Southeast Asian cinema seems to be finally asserting its relevance. Starting tomorrow, in Chiang Mai, the Lifescapes Film Festival will be offering a four-day showcase of Southeast Asian perspectives, with movies from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar and Thailand.
Golden Slumbers
Last weekend, the Hua Hin International Film Festival, a glamour-filled but haphazard event, botched its chance to highlight Asean movies due to its poor screening schedule and a general lack of enthusiasm. But next week at the Berlin International Film Festival, new movies from Southeast Asian countries will be well represented, with offering from Indonesia and the Philippines making it into the Competition category and a rare screening of old Cambodian films organised on the fringes.
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