With his latest feature Genus Pan, the king of slow cinema Lav Diaz proves that even his fleet-footed efforts can be an unrelenting experience. Clocking in at ...
Traditions don’t disappear overnight. They slip away slowly over decades, as elders die off and younger generations experience shifts in priority, social norms...
Documentarian Elizabeth Lo gravitates toward subjects who live and survive on the margins. Her amazing run of short non-fiction work bears this out. Hotel 22 (...
During a particularly nasty argument early in Chess of the Wind, autocratic patriarch Amoo (Mohamad Ali Keshavarz) scolds his two sons for speaking in naïve ab...
Coming-of-age narratives live or die based on the authenticity of their vision, especially those that take place in the not-so-distant past. Since the genre’s ...
