Red Herring

Bakmiracle

October 2023 •Indonesian

Latief, a noodle shop employee who is disappointed with his father, hopes to have a father figure like his boss, and miraculously his wish comes true after Latief eats noodles using magic chopsticks that he got from a mysterious grandfather.

Pictures of the Old World

July 1972 •Slovak

A raw and telling portrait of a people left behind by the modern world, inspired by the work of photographer Martin Martinček - whose pictures of the inhabitants of the Liptov region in central Slovakia, encompassed by the Tatra mountains, distilled entire lifetimes into luminous and intransient images. Dušan Hanák's continuation of these photographs takes the shape of a poetic visual essay, capturing more comprehensive vignettes of their isolate human experiences.

The First Movie

December 2009 •English

Filmmaker Mark Cousins, who was brought up in a Northern Irish war zone, travels to Goptapa, a Kurdish-Iraqi village of just seven hundred people on a tributary of the Tigris river, and tries to make a dream film about a place that is normally only portrayed in current affairs programmes. He gives the kids cameras, and they make their own little movies about war, love, a fish that goes to a magical place, and a chicken who debates justice.

Agham

September 2024 •English

A writer escapes to a distant land to flee his past and pen his autobiography. However, he soon finds himself caught in a series of strange events, which eventually take a new turn.

Blue Is the Warmest Color

October 2013 •French

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

'Til We Meet Again

April 1940 •English

Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.

Anamnesis

July 2021 •Portuguese

An audiovisual representation of the degenerative dementia process based on real reports from people affected with this condition.

Tom Parker: Inside My Head

October 2021 •English

This moving film for Stand Up To Cancer follows The Wanted's Tom Parker as he and his family learn to live with Tom's brain tumour diagnosis and Tom arranges a star-studded charity concert.

Illumination

September 1973 •Polish

Krzysztof Zanussi's groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart.

The Last 10 Years

March 2022 •Japanese

Twenty-year-old Matsuri Takabayashi learns that she only has ten years to live due to an incurable disease. She decides to not dwell on her life and not to fall in love – until she meets a man named Kazuto Manabe at a school reunion.

The Body's Witness

July 2016 •

A young man confronts himself at 80.

My Dead Body

December 2022 •English

The extraordinary moving story of Toni Crews, a young mum with a rare terminal cancer who charted her illness online before donating her body for medical research and public dissection.

À la recherche de la jeunesse perdue

November 2022 •French

What if science could reverse the aging process? Follow the researchers as they decipher these mechanisms, with the promise of finding the elixir of youth so you can live longer, healthier lives!

Autorretrato

November 2024 •Spanish

Miyama, Kyōto Prefecture

May 2023 •German

The follow-up film to “Barstow, California” takes us to the mountains of Miyama, a remote forest and tourist area north of Kyoto. Uwe Walter, a shakuhachi player from Germany, lives there with his wife Mitsuyo for 30 years. Together with the villagers he prepares the annual Gion Festival. On the eve of the festival, the village representatives tell him that his self-built studio is to be demolished. This brings back memories for him of earlier times and his first steps as a Nō actor. In the manner of a fresco, the film interweaves rural depictions of everyday life with the story of its German protagonist. In the village community with its togetherness of generations, Uwe shares life with his neighbours, with farmers, hunters, woodsmen, poultry farmers and anglers, tills his kitchen garden, and like other tradition-conscious villagers, he also grows his rice. The film shows them in a harsh mountain landscape between the rainy season and the first snow.

Glare

October 2021 •English

An experimental attempt that examines the four corners of the inner zoned quarantine world to question a person.

Etugen

January 2023 •French

What is the purpose of our existence ? What is the soul ? Which are the power of mind, of conscience ? What is our link to nature ? Pondering these existential questions, this movie invites us to find out an universal wisdom, meeting shamans, healers, yogis, but also philosophers and doctors. From Mongolia plains to the Amazonian forest, it leads us far than we expected at first.

Time is the Thief of Memory

March 2024 •English

A meditation on memory around Iceland's famous Ring Road.

感染はどこまで拡がるのか～緊急報告 新型ウイルス肺炎

February 2020 •Japanese

First Aid Action

January 1973 •English

Concentrates upon basic first aid steps. Simulated situations provide an opportunity to discuss and demonstrate mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, shock, bleeding, burns, fractures, poisoning and sudden illness. A recap is made of all first aid directions. Shots of real accidents provide realism which reinforce the film’s theme. Narrated by Burt Reynolds. ACMI Identifier 003727