World Artfilm Blogs United

Please add your recommendations for film writers in these countries in the comments below or email to me, provided they fit the criteria : (1) mainly about artfilms, documentaries, experimental cinema (2) preferably written in English, or else in local language (3) eventually a local resource. See introductory post here. Subscribe to updates of this post (RSS feed for comments thread)

Quick Scroll : IRAN | TURKEY
ALGERIA | EGYPT | MALI | MOROCCO | SENEGAL
CHINA | HONG KONG | TAIWAN | KOREA | JAPAN | INDIA
PHILIPPINES | THAILAND | MALAYSIA | SINGAPORE
ARGENTINA | MEXICO | BRAZIL | CHILE | PERU
RUSSIA | ROMANIA

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Wide Middle East

IRAN جمهوری اسلامی ايران - [Farsi/Persian]

• Reza Tayebi (مصیبتی بنام سینما Tragedy Called Cinema) [IR]
  
• ?

TURKEY Türkiye Cumhuriyeti [Turkish]

• Gadjo (Kino Eye) = blog (Sinema vs.) [TR]
  
• Ali Arikan (Cerebral Mastication) = blog
• Aydan Izlenimler (Impressions from the Moon) [TR]
  
• Ahmet Gürata (karşı açı) = blog [TR]
  
• collective (CineMüslim) = site [TR]
  
• (Eskiden Beri) = blog [TR]
• Celil Civan, Fuat Er, Enes Özel, Ahmet Terzioğlu (Kafa Ayari) = blog [TR]
• Madafaka (Radyo Bemba) = blog [TR]
• Mehmet Okan & Burak Sahin (Sinema Dedigin) = blog [TR]
• collective (Sinema Defteri) = blog [TR]
• (Sinema ve Edebiyat Uzerine) = blog [TR]
• (Yurttas Kane) = blog [TR]
• (Rashomon) = blog [TR]
• Hande Yedidal (The Lunatic Wonders) = blog [TR]
• (Association of Documentary Filmmakers)
• (Turkish Foundation of Cinema and Audio-visual Culture)
• (Turkish Film Critics Association) [TR]
• (Mithat Alam Film Center) [TR]
• (FilmXXI) = mag [TR]
• (Bağımsız Sinema)= site [TR]
  

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Africa

ALGERIA الجمهورية الجزائرية الديمقراطية الشعبية [Arabic] [Tamazigh] [French]

• ?
  

EGYPT جمهورية مصر العربية [Arabic]

• ?
  

MALI République du Mali - [Bambara] [French]

• ?
  

MOROCCO المملكة المغربية - [Arabic] [Tamazigh] [French]

• ?
  

SENEGAL République du Sénégal - [Wolof] [French]

• ?
  

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Asia

CHINA 中國 [Mandarin] [Cantonese]

• Kevin Lee (dGenerate Films) = pro
• Mei Ko (柯鳥) [CN]
  
• XiaoXiao (Malka y el Mundo) [CN]
  
• ?
  

HONG KONG 中華人民共和國香港特別行政區 [Cantonese] [English]

• ?
  

TAIWAN 臺灣 [Mandarin] [Taiwanese] [English]

• Kilasme Wu (Kilasme) = blog [TW]
  
• ?
  

SOUTH KOREA 대한민국 [Korean]

• Darcy Paquet (Korean film) = site
• Mark Raymond (Foreigner's Guide to Film culture in Korea) = blog
• Korean Film Council (KOFIC) = site [KR]
  
• ?
  

JAPAN 日本国 [Japanese]

• (maplecat-eve) = blog [JP]
• (notes sur le cinématographe) = blog [JP]
  
• ?
  

INDIA भारत गणराज्य [Hindi] [Tamil] [Telugu] [Kannada] [Malayalam] [Bengali] [Marathi] [Gujarati] [English]

• (Indian Auteur) = mag
• Nitesh Rohit (Winds From The East) = blog
• (Cinemascope) = blog
• (Konangal (Angles) film society) = site
• Srikanth (The Seventh Art) = blog
• Jugu Abraham (Movies That Make You Think) = blog
• Sange Dorjee (Sanges World) = blog
• (Journal of The Moving Image) = academic
• (Upperstall) = site
• (Nagarjunan) = blog [Tamil]

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South East Asia

THE PHILIPPINES Republika ng Pilipinas [Filipino] [English]

• Alexis Tioseco (Criticine) = site (Concentrated Nonesense) = blog
• Noel Vera (Critic After Dark) = blog
• Francis Cruz (Lessons from the school of inattention) = blog
• Adrian (Auditoire) = blog
• Dodo Dayo (Piling Piling Pelikula) = blog
• Richard Bolisay (Lilok Pelikula) = blog
• Simon Santos (Video 48) = blog
• Thor Bee (Something to sing about) = blog
• Film Angel & Northern Portrait (The Persistence of Vision) = blog
• Fidel Antonio Medel (Pixilated Popcorn) = blog
• Eloi Hernandez (Usapang Pelikula) = academic blog
• Young Critics Circle Film Desk = blog

THAILAND ราชอาณาจักรไทย [Thai] [English]

• celinejulie (Limitless Cinema) = blog (Limitless Cinema in Broken English) = blog [TH]
• Tossapol Boonsinsukh (Yrna) = blog [TH]
  
• (Filmvirus) = blog [TH]
• (Merveillesxx) = blog [TH]
• (Nanoguy) = blog [TH]
• Pol Payab (The Man Who Put His Will on FILM) = blog [TH]
• Renton (Filmspotting) = blog [TH]
• Warin Nilsirisuk (In Between Dreams) = blog [TH]
• Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa (Filmsick) = blog [TH]
  
• Alexis Tioseco (Criticine) = site
• ?
  

