Call for Film Entries – 11th Beijing Queer Film Festival
Founded 17 years ago, the Beijing Queer Film Festival (aka Love Queer Cinema Week) is one of the only grassroots film festivals in China focusing...
Poolsideman (Japan, 2016)
Seemingly isolated from the real world, sleepy Otawara lies some 100 miles north of Tokyo in Tochigi Prefecture. It is a purgatorial realm confining its...
Bashu, the Little Stranger (Iran, 1989)
After the screening of his seminal work of Iranian and world cinema at the UCLA Film and TV Archive, Bashu, the Little Stranger, Iranian filmmaker...
Interview with Kohei Takayama [OAFF 2018]
Kohei Takayama was born in Chiba prefecture in 1987. After graduating from Waseda University, he began making indie films such as Ni naru (2015) and...
Across the Border Cu-Bop (Japan, 2018)
Across the Border Cu-Bop is the debut film of director Shinichi Takahashi, and while the mashup between a Japanese director and Cuban jazz may be...
Unlovable (USA, 2018) [CAAMFest 2018]
Joy (Charlene deGuzman) is an intimacy addict, struck with self esteem so low that no level of personal affection can satisfy her. After losing her...
Interview with the Director and Stars of Bad Poetry Tokyo [OAFF 2018]
Bad Poetry Tokyo is the debut feature from Anshul Chauhan, an animator turned indie film director. Born in India in 1986, Anshul’s main job is...
Running in Madness, Dying in Love (Japan, 1969)
Koji Wakamatsu’s erotic road movie Running in Madness, Dying in Love starts with a black-and-white montage of a protest rally at Shinjuku, where demonstrators are...
Goodbye Silence (Japan, 2018)
Entertainment, ideas, and art are vital for people. They become part of human instinct. It is seen in the way people dress, arrange their homes,...
Havana Divas (Hong Kong, 2018) [CAAMFest 2018]
For her third feature-length documentary, Hong Kong-based scholar/professor/filmmaker Shiyu Louisa Wei turns her attention to the experiences of Caridad Amaran and Georgina Wong Gutierrez. Though...