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The World of Us: The PYIFF Hitmaker's Debut—Yoon Ga-eun's Portrait of Childhood
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A quick preview before this year's Pingyao International Film Festival.
In this episode, we speak with Lúcia Nagib, Professor of Film at the University of Reading, film scholar and filmmaker, about her film Films to Die For — a cinematic essay on cinephilia, film history, death, and the ever-changing nature of cinema.
The second episode of our FIRST 20 series: with creator Maxine and FIRST volunteer 97, from the main-competition fiction films to documentaries and “First Frame”.
The first of our FIRST 20 series: accreditation, tickets, the commute between three and a half screening halls, and where to eat in Xining — a field guide with heart.
From 2005's Saving Face to the lives of Chinese American queer communities — and why our questions still hold twenty years later.
On Montréal, ma belle: a 53-year-old Chinese woman's awakening, and Joan Chen's twenty-year fight for female storytelling.
Le rendez-vous de l'été: Paris in an Olympic summer — following Blandine's solo trip through a female director-writer's lens, learning to be alone-but-not-lonely.
A behind-the-badge recap of the 50th HKIFF: viewing rhythm, programming logic, and Juliette Binoche's masterclass, in a Q&A format.
Continuing Vol. 8: female ensembles, the politics of women-only spaces, and why the “chick flick” label sits uneasy with us.
Young Woman and the Sea: Gertrude Ederle's 1926 Channel crossing, and a women's narrative that keeps girls in sports.
Hamnet: Chloé Zhao turns her lens to Agnes, the woman history forgot — and Jessie Buckley takes home the Best Actress Oscar.
Our International Women's Day special: the girls of a boarding school meet and collide — a full character tour of All I Wanna Do.
A MINT Chinese Film Festival special on Rosemead: Lucy Liu's restrained, devastating portrait of a Chinese mother's loneliness, grief and choice.
The World of Us: the Pingyao breakout debut by Yoon Ga-eun — ten-year-old Lee Sun's friendship, bullying and small but stubborn resistance.
Fried Green Tomatoes: two female friendships across time — from the Deep South to race and marriage, women as each other's guardians.
Left-Handed Girl: three generations in a Taipei night-market family, “corrected” childhoods, and the hidden discipline of patriarchy.
Witness for the Prosecution: testimony, perspective and belief — how Billy Wilder choreographs our judgment.
Her: from “Her” to “She” — human-AI intimacy and the power structures hidden in gender.
A November roundup: Resurrection, Zootopia 2, and the magic of dialect on screen [Dialect Special].
Our debut episode: Shu Qi's directorial first feature Nühai and Cannes gem Sorry, Baby — two stories of wound and healing.