From Hong Kong with love!
There is a large group of brave people that the director Vivian Tsang calls the new Immigrants: people who have left Hong Kong to move to Manchester. And one of those people is her.
Having moved 3 years ago, Tsang talks about this drastic life change, leaving one of the most densely populated cities in the world for a decidedly smaller and more private town.
Certainly not a small decision but - looking at The New Immigrants - Hong Kongers - definitely the right choice.
A documentary that takes us on a walk with the real Hong Kongers, making us understand and discover their new life up close, and their initial and current approach to the British city they have chosen to call home, and its citizens.
An intimate, interesting and sincere film that shines a light on a reality unknown to many.
Can a broken heart keep beating?
Surviving the pain of losing a great love may seem impossible, but Catherine Phillips shows us that desperation can bring you down, but courage can put a person back on their feet.
Spring Came is a simple, natural, spontaneous short film like the season it takes inspiration from; but at the same time profound and delicate for how generously and sincerely deals with love and death.
A lifelong partner that suddenly dies, taking away balances and certainties.
And a woman who must learn to live again, facing day after day her new reality, her sense of helplessness and her loneliness.
The places, once shared as a couple, are now a source of sadness and inconsolable nostalgia.
But if it is true that life takes away, it is also true that life gives.
In Catherine's case, life offers her the opportunity to escape her pain by doing something that can help others and the environment around her.
Tenderness and resilience come together in a film that for sure won't leave viewers 's heart indifferent.
Third and final chapter of the trilogy “Storm” directed by Yoram Marcus, Alarmland is a kaleidoscopic film where the rhythm of the music and the alternation of images accompany us through the streets.
A meeting between a man and a woman, shocking news, an attempt at seduction, a marriage proposal, a dramatic phone call.
Negative and positive feelings inhabit this film that reveals all the complexity of the human soul.
Good, evil, love, anger, distrust, dream, reality, nostalgia, joy and pain.
Everything happen in this Alarm land (the State of Israel) that day by day stays in a survival war against terrorists..
Premonitory messages, comparisons, repeated dialogues; an experimental but interesting editing by Marcus – also an interpreter of the film – that denotes creativity and passion.
Sometimes you think you're in love with a person only to discover that you met her/him to understand what you don't want and where you belong.
An eccentric young woman and a middle aged man meet by chance.
She - Dylan Brody (played by Michele Martin) - wants to make it in Hollywood as a conceptual artist even though she doesn't know exactly how to put her many bizarre ideas in order; He (played by the multitalented Paul Provenza) is a quiet music editor that - bewitched by the woman's enthusiasm and her total creative madness - decides to support her "art" offering her his guest house.
She's broke, unresolved, chaotic and she needs a place in the world; he's reserved, calm, composed ... but also lonely and in need of a little quake.
Randomness? Destiny? Or maybe just a meeting of souls looking for something?
Brilliant, ironic and ruthlessly true, YOU ARE HERE - a Dylan Brody project is a comedy that shows us how absurd the world of Hollywood - that pays millions of dollars for a simple illusion - can be; but also how often we run after the wrong people because of our idealisation.
A perfect cast directed by the real Dylan Brody - Award-winning author, comedian and filmmaker - who in a certain way give us his female alter ego so full of passion, verve... and so capable of turning the lives of those he meets upside down.
There's a Marilyn Manson's song that says “They love you when you're on all the covers, when yours not then they love another…”
This film represents rather well that diabolical machine called Hollywood that chews actors like they were chewing gum and then spit them out when they no longer taste like money.
The Second Coming of John Cooper, written and directed by the talented Kevin Kraft, is the story of the rise and fall of John Cooper, a blockbuster movie star, the classic self-destructive braggart who, due to excess and drugs, ends up finding himself homeless, jobless and abandoned by everybody.
Only Clint (Trevor Goober) one of his big fans will allow him to sleep on his couch and will join him in his childish lifestyle.
John Cooper is a loser, a burden, a closed chapter.
But… what could happen if he would decide to make a comeback?
Funny and sarcastic, the film - excellently directed as if it were a real time documentary - dive us into the crazy days of the former star in disarray, allowing us to smell his failure, his misery, his sad life.
A comedy where bizarre situations and bizarre characters revolve around the protagonist, a fantastic Lane Compton who is totally credible and vaguely adorable in the stinky clothes of John Cooper.
It's never too late to rise from a pile of ashes. The past rarely returns... but we can try to fix the present and try to make it shine as much as possible!
“I am not the body: I am the mind” proudly declared. the Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini.
The human mind is indeed our great source of strength capable of commanding our thoughts, our beliefs, our fears too - just think about the ferocity of panic attackst - but at the same time it is also an unknown and boundless universe.
But how can we know that hidden universe and navigate into it?
Espen Jan Folmo and Nini Caroline Skarpaas Myhrvold present us LOOK UP—The Science of Cultural Evolution, a documentary that offers us the opportunity to fully explore the inner complexity of human beings laid bare in front of the help of psychotherapy, an increasingly important and exploited means to fight not only the demons capable of compromising daily life but also of freeing unimaginable sides.
Spiritual, scientific and social themes mix in this film, showing us how time and evolution have brought positive and negative changes to human beings.
For sure owadays men got much more psychological help available, but it is also true that the inconveniences caused by modernity and technology are increasingly responsible of a big part of anxieties and mental illnesses that affect a large part of the world's population.
An incredibly detailed and exhaustive work to try to understand even the incomprehensible that inhabits our unconscious.
Who's that girl?
Focused on the mystery that a beautiful woman (Ingrid Feldman) manages to provoke with her presence, A Mystery Woman: The Message - The main one, in the STORM Trilogy is an interesting film directed by the award winning screenwriter and director Yoram Marcus.
Who is this woman?
Perhaps a sort of modern Cassandra or a mysterious messenger who manages to shock everyone she meets....or open their eyes.
What's her message? Her purpose?
Is she human or does she come from another dimension?
Filled with emotions and gentleness, everything about this movie is made to surprise, to wonder about the meaning of life, destiny and how a perfect stranger on the street can upset an entire existence.
A film that for sure won't leave the viewer indifferent.
“And if you look in the face of evil, evil will look back at you...”
Katabasis, fascinating and ambitious feature film directed and starring Samantha Casella, could be defined as a modern art movie where symbolism and a meticulous attention to details are incredibly poignant.
Endless days, slow movements, long silences; all the characters appear tormented, ambiguous, almost muffled by a perpetual doze.
But pervaded by boredom and apathy, Nora (Samantha Casella) is the lost protagonist, of the story, the anguished vagrant who wanders between dream and reality; among monstrous sounds and whispers.
She crosses the threshold that separates her from another dimension, another world, to descend into the underground of her mind, of her memories, of her unconscious.
Desolation, melancholy, and secrets fill the void of the walls as much as the extremely expressive face the performers, fundamental pieces of a puzzle that perhaps got no solution.
Visions, hallucinations, ghosts? What is real and what is just a projection of the destabilizing and restless Nora?
Sourranded by disturbing atmospheres saturated with colour, drama and mystery - which pleasantly recall the cinematography of David Lynch -
Nora bring us on this fascinating descent towards delirium and the enigma of existence itself.