Written and directed by Ko Myoung-sung, “The 12th Suspect” takes us in a freshly divided Korea. The whodunnit noir is used to look into the concept of...
Author - Oriana Virone
Tanjung Mas Port, Semarang, Indonesia. The Boat ‘Buruh Mutiara' stops in the harbor. Pleng, one of the crew members, goes back home. The young man dreams of...
Realeased in 1968, “Gamera vs. Viras” is the fourth opus of the then already well-oiled machine that was the “Gamera” franchise. The feature was directed by...
Daigo Matsui is familiar with the festival experience, having presented his previous works in Melbourne and Tokyo and now, he is (virtually) back in Udine with...
The Taiwan Film Institute has restored Hou Hsiao-hsien's “Cheerful Wind”. The movie was released in 1982 for lunar new year, and is part of Hou Hsiao Hsen's...
The days of the zombie craze are over, everything has been done. And yet, it hasn't. Movies like “Zombie on Sale” still manage to surprise. The Korean...
Khavn De La Cruz is an artist. Or at least he matches my imagination of someone who would be defined as such by people eating petits fours. A socially...
Shin Su-won, a filmmaker who started her career in her thirties, is well-established in the festival circuit and in the heart of indie-movie-lovers-soya-milk...
After a Chinese release in June 2019, “The River in Me” will know its European Premiere at The Cinemasia Film Festival (in Amsterdam). Besides its content, the...
Masaya Ozaki is a well-rounded scriptwriter. His first writing credit dates back to 1995. However, it is in 2010 that he added director to his skillset. His...