100 Sunset (Kunsang Kyirong, Canada 2025) Vancouverite Kunsang Kyirong sets her intriguing debut feature in a sterile apartment complex in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood, and through the eyes of a young Tibetan …
Non-Fiction
What is described today as Japan’s most recognized traditional performing art was, of course, just a form of popular culture for the masses during the 17th and 18th centuries in …
The Japanese too have the idiom of killing two birds with one stone, and Japanese filmmaker Hikari achieves this knockout feat nicely with her crowd-pleasing second feature. After a world …
Ricepaper’s Executive Editor and multi-genre writer, Allan Cho, interviews PP Wong, author of the new novel, Slice the Water. A dystopian thriller, a speculative fiction, and a coming-of-age story, Slice …
“You look just like him,” my Tita said as the bass of a jeering crowd from the Sunday night football game boomed behind her, echoing into the wooden
Jennifer Chiu, a Vancouver Hakka-Canadian filmmaker, traces her family’s past in Kolkata, India and explores the impact of migration on identity, family, and cultural preservation in Clan of the Painted Lady. …
Sean Gunn was born in August 1948 in Vernon, BC, to Laura Joe (1922-2015) and Gun Wah Fong (1905-1988). His sister Sharon was born in 1952, followed by Shannon in …
Sean Gunn was born in Vernon, BC, in August 1948 and wants you to know that he is the son of a Chinese head tax payer, grandson of a railway …
Nukes. Bombs. War. North Korea. These are some of the words that Jenny Kwak, a 22-year-old Korean-Canadian, often heard when people discussed her heritage. Growing up in Toronto, she always …
In the summer, our Parisian half-cousin hosted a lunch at his condominium. I didn’t go. Not because I couldn’t, but because he’d added me to the group chat hours …