This experimental documentary film explores the unique personality and intellectual brilliance of Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, including his uncanny predictions regarding the effects of communication technologies on culture and society.
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CHINNA CHINNA AASAI (Small Wishes)
An ambitious young woman trapped in an archaic village decides to shed the limitations of her coveted long hair for a chance at a life on her own terms.
Nai Nai
Nai Nai means Grandma in Mandarin. Our film is about a Chinese grandmother who, after surviving the Nanking Massacre in 1938, develops a deep-seated grudge towards the Japanese. More than half a century later, as the wounds of the past continue to fester, Nai Nai is forced to confront this hatred when her granddaughter, Mei, brings home her Japanese fiancé, Ken. Will Nai Nai learn to accept her granddaughter's love? Or will she be forever stuck in the past?
Proximity
Proximity follows a day in the life of a woman living in an isolated town, working all day on land while waiting for her husband's boat to return from sea.
Though she longs to be out on the water, she is expected to be anchored to their home, where her labour is solitary and unseen. As she goes through her tasks, the "feminine" and "masculine" alike, she is reminded that she has everything she needs to be free.
Currents
Emma, a young actress, is stuck working odd jobs to make ends meet while waiting for her career to take off. For the next few weeks, she is housesitting for a rich couple, in the suburbs of Geneva, who are gone on a ski trip.
Her days are far from full. Little by little, the house seems to take an unexpected effect on her.
The Girl from Dak Lak
Sương, a young girl from rural Vietnam, migrates to the bustling city of Saigon to work in a local eatery with two other migrant workers. Within the caging, barren walls of the eatery, their mornings are filled with repetitive tasks, and the rest of the day with vacuous, tedious hours. However, behind her veil of apathy, Suong battles a dilemma that she soon has to face with her family.