Month: October 2018

Filmed in the slipstream of China’s recent hip-hop explosion, David Verbeek’s short documentary Trapped in the City of a Thousand Mountains surveys the aspiring rappers...

Article proposals are welcomed for an upcoming edited collection on South Asian Gothic, edited by Deimantas Valanciunas and Katarzyna Ancuta. In recent scholarship on the...

When pushed to the brink, men will do anything. No extremes are off-limits once the event horizon has been crossed, when they have snapped at...

Billed as a heartfelt story about an Asian American girl who reconnects with her estranged brother during the final days of her father’s life, Ms....

The Five Flavours Asian Film Festival is a yearly review of the cinema of East, Southeast, and South Asia. For the 12th time, the Festival...

A girl examines a massive, disembodied foot wearing a white shoe. Could it be a huge sandal, since we’re on the boardwalk of a seaside...

Jinpa (played by actor/poet of the same name) drives a lorry along a Tibetan plateau. He comes across like a truck-driving rock star, dressed in...

Since the 2000s, China’s media industrialization and cultural globalization have encouraged a burgeoning “queer pop”——that is, a soaring proliferation of non-normatively gendered and/or sexualized narratives...

Boy meets girl only for state to spy on boy in Trap Street, a stealthy exercise in surveillance state paranoia that marked the directorial debut...

The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (Reel Asian), Canada’s premier pan-Asian festival, has announced its complete programming lineup for the 22nd edition, over 50% of...