Blaise Dumas, war correspondent, covers an armed conflict in Eastern Europe. When he wakes from a temporary coma in his home town of Quebec City, Blaise discovers that his long time collaborator and photographer has not come back with him. He then sets out to recapture the events that led to his friend’s disappearance and his own narrow escape from the war zone.Read More »
The film is separate into three different shorts. KIDNAP focuses a tomboy’s unrequited love for an anonymous girl dare not speak her name, she can only watch for longing as the object of her affection passes each day. In a desperate bid for intimate communication, the tomboy kidnaps the girl and holds her prisoner in a cramped back street apartment. Slowly relationship develops between them. In MY BELOVED, a loner is only obsesses with guns, he has no place in his life for a girlfriend, focusing all his attention on his Baretta handgun. One night, his gun starts talking to him in a soft feminine voice, demanding the proof of his love. OH G focuses a guy and a girl meet through an ICQ chat room, they search for the real romance that they have never experienced in their lives. This touching tale of first love is played out against the backdrop of the neon world of urban malls and 24 hour convenience stores.Read More »
Delphine is twenty years old. She is too young to have experienced the activism of the seventies, but for her it is not something that belongs to the past. She decides to find something that will allow her to act and which, she claims, is owed to her.Read More »
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Set in a small Nagano village in the 1930s, the film follows Hanji, a young boy captivated by a local kabuki performance. Inspired by Yukio, Hanji learns kabuki with Utako. As they grow, they become skilled actors, performing in a final kabuki before World War II. After the war, Hanji returns to revive kabuki and restore the community’s spirit. In the 1980s, as he nears death, the villagers organise a final performance in his honour, where he performs “Tenryu Koishibuki” for Yukio.Read More »
Bilike has never seen a ping-pong ball before. He and his family live without electricity and running water in a solitary tent home among the vast steppe grasslands. The magnificent landscape here has changed little since the days of Genghis Kahn. But life in the middle of nowhere can be exciting for a young boy. The smallest of details become big events for curious Bilike and his best friends Erguotou and Dawa. The mystery of the small white ball floating in the creek leads to questions about the world around them, as well as innocent mischief. Bilike’s grandmother says the ball is a glowing pearl from heaven. But the boys are sceptical after waiting all night outdoors for the ball to light up.Read More »
Since 1969, masters of cinema have shown their films at the legendary Midnight Sun Film Festival and talked about their art. With choice moments from several hundred hours of these talks, von Bagh created a heavenly symposium on cinema as the most decent way to walk the earth.Read More »
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The collapse of a department store disturbs a local community, causing strife for some, and bringing some people closer than ever before.Read More »
At the turn of the 20th Century amongst tension between China and Japan, a Japanese swindler in Shanghai plans to profit by selling weapons. He steals arms from the Japanese military and sells them to the rich Chinese.Read More »
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Children return from boarding school to a taiga village for spring break. The film reveals the lives of the northern Mansi people through their eyes.Read More »