Alba
Alba is a shy girl who goes to live with her solitary father when her mother has to go to hospital. A moving debut from Ecuador.
98'
Ecuador
IFFR 2016
"You’re too naive." Those words are used to silence more than one person in this corny and melancholy satire on the Japanese film industry. There, sex in exchange for a leading role and colleagues who steal your film plan are a matter of course: that’s how this world works, loser.
Tetsuo is a drip of a filmmaker who, since he scored a modest indie hit in his youth, has never made anything of any significance. Yet he doesn’t give up his dream. And why should he? His ‘Cinema Club’, a murky production company for no-budget film projects, makes it possible for him to exploit a steady flow of ambitious boys and girls and get all of them into his bed. The arrival of two newcomers - a talented scriptwriter and an inexperienced yet promising actress - suddenly offers him a chance to reawaken his film career. But who is going to help him with that?
Tetsuo is a drip of a filmmaker who, since he scored a modest indie hit in his youth, has never made anything of any significance. Yet he doesn’t give up his dream. And why should he? His ‘Cinema Club’, a murky production company for no-budget film projects, makes it possible for him to exploit a steady flow of ambitious boys and girls and get all of them into his bed. The arrival of two newcomers - a talented scriptwriter and an inexperienced yet promising actress - suddenly offers him a chance to reawaken his film career. But who is going to help him with that?
- Director
- Uchida Eiji
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Country of production
- Japan
- Production Year
- 2015
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 110'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Gesu no ai
- Language
- Japanese
- Producer
- Adam Torel
- Production Company
- Third Window Films
- Sales
- Third Window Films
- Screenplay
- Uchida Eiji
- Cinematography
- Noguchi Kenji
- Sound Design
- Kaida Tetsuya
- Cast
- Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Tsuda Kanji
- Website
- http://gesunoai.com
Programme IFFR 2016
Bright Future Main Programme
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Nightmares can leave alarming and intangible traces; viewers also rarely know what's what in this very clever film by Park Hongmin. A realistic thriller? Psychological horror? Influenced with visible pleasure by the etchings of Escher and strikingly situated in a labyrinthine suburb of Seoul.
90'
South Korea
IFFR 2016
Animal político
A cow tries to convince herself she's really happy. But one evening, just before Christmas, she is overwhelmed by a sense of emptiness - a strange, new experience. The crisis makes her decide to go travelling to find her true self. Grippingly existential - but also irresistibly humorous.
76'
Brazil
IFFR 2016