KAILI BLUES [Blu-ray]An audacious, richly imagined feature debut that has collected prizes around the world, Kaili Blues heralds the arrival of a major new filmmaker. Chen, a preoccupied doctor working in a small clinic in the rain drenched city of Kaili, decides to fulfill his late mothers wish and sets off on a journey to look for his brothers abandoned child. His partner in the clinic, a lonely old lady, asks him to also find her former lover, giving him a photograph,

Marjorie Prime) comes a direct

in their twenties

Mary Jane Leach

and the occasional hero

each captured on sumptuous 8 and 16mm images by cinematographers Agnès Godard and Hélène Louvart

• Hong Sangsoo’s Woman on the Beach (2006

as trained performers wear and play materials accurate to the period—are immense

Upon arriving she is suddenly thrust into an explosive domestic conflict

and musical elements

an organization consisting of ordinary citizens who are the first to rush towards military strikes and attacks in the hope of saving lives

27 minutes

and starring Aristides de Sousa