On the Surface a Romantic Comedy About Young Adults, Complete with Bouncy Music and Sparkly Animation, Look Closer and This Hong Kong Film Explores Serious Themes with Depth and Compassion.

The 10 Best Movies from This Year’s Berlin Film Festival

Writer and Director Amos Why Describes Far Far Away as “A Romance Comedy of Hong Kong, on Hong Kong and About Hong Kong.

The Festival’s Closing Film Is a Dense, Complicated Mystery Told with Skill and Precision. Director Yoon Jongseok’s Script Swirls Back and Forth in Time as Police, Lawyers, and Suspects Try to Make Sense of Two Deaths.

“This Is a Film About Loneliness, ” Writer and Director Lee Jae-Won Said, Introducing the World Premiere of a Dark, Downbeat Thriller About Rival Brothers Deep in Debt. They Both Owe Money to Several Competing Mobs, and Try, Not Always Successfully, to Stay One Step Ahead of Their Enforcers.

Another Gangster Film About Angry Brothers, Tomb of the River’s by-the-Numbers Plot Contains References to Everything from Sonatine to the Godfather. Director and Writer Yoon Young-Bin Proves That a Well-Executed Genre Film Can Still Command Attention.

Miracle: Letters to the President

Voters Gave the Festival’s Top Prize, the Golden Mulberry, to Lee Jang-Hoon’s Crowd-Pleasing Comedy Drama About a Maths Prodigy Growing up in a Village So Isolated It Has No Road or Train Station.

Another Persistent Girlfriend Drives Love Nonetheless, Winner of the Festival’s Inaugural Mulberry Award for Best Screenplay (By Rikiya Imaizumi and Hideo Jojo), Which Had Its World Premiere in Udine.

A Co-Production with Italy’s Rai Tv, the Feature Film Debut of Hou Zuxin (Formerly a Journalist for the Post) Has Authentically Impressive Roman Locations to Go with Its Broad, Often over-the-Top Characters.

A Romantic Comedy About Midlife Crises Set in a Comfortably Posh Upper-Class South Korea, Perhaps Love Takes a Stab at Screwball Comedy as It Details a Novelist’s Failed Marriages and Disappointing Children.

Mama Boy, from Taiwanese Director Arvin Chen, Drew a Lot of Attention at the Festival for Its Portrait of 29-Year-Old Xiao-Hong (Kai Ko Chen-Tung), a Fish Store Employee Who Is Still Under the Thrall of His Mother, Mei Ling (Yu Tzu-Yu).

Filmed in 1980, This Sprawling Drama Takes Place in the Manilla Underground During the Ferdinand Marcos Regime. Director Ishmael Bernal Explores a Largely Forbidden and Unseen World Through Vignettes That Run His Ensemble Cast Through an Emotional Mill.

Udine 2022: the 10 Best Movies at the Far East Film Festival, from Korean Mystery Confession to Hong Kong Romcom Far Far Away

By Marcus Vance

• Oct 8, 2026 • 6 min read

Udine 2022: the 10 Best Movies at the Far East Film Festival, from Korean Mystery Confession to Hong Kong Romcom Far Far Away

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Other Repertory Screenings Included Hiroshima Mon Amour, Pale Flower, and a Newly Restored Print of the Heroic Trio.

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