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The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru

By Alan Ng | December 2024

I’ll be honest. I’ve seen way too many documentaries about World War II. Just when you thought all of the stories have…

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I'll be honest. I've seen way too many documentaries about World War II. Just when you thought all of the stories have been told about the war,...

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A film like Black Dog, written and directed by Guan Hu, does not often come along, where the art and power of cinema truly leave one with a perspective on...

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In Shirley He's short film The Other Side of the Mountain, the filmmaker follows her artist father as he searches for his childhood home in Southwestern...

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Tea: The Drink That Changed The World takes us on a captivating journey through the history of tea's origins and role throughout human history. Narrated by...

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HOLLYSHORTS FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! In Jean Liu's short film Corpse Fishing, Yan (Harmonie He) is a very young woman, alone in life after her father...

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This film was released in its native cantonese as Nam yan sei sap (or Man, 40) which is quite different to its western title of July Rhapsody. They...

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In the Mongolian feature, The Sales Girl, Saruul (Bayarjargal Bayartsetseg) is a shy college student hoping to become a neuroscientist, but that path is...

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LOS ANGELES ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! The most interesting theme of Shasha Li's feature documentary, Heaven Rain Flows Sweetly, is how it...

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NOW ON VOD! "Made in China." A simple phrase we see stamped on the bottom of plastic toys, welded into heavy machinery, and, of course, adorning the tags...

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Jialing Zhang's feature film, Total Trust, is a dystopian sci-fi tale...oops, I'm sorry. Total Trust is an actual true-life documentary about the...

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