Film: Cat Sticks, dir. Ronny Sen, 2019

By Katya Kazbek|May 13th, 2019|Country: India|

A mesmerizing narrative of heroin addicts in rainy Kolkata

Film: Bhonsle, dir. Devashish Makhija, 2018

By Katya Kazbek|May 10th, 2019|Country: India|

A retired Marathi cop played by Manoj Bajpayee confronts xenophobia in his chwal

Film: House of Hummingbird, dir. Kim Bora, 2018

By Katya Kazbek|April 29th, 2019|Country: South Korea|

2019 Tribeca Film Festival International Narrative Competition winner: South Korean teenage girl in the 90s struggles to belong

Film: Noah Land, dir. Cenk Erturk, 2019

By Katya Kazbek|April 28th, 2019|Country: Turkey|

A man's father wants to be buried beneath a tree: but is it just a tree he planted in his youth or a relic of the Biblical flood?

Book: Jose Manuel Robledo and Marcial Toledano, Tebori, 2016-2018

By Katya Kazbek|April 20th, 2019|Country: Japan, Spain|

A tattoo artist finds himself amidst a Yakuza feud in this graphic novel

Book: Uk-Bae Lee, When Spring Comes to the DMZ, 2019

By Katya Kazbek|April 11th, 2019|Country: North Korea, South Korea|

A children’s book about the haunting demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, and its sad ecological aspect

Book: Jan-Philipp Sendker, Lorie Karnath and Jonathan Sendker, The Long Path to Wisdom, 2018

By Katya Kazbek|April 3rd, 2019|Country: Myanmar|

A collection of Burmese folk-tales as collected and retold by the acclaimed German novelist who spends much time in Myanmar

Film: Happy Hour, dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2015

By Katya Kazbek|March 12th, 2019|Country: Japan|

Art: Xu Beihong, Three Ducks, 1938

By Katya Kazbek|February 7th, 2019|Country: China|

Book: Marilyn Chin, A Portrait of the Self as Nation, 2018

By Katya Kazbek|January 26th, 2019|Country: Hong Kong, USA|