HUMAN DOC FILM FESTIVAL
AFRIN: ZDRADZIL NAS SWIAT (AFRIN: THE WORLD BETRAYED US)
Watchable. Shows how strong the Kurdish militants are but doesn't explain what is going on in the region.
I learnt more from the makers in the meeting after the screening. Apparently ISIS has 31000 militants in Iraq and Syria, 4000 in Lebanon and 4000 in Afghanistan. They're supported by Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The Free Syrian Army is bankrolled by the US and Western Europe, e.g. Germany. Assad's regime in turn is financed by Iran and Russia. Turkey talks to Iran and Russia in order to control the region. In the depicted events in Afrin people were injured from debris, not shots, chaos ruled, no one knew what was happening.
This film is available free on VOD till the end of 2018.
I loved the Q&A formula at this festival with everyone able to ask questions any time, without waiting for the official presenter to finish theirs. There was a decent gender ratio of presenters and experts too. Actually the presenters were all experts themselves too.
RAMEN TEH (RAMEN SHOP)
Recommended. A beautiful story of reconciliation between nations. Cute lead actor 斎藤工 (Takumi Saito). The food in the film is heavy on meat, fish and seafood and I'm vegetarian but the mawkish tale of the search of one's origins through cuisine appeals to me in spite of that.
SE ROKH (2 FACES)
Watchable. The beginning is overtalked. But later, when countryside superstitions come to fore and you realise that to locals foreskin is more important than a girl's career in terms of ensuring life success, it becomes exotic and intriguing.
W WEGIERSKIM OBIEKTYWIE (IN HUNGARIAN CAMERA LENS)
A SATAN FATTYA (SATAN'S BASTARD)
Watchable. A bit too slow, allowing to drift away at times. Fantastic cinematography paints the film like old photographs: rusty black and white dominates the palette, faces are slightly pink, flowers and apples are dashes of bright red. Music magnifies the artistic impact and the story engages.
MORTAL ENGINES
Watchable. Steampunk treated literally. There's steam and there are punks. Starts with a succinct intro about the ancients who destroyed the world. Then comes action-packed chaos. 1000 years from now - we are "the ancients" - the surface of our planet is broken up in pieces unstable tectonically so people live in mobile cities with the political opposition inhabiting the creviced surface. The downtrodden ones drink mud and eat off the gutter. Slave trade is rife. London is a crowded city on wheels which has retained "ancient" site names hence Tottenham Court Road Station or St. Paul's Energy. It exhibits Minions as "ancient American gods" in the museum. One of protagonists' mother's name's Pandora and Airhaven looks like a floating mountain from "Avatar". The resurrected resembles a terminator and the mobile cities are similar to transformers. A lethal device is called "Cat's Cradle" like Kurt Vonnegut's book satirizing arms race. Shoddy scenography. Everything does look rusty and flimsy though.
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