This month’s digest purveys the rare and the overlooked in the world of cinema, with an online retrospective of 70s underground Japanese filmmaker Nakamura […]

by Tazeen Ahmed Yasmine Kabir is a Bangladeshi independent filmmaker who has been exploring the documentary field since 1990s. Before this blog delves into […]

by Anuj Malhotra I. One can never be entirely certain but it is best to trust what one hears – even if one cannot always […]

Welcome to the first edition of AFA’s Asian Cinema Digest of 2021! We are platforming artist-filmmakers this month with avant-garde programmes such as Anthropocene: […]

Written by Bunga Siagian Translated from Bahasa Indonesia by Pychita Julinanda It is quite difficult to recall the aesthetics and cultural markers of the […]

by Tenzing Sonam As I write this, India is emerging from nine weeks of lockdown. The surreal rhythm of life that we have grown […]

Seasons greetings from all of us at the Asian Film Archive! This last edition of the digest for 2020 is chock-full of online and […]

by Amir Muhammad On 18 March 2020, Malaysia imposed a semi-lockdown to deal with Covid-19. It was to last for two weeks (until 31 […]

by Lai Yung-Hang Water, earth and other elements As people call this planet Earth, it reveals mankind’s preference of the land to the ocean […]

This November, AFA ventures into new and exciting projects: a debut podcast series with Singapore Community Radio, as well as a series of commissioned […]