Author Maja Korbecka

Maja Korbecka

Maja Korbecka is a PhD candidate at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses include Sinophone cinemas, film festival studies and Southeast Asian cinemas. She is also interested in film curatorship and different forms of film criticism such as audiovisual essays and podcasts.

“I Myself am a Woman”: A Conversation with Han Shuai

Maja Korbecka

July 2021

Interviews

Writer-director Han Shuai’s Summer Blur, the winner of the Grand Prix for Best Film in the Kplus competition at the 2021 Berlinale, is a mesmerising take on film noir. Its codes and conventions are used to expl...

The 57th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival: Enclave Amidst the Chaos?

Maja Korbecka

January 2021

Festival Reports

Taiwan is one of the few countries that managed to suppress the spread of COVID-19 very early on, drawing from the traumatic experience of the early 2000s SARS epidemic that severely plagued the island. After a...