From film festivals to new releases, find the latest reviews from contemporary East and Southeast Asian cinema here, written by the Filmed in Ether team.
Following The Act of Killing's success, Joshua Oppenheimer returns to Indonesia for The Look of Silence and talks to the victims of those mass murders....
Chinese language doco On the Rim of the Sky charts the rivalry between an experienced teacher of a secluded village and a new radical teacher from the city....
Filipino director Lav Diaz offers yet another lengthy epic in From What Is Before which sees a village plunge into turmoil during the '70s-era Phillippines....
Director Peter Chan returns to cinema screens with Dearest, a Chinese-language drama that takes aim at child abduction in China and its ugly ramifications....
Japanese animated film, Giovanni's Island, follows two young boys forced to leave their home after Russain soldiers storm their fishing village in WW2....
Critically acclaimed documentary The Act of Killing follows an Indonesian death squad's re-enactment of the mass murders that took place from 1965 to 1966....
Shot in stylish black and white, Siti is the story of a young woman's struggle to take care of her family. Screened at Indonesian Film Festival 2015....