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Soi Cheang Pou Soi’s Limbo leads the field for the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards with a remarkable 14 nominations, the organisers announced at a press conference on Wednesday. A visually striking, black-and-white crime thriller that tells a nihilistic tale of despair and redemption set in a city rotten to the ground, Limbo stars Lam Ka Tung and Mason Lee...

Soi Cheang Pou Soi’s nihilistic crime thriller Limbo has been voted the best Hong Kong film of 2021 by a panel of critics, the Hong Kong Film Critics Society announced on Jan 17. Marking something of a triumphant return to home soil by Cheang, whose lucrative if critically divisive spell in mainland China saw him direct a trio of special-effects-laden...

Besides the film screenings, a few of the titles will also feature post-screening discussions with filmmakers.

Asian Film Awards 2021 celebrated the best of Asian films. Check the complete winners list featuring Squid Game star Lee Byung Hun and more.

CAAMFest 2021 will be taking place May 13-23, 2021 for 11 days of exciting Asian American storytelling, with programs you can enjoy at the drive-in or in your living room! During opening weekend, CAAM will present three evenings of drive-in presentations at Fort Mason Flix. Opening with two screenings of Try Harder!, director Debbie Lums documentary about San Franciscos Lowell High School, the weekend also highlights the diverse Filipino American experience, with Dante Bascos feature film direc...

Night falls in Hung Hom and factory buildings go dark unit by unit. The graffiti-covered rooftop of the otherwise nondescript Focal Industrial Centre sets the stage for a group of young men, who arrive in hoodies and baseball caps and greet each other with bumped fists, their faces lit only by their cigarettes. As music begins to pulse from a portable speaker, shadowy figures suddenly become animated, legs twirling upwards, limbs twisting and heads pivoting on the floor in chaotic choreography....

I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. After a year’s hiatus because of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pacific Arts Movement’s Spring Showcase of films celebrating Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander identity is back. The festival, which begins tomorrow and runs through May 2, returns at a time when, says Pacific Arts Movement Artistic Director Brian Hu, “More now than in a generation eyes are on ...