First time filmmaker Wang Yichun turns in a deeply promising and focused debut with her coming-of-age teenage murder mystery What's in the Darkness....
Boo Junfeng's dark prison drama Apprentice is an impressive Singaporean feature that explores isolation and offers no easy answers to capital punishment....
South Korean coming-of-age comedy Twenty features Korean stars Kim Woo-bin, Kang Ha-neul and 2PM's Junho and tackles the growing pains of young adults....
Featuring a haunting lead performance from Chun Woo-hee, indie Korean drama Han Gong-ju is essential viewing and heralds the arrival of director Lee Su-jin....
After an eight year absence from filmmaking, Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien returns with a supremely lavish take on the wuxia genre in The Assassin....
Jia Zhangke's, Mountains May Depart, is a multi-generational epic and an allegorical tale of capitalism in China and the future it brings to the country....
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....
Natalie is a lover of cinema and beautiful things. Her writing focuses on women filmmakers, queer cinema and costume design. Her writing has been featured in The Big Issue and Meld Magazine and she has worked with the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Singapore International Film Festival.
