The Sky At Night

A gaze into the distant. Montevidéu. 2020.

What does a Skinhead think about Sweden? What has a Biker got in common with a radical Hiphoper? What's the difference between an Anarchic Feminist and a Muslim girl? Are the Nazi youngsters evil? Death Metal, Punk, Hiphop, Oi!-music… Abuse of Narcotics, imprisonment, Bin Ladin, USA, EU riots… “Under the dark sky of the nation” is a present day account of a split Sweden reflected by those who society consider dangerous.

In the morning hours by the river a young man meets a mysterious woman.

This story takes place in future earth, where people are restricted to go outside because of radioactive pollution. In the dark room, the boy is dying to play outside, and his elder sister is full of anxiety. ‘Gray’ is one of the unit to measure radiation.

Academic work of 4th year of training at Kabardino-Balkar State University (Alexander Sokurov's workshop)

After his mother’s passing, Tomas’ life turned black and white. Days change when he meets Gabriel, a photographer with a red jacket who helps him see other colors.

A horde of wild horses, historians who sing songs of the colonial war against the Russian empire, young people dancing on a public square, villagers cobbling together their own museum : in a small Caucasian republic, a whole people remembers. And, all along, the painter Rouslan Tsrimov guides us into the way of living and the thoughts of the Nartes, the mythical ancestors, as recounted by their saga.

Mysticism and nature. A phenomenon that rides between myth and reality. The abstract, the intangible, the incomprehensible. What is previously and we are unable to define by allusive. Does it exist or does it not exist?

Since mid-90s, women were forbidden to trek the Agasthyarkoodam mountain. In this film, some brave women narrate how they had conducted street protests and led court battles against that government imposed ban. After ages, when the Kerala High Court finally ruled in favour of them and lifted the ban, they trekked to the peak. A culmination of all their efforts prove that even the heights of gender discrimination are conquerable.

Prosecutor Song Kuk Jin expanded his private funds to run an accommodating Institute Hee Mang Ja Yul Won for children who committed crimes before. One day, a woman police officer Kim Seong Suk is dispatched there for one-person-one-skill education.

This is a story about two boys, Andri and Gempol. Andri is rich, educated but unhappy. Lonely and neglected by his parents, he befriends Gempol whose parents are too poor to send him to school. While Gempol yearns to go to school, Andri envies his freedom and parental love. Andri sneaks food, books, and money to Gempol while Gempol, in return, gives him friendship.

At Deoksan elementary school under Woelaksan (Mt.), there are 15 children who have been in the same class for 6 years. They don't sit quietly in class like other school kids. After school, they gather at a hidden secret spot by the river, and they whisper, saying that the homeroom teacher is an adult who can't even control his emotions. Yoonjae, a new teacher who imagined that children would sit quietly in the classroom, is bewildered when he sees the children different from what he expected. The changing seasons with the children, and what will their sky be filled with?

Rosa is not allowed into the party that is happening in the living room of her house. When her cat slips out of the bedroom, Rosa goes after it, ending up at a party with very peculiar guests.

How do you start an investigation into chance? By a late journey. The narrator tells how the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjalla stopped the plane he should have taken for Prague in 2010 from taking off. Meditating on the powerful images of the “Earth’s anger”, Kleinjan remembered another flight that never arrived: the aircraft crashed in northern Czechoslovakia in 1972, before reaching Belgrade. Only a Serbian stewardess miraculously survived the crash. She was included in the Guinness Book of Records and got to meet the Beatles, when John Lennon was considered like “Lenin” by the young Czech anti-communists.

Grandfather Samson lived an interesting life — he fought with the Turks and with the fascists. And now, when there is no one to fight with and the children have grown up, I could not find a job for myself and demanded a premature monument to myself on the grave. He tormented his grandson so much that he jumped from the roof of the village church.

After a traffic accident, Akio has the same recurring dream of girl standing under a starry sky. One day, he sees her at a train station platform, but afterwards he returns home and discovers he has been pulled into a parallel world, where he died in the traffic accident.

A man has to confront the rise of the black ink.

The film takes place in Greenland and tells us two parallel stories about two boys, one from the start of the 20th century and the other from the 21st century.

Personal documentary from director Kana Tomoko, who has covered environmental issues and people suffering misfortune in films like Beautiful Islands. This film documents the pregnancy she discovered immediately after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and follows her experiences until the baby's birth. In the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Kana was 4 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant documenting the people who were forced to evacuate because of the nuclear power plant accident. Then, she discovers that she is pregnant. Her first pregnancy at the age of forty takes her by surprise, and she worries about the impact of radiation on her unborn child.