世にも奇妙な物語 ’17秋の特別編 (2017)

Tales of the Bizarre: 2018 Spring Special

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Strange Object

An archival investigation into the imperial image-making of the RAF ‘Z Unit’, which determined the destruction of human, animal and cultural life across Somaliland, as well as Africa and Asia.

Bring Me the Head of Lance Henriksen

When '80s B-movie icon Tim Thomerson wakes up one day to realize the acting roles are not coming his way any more, he sets out on a quest to find his former co-star Lance Henriksen to discover his secret of Hollywood longevity and gets more than he bargained for in the process.

Sundari Gardens

Sundari Sara Mathews, popularly known as Suma, meets Victor, the school's new English teacher and falls for him. However, before expressing her feelings to him, another teacher, Lekha, asks him out and he accepts, leaving Suma heartbroken. While at a low point in her life after losing her mother and arguing with her brother, Suma is consumed by jealousy and plots to break up Lekha and Victor to have him to herself.

On the Last Verse - A Small Film About Death

The documentary director KG Forsberg makes a film about his dying father.

Vindication Swim

The inspirational story of Mercedes Gleitze, the first British woman to swim the English Channel and her battle against both the cold waters of the Channel and the oppressive society of the 1920s England.

Senso

Ispirato ad una novella di Camillo Boito. Venezia, 1886: la storia d'amore tra la contessa Serpieri ed il tenente austriaco Mahler si intreccia con le guerre di indipendenza italiane.

Luci d'inverno

Dopo la morte della moglie, Tomas Ericsson, pastore protestante di un piccolo villaggio svedese, ha perso la fede. Pur continuando a servire il suo abito, si sente distante da un Dio che non vuole parlargli. Rifiuta l'amore di Märta, una donna dichiaratamente atea, ed è incapace di evitare, magari con il conforto della parola o dell'ascolto, il suicidio di Jonas, padre di famiglia vittima di manie depressive. Quando il sagrestano Algot, riferendosi ad un passo del Vangelo, gli ricorda che anche Cristo ha sofferto il silenzio di Dio, forse, qualcosa cambierà in lui.

Izzat

Three young immigrant boys, Wasim, Riaz and Munawar, come of age in the east end of Oslo, Norway. They find school boring and become attracted to the hard boiled gang East Side Crew, run by brothers Sadiq and Khalid. Petty theft soon develops into drug dealing, violence and murder.

Hello

During one of their night stays, three college teens play a silly prank where they randomly call people and tell them that they know who that person is and what they have done. What will happen when things take a dangerous turn?

The Dune

Through the course of several accidents and chance encounters, Hanoch and Ruben will meet and each of them will have to face a page of his personal history, a page that they both need to turn for good.

The Thanksgiving Catastrophe

After people start dying from a poisoned Thanksgiving pie, a young girl hires detectives to find out the mastermind behind the baked good.

Lo scoiattolo

In un paese in mezzo alle montagne innevate in cui si combatte una guerra tra militari e briganti, il tenente Alexis si innamora di Rischka, una ragazza selvaggia e impertinente, soprannominata da tutti "la gatta delle montagne".

Before Night Falls

A reporter and his cameraman investigate Nina, a young woman who is in pasung because she has a mental disorder that turns out to be something mystical.

Aguirre, furore di Dio

Nel 1560 una spedizione spagnola, guidata da Gonzalo Pizarro, fratello di Francisco, discende la Cordigliera delle Ande alla ricerca del mitico El Dorado. La giungla inestricabile la blocca. Si invia allora un pattuglione esplorativo, munito di zattere, sul fiume Urubamba al comando di Pedro de Urrua al cui fianco è l'ambizioso e spietato Lope de Aguirre.

New Bye

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The Mother and the Whore

Il giovane ozioso Alexandre vive a Parigi con Marie, con la quale ha una relazione aperta, dopo essere stato lasciato dalla donna che ama. Non ha un lavoro, e ne va piuttosto fiero. Un giorno, mentre Marie è a Londra, lui invita a casa Veronika, che frequenta da un po'. Al suo ritorno Marie accetta la nuova presenza, e inizia il loro complesso rapporto a tre.

The Louisiana Hussy

Cajun newlyweds must deal with the jealousy of his brother, who also loved her, and the arrival of a mysterious seductress in their bayou backwater.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity - Proxy War

Hiroshima, 1960-63. Continuano le avventure di Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara), ancora in libertà condizionata. Viene costretto a sottomettersi nuovamente, passando sopra al rancore personale, all'antico boss Yamamori, unico uomo potente disponibile a farsi nuovo garante per tale stato. È in gioco la successione al ruolo di capo del potente clan Muraoka, lasciato libero da questi a causa dell'aggravarsi di problemi di salute. Il boss Uchimoto sembra uno dei favoriti, ma anche Yamamori aspira al comando. Ne seguono lotte sanguinose.

Fuses

A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat, Kitch.

South Pacific

Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair? Bloody Mary is the philosopher of the island and it's hard to believe she could be the mother of Liat who has captured the heart of Lt. Joseph Cable USMC. While waiting for action in the war in the South Pacific, sailors and nurses put on a musical comedy show. The war gets closer and the saga of Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque becomes serious drama.