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Reviews’Dongji Rescue’ review: Rousing Chinese war film recounts the Lisbon Maru tragedy
Zhu Yilong turns this World War II true story into an action-hero’s journey
Reviews‘The Woman’ review: South Korean filmmaker Hwang Wook delivers ponderous psychological thriller
Follow up to director’s Fantasia 2024 prizewinner ’Mash Ville’ is overstuffed murder mystery
Reviews‘We Girls’ review: Feng Xiaogang and Zhao Liying unite for teary ex-con drama
Lan Xiya also stars in high-profile China holiday release
Reviews‘The Botanist’ review: Award-winning Chinese drama finds magic in nature
Promising debut from Jing Yi takes the top Generation youth prize at Berlin
Reviews‘Living The Land’ review: Huo Meng’s story of rural China in the 90s is immersive and ambitious
Berlin Competition title is an intimate epic of the PRC’s heartland
Reviews‘The Sinking Of The Lisbon Maru’: Review
Fang Li explores the 1942 sinking of a Japanese cargo ship in this Chinese awards hopeful
Reviews‘The Wolves Always Come At Night’: London Review
Immersive docu-fiction from the director of ‘Island Of The Hungry Ghosts’ charts climate change in Mongolia
Reviews‘As The River Goes By’: Busan Review
Debut from China tracks the ripples of the past into present-day life in a small town
Reviews‘Kaneko’s Commissary’: Busan Review
Super Eight’s Ryuhei Maruyama stars in this ‘plodding’ prison drama from Japan
Reviews‘Bound In Heaven’: San Sebastian Review
Veteran screenwriter Huo Xin makes her directorial debut with a genre-infused drama about domestic abuse
Reviews‘Mistress Dispeller’: Venice Review
A ‘mistress dispeller’ seeks to break up an extramarital affair in this intimate Chinese documentary
Reviews‘The Killers’: Fantasia Review
Lee Myung-Se joins this South Korean portmanteau in which four directors put their spin on Ernest Hemingway’s assassin story
Reviews‘Unstoppable’: FIFF Review
FIRST IFF’s First Frame award winner profiles Chinese mixed martial artist Zhang Weili
Reviews‘Pierce’: Karlovy Vary Review
Two estranged brothers reconnect through fencing in this sharp Taiwan-set ’sophisticated genre piece’
Reviews‘Viet And Nam’: Cannes Review
Two gay Vietnamese miners face an uncertain future in Truong Minh Quy’s delicate drama
Reviews‘Mongrel’: Cannes Review
An undocumented Thai man works as a caregiver in this sobering Directors Fortnight debut set in Taiwan
Reviews‘Locust’: Cannes Review
A low-level Taiwanese gangster finds himself at a difficult crossroads in this 2019-set drama
Reviews‘12.12: The Day’: Review
Kim Sung-soo’s drama about the 1979 Seoul military coup is one of South Korea’s biggest box office hits ever
Reviews‘YOLO’: Review
Jia Lang writes, directs and stars in this blockbuster drama about an overweight woman who turns to boxing
Reviews‘Article 20’: Review
Zhang Yimou’s box office hit is a legal comedy/drama made with the top Chinese prosecution agency