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A hit in Japan, where it was selected to represent the country at the Academy Awards, Kokuho is a tougher sell elsewhere. Focusing on two kabuki rivals over a 50-year period, the film is nothing if not ambitious. Viewers unfamiliar...

A bright, bouncy film about coed drug dealers, All Greens makes full use of its narrative contradictions. It employs a tone similar to the Baby Assassins franchise, only without violent stunts. Of the many coming-of-age films at this year's Busan...

Danish filmmaker Frederik Sølberg discusses his fiction debut, an immersive and collaborative drama that bridges documentary sensibilities with narrative cinema to portray the complex realities of North Korean refugees in the South.