MALAYSIA [Malay]

• Amir Muhammad (Writing by Amir) = blog [MY]
  
• Azharr Rudin (Da Huang Pictures) = website [MY]
  
• Fadli Akiti (Tontonfilem) = blog [MY]
  
• (The Storyboard) = blog
• Alexis Tioseco (Criticine) = site
• ?
  

SINGAPORE [English] [Malay] [Chinese] [Tamil]

• Alexis Tioseco (Criticine) = site
• (Sinema) = site
• Stefan Shih (A Nutshell Review) = blog
• Ben Slater (Ice Bow Talk) = blog
• Tan Pin Pin 陈彬彬 (Notes from Serangoon road) = blog
• ?
  

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Latin America

ARGENTINA [Spanish]

• Quintín (La lectora provisoria) [ES]
  
• Roger Koza (Ojos Abiertos) [ES]
• (cine.matik) blog = [ES]
• Fernando Gabriel Varea (espacio cine) blog = [ES]
• Leandro Arteaga (Linterna Mágica) blog = [ES]
• Santiago García & Daniela Vilaboa (Leer cine) = mag [ES]
• (cinenacional) = site [ES]
• Fernando Pujato (la noche del cazador) = blog [ES]
• Andrés Fevrier (Cinematófilos) = [ES]
  

MEXICO [Spanish]

• Paxton @ The Movies [ES]
  
• Cine Vertigo [ES]
  
• Cine Azteca [ES]
  
• Cine, por Ahora [ES]
  
• El Perro Café [ES]
  
• Revista Cinefagia [ES]
  
• The Mexican film resource page = site

BRAZIL [Portuguese]

• (estranho encontro) = blog [PO]
• (amor louco) = blog [PO]
• (canal fofao) = blog [PO]
• (cinema cuspido) = blog [PO]
• (cinepuc brasil) = blog [PO]
• (cine diario) = blog [PO]
• (filmes para doidos) = blog [PO]
• (film es polvo) = blog [PO]
• (film es que so eu vi) = blog [PO]
• (impressoes cinefilas) = blog [PO]
• (kinocrazy) = blog [PO]
• (violao sardinha e pao) = blog [PO]
• Bruno Andrade (o signo do dragão) = blog [PO] [FR]
• (cinema com cana) = blog [PO]
  

PERU [Spanish]

• La Tetona de Fellini [ES]
• Cinencuentro = blog [ES]
  
• Mario (La Cinefilia no es patriota) = blog [ES]
  
• establishment guard of critics (Páginas del diario de Satán) = blog [ES]
  
• (También los cinerastas empazaron pequeños) = blog [ES]
  
• (BUTACA en linea) = blog [ES]
  

CHILE [Spanish]

• Vidas en 35 Milímetros [ES]
• (La Fuga) = mag [ES]
  

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Eastern Europe

RUSSIA Российская Федерация [Russian]

• (Russian Film) = blog
• kinoman (OkInO) = blog [RU]
• kinanet (Na net i kinanet!'s Journal) = blog [RU]
• (Arthouse) = site [RU]
• Iskustvo Kino (Kinoart) = mag [RU]
  
• (Drugo Kino) = site [RU]
• Portal Rossiyskovo Dokumentalnovo Kino (Vertov) = site [RU]
• Film Museum (Musei Kino) = site [RU]
  
• (Sinemateka) = site [RU]
  
• ?
  

ROMANIA România [Romanian]

• Plectrude (Potential Hikikomori) = blog
  
• ?

SLOVENIA Republika Slovenija [Slovene]

• Nika Bohinc (Ekran) = mag [SI] (Ekran untranslated) = blog

BULGARIA Република България [Bulgarian]

• Han Solo5 & Harry Stortman (BG Filmite) = blog [BG]
• Blagoy D. Ivanov, Yordan Todorov, Genoveva (Cineaste) = blog [BG]
• (Cinematografia) = blog [BG]
• radja, La, Almaak, arien (Lucky Number 7) = blog [BG]
  
• (The Movie Blog) = blog [BG]
• (Bezkraen Praznik) = blog [BG]
  
• (CinemaXP) = blog [BG]
• (Cinema.bg) = site [BG]
• (Kino magazine) = site [BG]
  
• (Sofia Film Fest Otblizo) = blog [BG]
  
• (Union of Bulgarian Actors) = site [BG]
  

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Underexposed Western Europe

Portugal [portuguese]

• dias felizes = blog [PO]
  
• As aranhas = blog [PO]
• José Oliveira (Sempre em marcha) = blog [PO]
• André Dias (Ainda não comecámos a pensar) = blog [PO]

Spain España [spanish]

• (Letras de Cine) = mag [ES]
• á. (peine perdue) = blog [ES]
  
• (blogs&docs) = mag [ES]
• (Let us go in, the fog is rising) = blog [ES]
  
• Colin (Mucho tiempo he estado acostándome temprano) = blog [ES]
  

Germany Deutschland [German]

• (New Filmkritik) = blog [DE]
  
• (Kunst ver dermittlung) = blog [DE]
• Lukas Foerster (Dirty Laundry) = blog [DE]
• Alexander P. (Eskalierende Träume) = blog [DE]
• Thomas Groh (Filmtagebuch) = blog [DE]
  
• (Cargo) = mag [DE]
  

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Worldwide

General sites on unsung world cinema

• Global Voices
• Cinema Without Borders
• (Michael Chanan) = blog
• (Putney Debater) = blog