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Reviews‘Lovers In The Blue Night’ review: Anapurna Roy’s modest second feature interweaves migrant lives and loves in Mumbai
Roy returns to Venice Horizons after winning the best director prize in 2025 for her debut film Songs Of Forgotten Trees
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Reviews‘Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing’ review: Cinematic, empathetic doc gets in the ring with Japan’s most iconic sport
Erik Shirai’s absorbing film will next play London after berths in Telluride and Venice
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Reviews‘Big Little Things’ review: A gay Chinese woman invents a boyfriend to appease her family in candid, personal debut
Writer/director Michelle Zhou takes inspiration from her own life for Venice Horizons drama
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Reviews‘Place To Be’ review: Ellen Burstyn and Taika Waititi star in odd-couple comedy which never quite takes flight
Kornél Mundruczó follows up Berlin title ‘At The Sea’ with Venice out of competition premiere
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Reviews‘The Burning Giants’ review: Shape-shifting Thai displacement drama blurs myth and reality
’Manta Ray’ director Phuttiphong Aroonpheng turns his attention to marginalised S’gaw community in ambitious third feature
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Reviews‘Look Back’ review: Hirokazu Koreeda sketches a tender but overly sentimental portrait of young friendship
The Japanese auteur’s live-action adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s acclaimed manga debuts in Venice Competition
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Reviews‘Possible Love’ review: Lee Chang-dong explores class, desire and exploitation in powerful Venice competition return
The ‘Burning’ director reunites with star Sul Kyung-gu for an enigmatic drama about two married couples divided by wealth
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Reviews‘Nowhere To Lay My Eyes’ review: Hong Sangsoo’s latest proves sparse, minor-key family drama
The prolific South Korean filmmaker debuts his new work in Locarno competition
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Reviews‘The House On The Moon’ review: Singapore’s Nelson Yeo turns Chinese moon goddess myth into ponderous flight of fancy
The filmmaker returns to Locarno competition after 2023 Golden Leopard win for debut ‘Dreaming & Dying’
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Reviews‘Kung Fu Soccer’ review: Stephen Chow’s Chinese box-office hit is poor imitation of his early classics
Follow-up to ’Kung Fu Hustle’ and ’Shaolin Soccer’ begins its international roll-out
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Reviews‘Village Of Eight Gravestones’ review: ‘Ju-on: The Grudge’ director Takashi Shimizu deftly adapts the 1940s Japanese detective novel
Matsuya Onoe stars as Japanese gumshoe Kosuke Kinaichi in this Fantasia premiere
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Reviews‘Someone Special’ review: A therapist gets dangerously close to her patient in mangled Thai genre mash-up
The debut feature from Petong Sakulchai and Ariel Feng premieres at New York Asian Film Festival
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Reviews‘Fruit Gathering’ review: Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe winner is delicate LGBTQ Myanmar drama
Aung Phyoe’s fine-tuned feature debut is powered by an impressive central performance from Nandar Myat Aung
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Reviews‘Samurai Vengeance’ review: Tasuku Emoto stars in Takashi Minamoto’s entertaining spin on the Japanese period drama
Ken Watanabe also stars in Minamoto’s adaptation of Sayako Nagai’s prizewinning novel
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Reviews‘The Violinist’ review: Annecy Cristal winner is sedate, traditional Singapore-set animation
Source: Annecy ‘The Violinist’ Dir. Ervin Han, Raúl García. Singapore/Spain/Italy. 2026. 114mins When an enterprising Spanish journalist tracks down a veteran virtuoso violinist and asks to hear the story of her cherished instrument, the result is an epic, multi-decade-spanning tale of love and loss, musical creation and ...
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Reviews‘Leviticus’ review: Striking performances and a balanced tone elevate unnerving Australian LGBTQ+ horror
Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen impress in Adrian Chiarella’s feature debut
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Reviews‘Dear You’ review: Chinese box office hit is sentimental, culturally-specific Teochew family drama
Lan Hongchun’s feature now rolls out internationally after becoming second biggest film of the year in China
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Reviews‘We Are Aliens’ review: Delicate, sophisticated Japanese animation tracks the fragility of boyhood
Kohei Kadowaki’s debut feature heads to Annecy after a Cannes premiere
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Reviews‘The Station’ review: Moving Yemen-set drama explores the importance of community in the face of war
Yemeni-Scottish filmmaker Sara Ishaq’s debut bows in Cannes Critics’ Week
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Reviews‘Elephants In The Fog’ review: Sensitive, stirring debut is set at the heart of Nepal’s transgender community
Screenwriter and short filmmaker Abinash Bikram Shah’s engaging first feature bows in Cannes Un Certain Regard