangkok as an older army general’s wife. Thai filmmaker Jakrawal’s Vanishing Point, a drama revolving around a horrific car crash, won Rotterdam’s Tiger Award in 2015. (*denotes film previously appeared in Screen’s 2020 list) ASIA Anatomy Of Time (Thai-Fr-Neth-Sing) In a year when festivals will hope for the return of audiences, industry and some sense of normalcy, Screen rounds up key contenders vying for the attention of programmers out of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.