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29 of the contributors of Asian Movie Pulse have voted the 25 Best Films of 2019, resulting in what we consider a great selection, both regarding the order and the overall diversity, since the list includes films from Japan, S. Korea, China, Taiwan, Georgia, The Philippines, Laos, Mongolia, Tibet, and India, while the genres include everything from extreme violence and mainstream films to art-house, documentaries, animation and even a short.

Without further ado, here are the best films of 2019, in reverse order. Some films may have premiered in 2018, but since they mostly circulated in 2019, we decided to include them.

25. A Snowflake Into The Night

The stop motion animation renders the narrative effectively and the effort that has gone into this short is evident. The voices of Yukitomo Tochino and Yoko Yuki make the experience very livid. The animation runs within a square with rounded edges resembling a mobile app and I wonder whether...

Narrated like a children’s story, ‘A Snowflake into the Night’ is about how a snowflake falls to earth and keeps changing shape and form until, in the end, it sees a snowflake to realize that life has gone one full circle. The continuous metamorphosis across the seasons starts with living beings and as it finds superior non-living things, the change seems perpetual.

“A Snowflake into the Night” is screening at Japan Cuts 2019

The stop motion animation renders the narrative effectively and the effort that has gone into this short is evident. The voices of Yukitomo Tochino and Yoko Yuki make the experience very livid. The animation runs within a square with rounded edges resembling a mobile app and I wonder whether the reference is towards our fleeting interest in the digital world and how without end we keep moving from one fad to another.

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