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Reviews‘Spirit World’: Busan Review f6l6i
Eric Khoo’s whimsical tale of the afterlife stars Catherine Deneuve as a chain-smoking chanteuse and is set in Tokyo
Reviews‘Crocodile Tears’: London Review 4r4ty
Atmospheric debut is set in a West Java crocodile farm
Reviews‘The Land Of Morning Calm’: Busan Review 31j6j
The disappearance of a local fisherman sends ripples through his South Korean coastal community
Reviews‘Motherland’: Busan Review 51131i
Brillante Ma Mendoza’s police thriller is inspired by a 2015 bloodbath in Mindanao
Reviews‘To Kill A Mongolian Horse’: Busan Review u2m6j
An Inner Mongolian herdsmen fights to keep hold of his heritage in this dramatisation of his life
Reviews‘Tale Of The Land’: Busan Review 3t2u1p
The ongoing battle for Indigenous lands in Borneo informs this slow-burn debut
Reviews‘MA - Cry Of Silence’: Busan Review 1r3o3e
A young textile worker in Myanmar struggles to find her voice against a backdrop of political unrest
Reviews’How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies’: Review 616i70
A young man forges a fresh relationship with his ailing grandmother in this Thai box office sensation
Reviews‘Perfumed With Mint’: Venice Review 3t1e21
A decaying Egyptian city teems with ghosts both literal and metaphorical in this meditative debut
Reviews‘My Birthday’: Venice Review 4n313
Raw debut from Italy from Biennale College follows a young man trying to find his estranged mother on the eve of his 18th birthday
Reviews‘Maldoror’: Venice Review 6i1q3s
Anthony Bajon is a police officer determined to crack a Belgian paedophile ring in Fabrice du Welz’s tense police procedural
Reviews‘No Sleep Till’: Venice Review 4i4f41
Time stops for the few remaining residents of a Florida coastal town before the hurricane hits in this contemplative US debut
Reviews‘Peacock’: Venice Review 515l1m
Albrecht Schuch headlines this assured Austrian debut as a paid companion whose facade starts to crumble
Reviews‘Quiet Life’: Venice Review 4q1w2
A Russian family seeking asylum in Sweden face the unexpected in this unsettling drama
Reviews‘A Shrine’: Edinburgh Review 1b583x
Mobile phone-shot drama about an Iranian ex-pat in Montreal and a dubious get-rich-quick scheme he comes to regret
Reviews‘All The Mountains Give’: Edinburgh Review 313mz
Kurdish smugglers eke out an existence in the Iran/Iraq borderlands in this impressive documentary filmed over six years
Reviews‘Hell Hole’: Fantasia Review 3cq3t
The latest from the Adams Family sees an American fracking crew in Serbia dig up more than they bargained for
Reviews‘Poison’: Galway Review 1x636f
Tim Roth and Trine Dyrholm power this Luxembourg-set drama about grief and forgiveness
Reviews‘Fidil Ghorm’: Galway Review 622m2w
TV director Anne McCabe makes her feature debut with this County Donegal-set drama about the power of music
Reviews‘Xoftex’: Munich Review 6g4e
Life in limbo in a Greek refugee camp leads one bright teenage boy to crumble under the pressure