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Best of Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival 2020

Aidan DjabarovDecember 10, 2020

From features like Mogul Mowgli to shorts like Handscape, we take a look at the very best from Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival 2020....

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Tragic Youth: A Closer Look at Better Days and Victim(s)

Claire LanglaisDecember 6, 2020

We unpack Far East Film Festival winners Better Days and Victim(s), two complementary films with a lot to say on bullying and youth issues....

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Through Young Eyes: Korean Women Filmmakers Find Depth in Children’s Stories

Natalie NgOctober 19, 2020

Yoon Ga-Eun's The House of Us and Ahn Ju-Young's A Boy & Sungreen show what's possible when children's stories are taken seriously....

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A League of Her Own: The Films of Lee Joo-Young

Brooke HeinzOctober 12, 2020

From A Quiet Dream and Jane to her newest films Maggie and Baseball Girl, we look at the film career of rising star Lee Joo-Young....

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Why ‘Song Lang’ is almost a great queer romance

Natalie NgSeptember 20, 2020

We explore why Leon Le's exquisite Vietnamese period film Song Lang falls short of being a great queer romance....

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Why ‘My Prince Edward’ is a marriage story like no other

Natalie NgSeptember 10, 2020

We look at all the ways Norris Wong’s debut film, My Prince Edward, cleverly subverts the marriage plot by exposing the horror of matrimony....

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Interview: Tahmina Rafaella talks ‘A Woman’ and modern Azerbaijani cinema

Aidan DjabarovJuly 1, 2020

We caught up writer-director-actor Tahmina Rafella to talk about her debut short, A Woman, the need for more women in Azerbaijani cinema and more....

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‘Kagemusha’, 40 Years Later: Spotlighting Kurosawa’s Overshadowed Epic

Timothy AmatulliJune 10, 2020

Akira Kurosawa's Cannes award-winning epic, 'Kagemusha' turns 40 this year. We look at its incredible lighting and cinematography techniques and how the film has been overshadowed....

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Why ‘Love Letter’ Should Be Considered a Postwar Classic

Natalie NgMay 29, 2020

We re-evaluate Kinuyo Tanaka's powerful 1953 melodrama Love Letter and discover a masterful critique of social issues that dominated postwar Japan....

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Best of the 2010s: East & Southeast Asian Cinema

Filmed in EtherDecember 18, 2019

Filmed in Ether looks back on the past decade of East & Southeast Asian filmmaking and presents its Best of the 2010s list!...

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Interview: Hirokazu Kore-eda on ‘The Truth’, Catherine Deneuve and writing female roles

Hieu ChauDecember 2, 2019

Hieu Chau spoke with Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda about his new film 'The Truth', comparing Catherine Deneuve to Kirin Kiki, writing roles for women and more....

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Masaaki Yuasa: Always Riding His Own Wave

Christopher L. InoaNovember 18, 2019

Ahead of JFF 2019's screenings of Ride Your Wave, we look back on the career of Masaaki Yuasa to understand what makes him such a unique creator in anime....

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