Just like gravity, karma works everywhere, even though you don’t see it. You only see the result. All over Asia you see people with impossible loads on their bicycles, scooters or small vehicles. Here a man tries to lift a truly impossible freight in an impossible and hostile environment. The unusual landscape emphasises the metaphorical quality of his toils. Serious as evidence and yet unmistakably funny.
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Brises
Ramirez grew up under the dictatorship in Chile, in his mother’s arms. She told him that, paradoxically, it was the happiest period of her life.
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Bright Future: Tiger Awards Competition Short Films
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zasto ne govorim srpski (na srpskom)
Phil Collins’ film avoids heavy-handed political messages in favour of intimate, vulnerable portrayals of individuals within a community. A masterfull
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Bright Future: Tiger Awards Competition Short Films
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Les ruissellements du diable
A short film in which reality and fiction are subtly mixed while the boundaries of male and female are extended.
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Bright Future: Tiger Awards Competition Short Films
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Film details
- Country of production
- Thailand
- Year
- 2009
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 10"
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
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