The London Korean Film Festival returns this November for its 21st edition, bringing together established directors, emerging filmmakers and some of Korean cinema’s most recognisable actors for two weeks of screenings, premieres and conversations. For more than two decades, the London Korean Film Festival (LKFF) has introduced British audiences to the remarkable variety of stories…
Tag: Asian Cinema
The A Festival: Myyu and Chanya on “AI Girl”, Their First Major Roles and Meeting Their European Fans in Paris – Exclusive Interview
Imagine spending most of your time working, keeping to yourself and having little interest in romance, only for a mysterious package to arrive at your door containing a remarkably lifelike robot who looks exactly like the woman of your dreams. That is the rather unusual beginning of AI Girl, the 2026 Thai Girls’ Love romantic…
70th BFI London Film Festival: In Conversation with Mokya Shin, Director of “Easter”
A photograph of a young woman posing in a swimsuit with her friends at Dadaepo beach in the 1980s might not seem important, but for South Korean filmmaker Mokya Shin, it changed the direction of Easter, his first feature documentary. The woman in the photograph was Saekja, now 68, who had spent much of her…
70th BFI London Film Festival: “Easter” Review
Sometimes, a photograph is all that remains of someone’s life, especially when their story was never considered important enough to be written down or remembered by others. Early in Mokya Shin’s Easter, Saekja sits with an old photo album, looking back at a younger version of herself and the women who once occupied that world…
70th BFI London Film Festival: In Conversation with Shalini Adnani, Director of “Our Share of Sand”
Shalini Adnani knows what it means to belong to more than one place. Born and raised in Chile in a Sindhi family of Indian origin before later moving to London, the writer-director grew up with different cultures and, as she tells us, “two different value systems”. That experience found its way into her first feature,…
70th BFI London Film Festival: “Our Share of Sand” Review
Maya comes to India to spend time with her father, and soon finds herself being asked to protect him. For a twelve-year-old who has lived in Britain, the reunion brings the promise of getting to know a parent from whom she has been separated. In Shalini Adnani’s debut feature, Our Share of Sand, that promise…
70th BFI London Film Festival: “A Girl Unknown” Review
Giving a child a new name and expecting the old life to disappear with it is simply cruel. A name is supposed to tell us who somebody is, yet in Zou Jing’s A Girl Unknown, names become evidence of how often one young girl has been asked to begin again. Six years old when we…
70th BFI London Film Festival: “Fruit Gathering” Review
Life does not offer San Kyi many choices, and although she sometimes thinks about leaving Yangon and returning to her village, she knows there may be very little work waiting for her there, which means the long days she spends in a garment factory are not simply something she can walk away from whenever she…
The A Festival: One Role at a Time – TOP Piyawat on Acting, Preparation and What Comes Next – Exclusive Interview
TOP Piyawat describes preparing for a role in practical terms: learning, rehearsing and beginning again. “Every character is different, so I have to start from zero,” he tells View of the Arts. It is a brief answer, but a useful introduction to an actor whose work already includes romantic series, a crime drama and music…
74th San Sebastián International Film Festival: “Border” Review
Films with very little dialogue can be incredibly powerful because, when words disappear, a filmmaker must trust the images, the actors, sound and silence to tell us what the characters cannot or will not say, and when that works, a room can reveal more than pages of conversation. Ah Biao’s Border, which had its premiere…
Summer IFF 2026: “Days of Being Wild” (1990) Review
It was 1990 when the director of As Tears Go By (1988) released his star-studded second feature. Much of that excitement came from the commercial and critical success of As Tears Go By, Wong Kar-wai’s kinetic yet tender gangster romance starring Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung and Jacky Cheung, and with Carina Lau, Leslie Cheung and…
Summer IFF (2026): “The Imp” (1981) Review
A cult film regarded as one of Hong Kong’s scariest, the restored The Imp (1981), directed by Dennis Yu, was screened at Summer IFF in the section “The Taste of Cult”, bringing an unsettling chill to Hong Kong’s midsummer. Like many fellow Hong Kong New Wave directors, Dennis Yu received part of his education overseas,…
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF26): In Conversation with Miwa Nishikawa, Director of “Children Untold”
Miwa Nishikawa has spent more than two decades making films about people trying to find their place in a society that does not always know what to do with them. Born in Hiroshima and a graduate of Waseda University, she began her career working with Hirokazu Kore-eda before making her own directorial debut with Wild…
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF26): In Conversation with Kim Eo-jin of “The World Before”
For a young actor still at the beginning of his career, Kim Eo-jin already seems to understand what great acting is all about. After appearing in the 2021 web drama The Sweet Blood and later taking a leading role in Fragile in 2024, the model makes his feature-film debut in Yoon Dan-bi’s The World Before….
