Obywatel poeta

Song is a story of the last Finnish rune singer and his pupil, and the comforting power of singing.

Runtime

1h 22m

Director

Selma Vilhunen

Cast

Jussi Huovinen, Hanneriina Moisseinen, Sólveig Thoroddsen

Few of us have stopped to consider the lives of the workers who manufacture the objects that make up our daily lives. We use these objects without knowing anything about the Foxconn plants in which they are made, or even where these factories are located, let alone who works in them. One such worker was the young Chinese poet Xu Lizhi,...

Runtime

1h 36m

Cast

Wu Xia, Xu Lizhi, Wu Niaoniao

Poetry, literature, painting and old film clips converge in this lyrical, unusually designed film essay about Le Moulin, the Taiwanese poets’ collective which protested in the 1930s against the cultural superiority of the Japanese occupier and the domination of realism in poetry.

Runtime

2h 42m

Director

Huang Ya-Li

Cast

Liang Chun-wen, Lee Ming-wei, Ian Shen

A biography of the poet W. B. Yeats and his contribution to the Irish independence movement as a Protestant nationalist.

Runtime

1h 40m

Cast

Bob Geldof, Stephen Fry, Van Morrison

A theatrical documentary about Hrytsko Chubai, a genius of Ukrainian poetry, a connoisseur of literature, art and music and the brightest representative of Lviv underground culture of late 60s early 70s.

Runtime

1h 43m

Cast

Serhiy Zhadan

In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've ...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Joey Ansah

Leung is the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even Wong's son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destr...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Vincent Sze Cho-Lam, Richard Ng Yiu-Hon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa