In The Land Of The B

This is the second volume of the horror documentary series in which Junji Inagawa examines psychic phenomena. Sky Rest New Muroto is located at the tip of Cape Muroto. Once a busy restaurant, it has become the site of suicides and heart attacks, and now lies in ruins. Inagawa continues his investigation despite feeling a change in his physical condition...

Although his day job is as a designer, Junji Inagawa is loved for his unique character and is active in a variety of venues as a TV personality. Especially in recent years, he has become an indispensable presence on summer nights as a ghost story teller. In this documentary, Junji Inagawa, the "S-class entertainer in the world of horror," visits two haunted places that are known for their horror stories. The film approaches the truth of two haunted places, one in Okinawa and the other in Tokyo.

Junji Inagawa, a horror entertainer of the third installment of his horror documentary series, visits the sites of legendary horrors.The third installment in the horror documentary series.

Junji Inagawa, a top-class entertainer in the world of horror, visits two haunted places of legendary terror in this second installment of his horror documentary series.

Invited by the then 74-year-old James Danaqyumptewa, two Swiss artists come to witness and document the non-violent resistance of the Hopi in Arizona, combining sketches, photography and animation. At once a message in a bottle and a cry for help.

Marinaleda, a community of 2645 inhabitants in Andalusia, has no unemployment, no policemen, housing, work, culture, education and health are considered a right. "The land belongs to no one, the land is not bought, the land belongs to everyone! We practice a participatory democracy, we decide everything from taxes to public spending in big assemblies. Many heads give many ideas". The residents belong to the local cooperative and work 6.5 hours a day, all receiving the same daily wage (45 euros), regardless of whether they are employed in the fields or in the local factory processing the products. Revenues are not shared but invested in the cooperative to create new jobs. There is no priest or policeman in the village, while renting a house costs 15 euros a month.

Two geographic places, Quebec (Canada) and New Caledonia (France, Pacific), are put in relation to each other with the help of an audiovisual installation which modifies the congruence and the synchronicity of sounds and images. This work explores the depth of two contrasting territories which have both undergone a colonial history. Working out the contrasts and resonances of these two contexts, this work investigates the identity and memory of places but also the strange sensation of reality given by a hybrid and fictional landscape which combines elements that do not belong together.

A man steps on a landmine and pays with his life.

An adaptation of the novel The Land of Zikola, about its hero, a young man from the village of Al-Baho ​​Frick, who finds himself one day in a land that does not deal with money like other people, and instead uses units of intelligence. Every work for money in our land is equivalent to a certain value of units of intelligence.

The Enei district of Minami Soma town lies within the 20 km exclusion zone around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. In early April 2011, immediately after the devastating tsunami and nuclear meltdown forced people to evacuate the area, filmmaker Yoju Matsubayashi rushed here with relief goods. From a chance meeting with city councilor Kyoko Tanaka, he began making this film. Living together with the evacuees in school classrooms designated as temporary refuge centers, he captured an extraordinary period in the lives of the local people. Interspersed with humorous episodes and deep emotions, the film delves into memories of a local culture that has been taken away by the tragedy.

It happens that people living under the same roof and united by common concerns do not feel intimacy and do not save each other from loneliness. So the brothers Morpheus and Vilkas seem to be made of different materials. The elder Morpheus is heavy, viscous, like a lump of clay, which he kneads. And the younger Vilkas has the wind in his head, he wants to escape from all worries. All the more strange and unexpected should be the case that will bring them closer together.

Slowed down, blown up and newly scored 1930's footage depicting daily life and religious rituals of villagers from Bryansk Polesia on the border between modern Russia and Belarus.

This is the 8th installment of the "Psychic Documentary" film series.

In a village on the Central Plains, six-year-old Mao Qing and her mother Hongmei live a peaceful life. A mysterious Ghost Child arrives in search of their own mother, unleashing a transcendent force that spreads throughout the village. Amidst the ever-changing wheat fields, Mao Qing discovers a hidden, complex truth. Together, Mao Qing and the Ghost Child embark on a surreal journey to find the latter's mother.

The events of the work revolve in a comedic context around a young man who lives an average life and faces various financial challenges. Then his life changes completely when a person appears to him who exploits modern technology to bring in money, and events begin to develop.

In this program based on the book of the same name by Ishimure Michiko, Kitabayashi Tanie plays “Goze,” a blind wandering performer who drifts around the stricken region of Minamata in the wake of methylmercury contamination.

A Berlinale award nominated short feature.

Memory of My Country

In the encounter between different peoples, there's a clash. Those who were already on the land, living their common world, come face to face with a people from across the sea, decrepit, who claim to have found paradise in these lands. They find it strange. Freely inspired by the work of the anthropologist and sociologist Darcy Ribeiro, this animated short brings a poetic view of colonization and the Brazilian people, both verbally and visually.

The decision is made: next winter, Maina will no longer be a landless shepherdess. No longer a nomad, no longer constantly on the lookout for a new home, no longer able to manage her land as she sees fit. Maina is settling down, determined to anchor herself in the land of her birth and to follow through on her convictions. Despite her strong character and unshakeable self-confidence, Maina's move proves more complicated than expected.