Future. The world after the disaster, the people who survived, are predominantly those that dig the remains of the former civilization, and their findings sell or change at roadside markets. The unusual finding family that travels in search of drinking water, transports them to another life..
Set in Philippine post-American colonialist era, where the American influence was still apparent, Ilusyon tells the story of Miguel, a young man from the countryside, who decides to visit his father, Pablo, a Modernist painter in Manila. Upon his arrival, he discovers that his father has decided to leave for the province but he opted to stay in Manila for a vacation. One day, he meets Stella, a nude model originally scheduled to pose for Miguel's father. Struck by her beauty, Miguel does the unthinkable - he pretends to be his father the painter. Developing a relationship based on a lie, things turn for the worse as Stella begets a strange skin disease that turns off Miguel. Surrounded by strange characters - a talking cow, a talkative mailman and a nosy landlady - Miguel is driven into a frenzy realization about beauty, lust, love and being true to oneself. An ambiguous ending underlines the surreal tone of the film..
A short disaster-movie shot on minidv. Yabbadabbadoo.
Independent animation by Shimamura Tatsuo..
Police officer Li Yuen-Wah (Carrie Ng) disguises herself as a musician and sneaks into a gang..
A Berber film that tells the story of a newlywed couple who work as teachers, after a great search they find a house for a small price, but the house is haunted by the ghost of a small child. Instead of leaving the house, the couple tries to solve the mystery of the child by searching for his family and his fate.
Story of a successful businessman, who has to protect his business in difficult conditions. He gets entrapped into the net of law enforcement structures and after arrest the protagonist starts to notice weird things: some of his interlocutors appear to be not real persons, but phantoms, created by his consciousness. Fantomness, dematerialization of things that are obvious for common sense brings the author to the next stage of thinking - that the illusion of fear is also fruit of our imagination..
Meizi is a famous mystery writer, who witnessed her scandal-ridden father killing her mother when she was a child. She suffered greatly as a child. After marriage, Meizi found that her husband, Luo Tiancheng, was always with other women, and therefore she was crushed. At the same time, some unusual things happened in her home continuously. Doors always shut suddenly, televisions automatically turned on, curtains often closed by themselves. Although she is a mystery writer, Meizi could not explain these things. When she successfully captured her husband's heart and kept his mistress away, she realised that the truth was out of her expectation..
Directed by Nadia Hamza..
At the airport, Lei Peng met a gentle girl who was highly similar to his ex-girlfriend, and he also met Shu Dai, a strange man who tried to match them up. The two parties reached a contract to "pretend to be a couple". A series of sweet and funny farce unfolded. It’s all calm, what's wrong, an astonishing truth surfaced, pointing directly to the accidental death of his ex-girlfriend.
This is an adventure story about a Chinese hero. It describes a battle between Shennong, the god-king of Chinese medicine, and a beast created by his own illusion..
The untold story about the rise and fall of Israel's most famous magic duo - Chico and Diko, who were huge stars in Israel in the 80's..
We think that we know people with whom we communicate all our lives, we know who they are and what they are capable of. But these are just images that we have drawn in our heads that have nothing to do with reality. You can never be completely sure which person is in front of you, what her weaknesses are, and how many personalities she hides in herself. Human is an illusion..
Since childhood Victor perfectly manipulated others in his own interest. Until one day he discovered that his entire life Victor himself had been an object of some cleverly thought out manipulation..
A moody portrait of Lithuanian Jewish writer and literary critic Jokūbas Josadė, who looks back on his wasted life..
An author's struggle between what he wants to write and what others might want to read culminates into a surrealist novel..