Movie Features
What Happened to the New York Asian Film Festival’s Main Slate? — A Bewildered Retrospective

What happened to this year’s New York Asian Film Festival main competition slate? For the last 17 years, the NYAFF has prided itself on being one of the most unusual, unpredictable, and daring festivals not just in New York but…

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NYAFF 2018: On Happiness Road and the Cost of Cultural Fluidity

[Warning: Spoilers Ahead] When Lin Shu-Chi returns to her childhood home in Taiwan, she finds everything changed. The fetid, canal running through her neighborhood is now a tidy town park and the buildings leveled by the 1999 Jiji earthquake have…