The Skywalk is Gone
Tien chao bu jien le
The film looks like an exercise in casualness. An exercise in narrating as if there is no narration. The (candid) camera follows a woman who wants to cross a busy road. Another woman, with a heavy suitcase, is trying to do the same thing. Before the two have reached the other side, this subtle fictional element seems to have been entirely assimilated into a documentary observation. In the end, the fiction re-emerges from the documentary urban river, but by then the woman has already gone on her way.
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Green Card
Young Afghan film maker in Teheran follows in the footsteps of Kiarostami. With a cameo part for the Dutch embassy.
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Film details
- Countries of production
- France, Taiwan
- Year
- 2002
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2003
- Length
- 23"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
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