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September in the Netherlands means that the Camera Japan Festival is visiting again, first in Rotterdam and a week later in Amsterdam. Primarily it’s a film festival, but music and food always have an important role as well. Often there are workshops tied in to several of the titles playing there, for example a whiskey tasting event will accompany a drama about Japanese craft whiskeys. It’s therefore a shame that the harbor of Rotterdam doesn’t have any pearl oysters in it, because Polish director Chris Ludz’ gentle-with-a-bite Japanese family drama All the Songs We Never Sang is good enough to have a pearl diving event attached to it. In it, we follow 17-year-old Natsumi, who travels to a Japanese island community to live with her…

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Grace returns to the small town she grew up in to settle her father’s estate. She learns that her brother, David, has gone missing. In fact, a lot of people from this small town are also missing. There is rumour that David was going to a commune deep into the mountains. No one knows exactly where it is, but one of Grace’s former teachers Mr. Green might. She follows this lead which takes them deep into the Australian wilderness. Together they venture out into the forest, unsure of what they will find out there.    UK ex-pat and Australian transplant Joseph Sims-Dennett (Bad Behaviour, Observance) is back with their third film, Baal, a mystery horror flick shot in and around the Blue Mountains in the…

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