Frida, which tells Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's first-person story, is part of free screenings at ArtScience Cinema.
The most recent title is the documentary Frida . Peru-born film-maker Carla Gutierrez saw that no previous biographical work about iconic Mexican painter Frida Kahlo had told her story from the first-person point of view.
Two black-and-white films featuring renowned Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong are also being shown. Condemned to play Oriental temptresses, indigenous natives and foreign slaves for much of her career in 1920s and 1930s Hollywood, Wong also could not be shown kissing a character of another race because of American prohibitions on race mixing.
My China Film / Bold Journey: Native Land saw Wong feature as star, director and producer in a documentary travelogue showcasing her first and only trip to China, the land of her parents. And for families, there is the Oscar-winning Pixar animated film Coco . Set in Mexico, it tells the story of Miguel , a boy hoping to be a musician against his family’s wishes.Released in 2011, this Indonesian work has become a byword for brutality and athleticism in martial arts films. Other than its sequel, The Raid 2 , few movies have dared to show fights with the same bone-breaking, blood-spurting intensity.
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