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SIFF Partners with WASA to host second annual China Stars Showcase

May 26, 2017 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

SIFF Partners with WASA to host second annual China Stars Showcase

The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)’s continued efforts to represent a diverse array of films from multiple countries include discovering many notable films coming out of China.

Filed Under: At the Movies, Feature stories Tagged With: 2017, CHINA STARS, KNIFE IN THE CLEAR WATER, SIFF, SONG OF COTTON, THE DOOR, VOL 36 NO 22 | MAY 27 - JUNE 2

Angkor Awakens — A chilling, tearful, and hopeful survey of a nation

May 26, 2017 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

Angkor Awakens — A chilling, tearful, and hopeful survey of a nation

I wondered how the film could go on from the killing. And after watching awhile, I wondered how the country of Cambodia could go on from the killing.

Filed Under: At the Movies, Feature stories Tagged With: 2017, ANGKOR AWAKENS, SIFF, VOL 36 NO 22 | MAY 27 - JUNE 2

Malaysian filmmaker Andrew Gooi brings “Kakehashi” to SIFF

May 26, 2017 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

Malaysian filmmaker Andrew Gooi brings “Kakehashi” to SIFF

Chef Nobuo Fukuda never quite felt like he fit into the rigid confines and strict culture of his family in Japan.

Filed Under: At the Movies, Feature stories Tagged With: 2017, CHEF NOBUO FUKUDA, KAKEHASHI, SIFF, VOL 36 NO 22 | MAY 27 - JUNE 2

Sam Choy’s Poke to the Max hits big screen following brick and mortar

June 3, 2016 By Tiffany Ran Leave a Comment

Sam Choy’s Poke to the Max hits big screen following brick and mortar

The Poke to the Max food trucks that brought the Hawaiian poke by lauded “Godfather of Poke” chef Sam Choy to Seattle’s shores, is now on the big screen and at its new brick and mortar restaurant in Hillman City.

Filed Under: At the Movies, Feature stories Tagged With: 2016, MAX HEIGH, SAM CHOY'S POKE TO THE MAX, SIFF, Sam Choy, VOL 35 NO 23 | JUNE 4 - JUNE 10

“A Copy of My Mind”

June 3, 2016 By Andrew Hamlin Leave a Comment

“A Copy of My Mind”

Jakarta, Indonesia has, by Wikipedia’s reckoning, 9,607,787 people, making it one of the world’s largest cities.

Filed Under: At the Movies, Feature stories Tagged With: 2016, A COPY OF MY MIND, SIFF, VOL 35 NO 23 | JUNE 4 - JUNE 10

“The Black Hen”

June 3, 2016 By Andrew Hamlin Leave a Comment

“The Black Hen”

At one point in Min Bahadur Bham’s “The Black Hen,” set in a small town in Nepal during that nation’s civil war, a small boy bends over, grasping his shins as a punishment from the schoolteacher, next to two boys enduring the same punishment.

Filed Under: At the Movies, Feature stories Tagged With: 2016, SIFF, THE BLACK HEN, VOL 35 NO 23 | JUNE 4 - JUNE 10

“Alone”

June 3, 2016 By Andrew Hamlin Leave a Comment

“Alone”

At first, “Alone” looks like a case of voyeurism. Then it looks like a thriller, then a home invasion scenario, then supernatural.

Filed Under: At the Movies, Feature stories Tagged With: 2016, ALONE, SIFF, VOL 35 NO 23 | JUNE 4 - JUNE 10

NWAW at SIFF

May 26, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

NWAW at SIFF

This Thai feature doesn’t show us the island until very late in the film. It’s not all that big on funerals either. What it does show us, for most of its 1 hour and 44 minutes, is three people arguing which direction to go in their car. One of them is always sure that at least one of the others is wrong — that they missed a turn, took a wrong turn, blew through an intersection, or got spun around in wide, slow-going circles.

Filed Under: Reviews, At the Movies, Feature stories Tagged With: 2012, Andrew Hamlin, Director Pimpaka Towira, Indian Bridesmaids, Lincoln Square Cinemas, Majestic Bay Cinemas, Marta Minorowicz, Mongolia, NWAW, SIFF, Tiffany Ran, Unlike Tarkovsky, VOL 35 NO 21 | MAY 21 – MAY 27, technology

SIFF 2015 *DID* represent — A recap of featured Asian and Asian American films

June 12, 2015 By Tiffany Ran Leave a Comment

By Tiffany Ran Northwest Asian Weekly Few film festivals in the country can rival the diversity and caliber of films than our own Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), which has for the past 41 years also spotlighted a wide range of Asian and Asian American films. This year, the themes touched on by Asian films […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2015, Asian American, Forgotten Cambodia, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, India, John Hughes, Nepal, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pakistan, SIFF, Satyajit Ray, Steve Liang, Taiwanese Tourism Board, Tiffany Ran, Vol 34 No 25 | June 13 - June 19, culture, technology

This week at SIFF

June 5, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

“The Killing Fields of Dr. Haing S. Ngor” Reviewed by Tiffany Ran In one lifetime, Dr. Haing S. Ngor went from Cambodian refugee to Academy Award winner, author, and activist only to be gunned down outside of his home in Los Angeles in 1996. Not to be confused with original film where Ngor served as […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2015, Academy Awards, Andrew Hamlin, Carnival Folklore, Internet Movie Database, Kirkland Performance Center, Los Angeles, Naoki Kato, Pol Pot, Ryusuke Hayashi, SIFF, Seattle Center, Tiffany Ran, Toshiji Mikawa, Vol 34 No 24 | June 6 - June 12

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