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.
A surfer's idyllic lifestyle is upended when an old childhood friend returns from overseas study. This is Mario Cornejo's Filipino drama Apocalypse Child....
Teenage girls in 1930s Japanese-colonised Korea begin to mysteriously disappear from their boarding school in South Korean Gothic horror, The Silenced....
Rising female filmmaker, Satoko Yokohama, glimpses into the life of small-time actors in Japanese film and theatre with her slice-of-life film, The Actor....
Hong Sang-soo's Yourself and Yours continues the director's trademark look at relationships but forgoes some of the director's usual tricks to great effect....
One of five films included in Nikkatsu's Roman Porno Reboot Project, Sion Sono's Anti-Porno is a straight-up surreal experience. Enter with caution!...
A fading celebrity author copes through the loss of his wife by taking care of two kids in Miwa Nishikawa's intriguing character study, The Long Excuse....
Baby Ruth Villarama's documentary Sunday Beauty Queen follows young Pinays toiling as migrant workers in Hong Kong with their one day of pageantry and fun....
Keishi Otomo, director of the Rurouni Kenshin trilogy, returns with his blockbuster blend of sci-fi, horror and crime in The Top Secret: Murder in Mind....