Recorded in 2021, Fikri and Thim Kian sit down for a chat about a discussion between Ang Lee and Hirokazu Koreeda. Held at the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival, it was one of their contributions to the We Are One: A Global Film Festival. Connecting it to their contexts, Fikri and Thim Kian consider the influence of Taiwanese and Japanese films and cinema culture on the Malaysian Chinese community and filmmakers. They also mull over Ang Lee’s experience of making international films, as well as his notion of time and space in their own works.
- Listen to part two of the discussion
- Find out more about the Berlinale’s involvement with the We Are One Film Festival
- We noted down our thoughts on the flowering of online film festivals
- Thim Kian was featured in episode 68, when we discussed his films ‘BEE, My Friends’ and ‘When the Crickets Sound’
- You can also read our interview with him (conducted in 2015) and our thoughts on ‘Baeu Baeu’ and ‘BEE, My Friend’
- Intermission: On Transmission: Ang Lee in Conversation with Koreeda Hirokazu
- Theme Song: Airplane Mode by Josh Woodward
- Download the episode here, or catch us on PodBean, Acast, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Player FM, Stitcher and TuneIn
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