Canaan kills a bee. It is not the last thing he will kill today. How far would you go to defend the world you build for yourself? A tragicomic reflection about life, friendship and the power of fear.
In this short from acclaimed queer filmmaker Fan Popo, an introverted senior school student and a transgender vintage shop-owner, two lonely souls are swimming in the fast-changing-city pool. Can they break the wall of communication? Where are they heading to?
鼓楼西
2019
10
Mexico. 1940. The agent of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) Ramon Merkader comes to the house of Leon Trotsky. Under a long leather raincoat he hides an ice pick. He is here to kill the unsuspecting Russian revolutionary. Moscow. 2019. The modest honours pupil Yura helps his schoolmate Masha in history. They just study Merkader’s murder of Trotsky. The uninhibited Masha decides to tempt nerdy Yura. The director of studies comes into the classroom in the most intense moment. Afterwards the school principal calls in the class teacher of Masha and Yura for a talk. He considers that such an irresponsible teacher has no place at the school and is set to dismiss her. The school bell rings. As if by magic, the endings of these three stories intertwine, giving rise to a new surprising reading of the known events.
Одна историческая ошибка
2019
6
A Peacemaker, who rejects his final mission to save an endangered planet, is believed to be cursed when a solar storm hits his spaceship.
Pulsar
2018
4
‘Flicker’ is a portrait of Danny (Peter Newington), a typical twenty-something Dubliner, who gets assaulted one night in a city centre nightclub. Escaping the incident with only minor injuries, Danny throws himself back into his old routine: early-morning classes, five-a-side football, late nights on the sesh with the lads. Pretty soon, however, Danny begins to realise that the assault has affected him in more ways than one.
Flicker
2020
7
Trapped in a cyclical cage, a hopeless young wrestler claws his way through daily living, encountering pain and desolation in his everyday struggle.
Caged
2023
0
When a young woman is shoved out of a cafe moments before a grenade is detonated by the very man who commits the attack, she struggles with the guilt of survival as she attempts to uncover the reason why her life was spared when so many others were taken.
Split Second
2020
0
When a recently divorced man loses custody of his daughter, he finds comfort in a children’s book character in a magical book his daughter has left behind.
The Merry Man
0
In a robbery gone wrong, two women are forced to reckon with their values, livelihood, and relationship.
Outlaws
2020
0
One man, one vehicle, one journey, countless stories told during the taxi driver Ah Fa’s daily grind on the road. At the same time, his joy and sorrow of plying his trade is revealed through his interaction with passengers, and his family and fellow drivers.
请问你要去哪里？
2023
0
A story about a family of three – father, mother, and daughter, and then just mother and daughter, whose relationship becomes tense after the father passes on. As the poem goes, “the moon is not always full, life is always full of ups and downs”, the father has always had a wish. What is it? And how will the mother and daughter carry on with life?
长长久久
2023
0
第四个男人
2023
0
The pain, confusion and trauma of a man contemplating suicide. Based on true life events of director Kamal Sadanah.
A Moment of Pause
2013
0
When a teenage boy meets Æ.ly; who he thinks is the love of his life.. he has to go through the realities of what a relationship can do, for and against you. He has to figure out who he is even fighting for. His true life began with her, but will it end the same way?
Æ.ly
2024
0
An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.
Dear Mr Shakespeare: Shakespeare Lives
2016
7
Matthew is a 23 years old young man who likes to spend his time doing nothing else than sleeping. He has no purpose in life, being a complete ignorant to everything around him. He lives with his mother, who tries her best to persuade him to get a job and make something of his life. After one fight, he finally decides to take the interview at the military unit his mother has arranged for him.
Detașamentul Orb
2014
6
In the course of one afternoon, Raphael's paradise turns into a spiral of guilt and paranoia.
O Inferno
2011
5
“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes’ mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert’s steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.” International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Incêndio
2011
1
On the eve of the 21st century, Keke, a fine arts graduate, is on his way to Guangzhou to look for his grandfather’s tombstone. On the way, he meets Ono, a guitarist who is chasing a typhoon. Two people aimlessly walk in a strange city, for their own purposes to find, to experience, but there seems to be no results. Anything can happen before the apocalypse.
去往赫布里底群岛的最后一只狐狸
2023
0
A journey to a dream through an encounter between Suna, a twelve-year-old girl who uses leaves as a blanket, and an old man who possesses secret knowledge. A reflection on friendship between a father and a daughter, a teacher and a student, an adult and a child, and the path that can turn the impossible into possible… The invented letters are inspired by the old Armenian symbols.
Թռչող Տերեվների Երգը
2023
0
恋と知った日
2023
0