Memory and motherhood in Yang Lina’s ‘Song of Spring’
April 19, 2026
Film
Film Review: Beyond the Skies (云霄之上)
BY RICHARD C. This review is part of a series of reflections on Chinese films presented by the 2025 Beijing International Film Festival. Days before heading to the theatre to [ … ]
December 1, 2025
Britain’s Diaspora-Led Hong Kong Film Festival Shines a Spotlight on the City’s Women Directors
October 29, 2025
Film Review: Strangers When We Meet (朝云暮雨)
BY CLEO LI-SCHWARTZ This review is part of a series of reflections on Chinese films presented by the 2025 Beijing International Film Festival. Strangers When We Meet (朝云暮雨), first released [ … ]
October 1, 2025
Meng Han Hsieh’s film ‘The Test’ powerfully portrays Britain’s alienating naturalisation process
September 17, 2025
Film Review: The Shadowless Tower (白塔之光)
BY CLEO LI-SCHWARTZ This review is part of a series of reflections on Chinese films presented by the 2025 Beijing International Film Festival. Korean-Chinese director Lu Zhang’s 2023 film The [ … ]
August 1, 2025
Beijing International Film Festival brings Chinese films to a UK audience
May 21, 2025
Past, present and poetry: Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui’s 'July Rhapsody'
Contributor Daisy Singh Greaves reviews Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui's 'July Rhapsody'
August 6, 2024
Writer-director Shen Yu’s debut “Old Town Girls” captures the hopes and despairs of China's youth
June 12, 2023
Podcast Crossover: Time To Say Goodbye on 'Ascension', a documentary about Chinese consumerism and labor force
July 13, 2022
Review: Han Chinese filmmaker Wang Lina's "A First Farewell" is an uneasy depiction of Uyghur childhood
October 7, 2021
'Send me to the clouds' is a scathing indictment of the stigma surrounding leftover women
December 30, 2020
Review: My Prince Edward, a modern Hong Kong love story by writer-director Norris Wong
October 12, 2020
Review: Mulan reinforces Han ethnonationalism and the patriarchy
September 24, 2020
Hu Jie: The Chinese documentary filmmaker exposing the harsh realities of early Communist Party rule
July 30, 2020