Director: Ren Wen Sci-Fi-London Film Festival 2019 review Apocalyptic dread and societal turmoil take a backseat to cosmic wonder and millennial drama in Last Sunrise, a wistful and absurdity-tinged sci-fi that observes the end of the […]
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Director: Jia Zhangke IFFR 2019 review 2015’s Mountains May Depart was a fine work by the standards of any filmmaker, but while the decades-spanning melodrama marked another step forward in narrative and technical ambition for Jia Zhangke, it […]
The cinema of Kwon Hayoun is haunted by absence, standing as a ghostly echo of what’s long gone or never was. Though her short films use real-life stories and experiences as their subjects, these elegiac […]
The titular relationship of The Poet and the Boy is defined by a one-sided and stifled passion that might still serve as a preferable alternative to no passion at all. In the directorial debut of Kim Yang-hee, Yang […]
Park Kiyong (b. 1961) is a singular figure in Korean film culture: a KAFA graduate who went on to combine a filmmaking career with a key role in film teaching at KAFA itself and at […]
Director: Benj Binks Watch Mongolian Bling on FilmDoo “Hip-hop originated in Mongolia.” Once this surprising message is articulated by a traditional musician in the opening moments of Mongolian Bling, the tone is set, and the subject of the documentary promises to be unique. […]