Southeast Asian cinema

Southeast Asian cinema is the film industry and films produced in, or by natives of, Southeast Asia. It includes any films produced in Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

The term is sometimes grouped with East Asian cinema which include the likes of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan due to the popularity and similarities of the cinemas between both regions.

Southeast Asian cinema is a sub-section of continental Asian cinema, which in turn comes under the umbrella term of World cinema, a term used in some anglophone countries to describe any foreign language films.

The far east as a cultural block includes East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent.

Key figures

Cambodia
Main article: Cinema of Cambodia

Indonesia
Main article: Cinema of Indonesia

Laos
Main article: Cinema of Laos

Malaysia
Main article: Cinema of Malaysia

Myanmar
Main article: Cinema of Myanmar
  • Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi – Burma Film director and founder of the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival. (Beyond the Dream and The Last Poem)
  • Kyi Soe Tun – Burma's most prominent director. His films include Upstream and Blood.

Philippines
Main article: Cinema of the Philippines

Singapore
See also: Cinema of Singapore and East Asian cinema

Thailand
Main article: Cinema of Thailand

Vietnam
Main article: Cinema of Vietnam

See also

Further reading
  • Contemporary Asian Cinema, Anne Tereska Ciecko, editor. Berg, 2006. ISBN 1-84520-237-6
  • Southeast Asian Independent Cinema, Tilman Baumgärtel, editor. Hong Kong University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-988-8083-61-9

References
  1. "Anysay Keola". www.locarnofestival.ch. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
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