Jinpa (China, 2018) [VIFF 2018]
Jinpa (played by actor/poet of the same name) drives a lorry along a Tibetan plateau. He comes across like a truck-driving rock star, dressed in...
People’s Republic of Desire (China/USA, 2018) [VIFF 2018]
We are slowly migrating closer to a Summer Wars-meets-Black Mirror sense of reality, where the online spheres of existence make up for the shortcomings of...
The Third Wife (Vietnam, 2018) [VIFF 2018]
Ash Mayfair brings Vietnamese cinema to the world stage with her striking feature debut The Third Wife. While the nuances of 19th century Vietnam culture...
When the Storm Fades (Canada/Philippines, 2018) [VIFF 2018]
The ‘storm’ referred to in the title of activist-comedian Sean Devlin’s crowdfunded film is Typhoon Haiyan, or Super Typhoon Yolanda, the strongest tropical cyclone recorded...
Girls Always Happy (China, 2018) [VIFF 2018]
Girls Always Happy is a witty and refreshing melodramatic comedy that takes an intimate look at the co-dependent lives of a mother and daughter living...
14 Apples (Taiwan/Myanmar, 2018) [VIFF 2018]
For his latest work, Taiwan-based Myanmar filmmaker Midi Z closely shadows one of his frequent collaborators, actor Wang Shin-hong. Wang has appeared in Midi Z’s...
Lush Reeds (China, 2018) [VIFF 2018]
A socially conscious journalist ventures out from the metropolitan center to pursue a human rights story only to dig deeper into herself in Yang Yishu’s...
A Land Imagined (Singapore/France/Netherlands, 2018) [VIFF 2018]
Yeo Siew Hua’s post-global neo noir A Land Imagined ostensibly revolves around a police detective investigating the disappearance of a Chinese migrant worker in Singapore...
Preview – Asian Cinema at the Vancouver International Film Festival 2018, September 27-October 12
The 2018 Vancouver International FIlm Festival’s (VIFF) Gateway stream will once again illustrate that Vancouver’s ties to the Pacific Rim are not only geographic and...