Busan reviews
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Reviews‘Hilol’ review: Uzbekistan identity crisis drama makes the most of the country’s striking landscape
Nargiza Bakayeva gives a strong performance in Botir Abdurakhmanov’s Busan competition debut
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Reviews‘Between Two Lovers’ review: Innocuous Japanese polyamory drama benefits from strong cast led by Masami Nagasawa
Tasuku Emoto and Shizuka Ishibashi also star in Nanako Hirose’s Busan competition title
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Reviews‘The Day After Sunday’ review: A weekend in Tokyo reveals difficult truths in Takuya Kato’s stylish third feature
The writer/director’s follow-up to ‘Grown-ups’ and ‘Fly On’ premieres in Busan competition
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Reviews‘The Sea Speaks His Name’ review: Urgent drama explores the dangers and rewards of political activism in 1990s Indonesia
Busan competition premiere reunites director Yosep Anggi Noen with his ‘24 Hours With Gaspar’ star Reza Rahadian
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Reviews‘To Be Ordinary’ review: Nuanced Taiwanese family drama explores the impact of life-changing injury
Lee Yun Chan’s accomplished Busan competition title boasts a strong ensemble cast
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Reviews‘Silver Express’ review: An asexual Japanese woman searches for connection in sensitive, unapologetic debut
Miki Tanaka’s Busan competition title features a strong central performance from Yui Okamoto
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Reviews‘Beach Fictions’ review: A woman’s experiences reshape her day in elegant South Korean time-shift debut
Lim Hayeon’s absorbing first feature bows in Busan competition
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Reviews‘Midday Meal’ review: An Iranian teacher fights to keep his school open in Majid Majidi’s engrossing and timely film
A nuanced performance by Mohammad Rahimi powers Majidi’s Busan competition premiere
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Reviews‘Long Long Night’ review: Heartfelt South Korean animation conveys a hard-hitting yet hopeful environmental message
Youm Kyu-bock’s feature debut plays Busan competition following a Toronto premiere
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Reviews‘Ibuku’ review: Lyrical Indonesian mother-daughter drama pivots on a finely-calibrated performance from Christine Hakim
Ayushita Nugraha also stars in Eddie Cahyono’s Busan competition title
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Reviews‘Shaving’ review: A woman is haunted by her abusive past in frustrating Korean psychological horror
Kim Jung-hoon’s follow-up to 2013’s ‘Tinker Ticker’ bows in Busan competition
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Reviews‘Satoko Always’ review: Shuichi Okita’s whimsical comedy drama follows three women as they discover the power of the written word
The film has its international premiere in Busan competition after releasing in Japan last month
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Reviews‘The First Taste Of Loneliness’ review: Three Chinese women mourn the death of a patriarch in sentimental end to Gu You's ‘Landscape’ trilogy
The Busan competition premiere follows ‘Dwelling In The Fuchan Mountains’ and ‘Dwelling By The West Lake’
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Reviews‘The Table: Day And Night’ review: Busan opener set in Korean coffee shop relies heavily on its performances
Kim Jong-kwan’s follow-up to 2016’s ‘The Table’ stars Shim Eun-kyung and Han Sun-hwa
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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