Open City Documentary Festival review Director: Wang Bing Wang Bing, one of China’s most prolific documentarians, continues to relentlessly lay bare the reality of contemporary China; something that state-endorsed blockbusters try arduously to avoid. Filmed in […]
This week, we bring you a vibrant selection of Southeast Asian films, newly available from Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and more, plus an erotic indie flick from Hong Kong and an insightful wartime drama from Mongolia. […]
This week we bring you a provocative dark comedy and a gay drama from Japan, an indie gem from China and a modern reimagining of a Jane Austen classic. Lowlife Love (dir. Eiji Uchida, Japan) Tetsuo (Kiyohiko […]
By Freddy Gelati-Meinert Director: Feng Xiaogang Feng Xiaogang’s films are not just films, they are cultural events. Famed for repeatedly directing the blockbusters which China sits down to in their collective 1.3 billion to ring in the […]
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 […]
By Jessica Duncanson Directors: Heather White and Lynn Zhang Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2017 review Complicit provides a crucial look into the human devastation caused by the electronics manufacturing industry in China. It’s estimated […]
