Festival reviews – Page 38
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Reviews‘House Of The Seasons’: Busan Review
A family drama set around a tofu factory is an engaging addition to the ‘Korean Cinema Today’ strand at Busan
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Reviews‘This Is Going To Be Big’: London Review
Neurodiverse teenagers stage a musical about singer John Farnham in this upbeat Australian doc
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Reviews‘That They May Face The Rising Sun’: London Review
1980s Ireland provides a slice of the good life in Pat Collins’ ode to John McGahern’s final novel
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Reviews‘After The Fever’: Busan Review
A young Japanese couple approach love from very different angles in Akira Yamamoto’s vacant drama
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Reviews‘The Spark’: Busan Review
A filmmaker is out to wreak bloody revenge in this hybrid docu/drama set in the sacred Hindu city of Varanasi
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Reviews‘Heritage’: Busan Review
Three lives intersect in a welfare office in Korea in Lee Jong-su’s droll, dry debut
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Reviews‘Haar’: London Review
A TV production manager reaches crisis point in Ben Hecking’s Budapest-set, Super8-shot second feature
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Reviews‘That Summer’s Lie’: Busan Review
The events of one South Korean summer may not be all they appear in this twisting breakout Busan-set debut
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Reviews‘Paradise Is Burning’: Hamburg Review
Hamburg’s closing film follows three young sisters left to fend for themselves in Sweden
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Reviews‘The Wrestler’: Busan Review
An underdog wrestler attempts to become a champion in the Bangladeshi sport of Boli khela
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Reviews‘The Stranger’: Busan Review
A young Bangladeshi boy struggles to connect with his largely absent father – and his true self – in this coming-of-age drama
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Reviews‘September 1923’: Busan Review
Powerful dramatisation of a massacre that followed an earthquake in Japan a century ago
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Reviews‘24 Hours With Gaspar’: Busan Review
A detective with 24 hours to live attempts to close a longstanding case in this dystopian actioner from Indonesia
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Reviews‘Bonus Track’: London Review
Two 16-year-old boys navigate a tentative romance in this 2006-set romantic comedy
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Reviews‘Moro’: Busan Review
Brillante Ma Mendoza explores the enduring conflict in Mindanao through the tale of two warring brothers
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Reviews‘Borrowed Time’: Busan Review
The lines between past and present blur as a Chinese woman searches for her father in Hong Kong
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Reviews‘Oasis Of Now’: Busan Review
An undocumented Vietnamese woman lives life on the margins in Malaysia in Chia Chee Sum’s debut
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Reviews‘The Bikeriders’: London Review
Jodie Comer and Austin Butler star in Jeff Nichols’ freewheeling ode to the bikerider gangs of old
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Reviews‘Celluloid Underground’: London Review
Personal essay recalls a man who defied the authorities to preserve Iranian film after the revolution
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Reviews‘Unmoored’: London Review
A Swedish TV host attempts to find sanctuary on the wilds of Exmoor in this atmospheric debut