Wide Angle
Good Light, Good AirThe title Good Light, Good Air is oddly paradoxical. Keenly working at the point where his artistic identity and persistent attention on modern Korean history meet, director Im in this film focused on where the history of oppressi...
Korean Cinema Today
Good PersonAfter watching this film, the title Good Person does not seem to indicate an ethical being; rather, a question of what it is to be good and how it is made. A theft occurs in the class of Kyung-seok, who is known to be a benevolent...
World Cinema
MandiblesQuentin Dupieux′s sense of wit extends from a car tire transforming into a serial killer (Rubber, 2010) to falling in love with a suede leather jacket (Deerskin, 2019). This time, it is about a gigantic fly. One day, two friends f...
Wide Angle
How to Die Young in ManilaAn introverted teenage boy lies to his parents that he’d sleep over at his friends’. However, he made an appointment with a random guy found on a dating app. The street is filled with dead hustlers, but nobody seems to notice thes...
World Cinema
Death KnellA skeleton is found buried at the Garizmendi farmhouse. Fermin and Karmen, call their son Nestor, who reports the matter to the authorities. However, when the police turn up, the bones are gone. In this unusual thriller, set in a ...
Wide Angle
Hong Kong MomentsThe Hong Kong crisis that emerged last year when the government of Hong Kong proposed the “Extradition Bill” continued to draw global attention. Many people came out to the streets to protest a bill that provides a mechanism for t...
Korean Cinema Today
BEASTS CLAWING AT STRAWSThe characters in BEASTS CLAWING AT STRAWS live in their own heaven and hell with a bag of money. ‘The money bag’ is not the property of pleasure or happiness after they snatch and intercept the money bag and fight. The money bag ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Striding into the WindExcited by the dealer’s remark that the jeep used to speed across the vast plains of Inner Mongolia, Kun (a film school student in Shanghai) spends all his money on a secondhand jeep. Kun’s girlfriend Zhi studies Chinese literatur...
Flash Forward
BeastsConstance decides to help her father farm. To pass an innovative project, she needs Sylvain’s help, the big guy of the community. But instead of offering help, he rapes her. Constance tries to conceal what happened, but Sylvain pe...
Korean Cinema Today
Days of GreenA young man (Kim Jinyeop) is eking out a living driving a taxi while being chased by moneylenders. A young woman (Lee Seol) just ran out of her father’s funeral. Days of Green is about an unintentional journey that the two strange...