In September 1940, after seven years of exile, Walter Benjamin crosses the Pyrenees in a desperate attempt to escape the Nazis. According to the official version, Walter Benjamin did make it across the French-Spanish border successfully. But when he arrived in the Catalan town of Portbou, a sudden change in legislation impeded his entry into Spain and he was obliged to spend the night at a local hotel under the close vigilance of three guards, whose orders were to deport him the following morning. In utter despair, Benjamin took his own life, swallowing and overdose of morphine. The local doctor, however, declared it a natural death and Benjamin was given a Catholic burial in the municipal cemetery, under a wrong name. Did the doctor conceal some hidden cause of Benjamin's death? Was there really a change of legislation? Was Walter Benjamin aware that Portbou was a pro-Franco town virtually occupied by the Nazis? Who Killed Walter Benjamin... reaches for answers among the suspicious circumstances of his death. Giving at the same time, a portrait of a frontier town anchored between two fronts, constant witness of evasion, persecution and false hopes. Who Killed Walter Benjamin... not just a reconstruction of a death but the living portrait of the scene of the crime.

In September 1940, after seven years of exile, Walter Benjamin crosses the Pyrenees in a desperate attempt to escape the Nazis. According to the official version, Walter Benjamin did make it across the French-Spanish border successfully. But when he arrived in the Catalan town of Portbou, a sudden change in legislation impeded his entry into Spain and he was obliged to spend the night at a local hotel under the close vigilance of three guards, whose orders were to deport him the following morning. In utter despair, Benjamin took his own life, swallowing and overdose of morphine. The local doctor, however, declared it a natural death and Benjamin was given a Catholic burial in the municipal cemetery, under a wrong name. Did the doctor conceal some hidden cause of Benjamin's death? Was there really a change of legislation? Was Walter Benjamin aware that Portbou was a pro-Franco town virtually occupied by the Nazis? Who Killed Walter Benjamin... reaches for answers among the suspicious circumstances of his death. Giving at the same time, a portrait of a frontier town anchored between two fronts, constant witness of evasion, persecution and false hopes. Who Killed Walter Benjamin... not just a reconstruction of a death but the living portrait of the scene of the crime.

木下惠介遇上黑泽明的剧本，分明一部喜剧，越看下去越是人性和命运的交响曲。喜剧的前提和开篇，滑稽贪婪的房屋经纪要赶走租住其目标破房子的穷画家，跟情妇搬到画家楼上见步行步。不正经的情妇给楼下的开心快活人天天小姐前小姐后，叫得真以为自己是大家闺秀了，谁知烦恼就这么开始。当画家 的模特儿本是美事啊，给那眼睛望着真如沐在清澈河水里，但善良的眼神无声无息变了穿心箭，用心做小姐原来好痛苦。楼上叹世界楼下捱世界，孰是天国孰是地狱，就是吊诡。 @Summer IFF 2012 　　From a script by his more widely recognised peer, Kurosawa Akira, Kinoshita Keisuke constructs a sensitive examination of an affluent but spiritually bankrupt real estate broker forced into a fresh outlook on life by an impoverished but enlightened artist. Intending to turn a tidy profit renovating a crumbling house, the broker tries to drive the artist and his family out of the home by moving his bawdy mistress into it. The plan starts to splinter when she agrees to sit for a portrait. Kinoshita deftly balances humour and drama for an astute reflection on art, reality, commerce, and fundamental humanism.

木下惠介遇上黑泽明的剧本，分明一部喜剧，越看下去越是人性和命运的交响曲。喜剧的前提和开篇，滑稽贪婪的房屋经纪要赶走租住其目标破房子的穷画家，跟情妇搬到画家楼上见步行步。不正经的情妇给楼下的开心快活人天天小姐前小姐后，叫得真以为自己是大家闺秀了，谁知烦恼就这么开始。当画家 的模特儿本是美事啊，给那眼睛望着真如沐在清澈河水里，但善良的眼神无声无息变了穿心箭，用心做小姐原来好痛苦。楼上叹世界楼下捱世界，孰是天国孰是地狱，就是吊诡。 @Summer IFF 2012 　　From a script by his more widely recognised peer, Kurosawa Akira, Kinoshita Keisuke constructs a sensitive examination of an affluent but spiritually bankrupt real estate broker forced into a fresh outlook on life by an impoverished but enlightened artist. Intending to turn a tidy profit renovating a crumbling house, the broker tries to drive the artist and his family out of the home by moving his bawdy mistress into it. The plan starts to splinter when she agrees to sit for a portrait. Kinoshita deftly balances humour and drama for an astute reflection on art, reality, commerce, and fundamental humanism.

This movie is a collection of still pictures of residents of Russian countryside. Not a single word. Only long look into the camera. Landscape. Flow of time.

This movie is a collection of still pictures of residents of Russian countryside. Not a single word. Only long look into the camera. Landscape. Flow of time.

《幽灵肖像》是一场穿越时间、声音、建筑和影像的多维旅程。影片的背景是巴西伯南布哥州的州府累西腓。这是一座历史文化名城，在20世纪，城里的电影院曾经是无数人的欢乐殿堂。它们承载着梦想与进步，也纪录下社会实践的重大变迁。《幽灵肖像》结合历史影像资料、传说、电影片段和个人记忆，以电影的镜头谱绘出城市的图景。

《幽灵肖像》是一场穿越时间、声音、建筑和影像的多维旅程。影片的背景是巴西伯南布哥州的州府累西腓。这是一座历史文化名城，在20世纪，城里的电影院曾经是无数人的欢乐殿堂。它们承载着梦想与进步，也纪录下社会实践的重大变迁。《幽灵肖像》结合历史影像资料、传说、电影片段和个人记忆，以电影的镜头谱绘出城市的图景。

After her husband is devastated by a tragic accident, a devoted wife obsesses over a mysterious portrait that resembles him as he was; but when it starts to terrorize her, she must decide if it's possessed or if she's losing her mind.

Using pinscreen animation, an instance of institutionalized incest in art history is examined through the portrait of Queen Mariana of Austria, who was 14 when she married her uncle.