H STORY playfully blurs the line between drama and documentary as it examines the impact of history (both world history and cinema history) on contemporary lives. Suwa plays himself as a filmmaker struggling to remake Alain Resnais’ classic Hiroshima Mon Amour. He’s hired Béatrice Dalle and Hiroaki Umano to play the parts originally played by Emanuélle Riva and Eji Okada. I integrated Resnais’ film in my film not because I liked it, but because I couldn’t avoid it. I consider it as medium with which I could maintain a dialogue with. Resnais’ film opened a window to Europe over Asia. I also wanted to open that very same window, but in the other direction. (Nobuhiro Suwa)
“O snail,Curta Metragem Climb Mount Fuji, But slowly, slowly!”
The late-night arrival of a guest at a hotel causes chaos, but what is his hidden agenda? A film that explores what happens when you get a tune stuck in your head.
Grandma tries to put her stubborn granddaughter to sleep by telling her spooky stories, night after night.
The time has come, as it does every two years, for the senior members of Hong Kong’s oldest Triad, The Wo Shing Society, to elect a new chairman. Fierce rivalries emerge between the two eligible candidates. Lok, respected by the Uncles is the favourite to win. But his rival Big D will stop at nothing to change this, including going against hundreds of years of Triad tradition and influencing the vote with money and violence. When Wo Shing’s ancient symbol of leadership, the Dragon’s Head Baton, goes missing, a ruthless struggle for power erupts and the race to retrieve the Baton threatens to tear Wo Shing in two. Can Wo Shing balance their traditional brotherhood ways with the cut-throat modern world of 21st century business?
From the Lat. Haesitare, to stand still, int. v., to be indecisive; to silence the obvious for an indefinite length of time; to refrain from naming things; to be perplexed not knowing what to say or what to do; to stagger; to mistrust or to fear memory; a set of motions put before conscience or willpower; a silenced woman dealing with the silenced truth of her relationship.
Ingmar Bergman’s Commercials for Bris
A girl who loses her gravity. Initially embarrassed by this amazing gift Awel Jones becomes isolated from the other kids at school and only her sister is aware of her hidden talent. However, after being forced to confront the school bullies her secret is revealed…
1985. A secret tree house. Two children dressed in animal costumes experiment to revive a bee. But they are searching for a way to bring back something much bigger.
A home-made Super-8 musical. On the eve of his 30th birthday, a supermarket plebeian attempts to forge a profound connection with a flighty belle. From the midst of melancholy burst those brief, deceptive moments when everything feels like it is going to be fine.
A haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of this century’s most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco and Mao Tse Tung.
A two year old, an ice cream cone and a clean, white shirt.
A film about fatherhood and the bond between a father and his infant daughter. The filmmaker documents the first eighteen months of the child’s life, showing the progression from newborn to infant to toddler.
A little girl’s love for Charlie Chaplin and candy.
November 2001. First evening of London is Dead, a Morrisey and Smiths tribute night at Fais Do-do, in Los Angeles. A large crowd of happy fans is dancing and singing around to the sound of the Manchester based band and its front man, Moz. The crowd average age must be 20-years-old and they are, in their majority, Hispanics and Latinos. Twenty years after the Smiths ending, how can one explain this surprising cult based in the eastern suburbs of LA? Their young admirers speak at length about their admiration, their relation with its music and their lives.
A portrait of an artist and a friend who died too young.
Within every Swede lies a cow…and shit is a laconic expression coined during the making of this film. It is quite true that the Swedish love their cows. It is something holy and natural that talks to us all serving also as a reminder of the fact that most of today’s Swedes are rarely more than two generations removed from country folk.
Captain Grogg and his deck-hand Kalle loads up Grogg’s little sailing boat. Apparently they’re going on a long journey. Beer and vodka seem to be the most important load. The trip offers storm as well as calm seas. A mermaid, with strangely Swedish characteristics becomes so interested that she doesn’t notice when the sharks attack her. This is another exciting adventure of Captain Grogg and his deck-hand, this time fighting against a terrible lion.
