An Encounter

Drama from Hong Kong directed by Chu Kei.

In 1983, thirty years after the cessation of the Korean War, the world remains in the grip of Cold War tensions. Over the divided Korean Peninsula, two unexpected arrivals suddenly appear in the skies: a North Korean defector and a civilian aircraft from a communist country. These unforeseen events, akin to alien landings on Earth, are broadcast live across the nation, captivating the imagination of a people caught in the crossfire of the Cold War. But what became of these individuals who abandoned their reality to venture into an unknown world? Did they indeed find their happily ever after?

A group of artists set out on a quest of organising their own biennale in Istanbul.

A poignant reminiscence of the love story between the poet Rustam and the young pilot Gulshod, who tragically died during the Great Patriotic War, heroically performing an aerial ramming maneuver.

After finding out her boyfriend cheated, a young woman met her guardian angel while having a drinking session in the grotto.

8 TOPAKETA is an ephemeral school and a collaborative 16 mm film project made in the mountains of the Basque Country based on a series of open-ended scores lead by invited artists and carried out in small groups between 2021 and 2022.

When Adel decides to take revenge on his cousin, the businessman Mahmoud Al-Damanhory, who has seized the family's wealth, the journalist Nadia is shot instead. As she and Adel meet, he tries to communicate to her his suffering and she sympathizes with his cause. Can that be enough to save him?

After announcing his retirement from music, Leslie Cheung performs his “farewell tour”, which ran for 33 consecutive sold-out shows at the Hong Kong Coliseum in 1989.

Hong Kong movie

This 1983 German documentary by Katja Raganelli features director Joan Micklin Silver; her husband, Ray Silver; and a handful of key collaborators discussing her film work, from her debut feature HESTER STREET through her romantic comedy HEAD OVER HEELS.

Does gender = sexuality? How does the family define gender roles? What are the dangers when society coerces gender norms? What deep-seated social fears are unleashed by those who flout those prescribed roles? What is New Gender Politics? These are just a few of the topical issues explored in the film. In addition, Butler covers a wide range of subjects, broaching not only controversial gender issues-including transsexuality and intersexuality-but also 20th century Jewish philosophy, AIDS activism, criticism of state power and violence, gay marriage, and anti-Zionism.

Director Junge was commissioned by the GDR in the country for the first time in the summer of 1970; his film In Syria auf Montage accompanies German engineers who train workers in the Homs textile factory. Shortly after filming ended, Hafez al-Assad put himself under the dictator. Twenty years later emerged ... the father stayed in the war over a youth club with Syrian orphans in Bad Saarow, whose fathers had died in the Lebanon war and accompanied them to Syria, where they were housed in separate, elite "schools of martyr children". Multi-faceted documents that oscillate between peaceful and tense, hopeful and unsettled.

Actors Yui Natsukawa and Tetta Sugimoto travel Europe.

"Tonino De Bernardi - Un tempo, un incontro" is a film about the duel between two friends who are very different from one another. Two different approaches, two characters, two views that only seem antithetical meet and then open up in front of a camera. Or, more precisely, in front of the cameras. On the one hand, the eye of Daniele Segre. On the other hand, Tonino's, which almost taints the film's aesthetics. The film's development conveys a sense of immediacy, which is a fundamental principle for both directors. Daniele films Tonino and Tonino films Daniele, and this takes place in a play of associations, and in the space of an encounter. The two directors have seized this opportunity to swap views and experiences.

The universe is so complex that even the greatest scientific minds on earth ultimately acknowledge that we do not understand the forces and true nature of the cosmos, let alone our place within it. Now for the first time, we can see in this documentary the un-seeable and unbelievable has been caught on video by multiple individuals who have not only captured mind bending video of Entities, UFOs and Angels, but have been profoundly affected by their experiences.

A short experimental love story about the encounter between two contrasting girls. Minami has a slightly boyish appearance, while Sumire's charming face always puts everyone at ease. But what kind of encounter, what kind of situation, what kind of decisive moment does it take for these two girls to make their feelings for each other come true?　This is a series of short stories about love and romance between two girls.

A Chinese film

Six friends including record store employee Ayaka form a rap group called Lyrical School. They keep plugging away while struggling to bridge the gap between their dreams and reality. One day, they are shocked when a doll in the corner of the warehouse begins to talk

A close and passionate look at the art of arctic peoples from the earliest findings to the beginning of the 20th century. “There are no talking heads, there is no dramatic lighting or sharp focus in these two long movies. Rather, each object is lovingly filmed, as if inviting the artwork to converse with us. Lehmuskallio has discovered how to let his camera speak to the art, and how to let the art reply, and thereby this northern art can speak with us as well.” (Kathleen Osgood, in Uralic Imaginations on Film)