Program 2, Saturday, June 29, 3 pm, Thai Film Archive

The Source (La Source) / William S. Touitou / France / 2018 / 00:17:10

In a popular neighborhood in the Paris suburbs, hours and days following an attack committed in Paris by Brahim, a young man from the hood. His family and friends are shocked and wonder...

Tropics / Mathilde Lavenne / France / 2018 / Documentary / Experimental /00:13:36

Tropics" draws an orbit around a Mexican farm. Scattered voices seem to revive and disturb the memory of the place. Crossing the matter, the film attempts to stop time and men, and reveals the ghost of a lost paradise.

The Shepherd (Gjeteren) / Brwa Vahabpour / Norway / 2018 / 0:17:00

While driving to a wedding, a Kurdish family hits a wild animal. The father, Aram, is forced to decide whether he should kill the animal or attempt to rescue it. Later it becomes clear how Aram struggles to find a place both in his new country as well as within his own family.

Umbra / Florian Fischer, Johannes Krell / Germany / 2019 / 0:20:00

The film deals with rare and common optical phenomena that occur in nature. These phenomena evoke familiar images such as shadows or reflections on a water surface; but also unusual ones like the “Brocken spectre” or the pinhole effect during a solar eclipse. These ancient and natural projections can be considered as pre-cultural and independent of any apparatus. They occurred even before mankind and are united by their intangible, ephemeral presence. In their immateriality and fragility, they are precursors of the cinema image. UMBRA develops a visual dialogue between phenomenon and apparatus, archetype and image, self and self-perception.

The Remains (Avashesh) / Manoj Babu Panta / Nepal / 2018 / 00:16:26

An old fisherman overcomes his solitude by playing a game with his own reflection as a child in a river bank.

Elena / Jesús Reyes / Colombia / 2018 / 00:17:45

Elena finds a paramilitary wounded in combat and helps him. While he is recovering, he realizes that he is in the house of a boy that his group has killed.