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SUZHOU RIVER AND THE UNVARNISHED REALISM OF SIXTH GENERATION CHINESE CINEMA

Written by Andrea Cardenas, AFS Creative Careers Intern This May, AFS Cinema presents Lou Ye’s newly restored SUZHOU RIVER, one of the defining films of the Sixth Generation film movement in China. In a post-Mao, rapidly evolving cultural landscape, the filmmakers of the Sixth Generation — Ye included — sought to create films that eschewed […]

Watch AFS’s Episode of “Art-House America” by the Criterion Channel

On May 1, we finally got to share our episode of Art-House America with the world, and before we geek out about how cool this thing is, a little background.  The Criterion Channel has been publishing the docushorts in this series for a while now, each one profiling a different independent cinema, some for their […]

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