Category: Sundance Film Festival
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Between Golf and Karaoke: Locating Filipino Identity in Rafael Manuel’s Filipiñana” By Ciro Quiapos Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Filipiñana. Rafael Manuel (director), Filipiñana, 2020. 24 min. Before Rafael Manuel’s directorial…
![[REVIEW] “Between Golf and Karaoke: Locating Filipino Identity in Rafael Manuel’s Filipiñana” By Ciro Quiapos](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/filipinana-trailer-diretto-da-rafael-manuel-filippine-regno-unito-2020.png?w=1024)
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All entries on SUNDANCE 2026 [SUNDANCE 2026] “The Pleasure Principal: A Conversation on Wregas Bhanuteja’s Levitating” by Nirris Nagendrarajah & Wregas Bhanuteja Wregas Bhanuteja (director), Levitating, 2026. 119 min. INTRODUCTION Nirris Nagendrarajah Levitating, the third feature by the Indonesian filmmaker…
![[SUNDANCE 2026] “The Pleasure Principal: A Conversation on Wregas Bhanuteja’s 𝐿𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔” by Nirris Nagendrarajah & Wregas Bhanuteja](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-2.png?w=680)
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All entries on SUNDANCE 2026 [SUNDANCE 2026] “Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!: A Bird, a Body, and the Illusion of Depth” by Nirris Nagendrarajah Josef Kubota Wladyka (director), Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!, 2026. 122 min. In Ha-Chan, Shake…
![[SUNDANCE 2026] “Josef Kubota Wladyka’s 𝐻𝑎-𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑛, 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑦!: A Bird, a Body, and the Illusion of Depth” by Nirris Nagendrarajah](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image.png?w=1000)
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All entries on SUNDANCE 2026 [SUNDANCE 2026] “Rafael Manuel’s Filipiñana: Beneath the Manicured Surface” by Nirris Nagendrarajah Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Filipiñana. Rafael Manuel (director), Filipiñana, 2026. 100 min. A successful short does not necessarily yield a successful feature. One…
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All entries on SUNDANCE 2026 [SUNDANCE 2026] “Wounded Souls in Stephanie Ahn’s Bedford Park” by Nirris Nagendrarajah Stephanie Ahn (director), Bedford Park, 2025. 121 min. I did not like Celine Song’s Past Lives (2023), not for lack of desire to…
![[SUNDANCE 2026] “Wounded Souls in Stephanie Ahn’s 𝐵𝑒𝑑𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑘” by Nirris Nagendrarajah](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/bedford-park.jpg?w=230)
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[SUNDANCE 2026] “Three Perspectives on a Haunting: Vera Miao’s 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠” by Nirris Nagendrarajah
All entries on SUNDANCE 2026 [SUNDANCE 2026] “Three Perspectives on a Haunting: Vera Miao’s Rock Springs” by Nirris Nagendrarajah Vera Miao (director), Rock Springs, 2026. 97 min. Gracie, played by Aria Kim One leaves Rock Springs with two impressions: that…
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All entries on SUNDANCE 2026 [SUNDANCE 2026] “Visions of a Future Self: Kogonada’s zi” by Nirris Nagendrarajah Kogonada (director), zi, 2025. 199 min. In cinema, whenever I see a shot of the back of a character’s head, I think of…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Katarina Zhu (director), Bunnylovr, 2025. 86 min. A webcam turns on: a white fishnet stocking appears up close, resembling a fence—one that invites the possibility of being climbed, crossed,…
![[REVIEW] “The Good Girl: On Katarina Zhu’s 𝐵𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑦𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑟” by Nirris Nagendrarajah](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/bunnylovr.jpg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Rohan Parashuram Kanawade (director), Sabar Bonda, 2025. 112 min. A death has already occurred—one that, over the ten days in which Sabar Bonda unfolds, will be mourned by a…
![[REVIEW] “An Unmarried Man: On Rohan Parashuram Kanawade’s 𝑆𝑎𝑏𝑎𝑟 𝐵𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑎” by Nirris Nagendrarajah](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/sabar-bonda.jpg?w=1024)
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