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 […]
Far East Film Festival 2017
Questions by Paige Lim and David Pountain Back in 2011, Taiwanese writer-director Giddens Ko broke box office records in Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong with his teen rom-com You Are the Apple of My Eye, […]
With the feature film industry of Laos still in its early stages of revival after decades of inaction, it could be argued that every new release is a noteworthy development in the nation’s cinematic identity. […]