Children are not afraid of Death, Children are afraid of Ghosts (China, 2017) [CVF 2017]
Rong Guangrong’s debut film Children are not afraid of Death, Children are afraid of Ghosts is a disturbing yet strangely moving experimental documentary that explores the traumatic...
Itinerant, Invasive, Independent: Selected Works by Ju Anqi [CVF 2017]
Opening this year’s Chinese Visual Festival in London is Beijing-based independent filmmaker-multimedia artist Ju Anqi’s latest work, the short film Drill Man (2016). Absurdist and...
Rekorder (Philippines, 2013)
Kicking off with a startling montage of CCTV footage of violent crimes committed in Manila’s public spaces, it’s immediately clear that Mikhail Red’s first feature...
White Ant (Taiwan, 2016) [HKIFF 2017]
The opening of White Ant immediately draws us into a sad and lonely existence. A young man called Bai Yide, played by Chris Wu –...
Manga-jima: Island of Cartoons (Japan, 2016) [HKIFF 2017]
The tone and overall theme of Manga-jima: Island of Cartoons is established in the opening shot as a wooden sign stating ‘manga artists only allowed’...
Preview – Nippon Connection 2017
From May 23 to 28, 2017, the seventeenth edition of the Nippon Connection Film Festival will take place in Frankfurt am Main. With more than 100 short and...
The Summer is Gone (China, 2016)
Zhang Dalei’s semi-autobiographical debut feature The Summer is Gone is an excellent film that revolves around a decidedly average boy. Set in the early 1990s...
Preview – Chinese Visual Festival 2017, May 2-11
The 7th Chinese Visual Festival (CVF) will be held in London from May 2nd – 11th at BFI Southbank, the Bertha DocHouse screen at Curzon...