Film Review: 37 Seconds (2019) by HIKARI
Who doesn’t feel like an alien in this world sometimes? Yuma Tanaka is 23 years old and wants to become a professional manga artist. She lives with her mom and is having a hard time to find somebody...
View ArticleFilm Review: Jinpa (2018) by Pema Tseden
Straying quite far away in terms of aesthetics from the multi-awarded “Tharlo”, Pema Tseden directs a much more approachable film that lingers between the road movie and the western, before it...
View ArticleThe Full List of Nominees of the 38th Hong Kong Film Awards and the Official...
The full list of nominations for the the 38th Hong Kong Film Awards has been revealed. On the 14 April 2019 we will know the winners but for now let’s have a look at the nominees. Two films seem to...
View ArticleFilm Review: House of Hummingbird [Beol-sae] (2018) by Kim Bo-ra
A lyrical yet assertive work, “House of Hummingbird” is the soulful debut feature of Korean director Kim Bo-ra, a Columbia University School of the Arts Alumna, following a series of shorts, often...
View ArticleTrailer for Upcoming Korean Movie “Money” by Park Noo-ri
The rise of Ryu Jun-yeol as an actor has been an interesting one to watch. Starting his film career in the excellent 2015 social thriller “Socialphobia”, he really exploded on the scene in 2017 with...
View ArticleInterview to Denis Do: “We can’t ask the youth to be forever in mourning. It...
Born in Paris in 1985, Denis Do graduated in 2009 from the acclaimed French animation school Les Gobelins “L’école de l’image”, pioneer in the fields of animation and filmmaking. His last school...
View ArticleDocumentary Review: Breathless Animals (2019) by Lei Lei
Developed in the 1940s but properly finding itself two decades after, musique concrète refers to a genre of music where its individual components are deliberately distorted from their origins and is...
View ArticleFilm Review: Di yi ci de li bie / A First Farewell (2018) by Lina Wang
Friend, I have watched you down the mountain/ Till now in the dark I close my thatch-door…/ Grasses return again green in the spring,/ But, O Wang Sun, will you return? The seasonality of a life far...
View ArticleNYC’s Winter Film Awards International Film Festival ❄ Feb 14-23 ❄
The 8th Annual WINTER FILM AWARDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL kicks off on THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14th! The festival runs February 14-23 in New York City. Ten jam-packed days filled with awesome film...
View ArticleFilm Review: Bulbul Can Sing (2018) by Rima Das
Rima Das, a self-taught filmmaker, emerged with the impressive and empathic coming-of-age tale “Village Rockstars,” set in rural Assam. Premiered in 2017 at TIFF, her movie later grabbed several...
View ArticleInterview with Kei Chikaura: “I am very interested in food in general, not...
Kei Chikaura was born in Japan in the year 1977. and before he got into filmmaking he majored in economics at the University of Osaka, while studying also film history. He learned the filmmaking trade...
View ArticleThe Winners of the 25th Festival International des Cinemas d’Asie de Vesoul...
Having just recently completed their screening date, the Festival International des Cinemas d’Asie de Vesoul have announced the winners of the various categories in their titles. Here they are for you...
View ArticleThe 7th Helsinki Cine Aasia Announces Opening Film and Guest of Honour
The seventh edition of the Helsinki Cine AAsia is set to take place 14th and 17th March, 2019 and the festival has today announced its Opening Film as well as Guest of Honour. The Finnish festival...
View ArticleFilm Review: The Shadow Play (2018) by Ye Lou
There is a lot of controversy about the Chinese films being pulled out of this year´s Berlinale. Having in mind that Generation title “Better World” was yanked out just before the festival and Zhang...
View ArticleFilm Review: The Red Phallus (2018) by Tashi Gyeltshen
Director Tashi Gyeltshen tells the story of 16-year old Sangay, who is the daughter of the local carver. Deriving from a rather untypical coming-of-age setting, the plot takes an unexpected dark turn....
View ArticleChildren of the Snow Land in Cinemas and On Demand from 14 March
“An incredibly inspiring story from the roof of the world.”Bear Grylls Dartmouth Films, Mayfly TV and Picture on the Wall Productions are proud to announce the release of CHILDREN OF THE SNOW LAND in...
View ArticleInterview with Praveen Morchhale: In that money race it is easy to forget...
Praveen Morchhale is an Indian director and screenwriter. He made his feature debut with ”Barefoot to Goa” (2015). His second movie, “Walking with the Wind” (2017), screened at many international film...
View ArticleFilm review: The Crossing (Guo Chun Tian, 2019) by Bai Xue
It has been more than two decades since Hong Kong has rejoined the People’s Republic of China, while maintaining its own political system, autonomy, currency and, generally speaking, way of life. The...
View ArticleTrailer for New Martial Arts Film “Triple Threat”
England born director Jesse V. Johnson (“The Last Sentinel”, “Accident Man”) has completed production on his most recent production “Triple Threat”. The film boasts an iconic international casts of...
View ArticleShort Film Review: Blessed Land (2019) by Phạm Ngọc Lân
“Blessed Land” premiered at the 69th Berlinale International Film Festival and is taking part in the Shorts Competition. The film tells the story of a mother and her son, who are looking for the grave...
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