Asia the Invincible

The J W Goethe University in Frankfurt is the location of the world's biggest festival of Japanese Cinema, The Nippon Connection , which...

Letters from Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood's attempt to think his way into the Japanese perspective of the pacific war, after exploring the ...

Today i attended a symposium on the subject of 'cinemas of the Arab world', which accompanied a programme of ten new films from Leba...

The grey haired gentleman in the above image is none other than Xie Fei, one of the leading directors of the Forth Generation of Chinese fi...

This day was set aside for the Beijing Film Academy (above). In the morning I had the pleasure of interviewing Xie Fei at his flat near the...

Spent the whole day in the university editing suite putting together clips for Xie fei's masterclass. I also managed to watch Xie Fei...

Professor John Orr gave a brilliantly insightful discussion of Hou Hsiao-hsein's film aesthetics today in the posh Elder room of the un...