Busan reviews
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Reviews‘Spying Stars’ review: Vimukthi Jayasundara meditates on grief in lyrical Sri Lankan sci-fi drama
A scientist returning from space to bury her father encounters a dystopic world in Busan Competition title
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Reviews’By Another Name’ review: A dying filmmaker attempts a final project in South Korean drama
Busan Competition title is latest work from Hong Sang-soo apprentice Lee Jea-han
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Reviews‘Gloaming In Luomu’ review: Zhang Lu delivers an enigmatic Chinese small-town mystery
A woman searches for her missing boyfriend in the Korean-Chinese filmmaker’s Busan Competition title
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Reviews‘Seven O’Clock Breakfast Club For The Brokenhearted’ review: Seoul-set romance explores love and loss
Moving Busan Competition drama follows a young woman struggling to move on from a relationship
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Reviews‘Beautiful Dreamer’ review: Sensitive South Korean drama explores the impact of suicide
A mother and daughter attempt to move on from the death of the family patriarch in Lee Kwang-kuk’s Busan premiere
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Reviews‘Without Permission’ review: An exiled filmmaker returns to Iran in Hassan Nazer’s bold docudrama
Real Iranian children discuss love and hope in the British-Iranian director’s Busan Competition feature
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Reviews‘The Second Child’ review: Lim Soo-jung stars in atmospheric South Korean horror-tinged mystery
A mother and daughter attempt to move on from tragedy in Yu Eun-jeong’s Busan Competition premiere
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Reviews‘Leave The Cat Alone’ review: Enigmatic Japanese debut depicts a marriage blown off course
Shigaya Daisuke’s Tokyo-set relationship drama bows in Busan Competition
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Reviews‘Funky Freaky Freaks’ review: South Korean debut is frantic tale of high school jealousy and revenge
Hyper-stylised Busan Competition entry is grounded by strong performances
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Reviews‘En Route To’ review: A surprise teenage pregnancy fuels this accomplished South Korean debut
Yoo Jae-in’s Korean Academy of Film Arts graduation project premieres in Busan Competition
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Reviews‘Another Birth’ review: Lyrical Tajikistan drama sees a young girl search for a mythical creature
Busan competition title is first in intended trilogy from US-based Tajik filmmaker Isabelle Kalandar
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Reviews‘Baka’s Identity’ review: A trio of Japanese internet scammers attempt to escape their life of crime
Koto Nagata’s low-key crime thriller premieres in Busan Competition
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Reviews‘Spirit World’: Busan Review
Eric Khoo’s whimsical tale of the afterlife stars Catherine Deneuve as a chain-smoking chanteuse and is set in Tokyo
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Reviews‘Yen And Ai-Lee’: Busan Review
Kimi Hsia Yu-chiao and Yang Kuei-mei impress in this striking black-and-white Taiwanese mother-daughter drama
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Reviews‘For Rana’: Busan Review
A circus motorcyclist in Iran is desperate to find a new heart for his ailing daughter
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Reviews‘Montages Of A Modern Motherhood’: Busan Review
A first-time mother comes under increasing pressure in this astute Hong Kong drama
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Reviews‘Waterdrop’: Busan Review
A bereaved teenager goes to extreme lengths to find a new family in this uneven Korean debut
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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘Mr K’: Busan Review
Crispin Glover finds himself trapped in the hotel from hell in this Kafka-esque surrealist comedy
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Reviews‘Abel’: Busan Review
The life of a Kazakh farmer unravels after the collapse of the Soviet Union








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