Reel Asian Film Festival 2025: Our Top 10 Film Picks
Canada’s largest pan-Asian film festival runs November 5-15, with events across downtown Toronto, and November 10-23 online across Canada.
Francis Libiran Brings Filipino Glamour to Toronto’s Mabuhay Festival
From Olympic uniforms to Hollywood red carpets, the Filipino designer’s return to Toronto highlights how fashion can remain defined by both culture and community.
The Asian Movies at TIFF 2025 We’re Excited For
From the highly-anticipated film from Park Chan-wook to an adaptation of a Kazuo Ishiguro novel to a number of independently-made Asian Canadian films, there’s so much to see at this year’s TIFF.
‘Kim’s Convenience’ Creator Ins Choi is Bringing the Play Back Home
“I wanted to showcase that Asians were funny and our families are not the model minority and we’re not all put together.”
Lunar New Year 2025 Events to Check Out in Toronto and the GTA
Ring in the Year of the Snake with these special Lunar New Year celebrations.
The Biggest Asian Representation Moments at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards
From the Shōgun sweep to mother Michelle Yeoh.
The Top Asian Representation Moments of 2024
From historic awards show wins to Asian excellence at the Paris Olympics, 2024 was another banner year for Asian representation.
Meet Celi, The All-New Asian-Owned Fine Jewelry Brand
It’s the latest venture from Paris Jewellers owners Chau Lui and Trang Wong.
Reel Asian Film Festival 2024: 8 Films We’re Excited For
The festival runs from November 13th to the 24th.
Wok With Yan’s Stephen Yan Returns with a New Collab with RetroKid
Wok-come back to a legend!
ACTRA Toronto Launches 2024 Asian Performers Showcase
The event spotlighted some of Toronto’s emerging actors in the Asian community, with a discussion featuring Andrew Phung and Jasmeet Raina.
5 Notable Asian Documentaries Out of this Year’s Hot Docs Festival
Add these to your watch list.
‘It’s Cool to Be the First’: Singer thuy on Making History at Coachella
She is the first Vietnamese American female artist to play at the famed musical festival.
The Biggest Moments from the 2024 Golden Globes
From Jo Koy’s hosting to Studio Ghibli’s first Golden Globe win.
The Top 10 Asian Representation Moments of 2023
Beginning with Everything Everywhere All At Once’s awards season domination to historic firsts in fashion, politics, music and film, 2023 was a banner year for Asian representation.
The Top 7 K-pop Moments of 2023
From contract disputes to ‘Succession’-style ownership battles, these were the headlines that rocked the world of K-pop in 2023.
Why China Has a Long History of Allyship with Palestine
China supported Palestine during the Mao Zedong years, later neutralized its position, and more recently, has swung back to offering bolder support. For good reason: it’s got a lot to gain, and it’s no fan of Western colonizers.
10 Must-See Movies at This Year’s Reel Asian Film Festival
The Toronto International Reel Asian Film Festival (AKA Reel Asian) returns in-person Nov. 8 to 19, 2023.