A Yellow Bird (France/Singapore, 2016) [OAFF 2017]
A Yellow Bird is the debut feature of K Rajagopal, a Singaporean director who regularly works in theatre and television documentary. Utilising his background, Rajagopal has...
Tam Cam: The Untold Story (Vietnam, 2016) [OAFF 2017]
Tam Cam: The Untold Story is ostensibly a straight-faced adaptation of a similarly titled traditional Vietnamese fairytale, which is essentially a variation of the Cinderella...
Doc Fortnight 2017 at MoMA, February 19-26
One of the most anticipated film series of the year for any docuphile is Doc Fortnight, the Museum of Modern Art’s international festival of nonfiction...
Preview – CAAMFest 35, March 9th-19th, 2017
Film festivals can have an impact. If there was any doubt about this, check out a post on Phil Yu’s Angry Asian Man website by...
Mrs. B., A North Korean Woman (France/South Korea, 2016)
North Korean forced migration has become a hot topic in the Western media. Largely driven by the publication of memoirs by several high-profile North Korean...
Journey to the West (France, 2015)
Taking its title from the legendary 16th century Chinese novel, which chronicled the travels of idealistic Buddhist monk Xuanzang around the regions of Central Asia...
Interview with Huang Ji
Huang Ji is an award-winning independent filmmaker based in Beijing. Born in 1984 in Hunan Province, Huang made her name by focusing on the sexual...
Walking the Path of Carnage: A Profile of Meiko Kaji
In anticipation of her seventieth birthday in March, Japan Society presents a weekend-long film series devoted to Meiko Kaji, the grande dame of 1970s Japanese...