All Reviews articles – Page 15
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‘Waterdrop’: Busan Review
A bereaved teenager goes to extreme lengths to find a new family in this uneven Korean debut
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‘The Land Of Morning Calm’: Busan Review
The disappearance of a local fisherman sends ripples through his South Korean coastal community
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‘Mr K’: Busan Review
Crispin Glover finds himself trapped in the hotel from hell in this Kafka-esque surrealist comedy
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‘Abel’: Busan Review
The life of a Kazakh farmer unravels after the collapse of the Soviet Union
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‘The Height Of The Coconut Trees’: Busan Review
Cinematographer Du Jie makes his directorial debut with this enigmatic Japanese ghost story
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‘As The River Goes By’: Busan Review
Debut from China tracks the ripples of the past into present-day life in a small town
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‘Motherland’: Busan Review
Brillante Ma Mendoza’s police thriller is inspired by a 2015 bloodbath in Mindanao
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‘To Kill A Mongolian Horse’: Busan Review
An Inner Mongolian herdsmen fights to keep hold of his heritage in this dramatisation of his life
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‘Regretfully At Dawn’: Busan Review
An elderly Thai ex-soldier helps his granddaughter towards a brighter future in Sivaroj Kongsakul’s contemplative drama
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‘Village Rockstars 2’: Busan Review
Rima Das returns to rural Assam to follow-up her 2017 docu-drama
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‘Tale Of The Land’: Busan Review
The ongoing battle for Indigenous lands in Borneo informs this slow-burn debut
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‘MA - Cry Of Silence’: Busan Review
A young textile worker in Myanmar struggles to find her voice against a backdrop of political unrest
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‘Serpent’s Path’: Busan Review
Kiyoshi Kurosawa updates his 1998 crime thriller and moves the action from Tokyo to France
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‘Kaneko’s Commissary’: Busan Review
Super Eight’s Ryuhei Maruyama stars in this ‘plodding’ prison drama from Japan
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‘Travesty’: Busan Review
A city cop finds himself cast adrift in this pointedly political Mongolian hostage thriller
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‘Pooja, Sir’: Hamburg Review
A police officer struggles to solve a kidapping case within Nepal’s disenfranchised Madhesi community
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‘Uprising’: Busan Review
Busan opens with a sweeping Netflix period actioner co-written by Park Chan-wook
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‘Edge Of Night’: Hamburg Review
A confident debut from Cologne-born director Türker Süer marks the director out as a talent to watch
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‘Of Dogs And Men’: Hamburg Review
Dani Rosenberg’s docufiction captures the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel
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’Marco’: San Sebastián Review
Eduard Fernandez grounds this Incredible true-life story of a fake Holocaust survivor that closes San Sebastian