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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • On the Way to the Sea

    Astoundingly beautiful, poignant portrait of a fragile humanity surrounded by an omnipotent nature.
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  • The Police Game

    A young filmmaker satirises the movies he loves, making a mockery of sex and violence. But things stay fun and pleasant. An ingenious film.
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  • The Piano in a Factory

    After their divorce, an unemployed steelworker and his nouveau riche ex-wife quarrel about their daughter, who decides to go and live with the one who
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  • Tiong Bahru

    Lyrical and musical in its style, Tiong Bahru (Civic Life series) delves into ideas of identity, community and heritage within the Singaporean civic s
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  • ZUT

    An African joke packaged as a Chinese film. The actors were scouted on the streets and the makers have just graduated. Must have been fun…
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  • Dragon Gate Inn

    The epitome of a 1960s wuxia and a must-see by King Hu. Mostly taking place at one location – the inn – the scenes are…
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  • Pinoy Sunday

    It could have been a film about Pakistanis in England, but it’s a film about Filipinos in Taiwan. A serious film about immigrants in which…
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  • The Trip

    Visiting China for the first time, he became the most popular basketball player in the farmers’ and artists’ village of Songzhuang. The tall African.
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  • King Boxer

    The film that introduced kung fu to the West in 1972. More violent than its contemporaries, King Boxer’s eye-gouging, skull-cracking fight scenes, pai
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  • Li Xia’s Salon

    There are African women and African women. Mthiyane is an African woman. In China, she went into a hairdresser’s and said: ‘Do something with my…
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