Interview translated by Lyn-Kateri Visedsuk Watch Fathers on FilmDoo Tackling a subject oft-neglected by cinema in general but Southeast Asian cinema in particular, Palatpol Mingpornpichit’s Fathers is the sweetly simple tale of gay couple Phoon (Asda Panichkul) and Yuke (Nat Sakdatorn), their […]
By David Pountain Deconstructing gender roles against a backdrop of pervasive prejudice and legal persecution, Hassene Belaïd’s short drama N’sibi is a welcome anomaly of Algerian cinema that sees a revelatory meeting between the young […]
Watch Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? on FilmDoo Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? explores the life of Saar, a gay HIV-positive Israeli man living in London. His family are deeply Jewish and struggle to accept his sexuality, […]
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 […]
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 […]
