By  Weerada P. Sucharitkul FilmDoo Co-founder Over the last few years, China has been catching up rapidly in the technological race with its own versions of search engines, social networking, gaming and e-commerce companies. Major […]
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By David Pountain Yesterday’s Hong Kong Film Awards proved to be something of a culmination point for one of this past year’s biggest underdog stories of national cinema. Produced on a shoestring budget, the five-part […]
By David  Pountain Directed by Jia Zhangke London Film Festival review Ever since the Chinese auteur’s poignant and delightfully lo-fi 1997 debut Xiao Wu (aka Pickpocket), Jia Zhangke’s narrative features have been operating on a […]
By David Pountain Directed by Jia Zhangke Of all the politically-minded directors of the last two decades, few have had their filmmaking style so innately ingrained in their ideology as the respected Jia Zhangke. I’d […]
By Daniella Dahoui Dir: Dayyan Eng Based on a true story, the Chinese short film Bus 44Â starts with a man hopping onto a bus, only for the bus to be hijacked by two highway robbers […]
Contributed by: William Page Painted Skin II, a sequel to Gordan Chan’s 2008’s Painted Skin, is a Chinese film directed by Wuershan which has become China’s highest grossing local film of all time and for […]