Striding Into the Wind (China, 2020)
The personal is political in Wei Shujun’s debut feature, Striding Into the Wind. Inspired by Wei’s own experience as a film student, the film captures...
Life, Death and Unfulfilled Desires: Teng Congcong on Send Me to the Clouds
Teng Congcong’s bittersweet debut feature Send Me to the Clouds is the latest in a welcome wave of films by female Chinese directors which includes...
On Light and Shadow: A Conversation with Crosscurrent Director Yang Chao
For his second feature, director Yang Chao presents a trek that is at once ordinary and extraordinary: a largely solitary journey on a river in...
Who Killed Cock Robin (Taiwan, 2017)
In a country eleven times smaller than the state of California, intertwining narratives are likely to be more commonplace in Taiwan than its neighbours, perhaps...
One Night Only (China, 2016)
Gao Ye (Aaron Kwok) is a gambling addict deeply in debt with local loan sharks. When a sex worker named Mo Mo (Yang Zishan) turns...
Didi’s Dream (China/Taiwan, 2017)
Comedian Shangguan Didi (Dee Hsu) makes a middling living out of appearances on stunt and gag-based comedy television shows, while being estranged from her much...
Sway (France/Thailand/USA, 2014)
Globalism has brought with itself people who switch countries and feel at the same time home everywhere but also somewhat unrooted. Your home is where...
She Remembers, He Forgets (Hong Kong, 2015)
Gigi (Miriam Yeung) is a travel agent yearning to undertake more travel herself but is instead stuck in Hong Kong thanks to her workaholic architect...
Everybody’s Fine (China, 2016)
“Keeping a dog is like raising a child. Together, bored. Parted, missing.” The words of the widower, Guan Zhiguo (Zhang Guoli), the character at the...
Observing the Absurdity: An Interview with Huang Hsin-yao
For his feature-length debut, Taiwanese filmmaker Huang Hsin-yao adapted his 2014 short film The Great Buddha – hence the feature’s cheeky title of The Great...