Asian Cinema Highlights of 2018
As another year winds down, it’s time for VCinema contributors to select their Asian cinema highlights from the past twelve months. In addition to picking...
Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy (China/Hong Kong, 2018)
The title of the Donnie Yen-less Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy suggests a martial arts equivalent of The Bourne Legacy (2012), the almost forgotten...
Festival Roundup: From Busan to Tokyo
The Busan International Film Festival, which took place at the beginning of October, finally solved the problems caused by the Busan City politicians’ involvement in...
Ala Changso (China, 2018)
It took me three days to finish Ala Changso, just because I could not stop pulling back the progress bar and seeing every long hand-hold...
Ciao Ciao (China, 2017)
A young woman named Ciao Ciao returns from Guangzhou to her rural home in southern China. She has enjoyed a more sophisticated lifestyle, and now...
The Song of the Tree (Kyrgyzstan, 2018)
Aibek Daiyirbekov’s debut feature The Song of the Tree, which premiered at this year’s Moscow International Film Festival, has been pitched as a musical, for...
Call for Papers – The 12th CCVA Annual Conference: Urban Transformations and Contemporary Art in China, Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, November 11-12, 2019
The Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) at Birmingham City University aims to foster new understandings and perspectives of Chinese contemporary arts, design and visual...
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....