The young Myriam, after a new quarrel with her boyfriend, is killed … Prisoner of a dimension suspended between darkness and light, she meets a mysterious woman who will help her remember.
Categorie: LBL 2023
CHENTE & HIS ENDLESS PLAYING HARP
Chente & His Endless Playing Harp is a story of a young man who finds himself drowning in his own thoughts and existence. That is until he meets Chente, a wise man who helps him unravel the secrets of life’s true meaning.
ECHOES
Charting two nights and two days in the life of a woman attempting to navigate the near-aftermath of the death of her husband, and her children’s father, whilst in the fog of numbing, directionless grief. Camping in the woods provides some measure of escape for her and her children but when this fragile equilibrium is disturbed she is forced to confront her loss head-on.
SOILED SIGHTS
Xiao Liu returns to his hometown to visit his grandmother, who is critically ill and in a coma. In an attempt to grow closer to Xiao Liu, his grandfather takes him into the wilderness to hunt wild dogs. Late at night, the grandchild discusses the love between his grandparents in the past, and whether his grandmother feels pain. While the two decide to cook his grandmother’s favorite dish overnight, the bedridden grandmother suddenly opens her eyes…
ETERNI
To try to recover from my brother’s death due to brain disease, I travel to one end of the planet. Alone, at the top of a mountain and at the edge of an abyss, I find a balance between life and death. Two years later, I return to that place and, subjectively, I talk that only there, in Tierra del Fuego, with cold and exhaustion, I was able to see my brother’s face and taste a fragment of comfort.
PARTICULES FINES
While he waits for his driving school instructor, Gaspard encounters Camille. They are eighteen years old. Gaspard is ironic and a braggart. Camille is altruistic and committed to causes. They don’t hit it off. Ten years later, they share the same car. Camille is in the driver’s seat.
HOW I DIE (DIE FAEHRE)
The journey of a remarkable young Berlin woman facing her imminent death. Halina has gracefully accepted that she is dying of cancer. But a burning desire to return to her family studio over two hours away, in Lübbow, and to relive the spring festival, becomes her last wish. Surrounding herself in beauty, she shares her thoughts about her life and dying, spends moments with her family and little daughter, and prepares for the last journey. An intimate story of embracing the unknown.
BLIND SPOT
Under the dictatorship of Ben Ali, a man is kidnapped, tortured and killed, then vanishes without ever being found. Thirty years later, he comes back to talk to us. Taking over the question of his mother: “Where did you abandon my son’s body?”
DEATH IN THE CITY
A film in three movements: Spiritual, metaphysical, experiential. With legendary funeral pyres burning non-stop for over three millennia, situated on the holy Ganga, ‘the river of life’, the sacred city of Varanasi is, for Hindus, the dream destination for death. It has been the revered death destination for Hindus since time immemorial, founded on the belief that dying in Varanasi, breaks the repeated cycle of rebirth, with the creator, taking the departed soul directly to heaven as he whispers the Tarak Mantra into their ear. The geography of this sacred Hindu seat is likened to that of Lord Shiva himself, outstretched along the Ganga, where only in Varanasi, the river flows northward. Shot across four years, 2018 – 2021, Death in the City is an intimate portrayal of ‘The City of Life and Death’, its myriad communities who live and work in its ancient streets; including those waiting to die or those working with the dead, along with rare access to the death worshipping Aghori Saints. The most pressured crematorium in the world, Varanasi’s relationship with death is at the same time auspicious, spiritual, and industrial.