22nd Nippon Connection Film Festival Brings Japanese Cinema to Frankfurt, May 24–29
After two online editions, the 22nd Nippon Connection Film Festival, which will be held May 24 to 29, 2022, will bring the most exciting current...
Call for Entries – 2022 Alula Film Festival
Two years ago, we were all plunged into a collective isolation. The trauma of our physical distancing seemed to only exacerbate the distances of our...
Boy Sprouted (Japan, 2021) [OAFF 2022/Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia 2022]
A battle of wills between a boy (Seitaro Hara) who dislikes tomatoes and his mother (Kanako Higashi) who is determined to make him to get...
Interview with Daisuke Miyazaki, Director of North Shinjuku 2055 [OAFF 2022]
North Shinjuku 2055 is the latest film by Daisuke Miyazaki, a director who has regularly attended the Osaka Asian Film Festival with such youth-focused works...
North Shinjuku 2055 (Japan, 2022) [OAFF 2022]
Daisuke Miyazaki is an exciting filmmaker to follow because his work not only genuinely reflects the concerns of younger generations but is often unpredictable in...
Interview with M Haris Sheikh, Director of Howling (OAFF 2022)
Howling is a blackly-comic neo-noir from M Haris Sheikh, who subverts the genre by creating a collection of characters defined by desperation, cowardice, and disappointment...
Howling (Japan, 2022) [OAFF 2022]
There is no rule stating that a film must have a hero is who is likeable or successful. There doesn’t even have to be a...
Funky Forest: The First Contact (Japan, 2006) & The Warped Forest (Japan, 2011)
Third Window Films’ Blu-ray release of Funky Forest: The First Contact and The Warped Forest is a cause for celebration for fans of Japanese cult...
Onoda:10,000 Nights in the Jungle (France/Japan, 2021)
Written and directed by Arthur Harari, Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle is a drama set in the Philippines during and after World War II....
Taipei on Screen: In Conversation with Arvin Chen, April 14 Via Zoom
Arvin Chen is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers working in Taiwan today. This conversation will span his formative years studying architecture and film and...