Dafydd Fell and Wang Hsiang’s The Twilight Years of Taiwan’s Sugar Railways is an insightful look at Taiwan’s railway history Read More
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Set amidst the plateaus of Guizhou, "Karst" presents the complex inner lives of farmers in Southwestern China Read More
First, there was “American Girl” in 2021. Now we have “Left-handed Girl”, and, naturally, the succinctly titled “Girl”—two more coming-of-age dramas centred around young women (and the mothers who raise them). But where the former film is about a Taiwanese diasporic family returning from the US, these two new films are purely grounded in Taipei Read More
Documentary "The Homeless" offers a valuable look at the lives of unhoused individuals in China, but with deficiencies in storytelling Read More
Set in Yunnan, "As the Water Flows" offers a view across three generations of a family with humanistic warmth and strong character acting Read More
Fly-on-the-wall documentary “Obedience” turns the lives of Hong Kong’s elderly garbage collectors into quiet and balanced poetry Read More
Indie Hong Kong film "Queerpanorama" explores an unnamed protagonist's identity amidst echoes of the city’s 2019 pro-democracy protests Read More
Kaori Lai's Portraits in White is a skillful literary examination of individuals caught in the larger tides of Taiwanese history. Though not of the generation that directly experienced much of this history, but of the generation that came immediately after, Lai’s work proves a deft exploration of the subjectivities of those who lived through the White Terror Read More
Starring Hidetoshi Nishijima (of “Drive My Car”) and Gwei Lun-mei, the Japan-produced but English-language “Dear Stranger” stumbles with a choppy script Read More
The sophomore effort of director Hiroshi Okuyama, "My Sunshine" proves a noteworthy entry in contemporary Japanese cinema, and puts Okuyama on the map Read More
Pigsy is an inventive, CGI-animated take on Journey to the West. The movie is set in a futuristic city-state in which a technologically advanced “New World” development scheme is soon to be launched, and which selects those who contribute the most to society to become its residents. Protagonist Pigsy works for the developer of the “New World” but is not selected himself Read More
Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl: Photobooks at Democratic Art Objects is a rare opportunity for photography fans in Taiwan to see the collaboration between Robert Frank, one of the finest artists the medium of photography has produced, and Gerhard Steidl, the most masterful and accomplished offset printer and photobook publisher of our time Read More