Author Maja Korbecka

Shanghai is a city where time seems to run faster. New metro stations are built within just two or three months, and urban redevelopment has completely transformed the face of many districts. Yet these constant...

I met Neo Sora on a sunny morning in March in Amsterdam. His first fiction feature film, Happyend, was the opening film of the 17th CinemAsia Film Festival, the event dedicated to introducing Asian films to loc...

For several years now the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has been on the top of my list of film festivals to go to. Over the last 29 editions, gathering new films and new filmmakers from across Asia, ...

Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF) is one of the few remaining international film festivals in the Chinese-speaking world that celebrates independent documentary films from the PRC, Taiwan and Hon...

It is customary in China’s film festival environment for there to be is almost no information on the upcoming edition of a festival until the last two, three weeks before the event is scheduled to start. The ne...

I first talked with Wei Shujun back in 2020 when his debut film, Yema fenzhong (Striding into the Wind), had its US theatrical release. However, we met in person only three years later in Cannes after the premi...

After the zero-Covid policy lockdown pushed the previous edition of Pingyao International Film Festival to January 2023, Jia Zhangke and the festival team faced the challenge of organising two festivals in one ...

After three years of pandemic-related hiatus, Hong Kong International Film Festival returns to its regular late March/early April dates. The festival experienced seismic changes continuously for the last two de...

The third full-length collaboration between the filmmaking duo Huang Ji and Ryûji Otsuka, Stonewalling, had its world premiere at the 2022 Venice Film Festival and from 10th March this year started screening at...

Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival survived the pandemic unscathed. None of its editions took an online or hybrid form. However, another issue thoroughly changed the festival. Since 2019, China Film Administrati...

Cambodian-French writer-director Davy Chou’s third full-length film, Return to Seoul, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, focuses on a French Korean adoptee during her recurri...

As a result of institutional support, independent filmmaking in Southeast Asia is flourishing. Thailand has grown into a creative hub – production companies such as Electric Eel Films help realise the ideals of...

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...

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...