國際長片競賽

On October 7, 2006, Vladimir Putin's 54th birthday, the journalist Anna Politkovskaja is shot in the lift of her Moscow home. Anna's death is a personal tragedy: she has just learnt that she is to become a grandmother. But the murder is also a political act, for Politkovskaja was the President's fiercest critic. Why was she shot in cold blood?

When 21st century entered picturesque mountainous region of Cuce (western Montenegro), it met the 17th over there: old habits and folk customs preserved, the lack of drinking water and female newcomers… The question “to leave or to stay” is in everyone’s mind. Many uncommon characters and images tell us a story at the edge of so called civilization...

The film is about mural artist Blu at work. It follows him at work in MExico, GUatemala, NIcaragua, Costarica and Argentina, hence the acronym "Megunica". The creative development of an artist is what makes him unique and different from the others. The idea of the film was to see how his art would react to the inputs that these places offer him.

This film documents the lives of the people in a small neighborhood, and the film was shot for almost two hours without interruption. The neighbors invited the crew to their houses and garages to see them at work and told stories and explain things that let the outsiders understand both how the neighborhood originated as well as where its future will go.

What can be retained with photography? Where is the cinema leading us? Is there meaning to life after all? Mark LEE goes on the road and tries to answer these questions at a pace of 24 frames per second. We followed his swinging footsteps and gathered the fragments lost between frames to discover the passion he gave to the Taiwanese cinema.