Your Name Engraved Herein (Taiwan, 2020) [OAFF 2020]
The first LGBTQ+ film since the legalization of gay marriage in Taiwan, Your Name Engraved Herein aims to be emblematic of the gay experience by...
Miss Andy (Taiwan/Malaysia, 2020) [OAFF 2020]
The human heart can be the most powerful and dishonest thing as it always burns with the embers of hope for love, companionship and empathy...
The Girl with the Gun (Philippines, 2019) [OAFF 2020]
Rae Red was introduced to the world through co-writing Birdshot (2017) with her cousin Mikhail Red. Since then, she has quickly accrued projects, collaborating with...
Way Back Home (South Korea, 2019) [OAFF 2020]
Park Sun-joo graduates from making short films with her debut feature Way Back Home. It’s adapted from her 2017 short Mild Fever, which won the...
My Prince Edward (Hong Kong, 2019) [OAFF 2020]
My Prince Edward is largely set in Golden Plaza, a Hong Kong shopping mall best known for bridal shops and cheap wedding supplies. In this...
Heavy Craving (Taiwan, 2019) [OAFF 2020]
One woman’s battle to lose weight forms the basis of this heavy drama that comes wrapped with some light comedy as the burden of societal...
VIDEOPHOBIA (Japan, 2019) [OAFF 2020]
There are few filmmakers capturing the zeitgeist of youth culture like Daisuke Miyazaki. His characters, often smartphone-wielding young women, make their way through a chaotic...
Happy Old Year (Thailand, 2019) [OAFF 2020]
Pitched perfectly between satire and drama, Happy Old Year sees writer/director Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit testing the limits of ruthlessness needed to conduct the Marie Kondo minimalist...
Lucky Chan-sil (South Korea, 2019) [OAFF 2020]
The old adage that it is better to write what you know is perfectly illustrated by director Kim Cho-hee in her sprightly and amusing debut...
The Garden of Evening Mists (Malaysia, 2019) [OAFF 2020]
The opening film of the 2020 Osaka Asian Film Festival is Taiwanese director Tom Lin’s handsomely shot historical drama The Garden of Evening Mists. It...