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.
Can a man and a woman simply just be friends? Korean rom-com Love Forecast asks this of its leading best friends, where one is in love with the other....
Adapted from two Seiko Oomori music videos, Wonderful World End is a teenage pop film that plays like Kamikaze Girls for the social media generation....
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....
Taiwanese high school murder mystery Partners in Crime follows three boys who investigate the mysterious death of a female student from their school. ...
Vietnamese arthouse abortion drama Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere heralds the arrival of a new and intriguing female director - Diep Hoang Nguyen....
A critical and commercial success in South Korea in 2012, A Werewolf Boy, is a fantastic romance-fantasy hybrid packed with excellent writing and acting....
An unofficial sequel to one of 2012's best documentaries, Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case sees the renowned Chinese artist fight China's bogus charges on him....