The Wandering Earth (China, 2019)
After a massively successful worldwide theatrical run, Frank Gwo’s The Wandering Earth finally saw its long-promised Netflix release, where millions of subscribers can at long...
Preview – Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival 2019, London, June 4-13 & UK Tour, July-October
Day for Night is delighted to announce the programme for the 2019 edition of its Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival. Aperture will run in London from...
Call for Papers – Issue of Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies on Genre in Asian Cinema
US audiences in the late 1960s found themselves startled that three low-budget Italian films shot in the deserts of Spain could revive the dormant Western,...
Moving Mountains Shorts [CAAMFest 2019]
CAAMFest features a selection of shorts from the Himalayas in partnership with the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF) and the Bay Area Himalayan Film...
Call for Papers – Infantile Crisis: Youth in Contemporary South Asian Film and Media
This special issue of Studies in South Asian Film and Media invites scholars to look at new and counterintuitive aspects of contemporary childhood and youth...
Interview with Genta Matsugami [OAFF 2019]
Born in Hiroshima in 1981, Genta Matsugami is a film director who operates the creative production-house16 bit.inc. He graduated from Osaka University of Arts in...
Preview – The Austin Asian American Film Festival 2019, June 13-16
The Austin Asian American Film Festival (AAAFF) has announced the full line-up for its 11th annual film festival, a sweeping slate of 11 feature films...
Last Sunrise (China, 2019) [CAAMFest 2019]
In a near future when human civilization is entirely powered by solar energy, the Earth’s sun suddenly vanishes from the sky. As temperatures across the...
Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066 (USA, 2018) [CAAMFest 2019]
When President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in 1942, he set in motion the incarceration of around 120,000 Japanese-Americans in concentration camps in some of...
Minidoka (USA, 2018) [CAAMFest 2019]
Megumi Nishikura is an American documentarian who works to reveal aspects of our common humanity through film. Her most famous title is Hafu: The Mixed-Race...