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