Return Of The Too

Lying quietly in a cine-camera, a film awaits to fulfill its responsibility of projecting 24 frames of images per second after exposure. Nonetheless, I prefer rolling out films outright and fiddling with them by pigments application, collage, scratch, cut-and-mix, etc. Since these are camera-less measures, the projection is unpredictable, surprising, and often so astonishing that I would be mesmerized.

The hero of the film, a young Russian biologist, Alexander Sergeevich Ermakov, has been working on the study of stem cells in the UK for 10 years. But he is a man who dreams of giving his brains to his homeland. He flies to Russia with the hope of finding a job and staying. Here he is met by relatives, friends and misunderstanding of colleagues. Will Alexander Sergeevich stay in Russia?

Samad Returns from War

A man’s female friend who just came back from London spends time on the river shore.

Raphael, Yervant Gianikian's father, survived the Armenian genocide in 1915 in Eastern Turkey. In April 1988, while living in Venice, he sat for his son's camera and read an excerpt from his memoirs, translated from Armenian into Italian.

Reiji and his wife joined their friends on a getaway to a traditional Japanese inn, hoping to conceive a child. However, their plans took an unexpected turn when Reiji was seduced by his friend's wife, while his own wife engaged in a passionate affair with their mutual friend. Amidst forbidden desires and the thrill of pushing boundaries, the four of them delved deeper into temptation. As they surrendered to their carnal passions, could they ever reclaim the innocence of their marriages?

Documentary short.

Ginjiro lends 50 million yen to a man named Sugaya, who dies before repaying it. Sugaya’s daughter appears with a photo of someone unknown to Ginjiro.

Loukas has been living in Africa for many many years, working hard to send money to his family who has stayed in Greece. When the time has come to return home, he decides to surprise his family and arrives to Greece without telling them that he's coming. Loukas is anxious to see his wife and his grown-up children after so long, but they may not share the same feeling.

Machine translated synopsis off iQIYI: There is a legend that before the outbreak of the war against Japan, two sisters Sadako and Kawako came to China with their father and fell in love with a Japanese boy at the same time, out of jealousy, the sister Kawako smothered her sister Sadako to death in a wooden box. Years later, as a male radio anchor Ye Hyuk bought a second-hand projector made in Japan from a night market stall, and at any time came to trigger several strange deaths, everything pointed to Sadako, in fact, it was all a novelist's brainstorming.

Return to Haifa is based on Kanafani’s novel the plot of which takes place in 1967, when Palestinian refugees living in the newly occupied territories had an opportunity to visit the places from which they had been expelled in 1948.

A herdsman leaves his flock for the city, dreaming of becoming a cosmonaut, but he is rejected. Working a small job in a film studio, he is singled out for his looks and becomes a stand-in for a star actor.

This documentary is about the political persecution suffered by the leaders of the so-called Revolución Ciudadana when ex-president Rafael Correa Delgado left the government, which led to his exile in different parts of the world, including Mexico. This feature film recounts eight stories traversed by betrayal but also by the paths of the fight for utopia, justice, and the well-being of the people.

Part 2 of Return Home documentary trilogy.

ayumi hamasaki MUSIC for LIFE ~return~ is a concert DVD/Blu-ray released by Hamasaki Ayumi. It was performed for two days in Chiba, for fanclub members only. It's the first live concert performed in almost a year and a half.