Джессика, специалист по выращиванию орхидей, приезжает в Колумбию, чтобы ухаживать за сестрой, находящейся в состоянии сна. Но и сама Джессика практически теряет покой — ее преследует странный звук, похожий то ли на взрыв, то ли на мощный удар, который тревожит и лишает сна. Пытаясь понять его происхождение, героиня все больше теряет связь с тем, что принято считать реальностью.
Дядюшка Боонмее страдает острой почечной недостаточностью и решает провести остаток дней у родственников в деревне. Здесь ему являются призраки умершей жены и пропавшего сына и принимают его в свои крылатые объятья. Раздумывая над причинами своей болезни, дядюшка Боонмее вместе со своей семьей пересекает джунгли и достигает пещеры на вершине горы, где родилась его первая жизнь…
Когда солдат внезапно поражает неизвестная сонная болезнь, и их переводят во временный госпиталь, расположенной в заброшенной школе. Дженира вызывается ухаживать за Иттом, привлекательным солдатом, к которому никогда никто не приходит. Она заводит дружбу с Кенг, молодой ясновидящей, которая помогает близким общаться со спящими солдатами. Однажды Дженира обнаруживает личный дневник Итта с загадочными письменами и рисунками. Существует ли связь между таинственным синдромом и полным легенд и сказаний местом, расположенном под заброшенной школой? Любовь, магия и мечта об исцелении сплетутся воедино на пути Джениры к пониманию собственной сущности и мира, который ее окружает.
The passionate relationship between two men with unusual consequences. The film is divided in two parts. The first half charts the modest attraction between two men in the sunny, relaxing countryside and the second half charts the confusion and terror of an unknown menace lurking deep within the jungle shadows.
Фильм составлен из отрывков памяти, которые начинаются внезапно и заканчиваются без логического конца. Дантист хочет стать певцом и интересуется одним из своих пациентов, Буддистским монахом, который мечтает стать диск-жокеем. Один из докторов неловко объявляет свою отчаянную любовь к доктору Тоею (главной героине), которая ассоциирует его с бывшей влюбленностью, которую она испытывала к эксперту по орхидеям…
Short lo-fi film set in Senegal. Mostly focussing on a group of Senegalese youths, discussing their hopes and fears concerning the crossing of the atlantic to get to Europe. Will life be easier there or not?
In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Until 1982, he will shoot hours of footage, his filmed diary. Wherever he goes, he carries his camera with him. He films his life and lives as he films: places, moments, friends, loves, misfortunes.
Min is an illegal Burmese immigrant living in Thailand who has contracted a mysterious painful rash covering his upper body. His girlfriend, Roong, and a middle-aged woman, Orn, take him to see a doctor. Min pretends that he cannot speak because he is not fluent in Thai and speaking would reveal him to be an illegal immigrant.
«Melvil» is the name of a character who manoeuvres between cinema and reality, searching for a family, a place to take over, a role to play.
An empress commissions a painting of herself from a French outsider in hopes of stirring her husband's interest in this lavish period piece. The Lady in the Portrait is a period yarn evoking the unique rapport between a French missionary and the Manchurian Empress whose portrait he's ordered to paint.
In 1972, Djibril Diop Mambety shoots "Touki Bouki." Mory and Anta are in love. Two young lovers share the same dream: to leave Dakar for Paris. At the fateful moment, Anta embarks. Mory stays alone on quay, unable to tear himself away from his land. Forty years later, "A Thousand Suns" investigates the personal and universal inheritance which represents "Touki Bouki." What has happened since? Magaye Niang, the hero of the movie, has never left Dakar. And today, the old cowboy wonders where Anta is, the love of his youth. Stories about family, exile and cinema meet between the sphere of intimacy and that of myth.
A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters.
Between Bali, where Ioanis Nuguet lived and found refuge after the sudden death of his father in a diving accident, and Provence, where he grew up and where his mother lived before she, too, died of cancer, the director weaves together fragments of his family history: a mosaic of places and impressions where life and death, beauty and pain, love and loss are intimately intertwined.
Atomic Park is a place in the White Sands desert (New Mexico), not far away from Trinity Site, where the first atom bomb exploded in 1945. This national park provides an ambivalent landscape, as well suited for a picnic as for ballistic tests. A white desert, like a natural exhibition hall every movement can provoke diverse interpretations. Like a faint echo we hear Marilyn Monroe's desperate monologue and accusation about man's violence from The Misfits (1961). - Torino Film Festival
“Le Pont du Trieur”, co-written by de Meaux and Philippe Parreno, with an original score by Dave Stewart, is set in Pamir, a region situated in the highest part of Tajikistan, at the border between Afghanistan and China. This is a strategic zone controlled by various armies in the midst of a region that awaits reconstruction. The film stems from the simple question of how to tell the story of a country of which the West is deprived of images. Both fiction and documentary, it is about reality and the means of telling it.
A nature-hating aesthete, Jean des Esseintes attempts to furnish and decorate a country home where he will be able to live without ever again having to deal with the outside world.