Pieć smaków 2022

A sound recordist visits 24 places as a spectral observer after his death, going on a journey that transcends time, space, cinema, and living. Boom mic in hand, he brings us to a diverse set of characters and settings, at times darkly humorous yet always suffused with a patient tranquility.

It is about the encounter between an ace pupil and a professional exams cheat.

Following the death of a family member, a mother and son experience mysterious events which distort their sense of reality and make them question their sanity.

An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair"s portly Caucasian brother.

Lung is a former member of the national Little League team who lives with his old childhood sweetheart Ah-chin, a traditional family woman. Although they live together, Ah-chin is weary of Lung"s past liaison with another girl.

Each member of a middle-class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.

Chen Wing Yan, a policeman, successfully infiltrates a gang while Lau Kin Ming, a tried member, becomes a mole in the police force. However, things change when both of them must seek each other out.

Divorced and exhausted, retired actress Moon Lee is offered the chance of a comeback as the lead of a do-your-own stunts martial arts film.

A documentary crew and a team of amateur ghost hunters go to investigate a haunted hotel. How many will be left alive?

A shy country girl chooses a part-time job at a "maid cafe" where she serves customers while dressed up as a maid.

Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy"s girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.

After firing a colleague, the head of a PR company begins to question her lifestyle and values.

A single woman runs a rent-a-cat service to provide companions for lonely people.

Two different high school children - a swimmer and an academic - set off on a quest together one summer.

A woman who believes herself to have had an unusual stroke of luck forms a relationship with a man who failed to stop his wife from killing herself.

Hong Kong health authorities have implemented a law that bans indoor smoking. As office smokers now take their cigarette breaks outside, a mild-mannered advertising executive meets a cosmetics salesgirl as an awkward flirtation ensues.

Akiko Ohku"s film follows Yoshiko as she enjoys life"s simple pleasures - riding her beloved bike, indulging in a drink or two in the evening - as she narrates her thoughts through a hypnotic internal monologue.

A blind parent gives birth to a sighted daughter.

Vegetation thrives in painter Morikazu"s garden, which is home to creatures that serve as models for his paintings, including numerous bugs and cats. A sweet and heartwarming day begins for Morikazu, who gazed at these garden creatures on a daily basis for over three decades, and those who love him.

A married teacher/closeted lesbian meets a young, free spirited singer who will allow her to rediscover herself.

Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.

A woman whose son does not want to carry out her burial wishes after her death. The widow of a young construction worker who brings his ashes to the village of his ancestors. A painter who loses a love only met late in life. The connections between the fates of these characters, whose stories abruptly succeed one another, only become clear over time. At the centre of the episodically linked stories in MEMORYLAND stands death and all the rituals that accompany the end of life. Such rituals are intended for the peace of both the dead and the living, but even they are not left untouched by changes in society. Skilfully composed images - a bowl of rice full of ants, an empty hammock, rotting fruit - also speak of grief and mortality, but the film also does not shy away from more mundane moments, such as when the costs of a traditional burial are broken down into specifics. Change is also made perceptible through the juxtaposition of rural and urban life: on the one hand Hanoi, with its countless construction sites and constant stream of cars; on the other the almost abandoned, run-down village. The old life still exists, but only in the land of memories.

A contemporary tale of reincarnation about two lovers meeting in the present day after several centuries of longing, yet still trapped in their destiny of a perpetual cycle of love and death.

Seire is the period of twenty-one days in which people are supposed to take utmost care in their behaviors and strangers are not allowed to visit to protect a newborn baby from bad luck. The film SEIRE takes an idea from this folk belief. Woojin, who has just became the father of a newborn baby, hears that Seyoung, whom he had once dated, has died. He goes to her funeral without telling his wife, and comes across Yeyoung, Seoyung"s twin sister. Following this encounter, Woojin and his family experience a series of horrific misfortunes. SEIRE is a creative horror movie. It skillfully adopts the old convention of horror movies and, at the same time, modernizes the fear that comes from breaking the taboos of folk beliefs, crossing the border between reality and fantasy vaguely and ominously with bold camera moves and editing.

When an obnoxious detective loses his gun to four young thugs, it"s up to the P.T.U. (Police Tactical Unit) and their iron-willed leader to recover the weapon and clean up the mess before daybreak.