The Disappe

Hybrid in form, this work from Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme wrestles with the problematics of representing a people displaced and disappeared. An avatar generating software and images of the people who participated in the Great March of Return demonstrations create figures that sing a sad lament. Voiced by the artists themselves yet digitally altered, they are, at once, human and non-human.

The village of Gorelovka is located in Southern Georgia. It was founded in the mid 19th century by Doukhobors (“spirit-wrestlers”), members a group of Russian religious dissidents banished from Russia by Tsar Nicholas I for their anarchist and pacifist beliefs. The Doukhobors managed to keep their identity and traditions throughout the Soviet period. However, under political and economical pressure, many of them have now left Georgia and their heritage is disappearing with the last inhabitants. Leo Tolstoy was interested in their non-violent outlook and supported them in several occasions.

Through a series of meticulously crafted scenes, A Film Portrait... devises a disturbing presence-in-absence concept that compel a new gaze from the spectator. The clichés of the thriller film are exploited through a series of progressive tableaux as the experimental narrative recreates 12 scenes that hypothesize the disappearance of Zoe Dean Drum.

An ambitious and insensitive tabloid crime photographer falls victim to a mysterious illness that makes him lose, one by one, his five senses.

When the owners of the boatyard are going to divorce, they can not decide who will get it. They agree to make the division of property through a competition on the Göta Canal, where the winner gets the boatyard.

A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with his accountant to Africa, in search of his brother-in-law who had vanished there in mysterious circumstances. They will find him alright - as a tribal chief, surrounded with lots of topless, shapely wives. They are going to return to civilisation, but will their friend come with them?

Three-year-old Nikola Szlezyngier disappears in unexplained circumstances and her parents Angelika and Dawid are the main suspects. Angelika contacts an old friend Joanna Chylka, a brilliant, cynical and successful lawyer to help. With her new apprentice Kordian, Joanna will try to bring the case to a happy close.

Mengele’s fugitive years in South America told from his point of view. The notorious Nazi doctor found refuge in South America at the end of WWII and was never captured. Mengele died in Brazil in 1979 without having been judged for his crimes.

With his looks, personality and capabilities, 35-years-old Haruno Yoichi is considered the "ideal husband". However, he feels that his wife's attitude has cooled ever since she gave birth to their child. He knows neither the cause nor the solution, and has been reduced to the "unfortunate husband" at home. 28-years-old Chisato was thought to be the "ideal wife with all the the traditional graces" who does her best to look to her best to look to her husband with respect. But her husband's words and deeds which she could excuse until after childbirth, now make her feel uneasy. Because of her continued hysterics, she has become the "monster wife" to her husband.

Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux, each of them focused on incidents or characters which seldom reappear later in the film. Among the many unrelated scenes, there is a Palestinian actress struggling to find an apartment in West Jerusalem, the owner of the Holy Land souvenir shop preparing merchandise for incoming Japanese tourists, a group of old women gossiping about their relatives, and an Israeli police van which screeches to a halt so several heavily armed soldiers can get off the car and urinate.

Robert Millard has based his industrial kingdom - based on all the noise technologies - thanks to his marriage with the wealthy and cantankerous Irene, he blithely cheat for years. However, his last link with his pretty secretary, Eve, is the straw that broke the camel : Irene has indeed hired a detective-photographer, aptly named M.Colle order to have a maximum of incriminating shots. Threatened to divorce and thus to total ruin by his wife, the unfaithful husband should give up and dismiss Eve.

Ako Togawa and her boyfriend Hiroki were enjoying their youth in high school. They visited their childhood friend Yoshio at his casting press factory. After the death of his father, Yoshio gave up high school but continued to study for college. Yoshio envied Hiroki for dating Ako because Ako was Yoshio's secret love since childhood. One day, three of them agreed to study together in Yoshio's room. While waiting for Hiroki who were coming late, Ako fell asleep. As he peeped at Ako's white panties, Yoshio lost control and took Ako. During her resistance, Ako hit her head and lost conscious. When she woke up, Ako's hands and feet were tied with rope. That was the beginning of her life as a pet of Yoshio. How long will the days of love, desire and confinement alone behind the door last...?

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

A mysterious man, whose name is known as Yeon-woo, comes to the police station to report his wife has gone missing. Yeong-sook, the female detective, investigates the missing case along with Tae-sik. Meanwhile, Yeon-woo’s missing wife is kept in a dark room in a basement. The wicked looking kidnapper’s name is Man-sik. The horrible feeling that she might be murdered climaxes. Will Yoo-mi be murdered in the end?

Gerda meets Little Robber Girl in the Berlin subway. There’s only ten, twelve hours until they’ll part ways. The mutual interest turns into love affair and all that ends in the morning. But still there’s a sea of the city to float by night.

Quebec Bill Bohomme is a hardy schemer and dreamer, who, desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered herd through the rapidly approaching winter, resorts to whiskey-smuggling, a traditional family occupation. Quebec Bill takes his son, Wild Bill, on the journey. Also Henry Coville, an inscrutable whiskey smuggler, and Rat Kinneson, Quebec Bill's perpetually disconsolate ex-con hired man. Together, they cross the border into vast reaches of Canadian wilderness for an unforgettable four days "full of terror, full of wonder."

During a dramatic night, two young lovers run from hospital to hospital seeking for an help for some complications after their first time. They'll have to confront with the indifference of some doctors and avoid them to call their parents.

Nora Telese is a psychiatrist who recently moved to San Benedetto del Tronto with her teenage daughter Camilla. Their life seems to flow serenely and Camilla meets Sonia, whith whom a unique and special friendship developes. One Saturday evening in May, the two girls go to a party and don’t return home. Their phones are unreachable and both girls seem to have disappeared into thin air. The prosecutor opens a file; Vice Quaestor Giovanni Nemi is in charge of the investigation; the case becomes increasingly complicated.

Yu Tian (played by Hu Tian) is a senior this year. He hasn't returned home for a few years while studying in a big city. The estrangement between him and his mother (Lin Jiehua) is somehow getting bigger and bigger. He is immersed in his artistic dreams and is not practical, but his mother, who has always been conservative, does not understand. His friends remained the same, still the same young people in the small town. Friends booed that he would be the most promising one among them, but he himself was convinced. He told his sister (played by Sun Nan) that he would go to the big city to make a fortune.