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Review: “The Farewell” Reveals Life’s Necessary Illusions
By
Teen Sheng
China
Review: “One Child Nation” Tells The Story of a Nation At War With Its Own Population
By
Emily Hsiang
News
Review: Ai Weiwei’s “The Rest” Offers a Scathing Critique of Europe for Denying Human Dignity to Refugees
By
Emily Hsiang
Ireland
Review: “The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid” Depicts Two Irelands At War
By
Oscar Harding
Turkey
The Rise and Fall of the Turkish “Mockbuster”
By
Timon Singh
China
“People’s Republic of Desire”: Director Hao Wu Introduces Us to Chinese Internet Celebrity Culture
By
Richard Yu
Interviews
Jamie Greenberg Talks “Future ’38”, His Anti-Nazi Time Travel Comedy
By
Anthony Kao
Democratic Republic of Congo
Review: “This Is Congo” and the farcical nature of power
By
Oscar Harding
Interviews
Interview: Shady Srour and Ilan Moskovitch discuss “Holy Air” in Israel’s Arab capital
By
Jake Goldwasser
Independent Films
Review: Menashe (United States, 2017)
By
Jake Goldwasser