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Reviews‘Sand City’ review: Two disparate lives are linked by sand in lyrical Bangladeshi feature
Dhaka-set drama is debut feature of short filmmaker Mahde Hasan
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Reviews‘Hi-Five’ review: ‘Burning’ star Yoo Ah-in joins strong cast for South Korean superhero movie
Director Kang Hyoung-chul’s fantasy adventure sees ordinary Koreans develop superpowers after organ transplants
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Reviews’ChaO’ review: Anarchic Japanese anime imagines a fantastical near-future Shanghai
Animator Yasuhiro Aoki makes his debut with this energetic tale of human-merpeople relationships
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Reviews‘Behind The Shadows’ review: Louis Koo plays a hardbitten PI in Kuala Lumpur-set detective thriller
The first Malaysian production from Koo’s expanding One Cool Group
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Reviews‘Love On Trial’ review: Koji Fukada’s drama reveals the dark side of the J-pop phenomenon
A female singer faces a lawsuit for having a boyfriend in this underpowered Cannes Premiere
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Reviews‘Homebound’ review: Neeraj Ghaywan’s empathetic Indian drama is backed by EP Martin Scorsese
Story of two friends attempting to escape their marginalised roots could be an Un Certain Regard breakout
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Reviews‘Girl On Edge’ review: Friendship turns to rivalry in Chinese figure skating drama
Director Zhou Jinghao’s debut bows in Directors Fortnight
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Reviews‘Exit 8’ review: Tokyo’s subway is an endless purgatory in ‘ingenious’ video game adaptation
Director Genki Kawamura’s twisting, inventive chiller bows in Cannes Midnight
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Reviews‘Dangerous Animals’ review: Sean Byrne’s Australian sharksploitation lacks real bite
Jai Courtney and Hassie Harrison star in this messy genre mash-up
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Reviews‘Renoir’ review: A grieving 11-year-old retreats into fantasy in 1980s Tokyo
Chie Hayakawa’s elegant second feature plays Cannes Competition
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Reviews‘Sons Of The Neon Night’ review: With no expense spared, Juno Mak constructs an alternate 1990s Hong Kong
The actor/director’s tricky, long-awaited follow-up to ‘Rigor Mortis’ bows in Cannes’ Midnight strand
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Reviews‘Bring Her Back’ review: Sally Hawkins delivers ‘unspeakable evil’ for the Philippou Brothers
The follow up to ‘Talk To Me’ features the British actor as a malevolent foster mother
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Reviews‘Left-Handed Girl’ review: Sean Baker-backed family drama is set on the bustling streets of Taipei
Performance-driven Critics Week title is the directorial debut of Baker’s regular collaborator Shih-Ching Tsou
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Reviews‘A Pale View Of Hills’ review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel gets tangled between Japan and the UK
Kei Ishikawa directs a dual timeline between 1950s Japan and 1980s England
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Reviews‘Brand New Landscape’ review: Debut explores a Tokyo family in crisis
Kenichi Endo stars in Yuiga Danzuka’s precise Directors Fortnight drama
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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘Iron Winter’ review: Young Mongolian herdsmen drive into an extreme climate event
Australian co-pro tracks a lethal winter migration
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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
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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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”