76 Days (Anonymous, Chen Weixi & Wu Hao, USA 2020) Remarkable for being one of the first documentary features about Covid-19 off the assembly line—and also the first to screen at …
China
Asian films that first premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival each February tend not to travel to Toronto in September. The reasons vary, but it’s often down to matters …
Chikaura Kei’s confident debut feature is the story of a Chinese economic migrant whose shaky existence begins to unravel after a string of deceits and crimes he has committed to …
Ash is Purest White (Jia Zhangke, China/France 2018) Since his mid-career lane switch in 2013, Jia Zhangke has ditched the sluggish arthouse gloom that made him a brand in favour of …
Nowadays, it’s pretty common to find Asians (nearly) everywhere in the world. But people still have perceptions thinking a person or a country is this way or that. The Asians …
Golden Panda International Film Festival – Project Pitch, Masters Workshop, Screenings & More
Although in its fifth year and possessing deep connections within the international film-making community, many Vancouverites may not be familiar with the Vancouver Golden Panda International Film Festival (GPIFF). Historically, …
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 …
Written by Anna Wang Yuan I was born in China and immigrated to Canada in 2006. In 2012, I went back and lived in China for another three years as …
As a translator of Chinese comics and folk rock who lives in Vancouver, BC, Nick Stember is an expert of Chinese comics, or manhua. In addition to building the world’s …
After learning that rich gangsters have abducted his estranged son, a former street ruffian makes repeated attempts to save him—in a covert bid to atone for ditching the boy and …