Toronto Premiere at Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Thailand / 2017 / Rated PG / 130:00 / Thai with English subtitles All Asian children understand the pressure and importance of education which is drilled into …
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The Korean word ‘guk’ (or ‘gook’) means ‘country’, and it has been speculated that this was the origin of the titular slur of Justin Chon’s second feature. Early in the …
“The Soul of the Tiger” (L’âme du tigre) at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF) 2017
by Gavin Hee
The Chinese diaspora population is estimated at 50 million. That is not just one Australia. It is two. Spread across 110 countries, one of those nations is Switzerland. This brings …
A Korean-born man (John Cho) finds himself stuck in Columbus, Indiana, where his architect father is in a coma. The man meets a young woman (Haley Lu Richardson) who wants …
It is November soon and that means it is time for one of Vancouver’s most anticipated events: the Vancouver Asian Film Festival, otherwise known as VAFF. Nowhere else can Asians …
North American Premiere at Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Hong Kong / 2017 / 71:00 / Cantonese with English subtitles The joy in watching The Posterist comes from the fact …
Japan, 2017 / 95:00 / English, Japanese with English subtitles / Canadian Premiere at Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Megumi Sasaki’s A Whale Of A Tale documentary was created …
Hirayanagi Atsuko’s refreshing debut feature Oh Lucy! is one whimsical cocktail, mixing one part urban alienation, one part domestic drama, two parts road movie, and topped with splashes of comic …
Styled as a comic domestic drama but hiding sweeping undercurrents, Mina Shum’s crowd-pleasing fourth feature portrays a Vancouver family whose lives are jolted by a convergence of difficult revelations and …
The laughter dropped often from the packed press and industry screening on opening night, but as the film wore on it was hard to shake off the feeling that their …