A long-time Beijing resident (only recently relocated to Toronto by way of Taiwan) for the past decade, Shelly Kraicer has been the programmer of East Asian films for the Vancouver International …
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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 …
As the cinematographer behind some of Wong Kar Wai’s earliest and best known films, Christopher Doyle’s colorful camerawork defined the look of Hong Kong for a generation. With over 80 …
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 …
Toronto’s largest film festival is shrinking with age. Earlier this year it had announced plans to reduce its overall program by a fifth by axing some sections and venues. The …
Mark your calendars! The 29th Annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) is almost here. The schedule is packed with exciting screenings, parties, and workshops. Ricepaper joined with the VQFF to …
“Someone once compared my skin colour to a nicotine stain. They weren’t interested in a date. They told me to go back to China,” so opens Project Gelb, a documentary …
Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) and his son Shingo (Taiyo Yoshizawa) Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s new film, After the Storm, is a stripped-down meditation on lives gone wrong and family relationships in a quiet …
Kore-eda Hirokazu occupies an esteemed perch in contemporary Japanese cinema. Over the past two decades his films have been well-received both in his native Japan and around the world for …