There Is No Healing In Sil

Roland Hassel meets the dangerous Russian mafia.

If there is no timeline, where is the future? Where am I going?

The only commendable reaction is rebellion.

There's a lot of things I'd like to tell you now that there's time. — Now there is time, I dream at night with many things that I would like to be living and that stick to me for the rest of the day inside these four walls. Now there's time, I see more telebesura than ever and I look more at my phone than ever before. Now there's time, I do a lot fewer things than before. Now that there's time, I think of all the things I would have told you before if I'd known I wasn't going to be able to now. Now that there's time, I'm testing the audios I'd like to send you in front of the mirror. Now there's time, I'm letting my hair grow. Now that there's time, I get things we talked about someday, even if you probably don't remember. Now that there's time, I listen to a lot more sad music. Now there's time, I like to look at the works out the window. Now there's time, I miss it.

Xun, a Chinese migrant worker, falls in love with Chong, a Malaysian colleague at her warehouse job. Their relationship is like an endless dance of two jellyfish in the ocean, making ends meet with no end in sight. Until one day, Xun announces she is pregnant, which is a deportable offense, and the fates of Xun and Chong are altered forever.

Kenji Onishi short film time-lapse projection at YIDFF 2013 (Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival).

During the production of my Jabba documentary short, Slimy Piece of Worm Ridden Filth, I was put in contact with Toby Philpott’s colleague and Jabba’s right hand man. Literally, his right hand man, puppeteer Dave Barclay. Dave helped us, along with Toby (Jabba’s left arm), Mike Edmonds (tail) and John Coppinger (animatronic engineer) to reconstruct just how it was inside that filthy Hutt. And of course it couldn’t have been done without the amazing work of Eletrographica aka Pete Starling, who rendered all that information into a multilayered illustration. Dave was so impressed with the Jabba documentary that he asked if I would consider doing one on Yoda. Dave aged just 19 in 1979 was involved in building and puppeteering Yoda for The Empire Strikes Back. After a few email exchanges, Dave kindly found time between his work on The Muppet Show for an interview.

Samuel Muxingueno escapes from conflict areas in eastern Angola, and seeks shelter in Luanda. Here, his main enemy becomes his own shadow. Seeking to get rid of it, Samuel turns to life in the darkness of a deserted building. To be able to get back into the light, he makes a radical decision.

There is something exhilarating about observing an artistic star that shines at the edge of the cosmos, and steadfastly refuses to move to the centre, that even seems to vanish beyond the periphery as time and fashion move on, only for it to become visible again”. Tim Cawkwell.

No hay olvido, composed of three parts, each directed by a young Chilean filmmaker forced to flee his country, is about the difficult condition of exiles in a specific political and social context, in this case, Quebec. The first part, entitled J'explique certaines choses, is in Spanish with French subtitles, and shows us more precisely the lifestyle of a group of Chileans. In Slowly, which forms the second part, we are asked, through Lucia, a young Chilean exile, the problem of integration into a new social environment. Finally, Jours de fer (Steel Blues), the third and only part available in English, is a cruel reminder of the harsh condition of the uprooted man who must find work at all costs to ensure his survival.

The eldest of the family, Sara, comes of age and brings chaos to the family by announcing her intention to marry Ocho. Javier and Marisa try to avoid it at all costs. At the same time Dani has an existential crisis, Paulita feels jealous of Cris, Carlota announces that she has found a boyfriend from a high society family and Rocio has finally managed to be cast in her first film.

Tamara becomes a victim of circumstances. Her lover left her. She nearly lost her best friend. Even in her own apartment Tamara does not feel safe - there she finds the corpse of a neighbor. In a panic, the heroine goes to the country, but there she becomes a prisoner of the bandits.

A girl narrates her nightmares, and the boundaries of dream and reality start to fade and become indistinct. She says that she was raped in her dreams and ...

The story centers on a girl who worries too much about the future, and her grandmother who tells her that the future has many possibilities. Through her family, the girl learns a fun way to view the future. * Based on a picture book by Yoshitake Shinsuke.

A 35-year-old shepherd wandered over the border from the Turkish district of Kars into Armenia to retrieve his animal. In this haunting, desolate landscape, the borders are invisible, but fatal.

Documentary about young people who are dedicated to cleaning windshields in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl to survive.

He is forty years old. He left his wife and children in order to care for his mother, who is under seventy. She has Alzheimer's disease. She begins to forget who she is, and ceases to recognize her son. The hero has one goal in life - by all means keep her mother’s memory of herself. He takes her from village to town to start a new life with her.

From contact to distance, how do bodily perceptions vary? The body and space feel blurred. The sensation remains, almost ghostly of our bodies moving. Dancing or just being together seems like a distant memory.