sailuluo 赛璐珞

9th Beijing International Short Film Festival: Moving On

Featuring 331 films, the Beijing International Short Film Festival (BISFF) expands year by year, showcasing a broad overview of short films, with occasional mid-length and feature-length works tucked into sidebars.

Correspondence #1: December 2024

Letter from Maja Korbecka to Eliana Resnick, discussing Beijing International Short Film Festival (BISFF) and Hainan Island International Film Festival (HIIFF).

But what is ‘to change the world’ now anyways?: On the 75th Berlinale with Manuel Embalse

In late February 2025, I talked with filmmaker Manuel Embalse about the film he edited, Under the Flags, the Sun (Bajo las banderas, el sol), which premiered in the Panorama section at the 75th Berlinale. The conversation soon shifted to the film industry, history, and politics at large.

我做电影就一直想着“大屏幕”的感受：专访《鬣狗》（HYENA）导演杨名、摄影师胡英海、制片人邓煜曈

导演杨名、摄影师摄影师、制片人邓煜曈讨论《鬣狗》的制作过程和项目背后的故事。

Poem #1

If you could ring the bell (E.R, 2024)

“My Film is My Way to Think About the World”: On Ghost Writer with Abe Callard

Lv Junke 吕俊珂 talks with the filmmaker Abe Callard about his short film “Ghost Writer” screening in the international competition at the Beijing International Short Film Festival 2024.

Ghost Writer: The Gesture of a Young Auteur in the New Media Era (Lv Junke 吕俊珂)

Abe Callard’s Ghost Writer is a short film made completely using Google Maps Street View mode. We can see a dialectic between the “new” and the “old”, between its form and story, and then see the young director Abe’s gesture as an auteur in the era of new media.

Caught by the Tides (2024): Jia Zhangke’s Nostalgia as Exhaustion

Not all memories hold you together. Some simply wear you down.

“Through our programming, we are exploring whether another perspective is possible”：An Interview with Women Make Waves International Film Festival Curator Chen Huei-Yin

Curator Chen Huei-Yin reflects on the founding of Women Make Waves IFF, the transformations it has undergone, and how every step of its development has remained closely intertwined with the social dynamics of Taiwan.

台灣國際女性影展策展人陳慧穎專訪：「透過單元設置，我們在思考有沒有另一種觀點」

2025年10月17日至26日，台灣國際女性影展（Women Make Waves International Film Festival，簡稱：女影、WMWIFF）將迎來第32屆，以前瞻的策展理念呈現多元而銳利的選片。在此次訪談中，「女影」策展人陳慧穎談及影展的創立歷程與影展發展所帶來的變化，並強調每一步都與臺灣當地的社會脈動緊密相關。