As elegies go, Living the Land (Sheng xi zhi di) can rightly lay claim to being a Chinese landmark of unhurried intimacy as it chronicles a season – from springtime to harvest time in 1991 and a few ...

Jeong Ji-hye’s tender second feature 'Full Moon' pairs an occasionally overexplained coming-of-age narrative with exceptional ...

Ball of Fire has a hint of the mystical and mysterious as it creates a suffocating milieu of detachment that is strangely ...

Dull fight scenes and tonal whiplash make this mostly forgettable video-game adaptation work only for superfans who want to ...

Majid Majidi's masterful story of a schoolteacher from rural Iran, 'Midday Meal', took home top honors at the 31st Busan ...

Chinese filmmaker Story Chen makes her bow at Busan with 'There Will Be Snow', a futuristic, frosty and strangely forbidding ...

The first feature by Korean Academy of Film Arts graduate Kim Si-jin is a delicately designed stop-action animation that is ...

Korean director Shin Sun crafts a quietly inquisitive meditation on chance and uncertainty in 'Nothing Has Happened Yet', ...

In a country famed for its ultra-violent, psychotic on-screen killers – think about Takeshi Miike’s Audition and Ichi the Killer, or Imamura’s true crime-based Vengeance Is Mine, for starters – it’s ...

More than 900 international guests graced the festival this year, according to its final report. Apart from the Oscar-winning Malaysian-Chinese actor Michelle ...

In “Desert of Namibia”, leading character Kana frequently appears on screen wearing a T-shirt with the word for “shaman” on it. Intentional or otherwise, it’s a pitch-perfect description of the ...