MARG1N is a Southeast Asian film magazine based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Our annual publication links two Southeast Asian countries under a single theme, exploring cinema peripherally.

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Informal critical reflections on cinema published online. 

Tokyo International Film Festival 2025 Dispatch — Part Two
Sasha Han

The second part of our dispatch centers the legacy of colonialism and its intersection with complex identity, ancestry, and land ownership. It seems apt to begin this section with a brief prologue on Lav Diaz’s Magellan (2025). Since its premiere at Cannes  [...]


Tokyo International Film Festival 2025 Dispatch — Part One
Sasha Han

When Ando Hiroyasu, a former diplomat, was appointed Chairman of the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) in 2019, he proclaimed his ambitions for the festival to one day be comparable to Cannes, Venice, and Berlin. To do so the festival  [...]

Crisis, Conflict, Commune.
Savunthara Seng
At the Critical Film Writing Workshop organized by the Thai Film Archive, held from 7 to 10 August, Alyssandra and I presented a case study about our work: a self-reflection on the transnational ethos of the magazine and the dialogues emerging from writings about Southeast Asian cinema [...]