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 […]
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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 […]
Josh Kim’s short documentary, Draft Day, takes a brief snippet of LGBT life in Thailand to reveal the larger society at a curious juncture characterised by the shifting attitudes of the 2010s. The 9-minute film […]
By Matthew Riordan Directed by Adriyanto Dewo At first glance Tabula Rasa might appear to be a formulaic rags-to-riches story. In the opening scenes we meet Hans (Jimmy Kobogau), a promising footballer from Papua, Indonesia. Hans […]
By David Pountain Directed by Angga Dwimas Sasongko It takes a lot of sincerity to treat a subject as commonplace and low-stakes as coffee-making as a source of straight-faced, emotionally loaded drama. It takes some […]
Directed by Riri Riza Sokola rimba (aka The Jungle School), the latest feature from Indonesian director Riri Riza, is a film that sits comfortably in the long-running genre of the townie-meets-native film, a tricky class of […]