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Labyrinth of Cinema

"海辺の映画館 キネマの玉手箱"

(dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi)

A movie can change the world!

Filming in his hometown of Onomichi for the first time in 20 years, director Nobuhiko Obayashi’s new film invites us into an intoxicating cinematic world. Against a backdrop that traces the history of Japan’s wars, Labyrinth of Cinema shapeshifts between styles and genres, drawing influences from silent films, talkies, action flicks, musicals, and more - and creates something triumphantly unique in the process.

Ôbayashi, with a boundless optimism, showcases the raw energy within the medium and the power for cinema to enact real change, as three youths are transported through time into the projected world, fated to cross paths with three heroines through disparate timelines and settings within the silver screen.

Bloodsuckers

"Blutsauger"

(dir. Julian Radlmaier)

A Marxist vampire comedy about longing and Das Kapital

1928: Lyovuschka, a Soviet worker, is cast in the role of Trotsky for Eisenstein‘s latest film. His dreams of an actor‘s life are shattered when Trotsky falls into Stalin‘s disgrace and he is edited out of the film. Now he wants to try his luck in Hollywood. But at the moment he‘s stuck in a glamorous seaside resort in Germany where, walking the beach one day, he meets the eccentric factory owner Octavia Flambow-Jansen and her clumsy servant, Jakob. A summer romance kicks off – just too bad there are vampires around.

Bloodsuckers

"Blutsaugers"

(dir. Julian Radlmaier)

A Marxist vampire comedy about longing and Das Kapital

1928: Lyovuschka, a Soviet worker, is cast in the role of Trotsky for Eisenstein‘s latest film. His dreams of an actor‘s life are shattered when Trotsky falls into Stalin‘s disgrace and he is edited out of the film. Now he wants to try his luck in Hollywood. But at the moment he‘s stuck in a glamorous seaside resort in Germany where, walking the beach one day, he meets the eccentric factory owner Octavia Flambow-Jansen and her clumsy servant, Jakob. A summer romance kicks off – just too bad there are vampires around.

 

Fukuoka

(dir. Zhang Lu)

 

Hae-hyo and Jea-moon were very good pals in college, eventually going their separate ways after falling in love with the same girl. They have not seen or heard from each other ever since. As time passes and Jea-moon approaches middle age, the memory of his college life becomes ever more refreshed, and begins to haunt him more and more frequently. At this moment, a strange girl, So-dam, not only intrudes into his quiet second-hand bookstore, but also disturbs his life, urging him to set out on a long journey to Japan to look for Hae-hyo. In Japan, when three of them finally meet in a local pub, can the problems of their past be reconciled?

Fukuoka

(dir. Zhang Lu)

Hae-hyo and Jea-moon were very good pals in college, eventually going their separate ways after falling in love with the same girl. They have not seen or heard from each other ever since. As time passes and Jea-moon approaches middle age, the memory of his college life becomes ever more refreshed, and begins to haunt him more and more frequently. At this moment, a strange girl, So-dam, not only intrudes into his quiet second-hand bookstore, but also disturbs his life, urging him to set out on a long journey to Japan to look for Hae-hyo. In Japan, when three of them finally meet in a local pub, can the problems of their past be reconciled?

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