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Striding Into The Wind

By Abhishek Sharma | May 2022

Striding Into The Wind is a fictional revisit into the life of Shujun Wei. Making his feature debut, the co-writer/director goes back to…

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Striding Into The Wind is a fictional revisit into the life of Shujun Wei. Making his feature debut, the co-writer/director goes back to his student days...

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Often, there is great subtlety in Asian cinema and theater. The national art forms of the world's largest landmass are known for indirect communication and...

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Charles Xiuzhi Dong's documentary Anshan Diaries is an intimate account of his grandfather's slow deterioration toward death. Dong's grandmother, who is...

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AFI FEST 2021 REVIEW! Yimou Zhang's One Second is an odd-little film about the power of cinema and its sway over communities and individuals. The story...

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In Weijia Ma's animated short, Step Into The River, two girls forge a bond through trauma in a small Chinese village. Wei is a young girl living with her...

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Musicals and romance go hand-in-hand. Now add COVID to the mix, and you're in for quite a ride. From China, Rongfei Guo's musical short, Girl With A...

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NEW TO THEATERS! What does it mean to live in China today? Who are these people that our mass media have told us are everything from communists to racists...

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One of the powers of cinema is to learn about people, places, and cultures unbeknownst to us. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue is a documentary for...

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LOS ANGELES ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! In the documentary Faceless, director Jennifer Ngo provides a street-level view of the 2019 protests...

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Bringing to the foreground the economic inequality plaguing China, Charles Xiuzhi Dong's short film After Class follows Su Min (Yiyi Sun), a young girl...

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