Lush Reeds (China, 2018) [VIFF 2018]
A socially conscious journalist ventures out from the metropolitan center to pursue a human rights story only to dig deeper into herself in Yang Yishu’s...
A Land Imagined (Singapore/France/Netherlands, 2018) [VIFF 2018]
Yeo Siew Hua’s post-global neo noir A Land Imagined ostensibly revolves around a police detective investigating the disappearance of a Chinese migrant worker in Singapore...
River of Exploding Durians (Malaysia, 2014)
Edmund Yeo’s feature film debut, River of Exploding Durians, had its world premiere at the 2014 Tokyo International Film Festival. Already an experienced filmmaker after...
Preview – Asian Cinema at the Vancouver International Film Festival 2018, September 27-October 12
The 2018 Vancouver International FIlm Festival’s (VIFF) Gateway stream will once again illustrate that Vancouver’s ties to the Pacific Rim are not only geographic and...
Around India with a Movie Camera (UK, 2018)
In the not too distant past, the average school child in the United Kingdom was taught that the sun never sets on the British Empire....
Call for Papers – Cultural Industries in Aging Asia, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, October 19-20, 2019
Many Asian countries are facing a rapidly aging population. Its impact on the economy, labor force and social security system has much attracted academic study....
The Road Not Taken (China, 2018)
As a location for contemporary-set films, the vast plains of the Gobi Desert have been used to menacing effect in Gao Qunshu’s quasi-Western Wind Blast...
Preview – London East Asia Film Festival 2018, October 25-November 4.
The London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF), the capital’s most celebrated champion of East Asian cinema and culture, opens its third year on the 25th...
Kickstart This – I Will Make You Mine by Lynn Chen
In 2011, writer-director Dave Boyle introduced audiences to the mellow vibe of San Francisco musician Goh Nakamura in Surrogate Valentine, a disarming indie comedy in...
Diamond Island (Cambodia, 2016) [Aperture 2018]
Davy Chou’s first narrative feature Diamond Island is named after a luxury development over the bridge from Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia. Hyped...