“Tiptoe” is a short film about two siblings left on their own. Her mother left the house early and her father seem to neglect the family at all...
Author - Alexander Knoth
Focussed on Japan.
Master's degree in Theatre, Film and Media Studies.
I write to get rid of rose-colored spectacles and to introduce unknown facets of Asian cinema.
Kazuhiro Soda was working for a production company in New York, producing more than 50 productions for the Japanese State Television, NHK. Inspired by the...
Water is life. But water can also be frightening. Everyone who has seen Hideo Nakata’s “Dark Water” (2002) or the shower scene in Alfred...
Shelly Silver‘s “A Tiny Place That Is Hard To Touch” premiered at the Forum Expanded Selection of Berlinale Film Festival. An American woman...
Ali Mohammed Saeed‘s directorial debut raises awareness of the more than 3000 Yazidi women that were kidnapped and sold into sex slavery by ISIS. In...
“Kingdom” by Tan Wei Keong is part of the Shorts Section at the Berlin International Film Festival. Within the 5-minute short film, the animation...
This was my very first time seeing a film by Tsai Ming-liang. Since I know that I have missed out on this iconic Taiwanese born filmmaker, I took the...
Farhad Delaram worked as a scriptwriter for Iranian state television before he started as a director. Together with producer Dena Rassam he developed the idea...
