Widow of Silence (India, 2018)
In the last few years, the situation in Kashmir has very much slipped from the international radar. Kashmir. Since the portioning of India in 1947,...
Breathless Animals (China, 2019)
Dreams are the memories of another life – or so the saying goes, whatever that may mean. If one could identify a subject for Lei...
JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film Goes Online from July 17-30
Japan Society has announced the full line-up for the 14th annual JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film. The largest festival of its kind in...
Udine Far East Film Festival Goes Online from June 26 – July 4
There are two ways to experience the eagerly-anticipated digital edition of the Far East Film Festival, which will be opening at 21.00 on Friday the...
Interview with Coming Back Sunny Director Noriko Yuasa
Noriko Yuasa is a director who hails from Okayama, Japan. She graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan University with a BA in Architecture before she entered Kinoshita...
Coming Back Sunny (Japan, 2020)
At a time when minimalism is trending as a style in Japanese indie cinema, Noriko Yuasa distinguishes herself through adventurous use of color and editing...
Take a Trip to Asia with the 14th Edition of the Five Flavours Film Festival in November
2020 in the lunar horoscope is the Year of the Metal Rat. The zodiac rat has a rich imagination, is intelligent and ubiquitous so you...
Love Poem (China/Hong Kong, 2020)
For his second feature film Love Poem, independent filmmaker Wang Xiaozhen continues in the vein of comical, awkward frankness and highly self-reflexive form and performance...
Forgiven Children (Japan, 2020) [Nippon Connection ONLINE]
How much should a child be responsible for his or her crimes? Is mob justice an acceptable substitute for an inept justice system? Can there...
This Shaking Keeps Me Steady (Pakistan/USA, 2018)
What do people who deal with death in their daily lives dream about? Shehrezad Maher explores the answer to this question in her documentary This...