The story is the fictional account of the last five minutes of the acclaimed painter Vincent Van Gogh who was a failure in his lifetime. Death who has come to take him makes an offer which Van Gogh rejects and accepts the hands of death gracefully.
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Soul of the Sea (Liremu Barana)
Arisa dances every day and night to songs that tell of the struggles of her people and her ancestors. Music and memory form a lyrical meditation on young womanhood, identity, and belonging in a Garifuna community in Guatemala.
Pacaroni
A teenage boy must cope with the loss of his mother as he eats her final plate of home cooked pasta.
Eeb Allay Ooo!
Eeb Allay Ooo! follows the absurd, and at times outright farcical journey of Anjani, a young migrant who is hired to shoo away rampaging monkeys from Government offices by mimicking aggressive langurs- their natural enemies. The struggles and misadventures of Anjani become the lens to examine the realities and contradictions of contemporary India. The underside of a farce, after all, is its involuntary participants.
Bare Trees In The Mist
A young mother (Kaali) and her young son hear that a villager who returned home from abroad has brought them gifts. At first Kaali rejects this possibility outright. But a combination of poverty, desperation and hope eventually makes her walk miles to greet him. At the onset of winter with no contact from her husband – himself somewhere in Arabia – Kaali finds herself on the brink.
The Last Stitch
Born to a family of tailors, Tommy Sung grew up in the trade. When his father died, he and his wife Connie took over the family business. In 1996, facing the imminent handover of Hong Kong to China, the couple decided to emigrate to Canada. There, they successfully rebuilt their business making traditional Chinese cheongsam. Twenty years on, they’re ready to retire. But what of the skills that have been handed down in their family for three generations?