Only seven Asian films played at this year's Denver Film Festival, most felt typical and not adventurous, continuing a trend of overlooking contemporary Asian film.
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DFF '15: Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
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What might be his last film shot in his home country, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's latest is a moving and career-encompassing conclusion to this chapter in his career.
Read MoreDFF '15: Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
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Recently it seems more and more films are utilizing various aspect ratios instead of sticking to just one for a film's entirety. Jia Zhangke's Mountains May Depart is yet another one to do so but Jia lets this technique function on different levels without being too showy about it.
Read MoreDFF '15: Rise of the Legend (Roy Hin Yeung Chow)
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In effect, one could call it an unofficial prequel to the whole host of other Wong Fei-Hung movies like Once Upon a Time in China, Drunken Master, and the like, and yet leaving it at that diminishes its own unique take on the tradition of myth making its narrative presents.
Read MoreDFF '15: Dearest (Peter Chan, 2014)
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Peter Chan's film is a conflicting experience, filled with ambitious ideas despite being hindered by SAPPRFT restricitions.
Read MoreDFF '15: Camino (Josh C. Waller)
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The journey to get to the truth can cost a life and Camino shows us just that. Whether we obtain the truth by taking pictures or through that last intimate solitary moment before dying, the truth will arise no matter what.
Read MoreDFF '15: H. (Rania Attieh/Daniel Garcia)
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With minimal pacing interior scenes contrasted with views of exteriors landscapes, lake reflections, snowy fields and unusual cloud patterns as sci-fi elements begin to emerge.
Read MoreDFF '15: Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents (Don Hardy)
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Whether in the know or not about the group, this documentary is a must watch.
Read MoreDFF '15: Emelie (Michael Thelin)
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Sort of like Funny Games crossed with Adventures in Babysitting with a touch of Home Alone thrown in, Michael Thelin’s thriller is constantly enthralling thanks to its pacing and lead performance by Sarah Bolger.
Read MoreDFF '15: Ludo (Q & Nikon, 2015)
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The latest film from the director of the mind expanding Gandu, this horror outing might have you rewatching that film instead.
Read MoreDFF '15: Liza the Fox-Fairy (Károly Ujj Mészáros)
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A stylish and tonally diverse romantic comedy, in good company with the creative and clever rom-coms coming out of South Korea.
Read MoreDFF '15: Der Bunker (Nikias Chryssos)
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Der Bunker is a tightly structured German film set as if it were a modern fairy tale with surrealistic twists. At times claustrophobic.
Read MoreDFF '15: India's Daughter (Leslee Udwin)
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Only an hour, but constantly infuriating, India's Daughter is a powerful film that has been met with censorship. Director Leslee Udwin uses a single incident to comment on a society as a whole.
Read MoreDFF '15: The World of Kanako (Tetsuya Nakashima, 2014)
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Nakashima has created, with his latest The World of Kanako, a perfect feature to follow up his previous film Confessions (2010). Just as in that film, he crafts a world that is beautiful in its absence of hope.
Read MoreDFF '15: Sea Fog (Haemoo) (Shim Sung-Bo, 2014)
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South Korea's Oscar Submission for 2014, use your chance to see what the Academy was missing out on at its DFF screening.
Read MoreDFF '15: Decay (Joseph Wartnerchaney)
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From the depths of the horror film underworld emerges the gruesome mite of Joseph Wartnerchaney’s Decay. A gory success you won't be able to look away from.
Read MoreDFF '15: Crumbs (Miguel Llansó)
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A quiet post-apocalyptic love story that uses Ethiopian landscapes as its setting and treats items of pop-culture and consumerism (Michael Jackson vinyl, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle toy, plastic sword) as ancient relics.
Read MoreTheory of Obscurity: A Film About the Residents is one of the must see films at this year's Denver Film Festival (according to us at least).
What to See at the Denver Film Festival
Instead of using a film festival as a way to see films a few weeks before their wide releases use the opportunity to check out films that might not get regular showings on a big screen. Here are what we deem to be some of the can't miss movies of the festival.
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