POP AYE, Singapore’s Oscar Entry, an interview with director
POP AYE premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the World Cinema Dramatic…
Monthly Archives: November, 2017
‘Breath’ (‘Nafas’): Film Review
The imaginative world of a 9-year-old girl is superbly captured in writer-director Narges Abyar’s meandering…
Call Me by Your Name
It’s the summer of 1983 when a doctorate student named Oliver (Armie Hammer) arrives in…
Armenia’s Oscar submission imagines a world without war
Armenia’s foreign-language film submission to the Academy Awards for this year invites viewers to imagine…
Asgari speaks about his ‘Disappearance’ act
‘Disappearance’ the first feature film of Iranian director Ali Asgari, was a huge step in…
Pushpendra Singh talks about his unique cinematic gaze
Ishwaku’s winter seems cursed. Pushpendra Singh’s Ashwatthama, an allusive narrative that is finding much appreciation in…
Singapore International Film Festival opens with Chinese Angels Wear White
SINGAPORE – Chinese writer-producer Vivian Qu, producer Sean Chen and actress Zhou Meijun from the…
African Diaspora International Film Festival
The African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) marks another milestone with its 25th annual feast…
Iranian cinema routinely produces masterpieces, but Indian Cinema…
A group of seasonal agitators who seem to surface every time there is a film…
Ingrid Goes West review
Matt Spicer’s bitter comedy of the absurd follows Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza, deadpan but with…