Panorama
Embark on a Journey to Discover the World Together
The encounter between film and reality is a burst of blazing passion.
This Reality Rocks section invites you to embark on a journey to discover the world: We go deep into the desert prison, listen to the voice of the heart, meet friends, watch two full-scale dramas, and express the love of cinephiles. We see the vastness of the world, marvel at the grand landscape, sing the music of love, yearn for the ideal life, and cherish our current life...
Your truth I see. Let’s sketch the outline of the world through meticulous and moving observations.
Averroès & Rosa Parks
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Second part of the “Psychiatric Center Trilogy” by Golden Bear winner Nicolas Philibert. Listen to the loneliest voices in the world together.
Averroès et Rosa Parks is a Parisian treatment facility for mental disorders. The focus On the Adamant on mental disorders is continued. This time, Nicolas Philibert explores the cognitive pattern of the mentally disturbed. One-on-one diagnosis and treatment for patients and group therapy by patients and doctors demonstrate the unique cognition of the mentally disturbed about their own life and social life in the treatment process. Intense self-awareness and delicate spiritual feeling become challenges for the mentally disordered to re-integrate into society. The loneliest people in the world are gathered here. Where does it lead to a place for soothing the spirit?
Tehachapi
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When street art appears in the desert, JR has a sincere encounter with the prisoners in the prison. In 2019, artist JR, who co-produced the documentary Faces Places with French New Wave grandmother Agnès Varda, went to a felon prison in the desert of California, USA, to start his new art project using his black-and-white portrait photography and paste-up art. This place is synonymous with riots and horror – most of the prisoners have been imprisoned for almost a decade, and many will spend the rest of their lives here. JR went to the most dangerous prison in the United States, where he worked with inmates to create a photographic collage that was honestly documented by the camera.
The Yangtze River
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A new sincere, moving production for righteous ardor by Takeuchi Ryo! Japanese documentary filmmaker Takeuchi Ryo put down roots in Nanjing, China, ten years ago. This is the second time he completed the 6,300-kilometer journey ten years later. He set out from Shanghai, and passed through Chongqing, Yunnan and other places before arriving in the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, where he went to see the “first drop of water at the source of the Yangtze River”.
This journey is full of anticipation, and also made up for his previous regrets, contrasting the memories ten years ago with the present. He searched for old friends. It turned out that they all remembered their past experience. He made new friends. “It turns out that there are so many places in China that I have not yet visited.” The film leads the audience to experience the fun, to be touched, and to feel the surging emotions!
Anselm 3D
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A perfect colossal screen! It is a chance meeting between two German contemporary art giants! Anselm Kiefer, the “painting poet reared in ruins”, reminds us of oblivion, trauma and silence in history, mythology, nature and life with the most amazing appearance. A work is a frozen story, and the transient emotions are captured by him. Thanks to the 3D language of the film, we return to the scene of Anselm Kiefer’s inspirational burst, follow the camera to pass through the long history, and feel the poetry and shiver of life in an immersive way. Viewing Kiefer and his works through the camera of Wim Wenders is perhaps even more sensational than going to the scene in person!
Cinéma Laika 4K
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Aki Kaurismäki built the town’s cinema himself, and Jim Jarmusch made a surprise appearance! If you are fond of Kaurismäki’s dry humor, you can’t miss this most cool journey to pursue a dream with passion. Up-and-coming director Veljko Vidak uses the most natural lens to document the metamorphosis of Cinéma Laika from an abandoned factory to its opening! It is a perfect town cinema that tickles the fancy of cinephiles. Will there be a film festival here? What is the plan of Kaurismäki and his buddies?
A Holy Family
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The Taiwanese version of Four Springs. It is a documentary about the original family, belief in god, love and death. Returning to homeland is the satisfaction of longing for some people, but for others, it is a heavy heart and an inescapable burden. After running away from his family for 20 years, director Elvis Lu returns to his family and tries to find a solution to his troubled mind. His father gambled with an oracle while neglecting the family. His mother worshiped the god all day long and toiled and moiled all her life. His senior brother claimed to be a good-for-nothing psychic who conveyed God’s will. Elvis Lu confronted his unspeakable innermost feelings, and finally walked out of the picture in three years.
The director of this film, Elvis Lu, will attend the meet-and-greets with cast & crew. Please stay tuned for the schedule of the screening.
The Gift Of Time
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Looking back, “Weizhou was originally called the small Suzhou”. With a national style and ancient charm, it shows its true appearance. Weifang, a city in the hinterland of Qi culture in Shandong Province, was a famous handicraft city in the Ming and Qing dynasties. As a song goes, “Suzhou in the South, Weixian County in the North”. The film focuses on the development status of nine intangible cultural heritage projects in Weifang, discovering the daily life of bearers of intangible cultural heritage and narrating the stories of the preservation of intangible cultural heritage to spread the millennial culture.
The New Formosa Mambo
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Mambo dance brings poetry to life, presenting a scene of ideal life through the camera. If we say Like the Dyer’s Hand is about the poet’s rich tapestry of life and legendary life, then this film shows the fantasy charm of the poet and poetry in a new way. As shown by the lens of poet Tse Yang, anachronistic poets novelist, musician and singer, and nomadic youth meet by chance, becoming the protagonists of this film with the local scenery of Taiwan. Through poetry, it explores Taiwan’s local culture, revealing the nostalgic folk lifestyle that the poet is obsessed with. The side show of the poet and the frenzy of the showman are free and dreamlike, like mambo.
Time in the Garden
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Each garden in Suzhou is an exquisite eastern cosmos. Fall into a slumber and explore the scenery of the mountains and rivers.
The camera focuses on the daily life of the three Suzhou uncles and their families in four seasons, and investigates their well-tended private gardens. The Cai family’s Cuiyuan Garden, Zuishi Residence, and Quanshi Building; the Ji Family’s Daoqin Building; and the Wang family’s Jiashu Hall, which natural and unrestrained charm of the areas south of the Yangtze River. However, the dream gardens these uncles had painstakingly built in their lives faced the crisis of inheritance. Is it a vision or a shackle? The vicissitudes crafted by the ravines on the bizarre rocks in the gardens betoken the insoluble loneliness of the garden builders.
Bitter Sweet Ballad
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It is the Chinese version of “The Chorus”, where the humble dream speaks. There is a chorus, as ordinary as others, gathering a group of people who love music. There is a chorus, which is a bit special, born in Dandelion School, Beijing’s first school geared to the children of migrant workers. The film focuses on and follows the daily training of the four choir members, as well as their respective schooling and family situations. There are the fetters of domicile of origin, the pressure of entrance examinations, the embarrassment of the voice mutation period and the pervasive social rules. The harsh reality puts to the test the immature love of music. The future may not be what is expected, but we will eventually achieve it.
Ice World
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The hidden dimension of Harbin Ice and Snow World presents ice and snow technology beyond your wildest dreams! It took half a century for Harbin to advance from the 1963 Ice Lantern Parade to the world-famous Ice and Snow World. It is a place where ice and snow craftsmanship is being innovated and leads the world, and there is unique century sentiment that continues even today. It only takes 15 days to complete the whole process of mining ice on the Songhua River and building the magnificent ice city wonder. The film brings us into the unknown world of ice, revealing the ecology of ice construction and telling the story of how numerous migrant workers, skilled workers, and carving artists from all over the world work together to create an ice and snow world in cold northern China.
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