The New York Asian Film Festival will be kicking off its 19th year virtually for 2020, and today the full lineup of titles have been revealed.
Running August 28 to September 12, this year’s festival will feature 51 films from 10 locales,
Montreal’s Fantasia Festival is gearing to kick off its virtual edition on August 20th and today the final wave of films has been announced, piling on to an already massively impressive slate.
Stay tuned throughout the festival for our coverage and
The 58th New York Film Festival will be kicking off September 25th virtually and at area drive-ins and today Film at Lincoln Center announced Steve McQueen‘s Lovers Rock will be the opening night film.
Lovers Rock is part of the Small
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Beyond the Night offers an engaging, psychosexual tug-of-war that’s torn from the pages of Bergman.
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Fukushima 50 sees Japanese cinema address the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster in the most direct manner to date. It does not go well.
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A lo-fi, lackadaisical, existential odyssey through the forest that embraces its weirdness with an absurd edge.
Ahead of its premiere at this year’s Fantasia Festival in Montreal, a new trailer and poster have been released for the creepy looking horror title out of New Delhi, titled Kriya.
Directed by Sidharth Srinivasan, the film involves a DJ who
The 45th Toronto International Film Festival is gearing up to kick off on September 10th, and today the full list of feature
A new poster has been released for Anthony Scott Burns‘ (Our House) upcoming thriller Come True ahead of its premiere at this year’s Fantasia Festival.
The film involves a young woman who, after running away from home, discovers an offer to participate
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Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out his career of wonderfully inventive filmmaking with an anti-war epic worthy of his legacy.
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Three guys, making music, just vibing in the summer — On-Gaku: Our Sound is a whole mood of a movie that is quite unforgettable.
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“The latest from controversial documentarian Tatusya Mori tackles freedom of the Japanese press in a dense, challenging manner.”
Isoko Mochizuki has been on the fast track to becoming akin to a “celebrity journalist” in the past few years. Her 2017 memoir The
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Taking a frank look at the state of sex work in Japan today, Life: Untitled is a virulent screed against exploitation too bitter for its own good.
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Like a heist comedy from the 1980s, Special Actors shows director Ueda’s manically meta genre filmmaking still bears fruit.
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A love letter to the little guys on the movie set, Extro thinks the world of the lowly extra.
Montreal’s Fantasia Festival is gearing up for its first virtual edition and today the second wave of titles have been revealed, adding a big list of mouth-watering genre selections on top of an already impressive first wave.
