Chad, 2006. The government has granted amnesty to all war criminals. Atim, 16 years old, is given a revolver by his grandfather so that he may kill the man who killed his father… Atim leaves his village for N’djamena, seeking a man he does not know. He quickly locates him: former war criminal Nassara is now married and settled down as the owner of a small bakery… With the firm intention of killing him, Atim gets closer to Nassara‚Ķ Intrigued by Atim’s attitude toward him, Nassara takes him under his wing and teaches him the secrets of making bread… Over the weeks, a strange relationship evolves between the two‚Ķ.
June 14, 1935. And yet, much later. It’s already autumn and it’s still hot – the heat never goes away. In a remote place in Paraguay, an elderly peasant couple Candida and Ramon are waiting for their son who left to fight the Chaco War. They are also waiting for the rain to come, it keeps announcing its arrival but it doesn’t come; and for the wind that never comes either; and for the heat to go away but it never does in spite of the season; and for the dog to stop barking but it will never stop; and all in all, they are waiting for better times to come. The instant of the eternal waiting is found between the before and the after of time.
After being robbed and attacked one night in Kuala Lumpur, Hsiao-kang, a homeless Chinese man, is rescued and taken in by some Bangladeshi workers. One of them, Rawang, lets him sleep beside him on an old mattress that he had found on the street. Later, when Chyi, a waitress at a coffee-shop, meets Hsiao-kang, she is filled with lustful desire. As Hsiao-kang slowly recovers, he finds himself caught between Rawang and Chyi ‚ as well as Chyi’s female boss. Meanwhile, a heavy haze descends on the city that is so humid that it stinks of the perspiration of its multi-ethnic people. These men and women and the old mattress lose their way in the haze but find one another‚Ķ
Bittersweet comedy about the impossible bus journey of an old Kurdish musician who travels with his sons to Iraq to give the concert of his life.
Inspired by The Abduction of Sita from the great classic of ancient Indian and South East-Asian literature the Ramayana, Opera Jawa is a musical like no other in cinema. It tells of a passionate love triangle that leads inexorably to conflict, violence and death. Setio and his wife Siti, run a pottery business in a small village where Ludiro, a powerful and ruthless butcher, controls all the trading activities. When the couple’s business collapses, Ludiro, who has always been in love with Siti, seizes his chance, abducts and tries to seduce her. Inevitably the two men begin to fight over Siti…
A magic realism story about Kgotso, a reclusive stickfighter who lives a solitary life high up in the Maluti Mountains of Lesotho. This is a story about unrequited love, and sacrifice infused with both the cruelty and the beauty of African magic.
Syndromes and a Century explores how we remember; how our sense of happiness can be triggered by seemingly insignificant things. It is a film in two parts which sometimes echo each other.The two central characters are inspired by the filmmaker’s parents, in the years before they became lovers. The first part focuses on a woman doctor and is set in a space reminiscent of the world in which the filmmaker was born and raised. The second part focuses on a male doctor and is set in a more contemporary space much like the world that we live in.
