by Sheryl Gwee Driving down the sun-washed, suburban streets of Greenwood, Mississippi, a young Indian woman finds herself explaining how she was born in […]

by Rosalind Galt Melodrama as a cinematic form has always addressed the relationship of gender to capitalism, navigating questions of modernity and patriarchy through […]

by Palita Chunsaengchan The King and I, based on a famous Broadway musical first staged on March 29, 1951 by the famous duo, Richard […]

by Chia Jie Lin This essay was written by one of the curators for the Mapping the World: Perspectives from Asian Cartography exhibition as […]

Contributed by Janice Chen Much has been written about the escalating carbon footprint arising from digital consumption and its resulting environmental impact. The U.N. […]

This November, the Asian Film Archive sends our heartiest congratulations to not one, but two members of our International Advisory Board! Acclaimed Thai Filmmaker […]

How can film mediate the complications of grief and the myth of closure in an ‘ambiguous loss’[1]? Contributed by Rachel Wong A documentary inspired […]

Contributed by Toby Wu Hikikomori: A Deafening Silence presents what one would immediately expect of a film about socially withdrawn youth, or even more […]

Contributed by Filzah Yahaya   The ones we hold dear to our hearts always seem to find a way back into our lives. Ceasing […]

Contributed by Tanvi Rajvanshi Tan Wei Ting’s CA$H and Syamsul Bahari’s Damaged on the Inside are two very different films, but are both connected by […]