Journey

Marcel Lozinski was born in May 1940 in Paris, and he spent part of his childhood in various children’s homes. His Jewish communist parents were members of the resistance. After the war he went with his mother to Poland, where he became a celebrated documentary maker of some 20 films. Prompted by his son Pawel, also a renowned documentarian, the pair embark on a road trip from Warsaw to Paris. Father and son point the camera at each other and themselves and take stock of one another. In the end, the two men each made their own film about this journey.

When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.

A documentary feature by Jun Geng. Poet Zhang Rare once studied at the Beijing Qingmei Academy. Due to pressure he felt living in the city, he feelings of depression, he returned to his hometown and taught middle school. But his depression got worse and he was diagnosed with schizophrenia; he his job and, stayed home, and began to focus on writing his poetry.

Using testimonies of experts that help torture victims to recover and even some victims that talk about their experiences, Coixet travels across different places (Denmark, Sarajevo, Bosnia) trying to approach an incredibly close reality that many people think it´s past.

The past of the human race lies in African history.

Night Journey, the dance, had its premiere only two and a half years after Appalachian Spring, and it is a close cousin. It too has a stream-of-consciousness narration: Jocasta, as she is about to kill herself, remembering what has happened to her. It too contains soul-delving solos, broken up by ensemble dances. Here, however, the ensemble is a darker element. As the story was taken from Greek tragedy, so the corps is the equivalent of Greek tragedy’s chorus. They tell us how to feel: afraid mostly. In this piece Graham pushed her habitual economy to its limits.

Somewhere in the north of Sweden, three boys are sitting in front of a frozen lake. Somewhere in Egypt three boys are laying on their beds. All of them have survived a long, deadly journey, through the Sinai desert.

The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as Agnès Varda and Catherine Breillat (both from France), have been making films for decades in a conscious effort to provide an alternative to the male filmmaking model; others, such as Moufida Tlatli (Tunisia) and Carine Adler (England), are relative newcomers to directing, and their approaches seem more personal and less political. The film as a whole manages to cover some important topics in the feminist debate about film -- how does one construct a female gaze, how can one film nude bodies without objectifying the actors (of either sex), what constitutes a strong female role -- while also making it clear that “women’s film” comprises as many different approaches to filmmaking as there are female filmmakers.

Aruku, Aruku, Aruku ~Shikoku Henro-michi~ (NHK Drama Special, Winter 2013) is about Hayama Misa (Tanaka Rena), a down-on-her-luck free-lance writer. Leaving her unhappy life in Tokyo, she takes part in the Shikoku Pilgrimage as a lone walking pilgrim. It has been said that if a pilgrim completes the pilgrimage by visiting all 88 sacred places, his/her wish will be fulfilled.

The film is a story of a double journey. The main character of the first journey is the author himself, who, while sitting in his customary café, suddenly realises that he has hallucinations. The psychologist reassures him that all this is merely repression. The symptoms, however, appear again. Soon it turns out that the author has a brain tumour. Professor Pötzl in Vienna suggests operation right away. The intervention, through which he is awake, is carried out in a Stockholm clinic.

This epic set in medieval China tells the story of a mother searching for her infant, who was kidnapped by warriors.

Tang Seng and his apprentice went all the way to the west. After drinking the river water by mistake, they encountered Ruyi Zhenxian. After resolving the catastrophe of pregnancy and expectation, they stepped into the mysterious country of Xiliang.

Song Ci is invited to the Southern Song capital - Lin'an - to investigate the murder allegedly committed by the Goddess of the Night.

The Journey of Chinese Plants is China's first documentary telling stories of Chinese plants and their connection to the world. Chief Director Li Chengcai says he was inspired to create the series by French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who spent the last few years of his life studying plants.

Along with Nikté-Ha, a young Mayan girl, we will dive into the heart of the Mayan culture and encounter an extraordinary biodiversity from the Caribbean Sea to the tropical rainforest, home of the majestic jaguar.

In the 1890s, without news of the eldest brother left to work for the Canadian Pacific Railway to support his family. The youngest, Roy, sets out to find him through the inhospitable wintry lands of the American Northwest.

Some birds, like every year, migrate south to enjoy the warmer climate. Snacks and drinks are provided and the trip will take about ten hours according to the GPS. But during the first twelve minutes they already find out what kind of trip it will be this year.

A Journey to the Fumigated Towns is the final episode made by Fernando Solanas in a series of 8 films dedicated to the Argentinian’s crisis in the 21st century. Based on testimonies, re-creations, archives and photos, this investigative documentary reveals not only the after-effects of the soya’s model and other GMO’s grain productions with agrochemicals, on the health of the Argentinian people, but also the global and environmental consequences.