Lights

Video as closure. Puzzle with only two solutions.

A documentary film about the Israeli metal band "Orphaned Land", which includes personal interviews with the band, artists like Steven Wilson & Marty Friedman, Israeli Rabbi, the first ever interview with the band's lyrics writer, Israeli fans, and Arab fans from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, & Turkey, who discuss how their opinions on Israel have changed thanks to Orphaned Land. Also includes rare archive materials like the band's first show (from 1991), rehearsal, and the first home-made interview the band made in high school. The film deals with music, texts, the band's history from the first day until today, politics, religion, middle east problems and many more. It's a film about metal, peace and music.

On the Gaspé peninsula, while his other memories fade, a septuagenarian with Alzheimer's fixates on the memory of his late wife. His 10-year-old grandson does his best to look after him.

Through metaphorical and evocative images, this cinematographic essay explores the relationship between memory, mythology and ritual, it is a dialogue between the director's memories and the stories of requests for rain to Cocijo, the God of Lightning, inviting us to reflect on the essence of time and how ancient myths can give us a universal connection to the divine.

Karimov is dead - but we are not yet. Tashkent of the post-Karimov era.

Soli is a well known musician and singer who was forced to leave Iran after the revolution in 1979 when pop music got banned by the regime. Soli went through many difficulties in exile, driving a cab for many years in Toronto, yet continuing his work as a musician, finding a new style of mystical and traditional music. The docudrama is a poetic, musical film about exile, mysticism and traditional music.

He is called the "King of the Light Genre". His songs are still sung by all of Russia.

Since ancient times, there has been an unusual fishery on the Ural River. Every year in August, the inhabitants of coastal villages turn into a kind of entomologists, only they catch butterflies not with nets, but with the help of powerful searchlights, using the phenomenon of phototropism. Observation of this phenomenon evokes associations with the life and purpose of a person.

Ten years ago, it was difficult to imagine that a blind person could regain his sight with the help of prostheses. Our heroes were able to. Grigory and Antonina underwent surgery to insert an implant into the retina of the eye. After a long rehabilitation, they successfully use the new "bionic" vision. Antonina can even read text written in large letters. Today, science is on the threshold of another amazing technology. An implant for the visual cortex is being tested before our eyes. So far, on monkeys. Dramatic stories in the film alternate with scientific conversations about the structure and meaning of vision.

A road movie, the story of a journey of the Holy Light from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem to small churches in remote northern Yakut villages. Here everything is different – the way of thinking, values; here Orthodoxy and paganism mix in unexpected ways. A man named Sergey is carrying the Light across the country, to the churches that he himself built...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

A story about traveling and four women of different ages who embark on a journey. Four different destinations, four different goals, four different options. The film's title is borrowed from Tove Jansson's collection of short stories and the film is dedicated to film director Olav Neuland, who died in a plane crash.

Pakwun Discovered something that remind her past life

58-year-old Nolan Grulla provided for his children’s education by working as a jeepney driver for over 20 years. But with the Philippine government’s jeepney phase-out program, Nolan’s livelihood and his family's future are at risk.

Kodir and Rudi, two unemployed men, stole Megalodon tooth fossils from excavated land belonging to residents in Surade district. When they managed to get the tooth, they had difficulty finding their way home and something supernatural also attacked them.

Stian's mom goes missing and fails to show up for her weekly check-in with the police. In the search for his mother, Stian is forced to face himself and his difficult past.

In the heart of the city, the current Light Park emerged where the old municipal cemetery used to be. However, Júlia, Maitê and their friends, completely unaware of this peculiar story, decide to have a fun picnic. But what seemed like an innocent prank soon turns into a horrifying adventure when an eclipse triggers an unexpected invasion of shambling zombies.

Take a look inside Jimmy's life and his ways.

The movie tells a story about life's absurdity and the game of destiny which is too cruel at times. This is a movie about the consequences of a taken decision, about love, suffering and death.

DANCING IN THE LIGHT - A RETROSPECTIVE ON EARLY TAIWAN CINEMATOGRAPHY took two years to complete. It is both an homage to the works of the first generation Taiwan cinematographers and a history of Taiwan film and culture, breathlessly spanning World War Ⅱ to 1980. Early Taiwanese cinematographers - whose voices appear on the soundtrack - were at the cutting edge of Taiwanese art, culture and politics. They brought an innovative approach to shooting, totally alien to the Western practices. This is the first time some footage being released from the vaults of the Chinese Taipei Film Archive since their first screenings decades ago. This is also the first film to present a perspective and authoritative portrait of Taiwan's troubled film industry.