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Rebels in medieval China place secret documents in the hands of Shaolin priests. The list is entrusted by Abbot Wei Hung to a rebel who splits the list into three parts, giving two of the pieces to other rebels. But one of the three is the “Invisible Terrorist”, a spy working for the evil general.Read More »
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The film is an edgy black comedy set in swinging London in the late 60s. The All Saints girls play three street wise sisters who head ‘up West’ to rob and generally cause trouble.Read More »
Lebanese auteur Christian Ghazi’s Hundred Faces for a Single Day (1971) is the avant-garde masterwork that challenged the limits of political film in the revolutionary period. Rejecting propagandistic or narrative conventions, the film’s episodic structure, eerie sound design, and daring lead performance (from Madonna Ghazi) come together in a stinging critique of the revolution’s cultural and political elites.Read More »
Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi’s only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his hometown is exceptionally stronger than anybody’s, he is trying everything he can to somehow help the inhabitants of the island which are going through a recession. He saddles himself with a debt to bring a cheap band onto the island and tries to market the underwater sightseeing ship on the island without regards for the Marine Act…
He’s always blowing his own horn and whenever that backfires, Yasukichi disappears.”Read More »
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Nigeria became an independent country in 1960. In 1967 it was torn apart by civil war. Between these two events Nigeria enjoyed a kind of golden age, full of cultural ferment and cross-tribal fertilization. Every kid out of the village was writing the great Nigerian novel. A spirit of great hope prevailed through the land. Give Me A Riddle is about this golden age, seen through the eyes of ex-Peace Corps volunteer returning to his host country a couple of years after his Peace Corps service as a teacher at the University of Nigeria. The film follows Roger as he looks up his old student friends, travels with them to their homes, talks with them about their lives and the life of their country. Shot in 1966, the film is a time capsule of a Nigeria and the Peace Corps both in the rambunctious bloom of youth.Read More »
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Dennis and Julie Parks left the eastern seaboard in the early 1960’s, settling in the former mining boomtown of Tuscarora, Nevada, population twelve. They spent the next twenty-five years operating and expanding their pottery school, raising a family and running a studio. A mining company, motivated by high gold prices, began a large open pit gold mining operation just outside of town in 1989. Nevada, encouraging mining, writes its laws to favor that industry’s interests over all others.Read More »
After a fashion editor is fired from her highpowered job in New York, she has no choice but to go back to her hometown, where she reconnects with her roots and rediscovers her life’s passion.Read More »
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After a life-threatening injury, a construction worker lies endlessly in wait to return home. A migrant poet-labourer leads students in dreaming of an afternoon river. One Muslim devotee cries while praying, wearing his “I [HEART] SINGAPORE” shirt. Having paid the average EUR10,000 “migration fee,” another fresh-faced youngster arrives, eager to try his luck here too. All this while, a social worker helping the transient-worker community in Singapore journeys to their motherland, Bangladesh, discovering deep pain and promise. The heartfelt, observational documentary I DREAM OF SINGAPORE interweaves the natural worlds and cityscapes of Bangladesh and Singapore.Read More »
Nankin, nowadays. Luo Haitao has been hired by Wang Ping’s wife to spy on the passionate relationship between her husband and a man. But Luo Haitao loses control of the situation: he’s drawn with his girlfriend, Li Jing, to the fever of drunken spring nights.
The insubordinate nature of Spring Fever detonated when, bypassing the Chinese authorities, the film premiered in Cannes competition during the five-year ban from filmmaking imposed on Lou Ye. A film that challenges social and moral taboos, alive with stirring rebelliousness and queer sensuality.Read More »