An absent father returns to take his two small children to their missing mother in a simple tale that blossoms into complexities about life and death like a piece of origami in Kazuya Murayama’s charming if at times overreaching ‘The Ballet Lesson’.
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Fatih Akin’s ‘Ghost Song’ (‘Geister’) takes supernatural screen romance to its breaking point, but even those who don’t shed a tear over teenagers’ death wishes will admire the high-class scenery and pacing.
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Cincuenta años después de los sucesos narrados en Garage Olimpo —la estremecedora denuncia de Marco Bechis sobre la tortura y el asesinato en Argentina a manos de una brutal dictadura militar—, el cineasta chileno-italiano toma los pedazos de grupo de sobrevivientes en una obra de ficción igualmente oscura e intensa: Regreso a Buenos Aires.
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Fifty years after the events recounted in ‘Garage Olimpo’, Marco Bechis’s blood-curdling exposé of torture and murder in Argentina at the hands of a brutal military dictatorship, ‘Back to Buenos Aires’ picks up the shattered pieces of the survivors in an equally dark and intense work.
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Ali Asgari’s delicate exploration of living and suffering provides a viewpoint from today’s Iran looking out, in his spot-on snapshot of life in times of uncertainy, ‘A Bit of Light’.
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