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Reel AsianAsiaCN Tower Turns Red for #ReelAsian30 CN Tower Turns Red for #ReelAsian30 For the first time ever, the CN Tower will light up red in honour of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival’s 30th anniversary edition.

11.02

Reel AsianAsiaAnnouncing the 2026 Reel Asian Pitch! Finalists Announcing the 2026 Reel Asian Pitch! Finalists SHARE: 15 Oct, 2026 Meet the finalists for the Reel Asian Pitch! Live Finale competition, as Pitch!

10.15

Reel AsianAsiaTHE DAY BEFORE: 30th Anniversary Photo Series The Day Before : 30th Anniversary Photo Series The Day Before is a photo series focused on the mundane moments leading up to Reel Asian’s 30th anniversary festival in November.

10.07

Reel AsianAsiaReel Asian TIFF Delegation Recap 2026 Reel Asian TIFF Delegation Recap 2026 SHARE: 5 Oct, 2026 Reel Asian sent ten delegates to attend TIFF: The Market from Sept 10–16, 2026!

10.05

Reel AsianAsia2026 Reel Asian TV Writing Program Participants 2026 Reel Asian TV Writing Program Participants SHARE: 10 Sep, 2026 Meet the participants selected for the inaugural Reel Asian TV Writing Program, a national professional development initiative…

09.10

Reel AsianAsiaAnnouncing the Reel Asian TIFF 2026 Delegation Announcing the Reel Asian TIFF 2026 Delegation SHARE: 4 Sep, 2026 Reel Asian is sending ten delegates to attend TIFF this year!

09.04

Reel AsianAsiaPersonals: Your next connection is at Reel Asian Personals: Your next connection is at Reel Asian Could this be the start to your ReelAsianship? The best Reel Asian moments aren’t always saved for on screen.

08.10

Reel AsianAsiaApply for the Reel Asian 2026 TIFF Delegation Apply for the Reel Asian 2026 TIFF Delegation Reel Asian is bringing a delegation to 2026 TIFF. Ten selected delegates will receive one TIFF: The Market pass (value $695), which includes exclusive…

07.22

Reel AsianAsiaAnnouncing the ArtWorksTO Youth Program Participants Announcing the ArtWorksTO Youth Program Participants SHARE: 21 Jul, 2026 We’re excited to collaborate with Nedine Rafid, Tiffany Hu, and Yujie Wang through the ArtWorksTO Youth Program!

07.21

Reel AsianAsia2026 Fire Horse Award Gala Honours Ana Serrano and marks the Inaugural Fire Horse Auction Ana Serrano receives 2026 Fire Horse Award On June 2, 2026, during Filipino Heritage Month, Reel Asian hosted its fifth annual Fire Horse Award Gala & Fundraiser, honouring award-winning producer…

06.04

Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo