QCinema 2015 Festival Director, Ed Lejano, once said that “diversity” was one of the key features they were looking for in selecting the films for this year’s festival. Thus, with today’s announcement of QCinema 2015’s international line-up of films, it comes as no suprise that the selection is quite eclectic — composed of movies both classic and contemporary, spanning the cinema of different continents, and of varying genres.
The QCinema International Film Festival will run from October 22-31 at Trinoma, Gateway and Robinson’s Galleria cinemas. Without further ado, here’s a compendium of the trailers and synopses of QCinema International Film Festival’s international line-up:
20000 Days on Earth (2014, UK)
“A therapist’s questions and a visit to a voluminous archive propel a dramatization of a day in the life of musician and cultural icon Nick Cave.”
Apocalypse Now (1979, USA)
“In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who has reportedly gone completely mad. In the company of a Navy patrol boat filled with street-smart kids, a surfing-obsessed Air Cavalry officer (Robert Duvall), and a crazed freelance photographer (Dennis Hopper), Willard travels further and further into the heart of darkness.”
Cemetery of Splendour (2015, Thailand)
“A lonely middle-aged housewife tends to a soldier with sleeping sickness.”
Court (2014, India)
“A social activist who uses folk music to spread his message is arrested, accused of inciting a sewage worker’s suicide. Lawyers from both sides of the aisle, and the rote ideologies they represent, are scrutinized as the trial plays out.”
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015, Netherlands/Mexico/Finland/Belgium)
“Venerated filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein (Elmer Bäck) travels to Mexico to shoot his new film after being shunned by Hollywood. There he has a sensual experience that becomes a significant turning point in his life and career.”
Enter the Void (2009, France)
“This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past — where he sees his parents before their deaths — to the present — where he witnesses his own autopsy — and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.”
Gainsbourg by Gainsbourg: An Intimate Self-Portrait (2011, France)
“A stunningly edited collage of rare interviews, archives and sumptuous music portraying France’s most cherished enfant terrible, Serge Gainsbourg, narrated entirely by the artist himself. The clumsy, ugly duckling son of a Russian Jewish cafe pianist went on to become the greatest French songwriter of modern times; director Pierre-Henry Salfati has painstakingly stitched together a wealth of footage to create a thrilling, poetic portrait of the man in his own words. That rarest of biographical films – a biopic that allows the viewer to really get under the skin of a great creative mind.”
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014, Iran)
“Residents of a worn-down Iranian city encounter a skateboarding vampire (Sheila Vand) who preys on men who disrespect women.”
Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991, USA)
“In the late 1970s, as renegade filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola struggles to complete an epic allegory of the Vietnam War, “Apocalypse Now,” his wife, Eleanor, films his daily travails with a camera of her own. The documentary based on her footage details the difficulties of the large production — from weather-related delays in the Philippines to star Martin Sheen’s heart attack while filming — and it provides unprecedented behind-the-scenes clips of one of Hollywood’s most-acclaimed films.”
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Irreversible (2002, France)
“A woman’s (Monica Bellucci) lover (Vincent Cassel) and her former boyfriend (Albert Dupontel) take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist.”
Nodo-Jiman (1999, Japan)
“Some people laugh, and some people cry, until their grand occasion to make their first appearance on stage.” Out of 4,000 applicants, only 250 will make it to the preliminary round, out of which just 20 will be chosen for the Sunday final. The famous TV singing contenst, “Nodo-Jiman”, is coming to town! Enka singer Reiko Akagi enters the contest despite objections from her manager. Aspiring mobile yakitori shopowner Keisuke finds that his license examination clashes with the preliminary round. Schoolgirl Rika Takahashi is caught between her worried mother and her rebellious sister. “Nodo-Jiman” brings these colorful people together in a heartwarming way.”
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La Famille Belier (2014, France)
“A young woman with deaf parents discovers she has an amazing singing voice.”
Microbe and Gasoline (2015, France)
“Two young friends embark on a road trip across France in a vehicle they built themselves.”
Summer of Sangaile (2015, Lithuania)
“Sangaile meets Auste at an aeronautical show, and helps her discover her most intimate secret by encouraging her to fly.”
The Little Prince (2015, France)
“At the heart of it all is The Little Girl (Mackenzie Foy), who’s being prepared by her mother (Rachel McAdams) for the very grown-up world in which they live – only to be interrupted by her eccentric, kind-hearted neighbor, The Aviator (Jeff Bridges). The Aviator introduces his new friend to an extraordinary world where anything is possible. A world that he himself was initiated into long ago by The Little Prince (newcomer Riley Osborne). It’s here that The Little Girl’s magical and emotional journey into the universe of The Little Prince begins. And it’s where The Little Girl rediscovers her childhood and learns that ultimately, it’s human connections that matter most, and that it is only with heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Tale of Tales (2015, Italy/France/UK)
“Three rulers in neighboring kingdoms deal with their obsessions.”
Tangerine (2015, USA)
“After hearing that her boyfriend/pimp cheated on her while she was in jail, a hooker and her best friend set out to find him and teach him and his new lover a lesson.”
Victoria (2015, Germany)
“This film is not a movie; it’s not about a bank robbery. It IS bank robbery. “Victoria” was shot in one single take. Two hours and eighteen minutes. No cuts. No CGI. No cheap tricks. No expensive ones, either. Just one shot.”
