Alva
After his children are taken away by social services, a troubled loner seeks revenge and flees into the inhospitable forest.
98'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
Cars and trucks only just avoid hitting Zhou Jun. With a half-empty bottle of booze in his hand and a photo hung around his neck, he staggers towards the oncoming traffic. He’s lost his little boy, he mutters to a taxi driver who picks him up and takes him on a free night-time ride. The men may not even know where they’re going.
This is the start of Walking in Darkness, a frame story told from the back seat, where Zhou Jun slowly sobers up as his flashbacks get closer to a confrontational reality. Writer and director Tang Tang, who based his film on the book A Walking Cigarette, seamlessly intertwines memories from different periods. Events from an unruly wedding are smoothly mixed with Zhou Jun’s quest for his son. And for old lovers, who disappeared mysteriously. With his fragmentary editing, Tang deliberately sets out to confuse, eventually reaching a conclusion that is both oppressive and liberating.
IFFR 2019
Programme IFFR 2019
Emerging talent with original subject matter and an individual style. Includes the films nominated for the Bright Future Competition for first feature films.
Read more about this programmeAfter his children are taken away by social services, a troubled loner seeks revenge and flees into the inhospitable forest.
98'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
Fourteen absurd encounters of a melancholy girl with the surrounding world in this post-modern comedy filled with pastel and neon lights.
80'
Germany
IFFR 2019
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77'
Jamaica
IFFR 2019