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Certain things are relentless and inescapable. For some things – like the slow, age-related decline of brain and the ongoing problem of China’s urban re housing – it’s only a matter of time. Directress Yang Liu’s bitter sweet “A Matter of Time” is a poignant snapshot of a woman who is about to lose her past, in both material and immaterial way.

“A Matter of Time” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative

Ying (Yang Cao) is an elderly lady who still works as a seamstress in her own little shop. Life must have been hard on her but she seems to have settled into her little cocoon-y routine of home, work and her pet parrots. However, there is a dissonant note in the picture. She can be forgetful; she forgets her daughter Xiao Yu (Chengcheng Fang) and nephew Wei Wei are visiting on Saturday, she forgets...

The 75th Venice International Film Festival has finally announced the line-up in a press conference in Rome, hosted by the President of the Biennale di Venezia Paolo Baratta and by the Director of the Cinema department Alberto Barbera.

The Venice International Film Festival has been welcoming in the past many Asian movies especially under the previous Director Marco Muller (2004-2011), a dedicated advocate and promoter of Asian Cinema, but this year the Asian presence is particularly poor. A bit surprising after the success in Cannes of Palme d’Or director Hirokazu Kore’eda with “Shoplifters” and Lee Chang-dong with “Burning”.

Only one film – Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto’s new movie “Zan” – is in the Official Competition and few more “usual suspects” are scattered in the other sections. Chinese director Tsai Ming-Liang – a regular of the festival – is in the Out of Competition Section with his “Ni De Lian“, where other...