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Super Taboo
Based on a pornographic book from the 1980s, Taiwanese artist Su Hui-yu’s immersive two-channel video brings frozen tableaux of a forest orgy toPublished on: -
The Last Painting
A student and political activist becomes the new housemate of a solitary painter. He is brusque and disillusioned, she is filled with hope. Outside, TPublished on: -
A Quiet Dream
Three odd friends each – unsuccessfully – vie for the attentions of bar owner Yeri, who also cares for her paralysed father. This charmingPublished on: -
O ornitólogo
The story of the Portuguese Saint Anthony of Padua acquires a personal update that is simultaneously religious and blasphemous in Rodriguez’s fifth fePublished on: -
Children Are Not Afraid of Death, Children Are Afraid of Ghosts
Personal, impressive emotional documentary in which the director investigates a group suicide by children in a poor village in the mountains of GuizhoPublished on: -
Three
High-speed action in a hospital in Hong Kong? Leave it to action master Johnnie To. After a shootout, a crook ends up on the operating…Published on: -
Commodity City
A fascinating look at the daily lives of stallholders at the world’s largest market in the Chinese city of Yiwu.Published on: -
The Summer Is Gone
Shot in sumptuous black-and-white, debut filmmaker Zhang presents a melancholy recreation of the end of an era unaffected by market forces. A slePublished on: -
The Upcoming Show
Colour bars on television screens used to signal the end of the day. For Su Hui-yu as a child, this was when his imagination was…Published on: -
Tall Enough
An interracial love story, made for Bloomingdale’s department store, but there’s not a product in sight. A visual and introspective study of lovPublished on: