The Calf Doll
Revolving around an old teacher-turned-farmer’s doomed attempts to make his cow give milk, Ankur Hooda’s ‘The Calf Doll’ is a canny combination of aesthetics, atmosphere and subtle social analysis.
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Author: Clarence Tsui
Dream of Another Summer
Winner of the Next Wave award at CPH:DOX, ‘Dream of Another Summer’ is filmmaker Irene Bartolomé’s poetic, pensive and powerful ode to the traumatized Lebanese capital of Beirut.
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Cesarean Weekend
A boozy party at a seaside villa descends into a delirious explosion of suppressed angst for two slackers and their angst-ridden middle-aged fathers in “Cesarean Weekend”, Iranian indie cinema instigator Mohammad Shirvani’s first feature in 13 years.
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Clarence Tsui: 5 Asian Favorites from 2025
Japanese kabuki artists, women’s solidarity in India and the chaos of Chinese history.
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Dream of the Red Chamber ‘77
Long considered lost and an urban myth of sorts, ‘Dream of the Red Chamber ‘77’, legendary Chinese filmmaker Chiu Kang-chien’s irreverent, Singapore-set reinterpretation of the Chinese literary classic, re-emerges after nearly five decades as a key curio in the restoration programme at the Singapore Intl. Film Festival.
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