SDAFF Review: Silent River is a Visually Inventive Yet Frustrating Lynchian Noir
Chris Chan Lee’s third feature Silent River has all the materials for a great noir. From an intriguing premise about a man on a run to the hallucinogenic visua...
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SDAFF Review: A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces is Shengze Zhu’s Open Letter to Wuhan and its Rapid Progress
The river in Shengze Zhu’s fourth feature A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces is not an ordinary river. It’s the longest in Asia and located at the heart of ...
SDAFF Review: Martin Edralin Makes a Gentle and Tender Debut with Islands
In Martin Edralin’s directorial debut Islands, the life of a shy, middle-aged Filipino man living in Canada gets a new meaning. What was once monotonous and lo...