By David Pountain Tom Waller’s award-winning Thai film, The Last Executioner, takes an unconventionally spiritual approach to a fascinating true story. A decades-spanning account of the life of Chavoret Jaruboon, the final man in his […]
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Director: Nam Ron Nam Ron’s first mainstream feature, Psiko: Pencuri Hati (Thief of Hearts), is a story about how five people who live parallel lives are drawn to a murder. Just how their lives intertwine […]
By Leni De Castro Almost every country in Southeast Asia has taken much of its action movie inspiration from Hollywood. Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Kwai Chang Caine, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger have all created […]
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 […]
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 […]