Birzhan, a big-city detective, moves his family to the remote village of Karatas and is called to investigate an eerie series of events at a maternity hospital. Pregnant women are getting sick, all at once, some of them even dying....
Shot in lush and misty black & white, with superbly framed large-canvas photography, and truly exceptional production design, Malu Janssen’s Barlebas is a 20-minute short of a literal witch-hunt. One which perfectly balances the epic and the intimate, the tender and...
Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Masahisa Fukase is now regarded as one of the key Japanese photographers of the past 60 years. Ravens presents a kaleidoscopic account of his life, anchored by a riveting performance by Tadanobu Asano. The film's...
Opening night at this year's New York Asian Film Festival featured the world premiere of The Informant, a crime comedy from South Korea. Despite engaging stars, this ride hits a lot of potholes. Key to the plot is a ledger...
I don't know about the rest of you, but I certainly had aspirations as a child, to be a detective. I think it's fairly common: once you're of a certain age and have some freedom, you want to prove you...
Five strangers are the beneficiaries of organ transplants. More than a life-saving gift, each of them is unwittingly bestowed a superpower, dependent on which organ they received from this mysterious donor. On their roads to discovery, they learn that a...
Slovak director Peter Bebjak discusses the making of a stylized music biopic that reimagines the rise and fall of Slovak pop legend Karol Duchoň and blending retro aesthetics with modern storytelling. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]