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‘The Brightest Sun’ review: Hidetoshi Nishijima plays detective for director Tetsuya Nakashima
Pleasingly complex murder mystery opened the Hong Kong International Film Festival
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‘Iron Winter’ review: Young Mongolian herdsmen drive into an extreme climate event
Australian co-pro tracks a lethal winter migration
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‘We Girls’ review: Feng Xiaogang and Zhao Liying unite for teary ex-con drama
Lan Xiya also stars in high-profile China holiday release
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‘Always’ review: CPH: DOX winner is a poetic meditation on growing up in rural China
Denming Chen’s striking second feature takes the top prize at Danish doc fest
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‘Ne Zha 2’ review: Energetic Chinese sequel is the highest grossing animated film of all time
Jiaozi’s box office hit is ”made for the big screen”
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‘True Love, For Once In My Life’ review: Fruit Chan produces smartphone-shot Hong Kong drama
Delon Siu Koon-ho’s debut is a sensitive tale of infidelity
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‘What Does That Nature Say To You’ review: Long chats and fast zooms with Hong Sangsoo
The 33rd feature from South Korea’s profilic auteur is a little unfocused
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‘Girls On Wire’ review: Implausible action drama from China’s Vivian Qu
Berlin Competition entry can’t make up its mind whether it’s a crime thriller or a domestic drama.
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‘The Longing’ review: Toshizo Fujiwara directs and stars in sweet Panorama drama
An Osaka pancake chef helps an ex-con out
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‘The Old Woman With The Knife’ review: Bloody Korean actioner centres around an older assassin
Hyeyoung Lee’s fists of fury fuel Berlin Special Gala
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‘Shadowbox’ review: Indian debut boasts ‘storytelling of economy and elegance’
Alcoholism blights a home in the suburbs of Calcutta in this Perspectives title
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‘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
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‘Cactus Pears’: Sundance Review
A gay Indian man returns to his rural hometown in this sensitive drama
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‘Jimpa’: Sundance Review
Oliva Colman and John Lithgow head Sophie Hyde’s queer family drama
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‘Ravens’: Red Sea Review
‘Shogun’’s Tadanobu Asano plays Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase in this inventive biopic
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‘The Sinking Of The Lisbon Maru’: Review
Fang Li explores the 1942 sinking of a Japanese cargo ship in this Chinese awards hopeful
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‘Silent City Driver’: Tallinn Review
Tallinn winner Sengedorj Janchivdor’s powerful drama paces the streets of Ulaanbataar at night
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’Lust In The Rain’: Tokyo Review
Ambitious, uneven erotic love triangle drama set in 1940s Japan
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‘The Unseen Sister’: Tokyo Review
Midi Zi’s first China-shot feature is a thriller starring Zhao Yiling
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‘Teki Cometh’: Tokyo Review
A retired university professor faces an unseen enemy in this frighteningly-effective drama from Japan