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Asean Film Festival is finally here
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 28/03/2024
» Despite the odd, unexplained double postponement -- the first when it was moved from early December 2023 to late January 2024, and then from January to March -- the Bangkok Asean Film Festival finally gets under way, from today until Sunday at SF CentralWorld. Despite the adjournment, the line-up looks decent, with the best Southeast Asian titles culled from the past year -- Tiger Stripes, Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell, Abang Adik, Dreaming And Dying, Oasis Of Now, Nowhere Near, Morrison, Thai classics The Adventure Of Sudsakorn and The Adulterer, and a short film competition.
Asian talents score big at Cannes
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 31/05/2023
» From Japan to Malaysia by way of Vietnam, Asian filmmakers of disparate sensibilities triumphed at the recently-wrapped 76th Cannes Film Festival. The Palme d'Or may have gone to French filmmaker Justine Triet from her tense drama Anatomy Of A Fall, but six other awards handed out by the world's most influential film festival went to filmmakers from Asia, an unprecedented slate of recognition.
10 films to watch out for
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/05/2023
» A fierce hijab girl, a Vietnamese pilgrimage, a Scorsese-DiCaprio team up and a new Cate Blanchett drama, Cannes Film Festival opens today with an eclectic taste of world cinema.
The fiery flavours of Isan
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 15/04/2022
» Isanista, this week's subject of review, is a northeastern Thai eatery and part of a newly-opened multi-cuisine restaurant called Metro Square.
Vietnam zoo turns to growing own food to survive pandemic
Life, Reuters, Published on 26/08/2020
» As visitor numbers slump during the pandemic, Vietnam's oldest zoo has scrambled to survive, such as holding fundraising drives, cutting pay and growing fruit and vegetables to feed the animals.
Memories buried in soil
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 19/07/2019
» Memories and war, illusory borders and invisible scars: These themes are resonant in two documentary films shown late last month at the SAC Film Festival (hosted by the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre). In the Thai documentary Din Rai Dan (Soil Without Land), a Tai Yai man in Shan state talks about his life as a waiter in Bangkok and as a soldier in his ethnic army. In the Vietnamese film The Future Cries Beneath Our Soil, a group of men in a rural village bear the indelible wounds of the Vietnam War, still stinging after 40 years.
Homeland film wins at Singapore festival
Life, Story: Kong Rithdee, Published on 13/12/2018
» A Singaporean film tackling the topical issue of migrant workers won Best Picture on its home turf at the 29th Singapore International Film Festival. Directed by Yeo Siew Hua, A Land Imagined became the first Singapore film to win in this top category at the festival's Asian Feature Competition.
On the screen in the Lion City
Life, Story: Kong Rithdee, Published on 29/11/2018
» The 29th Singapore International Film Festival opened on Wednesday and Southeast Asia's premier film event will run until Dec 9.
International artists move into Hua Hin
Life, Published on 20/06/2018
» Twelve artists have joined Hua Hin's international art residency programme at Nern Chalet Beachfront Hotel, where participants will remain for a month to create art works. The residency started last Friday and will conclude with an exhibition of the pieces produced during their stay at River City Bangkok on July 11.