The article was initially published in Asian Film Vault, back in 2017
Since these three countries enjoy the lion’s share of the global attention towards Asian cinema, I decided to highlight some 2016 (more or less) films from other Asian countries that definitely deserve some attention. Here are 7 of them, most of which I watched on Five Flavours FIlm Festival
1. Jagat
“Jagat” is a very important film for Tamil cinema in Malaysia, since, apart from taking over a decade to overcome issues with funding, due to its theme, it also changed the competition rules at the Malaysia Film Festival awards, which did not previously allowed films from minorities’ languages to compete.
The script is set in the 90’s and revolves around two parallel axes that occasionally intermingle: The first one concerns Appoy, a 12-year old boy who prefers to watch TV and listen to Michael Jackson than studying. His father, Maniam...
Since these three countries enjoy the lion’s share of the global attention towards Asian cinema, I decided to highlight some 2016 (more or less) films from other Asian countries that definitely deserve some attention. Here are 7 of them, most of which I watched on Five Flavours FIlm Festival
1. Jagat
“Jagat” is a very important film for Tamil cinema in Malaysia, since, apart from taking over a decade to overcome issues with funding, due to its theme, it also changed the competition rules at the Malaysia Film Festival awards, which did not previously allowed films from minorities’ languages to compete.
The script is set in the 90’s and revolves around two parallel axes that occasionally intermingle: The first one concerns Appoy, a 12-year old boy who prefers to watch TV and listen to Michael Jackson than studying. His father, Maniam...
- 6/25/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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