Taiwan
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Spotlight: Documentary
TIDF 2026: XiXi (dir. Fan Wu) | Review
Fan Wu's "XiXi" is a true ode to freedom, a heartfelt cry for the reclaiming of women’s bodies, an essential…
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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) 2025
PÖFF 2025: China Sea | Interview with Jurgis Matulevičius
"China Sea" probes the wounds of a generation as Jurgis Matulevičius follows an angry young man “trying to change” in…
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EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2025
EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2025: Girl (dir. Qi Shu) | Review
In her stark and stirring directorial debut "Girl," Shu Qi delivers a haunting portrait of girlhood shaped by violence, resilience,…
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Rome Film Festival 2025
Rome Film Festival 2025: Left-Handed Girl (dir. Shih-Ching Tsou) | Review
With the magnificent "Left-Handed Girl," Shih-Ching Tsou sou finds poetry in motion, meaning in the mess.
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TIFF 2024
TIFF 2024: Daughter’s Daughter (by Huang Xi) | Review
Huang Xi's new film is a world-class cinematic marvel, presenting a whole new world of mother-daughter relationships and every atom…
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Venice Film Festival 2024
Venice 2024 (Competition): Stranger Eyes | Interview of Siew Hua Yeo
"Stranger Eyes" dives into the unsettling intersection of surveillance and identity, capturing the haunting effects of being watched in a…
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Venice Film Festival 2024
Venice 2024 (Competition): Stranger Eyes (by Siew Hua Yeo) | Review
Mastermind Yeo Siew Hua opens the Pandora Box of privacy violations and surveillance hazards involving both victims and predators, with…
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Karlovy Vary IFF 2024
Karlovy Vary 2024: Pierce (Best Director Award) | Interview of Nelicia Low
In "Pierce," relationships are difficult to handle when love veils everything. We met director Nelicia Low, who won the Best…
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Cannes 2024
Cannes 2024 (Directors’ Fortnight): Mongrel (by Chiang Wei Liang & You Qiao Yin) | Review
Singaporean filmmaker Chiang Wei Liang continues to explore migrant labor and the diaspora of Southeast Asians in his handsomely mounted…
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Cannes 2024
Cannes 2024 (Critics’ Week): Locust (by KEFF) | Review
Director KEFF's engrossing and taut directorial debut explores a young man's world turned upside down when political corruption, disloyalty, and…
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