Ashes By Name Is Man
Pensive impressions of landscape, religion and ancestry give texture to this deeply meditative exploration of a homeland.
20'
Germany
IFFR 2023
Celestial spheres morph into a drizzle of flowers and leaves: translucent, buoyant and dreamlike. With an inquisitive, meditative score by Kim Kwangseok of sparse folk and lingering tolling of bells, Flower Rain is a photochemical, X-ray journey through the compositions and cosmic gateways of bloom.
– Fiona Armour
IFFR 2023
- 8'
- South Korea
- 2022
- Director
- Gao Wei
- Premiere
- World premiere (festival)
- Country of production
- South Korea
- Year
- 2022
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 8'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- 漫天花雨
- Language
- no dialogue
- Producer
- Gao Wei
- Sales
- Re:Voir
- Cinematography
- Gao Wei
- Editor
- Gao Wei
- Production Design
- Gao Wei
- Sound Design
- Gao Wei
- Music
- Kim Kwangseok
Also in this combined programme
The Funeral of Spring
A peasant woman in rural China faces the repressive bindings of her environment.
18'
Hong Kong
IFFR 2023
Goodbye Words
In the aftermath of death, what becomes of the books we leave behind?
22'
Finland
IFFR 2023
- Director
- Gao Wei
- Premiere
- World premiere (festival)
- Country of production
- South Korea
- Year
- 2022
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 8'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- 漫天花雨
- Language
- no dialogue
- Producer
- Gao Wei
- Sales
- Re:Voir
- Cinematography
- Gao Wei
- Editor
- Gao Wei
- Production Design
- Gao Wei
- Sound Design
- Gao Wei
- Music
- Kim Kwangseok
Programme IFFR 2023
Short & Mid-length
Just as long as it takes. The Short & Mid-length film programme offers a unique showcase of films under 63 minutes.
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An affecting meditation on the pain experienced by refugees forced to live in limbo.
12'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
3 Lieder
Timeless, silent film vignettes based on songs from Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe. A tribute to early film.
7'
Germany
IFFR 2023
3 Peonies
Flowers are stuck down and covered by tape: a wry comment on 20th-century modernist art.
3'
United States
IFFR 2023