Month: August 2020

For their latest film collaboration, documentarian Huang Wenhai (credited as Wen Hai) and activist Zeng Jinyan as co-directors, alongside Trish McAdams’ animation, present a veritable...

Feature films are hard to make. Sometimes, true artists sacrifice their health and sanity to see their dreams come alive on the big screen, and...

IWeirDo begins on a visually unusual note. Its starkly narrowed framing resembles the umpteen number of smartphone videos floating online, created by social media users...

Better Days truly is one hell of a thing. From what seem to be social realist beginnings, Derek Tsang’s fourth film shifts effortlessly into a...

Both writer-director Yeon Sang-ho and his latest film, Peninsula, bear the burden of heavy expectations. But this sequel to his worldwide blockbuster hit, Train to...

Yoshihiro Nakamura’s Fish Story is adapted from Kotaro Isaka’s novel concerning an obscure single by a punk rock band that broke up after the song...

Contemporary South Korean action heroes are always comfortably nestled within the genre specific narrative of their film. Tied to whatever institutional politics and individual conspiracies...

One of the several elements with which Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul indulges himself, is the notion of the body—the various adventures and misadventures of bodilyness,...

Though Chinese Portrait is his first documentary film, Wang Xiaoshuai is no stranger to what can be called documentary realism. Particularly in his early films...

Female directors are slowly beginning to gain more prominence in the male-dominated field of South Korean Cinema. Kim Bora is one of many emerging female...