Directed by Anysay Keola As the first feature film produced in Laos to explicitly address LGBT issues, Anysay Keola’s Above It All has a small place in the nation’s cultural history that will make it […]
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Director: Rooth Tang Director Rooth Tang beautifully and heartbreakingly exposes the struggles of love, family, and immigration in his 2014 feature Sway. Set in Paris, Bangkok, and Los Angeles, the film’s three alternating love stories […]
By Leni De Castro When we think of Singapore, we see images of a clean city state with an almost zero crime rate and a prosperous economy. But there is another side of Singapore…a darker […]
By Leni De Castro Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is a landmark film for Thailand and its maker, Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Weerasethakul’s nonlinear, leaping monkey style of filmmaking has been a subject of […]
By Leni De Castro After the Second Golden Age of Cinema in the Philippines waned down in the 1990s, the 2000s saw a new breed of auteurs climbing up from the underground. Brillante Mendoza belonged […]
Out of all the weird and bloody eccentrics to work in the ‘extreme’ end of Asian cinema in recent decades, arguably none has more consistently staked a claim to the title of ‘auteur’ than 54-year-old […]