Seven years after his debut feature Song Lang (2018), a romantic drama steeped in modern Vietnamese folk opera, Leon Lê reunites with key members of his cast and crew for …
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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 …
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 …
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. …
Every single human will likely experience the loss of a loved one in their lifetime. Despite knowing this, we all want to find love and be loved. It’s a human …
Cambodian Rock Band History and What Humans Do to Each Other By Cynda Yeasting For 2 hours and 45 minutes, I was not an audience member sitting in a theatre …
Ellen Chang-Richardson’s debut poetry collection, Blood Belies (Wolsak and Wynn), employs visual art and language to interrogate the nature of history and memory. Through negative space, concrete poetry, and fragmented …
A bosom film crew’s decade-long reunion to revive a movie after funding ran dry on it coincides fatefully with the endemic onset of Covid-19 in Wuhan as they are about …
Bound in Heaven (Huo Xin, China 2024) After an esteemed 26-year career writing for the likes of Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle, Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons) and being …
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