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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Wandering Alien Detective Robin

    Like Sting’s sad song, an Englishman in New York it doesn’t get lonelier than an alien detective in Tokyo. Nevertheless upbeat genre mishmash.
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  • The Shores of an Island I Only Skirted

    Emerging through the hazy light is an island. Pastoral greenery comes into view. An idyllic portrait of nature. Until we realise what we’re looking at
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  • 2012

    The latest film by IFFR fixture Makino Takashi contains everything he saw in 2012 and that was a lot. An extremely rich universe.
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  • Jalan Jati (Teak Road)

    Teak-cut drawings tell the story of colonial teak plantations. About DNA-sampling a tree and a historic marital bed (also teak).
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  • Taboor

    The future: humanity is lonely and lives isolated in a strange world. In this hypnotic film, we follow a man dressed in an aluminium suit.…
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  • First Comes Love

    Single and over 40 but wanting children. Davenport decides not to wait any longer and goes for IVF. Pregnancy, a ‘modern family’ and chang
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  • Les revenants

    A mountain village is shocked when a number of inhabitants – who were thought to be dead – appear on their relatives’ doorsteps. Everyone tries…
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  • The Street of Everlasting Rain

    In the second verse of The Rain Series, Klahr plays with romantic love and time perception, whilst elements from Kiss the Rain re-occur.
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  • Circle in the Sand

    In a broken near future, vagabonds amble across a war-torn territory, rummaging, stuttering and smashing through the leftovers of Western culture.
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  • The Complex

    The horror master of Ring leaves Hollywood and goes back to his roots. Back to Japan and the now classic J-horror which he invented. Sweet…
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