Ashley Meloche

The Toronto International Reel Asian International Film festival highlighted many films from genres and backgrounds.

“The Fourth Portrait” looks into the life of a 10-year-old boy as he suffers numerous miseries in modern-day Taiwan.

“Disorder” is a montage of 20 short videos filmed at a Chinese seaport metropolis depicting the daily life of urban China in 2008.

Featuring an artistic collage of landscapes, cityscapes, and poetic narrative, General Orders No. 9 screens this Friday and Sunday at Toronto’s Hot Docs film festival.