Pain of Salvation: Hellfest (2017)

Down to the Bone

A man is wrongfully buried alive, and starts to descend to the Underworld.

The Mystery of the Almond Trees

A pair of macho private detectives pose as a gay couple to gain access into the world of a perverted wealthy widow, Doña Josefina, also known as “Mrs. Open Mind.” The widow’s summer home, it seems, is a legendary lightning rod for scandal because of mysterious and evil incidents that occur there.

The Legend of Hillbilly John

A roaming hillbilly, on a quest to defy the Devil, encounters several supernatural characters and does battle with his silver-stringed guitar.

Tony Wendice's Mistake

An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.

What You See of Me

Gwen and her boyfriend Adam stumble into an open relationship. However, the light-hearted experiment gradually turns into a flurry of jealousy and unforeseen feelings. As their relationship is put under more and more pressure, Gwen has to face a familiar fear: of being alone.

Equator

Although based on a novel by Georges Simenon, director (and songwriter) Serge Gainsbourg has superimposed several dark emotions and a subtle brutality over the weak plot about a man's trip to Africa and his unfortunate passion for a murderess whose amorality sends the disillusioned fellow back to Europe. Sometimes described as frustrating and self-centered, reactions to this film swing across a broad spectrum of complaints -- not the least might be whether or not Gainsbourg is using a clichéd and stereotypical view of "dark Africa" to convey what he sees in his characters.

Small Boat

The photographs of two elderly people used in this work were taken during a train journey in the first half of Ishii's previous work, "Wind crossing" He uses it as a photograph. There is no doubt that these two are particularly memorable for Ishii, but how should we as an audience perceive these acts? Then something occurred to me. In my work "Guiding Star", there is a part where I walk through an underground passage at night during a trip in Hokuriku. That place was Kanazawa. Lately I've been visiting Kanazawa every year for the Maki Asakawa live video screening, but most of the time I travel from Kansai to Kanazawa, or vice versa, by express bus. Then, the bus always passes through that underground passage. Ah, it was here. With that thought in mind, I play with the memories of that trip for a while, no longer happy or sad, but dry and dry. It might be something similar. However, in my case, unlike Ishii's narration in the story, I feel like "it somehow continued to live." M.Yamazaki

Journey to the Sea

The third installment in Arne Skouen's trilogy about mentally challenged children, in solidarity of the involved children and families.

Erbarme dich - Matthäus Passion Stories

Erbarme dich - Matthäus Passion Stories è una narrazione labirintica in cui personaggi noti come Peter Sellars, Emio Greco, Simon Halsey e la pittrice Rinke Nijburg spiegano il loro rapporto speciale con la Passione secondo Matteo di Bach a Ramón Gieling (Johan Cruijff: en un momento dado). Parlano sullo sfondo di una chiesa caduta in rovina, mentre un coro di senzatetto e il Bach Choir & Orchestra di Pieter Jan Leusink provano la Passione. Leusink non è solo il direttore, è lui stesso uno dei personaggi principali, con un passato doloroso in cui questo brano musicale ha avuto un ruolo dominante. Le storie degli altri si alternano senza soluzione di continuità a questa. Impariamo come la Passione secondo Matteo abbia avuto un ruolo decisivo nelle relazioni tra uomini e donne, padri e figli, padri e figlie, madri e i loro bambini non ancora nati e, infine, che nonostante le nostre differenze troviamo tutti un denominatore comune nel segreto della musica di Bach.

Blindsided

Blind man and apple pie connoisseur Walter Cookeventures to his neighborhood corner store to buy milk and apples. When mafia thugs try to shake down the storeowner, Walter shows them what a blind martial artist is capable of!

Be-Bop High School

An upbeat, action-filled drama that depicts the lives of two obnoxious high school students, Koji and Toru, who are caught in exciting and dangerous adventures involving their fellow students. Based on the best selling comic series, “Be-Bop High School” has gained popularity among the young audience, and become an icon of Japan’s pop culture in the 1980’s.

Cloven

A short horror film based on a popular Bahraini folktale.

Just 1 Day

Mosaic, an urban sketch artist suffering from motor neurone disease, meets an old school friend, Angelfish, at a class reunion. As his illness takes a tragic hold, he asks her to fulfil one wish - to be his girlfriend for just a day.

Mukunda Murari

A shopkeeper takes God to court when his shop is destroyed by an earthquake