Years ago, a helicopter crashed under mysterious circumstances high in the mountains of southeast Cambodia. Now a journalist joins up with a soldier to investigate this cold case. As the two characters traverse the thickly overgrown forest trail leading to the crash site, they encounter a shaman who tells them of an animistic rain ritual. As the journalist penetrates more deeply into the foreign terrain, sounds and images recur and he begins to believe that his reality must be a distortion of the past. The film assembles composites of various helicopter incidents in Cambodia and references the sacredness of the jungle whose inhabitants function as mediums of the country’s archaic beliefs and ancestral practices – this is where the early Khmer civilisation is said to have originated.

吉林动画学院优秀作品。该片是中国风神话故事。

Thirty years on from the 1984 Union Carbide plant malfunction, the consequences of which are tragically ongoing, A Prayer for Rain is the powerful and moving story of the Bhopal tragedy, one of the great corporate and environmental scandals of the last half-century. It dramatises the dependence of the local community on the chemical plant that will eventually cause catastrophe, and the series of oversights that led to an event that stands as a benchmark for corporate irresponsibility in the developing world.

新年伊始，魔鬼就再度来袭。对于上帝和魔鬼，人们一直没有放弃过寻找其存在的证据。而我们所看到的总是基于我们到底相信什么。一名叫做迈克尔·柯瓦克（…

影片讲述了地方名门樱田家从1946年日本战败到影片拍成的1971年为止，长达25年的家族编年史。主人公满洲男是家族长孙，父亲战败自杀，母亲的护士出身一直不被家族接受，战前战时都是政府高官的祖父一臣是家族统治者，叔父辉道是一臣的私生子，此外还有若干各色人等都住在这个大家族里。这个世家是未被战败击垮的贵族家庭，在色鬼家长的统治下，从战前右派转为左派，一位庶出的孩子，就娶了一个共产党员为妻。家族中左右派互相排挤、敲诈，但又由于血缘关系相互依赖、共存共亡，可以说是日本战后历史社会的缩影。所有住在这里的人，无论政治信仰、阶级意识，几乎都没有好结果，甚至令人绝望地生活着。片中不断死亡的人物，或是死于非命，或是有意自杀，充满了天谴的恐怖氛围。日本战后历史心态、社会状况、政治斗争，就这样在影片中得到悔恨的反映

电影灵感源自上世纪20年代美国“艾玛·施密特事件”：女子艾玛被恶魔附身数十年，寻求修道院帮助后，经历了数次残酷的驱魔仪式。这也是美国历史上对“驱魔”记载最详尽的案例。电影主角是两位正在经历信仰动摇(史蒂文斯)、有着复杂过去(帕西诺)的牧师，他们必须放下分歧，通过一系列艰难而危险的驱魔仪式来拯救被附身的年轻女子。

Another classic by Bordo Dovnikovic. Six people are grouped in front of a wall as if for a photograph. The entire ceremony is supervised by a seventh person, who, like a photographer, looks at the group from different angles and rearranges the group by hand-signals. The picture is perfect. The camera shifts position and discloses a squad of soldiers with rifles at the ready; rifles aimed at the group of six. Volley of shots. Fade out. The End.

The discovery of a chopped-off hand in a Brussels canal forces Belgian police diver Kiki to face deep guilt from the past, her own and her country’s. Based on the book ‘Ritual’ by Mo Hayder.