松山之殇

Xiao Ran (played by Tong Dawei) is a renowned and exceptionally talented music producer. Yet, at the pinnacle of his career, he finds himself drifting further away from the passionate and sincere musical ideals he once held. By chance, a public service advertisement on TV about volunteer teaching initiatives captures his attention. With motives that are far from pure, Xiao Ran assembles a star-studded team and sets off in a grand caravan toward remote mountainous regions. An unexpected storm disrupted Xiao Ran's plans, cutting off the roads to the outside world. Left behind, Xiao Ran found himself stranded in a impoverished mountain village. By a twist of fate, he became the temporary homeroom teacher at the village school. Over time, the initial conflicts and adjustments gradually transformed into mutual dependence and trust. With the roads repaired, Xiao Ran was about to return to his own life.

The story is a contemporary version of the ancient Greek myth of Electra. Electra is a young girl foreigner in her own land, as well as in other lands. The only place she could seek her identity is her own private world that she tries to create. From Africa to Europe, the film is a puzzle composed by pieces of her broken identity. Electra's very journey is finally her own land.

At the mouth of the Rhone, Jacques Renaud and his fiancee Lisette are cursed by a gypsy woman as punishment for their wrong decision.

An Italian drama from 1942.

Henry lies at the side of the road, bleeding out from a gunshot wound. A young mother with a bizarre sense of appropriate uses his final moments as a teachable lesson for her 6 year old son.

Elise's life takes a sharp turn for the worst when she meets a mysterious and alluring stranger who has more than friendship on his mind - A tale of love, fantasy and obsession.

After a long absence, forest ranger Hans Freese returns to the heathland village of Undeloh, where he spent his childhood. Here he meets his childhood sweetheart Rose again. A sophisticated publisher from Hamburg and a group of gypsies cause all sorts of complications, but thanks to these, Hans and Rose are finally able to be together.

The film by a film student making his graduation film about a film student making his graduation film.

"In medical terminology, absence of genitalia in females is referred to as "gynatresia". In other words, an extreme defect that goes beyond a mere illness" Adachi's follow-up to Bowl using the figure of a woman suffering from an unusual sexual aliment has often been taken as a controversial allegory for the political stalemate of the Leftist student movement after their impressive wave of massive fiery protests failed to defeat the neo-imperialist Japan-US Security Treaty. The ritualistic solemnity of the charged sexual scenes contribute to the oneiric qualities of Closed Vagina which Adachi would later insist was an open work, not meant to deliver any kind of deliberate political message. - Harvard Film Archive