A winning and emotionally balanced coming of age comedy, Imran J. Khan’s first feature Mustache (the Centrepiece presentation of this year’s Reel Asian Film Festival) is among the finest teen …
Reel Asian Film Festival 2023
Chrisann Hessing’s profound and complex documentary We Will Be Brave seeks to challenge commonly held views about masculinity through the collective viewpoints of racialized male identifying and non-binary persons struggling …
A richly detailed and ingeniously constructed examination into the ways we fear becoming our own parents, Fawzia Mirza’s first feature, The Queen of My Dreams (which opened the 2023 Reel …
A sparse, but fascinating three way South Korean character study, Joongha Park’s Small Fry is an intimate examination of three creative types with vastly different personalities and unspoken connections to …
A social allegory and romance built around literal pits of human excrement, Japanese filmmaker Junji Sakamoto’s Okiku and the World isn’t for the squeamish, but it still manages to be …