High Flash (Taiwan, 2018) [Reel Asian 2018]
Traditional drums thunder as local fishermen in a small Taiwanese fishing village protest against the encroachment of a petrochemical plant on their livelihood and community....
Tomorrow Is Another Day (Hong Kong, 2017) [Reel Asian 2018]
Written and directed by Tai-lee Chan, Tomorrow Is Another Day tells the story of Wong Kam Fa (Theresa Mo) and Wong Yuen Shan (Ray Lui),...
Family in the Bubble (Finland/South Korea, 2017) [Real Asian 2018]
Director Minji Ma’s opening scenes, time-lapsed panoramic shots of downtown Seoul, South Korea, suggest a humming and pristine prosperity full of kinetic energy, but the...
Dead Pigs (China, 2018) [Reel Asian 2018]
Newcomer Cathy Yan’s slick debut film Dead Pigs attempts to shed light on the sweeping economic and social changes that have gripped China’s famed city...
Mirai (Japan, 2018) [Reel Asian 2018]
Mirai finds Mamoru Hosoda recreating the dimensional experiments in content, as seen in his The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006), and in form, like...
A Whale of a Tale (Japan, 2017) [Reel Asian 2017]
Megumi Sasaki first rose to prominence with her documentaries Herb and Dorothy (2008) and Herb and Dorothy 50×50 (2013) that both followed the lives of...
Women of the Weeping River (Philippines, 2016) [Reel Asian 2017]
Young Philippine filmmaker and visual artist Sheron Dayoc’s filmography encompasses a mix of documentary and fiction films. It also largely encompasses the southern region of...
The Last Verse (Taiwan, 2017) [Reel Asian 2017]
Opening in the rose-tinted recent past and ending in a hopeless present, Tseng Ying-Ting’s drama The Last Verse episodically chronicles the gradual erosion of a romantic...
Jesus is Dead (Philippines, 2016) [Reel Asian 2017]
When her former husband, Hesus, dies, Iyay (Jaclyn Jose) assembles her children Jude (Chai Fonacier), Jay (Melde Montanez), and Bert (Paul Vincent Viado) for a...
Dear Etranger (Japan, 2017) [Reel Asian 2017]
Dear Etranger is an intimate drama about one man trying to balance two families and be an ideal father at a time when others give...