Director: Rooth Tang Director Rooth Tang beautifully and heartbreakingly exposes the struggles of love, family, and immigration in his 2014 feature Sway. Set in Paris, Bangkok, and Los Angeles, the film’s three alternating love stories […]
By Leni De Castro When we think of Singapore, we see images of a clean city state with an almost zero crime rate and a prosperous economy. But there is another side of Singapore…a darker […]
By Leni De Castro Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is a landmark film for Thailand and its maker, Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Weerasethakul’s nonlinear, leaping monkey style of filmmaking has been a subject of […]
By Leni De Castro After the Second Golden Age of Cinema in the Philippines waned down in the 1990s, the 2000s saw a new breed of auteurs climbing up from the underground. Brillante Mendoza belonged […]
By David Pountain Polish director Tomasz Mielnik packs more ideas and memorable set pieces into his debut feature, Journey to Rome, than many directors manage across entire careers. While the loosely structured Czech comedy starts […]
By David Pountain As his body of work will attest, Portuguese director José Pedro Lopes has a clear penchant for the macabre, often presenting grimly comic scenarios which see the crueller and more reckless sides […]