Month: April 2020

Woman of the Photographs (Japan, 2020) [OAFF 2020]

Writer/director Takeshi Kushida makes his feature debut with Woman of the Photographs wherein a middle-aged photographer living a carefully controlled existence finds everything disrupted by...

Zero (Japan/USA, 2020)

Zero, or Observational Film #9 Seishin 0, is New York based Japanese documentary filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda’s follow up to his 2008 film Observational Film #2...

Changfeng Town (China, 2019)

Inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Macondo town in his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, Changfeng Town manifests from the nostalgic imagination of Wang Jing,...

Coming Home Again (USA, 2019)

Chang-rae Lee is one of the most notable voices in Asian-American literature, a key figure in exploring the identity and evolution of the Asian subculture...

For Rei (Japan, 2019) [OAFF 2020]

Stories of the effects of family breakups on children are hardly new to Japanese cinema with filmmakers like Hirokazu Koreeda and Shinji Somai using it...