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After being in the shadows for far too long, in the last few years Tibetan cinema has found its voice and a representative in director Pema Tseden, whose works have found favour in festival circuits and arthouse audiences around the world. Other directors also have begun to emerge slowly, including Tseden’s own son Jigme Trigley, who makes his debut with “One and Four”, with the father also coming on board as producer.

One and Four is screening on New York Asian Film Festival

Late 1990s. On the Tibetan side of the Himalayas, somewhere in the mountains lives Sanggye, a Forest Ranger. His lonely days are passed trying to stay warm and feeding on the little food that doesn’t get frozen over. Today, he is rather hungover when there is a knock on his door and when he opens it, he is greeted by the barrel of a gun,...

The 75th Venice International Film Festival has finally announced the line-up in a press conference in Rome, hosted by the President of the Biennale di Venezia Paolo Baratta and by the Director of the Cinema department Alberto Barbera.

The Venice International Film Festival has been welcoming in the past many Asian movies especially under the previous Director Marco Muller (2004-2011), a dedicated advocate and promoter of Asian Cinema, but this year the Asian presence is particularly poor. A bit surprising after the success in Cannes of Palme d’Or director Hirokazu Kore’eda with “Shoplifters” and Lee Chang-dong with “Burning”.

Only one film – Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto’s new movie “Zan” – is in the Official Competition and few more “usual suspects” are scattered in the other sections. Chinese director Tsai Ming-Liang – a regular of the festival – is in the Out of Competition Section with his “Ni De Lian“, where other...