By David Pountain Watch Parts of the Heart on FilmDoo On record as a passionate proponent of low-budget cinema, American-Indonesian writer-director Paul Agusta’s last feature film was the decades-spanning Parts of the Heart, a coming-of-age drama that […]
Almost two decades since its initial theatrical run, Fruit Chan’s low-budget coming-of-ager Made in Hong Kong remains a volatile document of the cinematic and sociocultural identity of its titular metropolis in the pivotal year of 1997. Its loosely […]
Director: Seung-hwa Baek London Korean Film Festival teaser screening review The tension between a cutesy surface and a cruel reality is fundamental to the comedy of Seung-hwa Baek’s Queen of Walking, the colourful and eccentrically stylised […]
Interview translated by Kiradit Sachdev Watch The Ravine of Goodbye on FilmDoo In Tatsushi Ohmori’s The Ravine of Goodbye, two horrific incidents – one still in the headlines, and one from a distant past – serve as prismatic […]
Questions by Paige Lim and David Pountain Back in 2011, Taiwanese writer-director Giddens Ko broke box office records in Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong with his teen rom-com You Are the Apple of My Eye, […]
By Jessica Duncanson Director: Ju Anqi Chinese Visual Festival 2017 review A film that seems to depict everything and nothing, Ju Anqi’s Poet on a Business Trip is a black-and-white existential journey through Western China’s […]
