Constructed out of personal notes, both verbal and visual, Voyage of Jeanette is an essay film that poses questions about the intersection between image production and the creation of narratives, which shape our perception of contemporaneity and manifest in our performances of history, heritage, and memory. Positioned in the Yakutian Arctic, the film invites the viewer to ask vital questions about the meaning of peripheries and how western ontologies of discovery and the writing of history are absorbed into or contrast with immediate Yakutian realities.
"Jin Yiwei: The Refining of Fire". Early Ming Dynasty, when the government was in turmoil, and King Zhu Fan of Yan raised an army to In the name of going to Beijing to hoe traitors. He launched the "Jingnan Campaign" and started a four-year campaign; in June of the fourth year of Jianwen, the Yan army crossed the river and approached the gates of Nanjing. The palace was in chaos and the government was scattered; Emperor Hui ordered the Jinyi Guards Red Rabbit escorts his beloved concubine Mei Fei to escape from Nanjing
Huarong County was cursed by the Seven Orders of Gold. Governor Lu invited a Taoist priest to remove the evil spirits, but unexpectedly, Taoist priest Chen Pi and four of his disciples died strangely and tragically. This strange incident caused great panic in Huarong County. The mysterious Holy Spirit of the Rakshasa Sect incites the people in the county, triggering more tragic and bizarre cases to make more people believe in the Rakshasa Sect. At the critical moment, Governor Lu asks Chief Inspector Duan Guanglong to join hands with Xue Xiaofeng and Xue Xiaohua to secretly investigate the huge conspiracy behind the Seven Golden Orders and the Rakshasa Sect.
two college seniors coincidentally reunite at a party after drifting apart freshman year. unrealized anxieties, impulsive decisions and one particularly potent joint...
Angie, the wife of a charismatic pastor who extols family values yet maintains an icy demeanor toward his own, seeks solace from her marital woes in the arms of her recently hired pool boy, a fling which quickly upsets the idyllic facade of the community, reigniting old jealousies, and leaving no one's secrets safe.
After a 20-year absence, Noriko returns to Nagasaki to clear out her mother’s home. In doing so, she finds letters that reveal a family secret intertwined with the memory of the peninsular town’s inhabitants. In reconstructing this family story, Okurimono gradually develops into a grace-filled meditation on the passage of time and the legacy we leave behind.
“Guardia De Honor” is about a family grappling with a present tragedy and a dark past. A policeman is interrogated by a neophyte investigator on the killings of a mother and son on the eve of the new President's inauguration.
Stones are at once the most foundational and the most overlooked parts of our lifeworld. When a retired nature documentary narrator passes a kidney stone, she decides to tell one more story about this forgotten world of stone . A hypnotic essay film asking urgent ecological questions, Apple Cider Vinegar takes the viewer on a journey meeting Palestinian quarry workers, passionate Britisch Geologist and People living on the lava fields of Fogo.
Megalomaniac Süleyman, who works as security guard, wishes a congratulatory visit to the new rector. Süleyman tells his wife about his fake friendship with the rector although his appointment is not answered yet. Suleyman, finally entering the rector’s office, realizes that he has gotten himself into trouble, but it is too late.
The director’s father, Soviet figure skating star, went on tours to the imaginary West and filmed his life in the transition period of the 80s and 90s. Rediscovering his amateur VHS archive, a director explores his vision of paradise against the changing historical background. 15 videotapes, the spirit of traveling to the West. The birth of a daughter. The collapse of the USSR. Fragments of Ice is a journey of growing-up for society, for the father, and for the daughter. A journey that is ongoing.
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