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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
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Reviews‘9 Temples To Heaven’ review: A poignant family road trip across contemporary Thailand produced by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Sompot Chidgasornpongse’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title balances ritual, memory and familial tensions with a light touch
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Reviews‘The Samurai And The Prisoner’ review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s handsome Japanese period drama is a staid siege mystery
Kurosawa’s Cannes Premiere title lacks the action of his previous pictures
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Reviews‘Colony’ review: ‘Train To Busan’ director Yeon Sang-ho returns with fun, forgettable zombie horror
The Seoul-set Cannes Midnight title stars Koo Kyo-hwan, Gianna Jun and Kim Shin-rock
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Reviews‘Dora’ review: K-pop star Kim Do-yeon heads July Jung’s feverish South Korean psychodrama
Jung follows ‘Next Sohee’ and ‘A Girl At My Door’ with Cannes Un Certain Regard title
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Reviews‘Hope’ review: A rural South Korean community comes under attack in Na Hong-jin’s thunderously entertaining genre mash-up
The director’s follow-up to ‘The Wailing’ stars Hwang Jung-min and ’Squid Game’’s Hoyeon
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Reviews‘All The Lovers In The Night’ review: Yukino Kishii and Tadanobu Asano star in challenging, insightful Japanese drama
Yukiko Sode follows ‘Aristocrats’ with low-key Cannes Un Certain Regard title
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Reviews‘Sheep In The Box’ review: AI changes the nature of grief in Hirokazu Koreeda’s scattershot, syrupy near-future drama
The Cannes Competition title stars Haruka Ayase and Daigo as grieving parents
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Reviews‘A Girl Unknown’ review: Assured, controlled debut traces an adopted girl’s journey through China
Zou Jing’s Critics’ Week premiere features an impressive performance from Resurrection star Li Gengxi
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Reviews‘Nagi Notes’ review: A stranger unsettles a rural Japanese community in Koji Fukada’s subdued drama
Fukada’s Cannes Competition premiere stars Shizuka Ishibash and Takako Matsu
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Reviews‘Cold War 1994’ review: Third in Hong Kong crime thriller franchise is astute and entertaining
Stars Chow Yun-fat, Daniel Wu and Terrance Lau are joined by Hugh Bonneville and Aidan Gillen for director Longman Leung
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Reviews‘Baby Jackfruit Baby Guava’ review: Vietnam’s Nông Nhật Quang puts his family under the microscope
The film premieres at Visions du Reel before heading to Hot Docs