Film Home Is Somewhere Else Vostfr

A river reflects everything without carrying it away. But time — it takes everything away without reflecting anything... A story about teenagers in Kyrgyzstan.

“The Earth with be obliterated in 2012”. “That sucks”. A man carrying a black lump. A screaming male high-school student. A prophet. A throng of children. Sound that sticks out of the shot, sound that comes in, sequencing and cutting off of images, and editing that undermines the independence of the shot make explicit the uncertainty of “now/here”.

Each day before dawn, 67-year-old Kobra goes fishing in a small rowing boat tied to her porch. Her house stands on the water's edge. It is a tough life. She tries to sell her meager catch at the local market to support herself and her old invalid mother, but she must fight with dealers and thieves (of her fish net) in an all-male environment first.

A mother brought about her own downfall after she joined a cult and murdered her own son. Her daughter, who left long ago, now returns to this broken home. Reflecting on the meaning of family and life, she tries to rebuild a 'home' for everyone.

There is no God's image, they're all shamans. The first masterpiece at the newly renovated Haeoreum Theater by the National Dance Company. The work starts with 'Shaman' and 'Naerimgut (Initiatory Ritual of Shamanism)'. The dancers on the stage are all shamans. The journey of shamans, who are isolated from society due to their special abilities and are reborn through Naerimgut, which soon accepts fate and enters the dance, and shamans who overcome adversity and enter life again, continues beautifully. The title of the work, "See You, I'm Home" is a greeting each shaman gives themselves, and a friendly greeting to everyone. The colorful aspects of shamanic culture, a common property of mankind, will fill the theater like a panorama in harmony with intense physical energy, images, and clear music.

16mm / 12 min. / Color

1990 Original Video.

François, Alice's brilliant son, has lost everything; his job, his wife, his apartment. Tired of sleeping in his car, he decides to go back to his mother in a small town in Yonne. There he finds all his old school friends and his hated gymnastics teacher "Gorbachev". This one became the lover of his mother, to the great displeasure of François. After trying to sell his mother's house, he will finally find love ... and a new job.

After losing land under feet, Svyatoslav chaotically starts to gather himself by pieces. A painful divorce with his wife immerses him in deep depression. To see future, he will have to brake with the past.

Ten years after the introduction of the long-term care insurance system, some people question the uniformity of long-term care services and set up new long-term care facilities on their own. The film covers three welfare facilities and documents the young staff struggling to make ends meet.

Postwar! Baseball! Comedy! Enoken plays a superfan of the Yomiuri Giants – the real Tokyo team, with many of its star players "acting" as themselves – who, despite his utter lack of athletic abilities, becomes embroiled in their successes, and their personal lives. Will Enoken help the Giants take the pennant?

A retired opera female singer terrorizes people and animals because of her love for a 20-year old boy (in the days of the Total Solar Eclipse 1999).

Loan sharks harass Damir and his family, even to the point of writing “home for sale” on the exterior of their house. Damir desperately tries to borrow money from his relatives, friends, and anyone else he knows; Cholpon also struggles to prevent the worst from happening.

A complacent young man must choose between the suburbs he’s always known, or moving to a big city with a man he once loved.

In Seymour’s only fiction film, Jessica Lange makes her screen debut as a diner waitress who flirts with a restless junkie (played by her real-life boyfriend Paco Grande). Reckoning with his own demons, Seymour himself appears as an ever-obliging friend who lends the junkie some scratch to score some heroin. — Museum of Modern Art

Hidekazu is invited to the house of his young lover Ami. Sex immediately begins in her room, but Ami's father-in-law watches the whole thing. Later, Hidekazu is called by his father-in-law and visits Ami's house again, and is captivated by Ami's bewitching mother, Chifuyu. It's all a trick of Ami's doting father-in-law.

In 1993, after a war in Abkhazia, Georgia known as the Abkhaz-Georgian Conflict, thousands of ethnic Georgian families sought refuge in the decaying Soviet sanatoriums nestled in the town of Tskaltubo, in western Georgia. This poignant documentary unveils the untold stories of these displaced individuals as they try to build a new life amid the haunting ruins, revealing not only their resilience and camaraderie, but also the profound transformation of the sanatoriums from symbols of health and luxury to havens of survival and unity. Iamze, 81, and Nikusha, 12, are awaiting promised government housing, all the while being indelibly shaped by the echoes of war.

The scholar Sveinn Bergsveinsson, a Communist in the 1930s, was trapped in Berlin by the outbreak of World War II and forced to work for the Nazi propaganda machine. Returning to Iceland, sick with tuberculosis, he found himself branded by both sides of the cold war political divide and barred from academic work. In desperation, he emigrated to East-Germany where he became a respected professor. He always hoped to return home but died in East-Berlin in 1988, a year before the wall came down. He left behind a wealth of documents, photographs, film and voice recordings which form the basis of this narrative.