Building Community Within Diversity
SIFF Capsule Review by Diana Cheng Alexandra Shiva’s documentary focuses on four families among the 372 Syrian refugees in Baltimore. Escaped from their war-torn country, once they set foot on[…]
By Diana Cheng AAP film review Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Shoplifters” just won the prestigious award the Palme d’Or at the 71st annual Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, May 19. Kore-eda[…]
By Diana Cheng SIFF Review Writer-director Sadaf Foroughi’s “Ava” is an engrossing story about a teenager’s coming-of-age experience in Iran. Bound by the ultra-conservative social norms and pressured by a[…]
By Diana Cheng AAP film review SIFF Review — The transformation that China has gone through in the first decade of the new millennium has been extraordinary. While the urban landscape[…]
By Diana Cheng AAP film review (SIFF Capsule Review) Fifty years earlier the Cultural Revolution uprooted China. Now the floodgate of a new cultural revolution is bashed open. Hao Wu’s[…]
By Diana Cheng AAP film writer Features from over twenty Asian countries are represented in the upcoming Seattle International Film Festival from May 17 to June 10, 2018. Three of[…]
MSPIFF Review By Diana Cheng How do two Chinese high school students from affluent and protective families in Shanghai and Guangzhou adjust to small town America as they pursue, or[…]
MSPIFF Film Review By Diana Cheng In a seaside motel, two school girls are sexually assaulted. The culprit is a man of power. His forceful entry into the girls’ room[…]
AAP film review By Diana Cheng Screening at the 61st San Francisco International Film Festival next week is a feature from Hong Kong. “The White Girl” is co-directed by Jenny[…]
AAP film column By Diana Cheng The 37th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival will showcase an array of full-length features by independent Asian filmmakers in the Asian Frontiers Program from April[…]
