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Rites of passage drama about a youngster on a summer break with her family.
A young film director makes her way around Japan, China, and Hong Kong after a relationship breakup.
Best friends Yuta and Kou are on the brink of graduating from high school in a near-future Tokyo where the threat of a catastrophic earthquake casts a shadow over daily life.
Two women in Tokyo face a wave of anxiety after the south-east Asian tsunami.
Veterans learning new tricks Courtenay and Calder-Marshall on intimacy, trust and the value of friendship in Queen At Sea
The people's medium Theodore Schaefer on The Arrow At Rest At Every Instant Of Its Flight
Wool power Concrete Land director Asmahan Bkerat on learning about herself as she filmed a Bedouin clan's life
New eyes on Old Hollywood How images of Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Rita Hayworth inspired Pretty Babies
Lost Boys Wayne Wapeemukwa on drawing on reality for Manhunt while avoiding a true crime approach
Serious about comedy Louis Paxton on grounding the humour of The Incomer in darker elements
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