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Sun Children (Iran, 2020) [SDAFF Spring Showcase 2021]
Sun Children attempts to make a whole statement on the vulnerability of children to be exploited. Writer-director Majid Majidi considers this in a very nuanced sense: to expose how this exploitation is not in anyway […]
Tezuka’s Barbara (Japan, 2020)
Few figures cast as long a shadow over Japanese comic art and animation as Osamu Tezuka. From 1947 to his death in 1989, Tezuka was the most influential writer/artist and animation director of his age. […]
Japanese Film Festival Nippon Connection Goes Online from June 1-6
Fine entertainment, food for thought, five world premieres and at least a touch of Japanese wackiness and warmth – this is what awaits the audience with around 80 current Japanese short and feature-length films of […]
Pink Films Vol. 5 & 6: Woman Hell Song (Japan, 1970) and Underwater Love (Japan, 2011)
Within the dearth of the sensorial realm, the cinematic image emerges as a force that elevates the level of immediate experience to the level of sublime. Indeed, the role of symbolic imagery in artistic production […]
Monster Hunter (Germany/USA, 2020)
In John Boorman’s Hell in the Pacific (1968), Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune play rival fighter pilots that crash-land on an isolated island and must overcome their animosity to survive and escape to safety. In […]
An Evening Conversation with Tsai Ming-liang, May 19
One of the great cinematic poets of our era, Tsai Ming-liang has created some of the most enduring visual masterpieces of the past thirty years, from Vive L’Amour to The Hole and from Goodbye, Dragon […]