In April earlier this year, the entrepreneur-turned-director Zhang Wei met FilmDoo cofounder Weerada at Far East Film Festival, held in Udine, Italy, to talk about his latest film Destiny (Xi He). As a successful businessman […]
Chinese films
By Stephanie Hotz The Häns team, consisting of Enric Ribes and Oriol Martínez, describe themselves as “odd storytellers”, and Xiong Di and Daydreaming, two of their recent documentary pieces, are both shorts that recount the lives of people […]
By Sharon Calingasan Watch Asian Films on FilmDoo We take a peek at some of the top Asian films that were released from January to April this year. These films were not only frequently outstanding […]
Directed by Jia Zhangke London Film Festival review Ever since the Chinese auteur’s poignant and delightfully lo-fi 1997 debut Xiao Wu (aka Pickpocket), Jia Zhangke’s narrative features have been operating on a consistent four or […]
Directed by Jia Zhangke Of all the politically-minded directors of the last two decades, few have had their filmmaking style so innately ingrained in their ideology as the respected Jia Zhangke. I’d say he practices […]