Director: Joël Farges

A Thousand Desires Like These

Set against the backdrop of the Indian Emergency, the movie tells the story of three youngsters in the 70s, when India was undergoing massive social and political changes. The movie's title is taken from the couplet of Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib.

Platform

China's rapid changes from the late-1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.

The Garden

Jakub's life arrived at a dead-end. He leaves his job, and gets into conflict with his father. The trouble just grows by his relation with a married woman. Breaking out, Jakub realizes the pleasures of the countryside in the old garden of his grandfather. He finds true love with an angel, and encounters various exciting moments of his new free life. Strange visitors arrive, and he wont get back to town anymore.

Shadow Kill

A hangman questions the moral implications of his job after learning that he executed an innocent man.