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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Jiseul

    Black-and-white (anti-) war film about the Korean army’s brutal suppression of the rebellion on Jeju in 1948. The islanders fled their villages and hi
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  • The Russian Novel

    With the same loving self-mockery in the face of romantic bombasts as in his low-budget jewel A Great Actor, Shin here introduces, meandering and exha
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  • Pieta

    You live alone. You work for a loan shark and occasionally break a limb of someone who doesn’t pay up, so the insurance will. Everything…
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  • Winter’s Night

    During a long, ice-cold and alcohol-fuelled night, two disillusioned fifty-somethings have a series of sobering, confrontational and disillusioning en
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  • Nona. If They Soak Me, I’ll Burn Them

    A hybrid fiction featuring the director’s intriguing grandmother as an anarchist warrior in a Chilean town ravaged by forest fires.
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  • Maria by the Sea

    A man and a woman are on a date. It quickly becomes apparent that their views are very different.
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  • The Spy Gone North

    Gripping, stylish narrative based on the true story of South Korea’s espionage operation, focused around the undercover agent ‘Black Venus’,
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  • Maggie

    A mysterious X-ray of a couple making love leads to an enervating, alienating search for trust and truth.
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  • Someone’s Wife in the Boat of Someone’s Husband

    Tourism on the Indonesian island of Sawai is bound to increase after this enchanting, sensual small feature film. Paradise on earth. A fairy tale is…
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  • Strangers When We Meet

    A car accident and a secret date cause Ryoichi (Kobayashi himself) and his wife to stop talking to each other. Intensely sad.
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