“Not My Mother's Baking” by Remi M Sali, similarly to “Konpaku” (2019), the debut feature of this Singapore-based director, explores the territory of...
Author - Joanna Kończak
I graduated in the field of cross-cultural psychology, what made me curious of the worlds far outside my backyard. Hence you may meet me roaming the Asian and European sideways as I love travelling, especially solo. Have been watching movies since I remember, and I share the same enthusiasm for experimental arthouse as well as glittering blockbusters and the filthiest of horrors. Indian cinema became the area of my particular interest. Apart from being a frantic cinephile, I devour piles of books. As I have been working in the publishing house known for children’s books (and even authored a couple of toms) for over a decade, I became quite successful in hiding the dreadful truth: never managed to grow up.
Acronym OFW stands for Overseas Filipino Workers. Sung-a Yoon, Korea-born director living in Brussels, in this Belgian-French co-production searched for human...
“Between Heaven and Earth” by the Palestinian filmmaker Najwa Najjar (“Pomegranates and Myrrh”, “Eyes of a Thief) is structured like a road movie with an...
An act of preserving from oblivion. A poignant and deeply touching journey.
Concise, closing just within 80-mins of runtime, “Pakeriran” is a low-key coming-of-age tale set in a contemporary Taiwan in the picturesque coastal area...
Tuan-Chiu Lin's “Six Suspects” from 1965 is one of the taiupian pictures restored recently by the Taiwan Film Institute. The term refers to...
Emerging Taiwanese-language cinema was blossoming in the 60s – with filmmakers eagerly experimenting with the medium relatively fresh in the area and...
In the late '60s and '70s, swordplay films across Taiwan and Hong Kong reemerged to a new wave of popularity. King Hu's „Dragon Inn” (1967) took several box...
„Fukushima 50” – the movie's title – is a nickname that English-language media used to describe a group of employees at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power...
„Up The Mountain” is a slow-paced, poetic documentary, which focuses on finding beauty and peace around us, in the simplicity of life and the cycle of nature...