Tag: Culture, Film
The 26th Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF)
The award winners of the Asian Feature Film Competition are selected by a jury panel, headed by Brilliante Mendoza, one of the most important and prominent filmmakers of...
Dear Jakarta, We Still Love You
Creative workers have had enough of unrealistic tourism campaigns to promote Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, and found their own ways to present the city to the...
Cinemasia Filmlab 2015 deadline in one week
Stories on Asian rituals Upcoming filmmakers can send in their proposal for an Asian diaspora short film on rituals. Which rituals can be identified among Dutch-Asians...
Diaspora power
The main cry of the second Indonesian Diaspora Congress was ‘hidup diaspora!’ – long live the diaspora. It rang out in session after session in Jakarta from 18 to...
A river changes course: a film by Kalyanee Mam
“Today,” remarks Sav Samourn, “everyone needs land.” Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at Sundance, A River Changes Course tells the story...
The Importance of Sinematek – Movie Archives in Indonesia
By: Riksa Afiaty On April 30 this year -- one day before Indonesian National Movie day – there was a screening of Anak Sabiran di Balik Cahaya Gemerlapan (Sang Arsip)...
Top 4 Singaporean Films
By: Cher Tan It’s been an exciting time for Singaporean cinema. Despite having a flourishing Chinese and Malay film industry in the 1950s and 1960s, the general...
Postcards from the Zoo: A Magical-Poetic Treatment of Uprooted Beings
By: Ari Purnama |Screened at the World Cinema Amsterdam Festival 2012 (8-19 August 2012)| I have considered living in the zoo, actually, instead of in overcrowded...
CINEMASIA PRESENTS ‘OUT & PROUD IN CHINA?’ AUGUST 3 DE BALIE IN AMSTERDAM
This Friday, CinemAsia presents ‘Out & Proud in China?’ during the Amsterdam Gay Pride festival – featuring the Chinese documentary “Our Story: 10-year...
World Cinema Amsterdam Festival
This year's World Cinema Amsterdam Festiva focuses on Brazil. But that doesn't mean Asian cinema will go unnoticed. What to think of Indonesian filmmaker Edwin's...
