Murayama Kaita, a Japanese painter, novelist and poet died in 1919 at the age of 22, leaving behind an impressive and time-defying body of work. In his most recent film, Sato Hisayasu offers a surreal, time-crossing, meta-layered essay on the artist, his originality and his legacy. Dear Kaita Ablaze brings together a young woman Azami obsessed with Murayama's painting, a young man Saku, who can hear unusual frequencies and claims to be Murayama or his spiritual imprint and a quartet of young performers with psychic abilities. They bond over Murayama’s work which they recreate in performative dance while driving to a mysterious cave called Agartha. Sato Hisayasu (The Eye's Dream, Muscle, The Bedroom), renowned for his pinku and exploration of madness and lust, returns to IFFR. Dear Kaita Ablaze is hyper-dense, obsessive and driven, effortlessly mashing surrealism with sci-fi and mysticism, layering seemingly unrelated events and encounters to bring them together in a monumental climax. – kijA
和丈夫离婚后，朱丽叶（希拉里·斯万克 Hilary Swank 饰）的生活走入了低谷，为了重振士气，她决定搬家。新的环境，新的邻居，友好又善良的房东麦克斯（杰弗里·迪恩·摩根 Jeffrey Dean Morgan 饰），这一切让朱丽叶总算是解开了心中长久以来的郁结。 随着时间的推移，一些奇怪的事情开始在朱丽叶的周围发生，预感告诉朱丽叶，有一个充满了邪恶气息的陌生人如影随形般地监视着自己的一举一动。为了找到幕后黑手，朱丽叶在房间里设置了录影机，真相让朱丽叶汗毛倒竖，原来，那个神出鬼没的不速之客竟然正是房东麦克斯。更糟糕的是，当朱丽叶拼尽全力企图接近真相之时，她也正在一步一步的走入麦克斯为她设下的圈套之中。
Maurizio is a stubborn boy who grows up near the fiumara, where people throw away whatever they no longer need. This open-air dump becomes his playground, where among wrecked cars and other treasures large and small, he begins to dream of playing in the town band. Mamma Rosa looks on his musical aspirations as a childish whim, a luxury that the family cannot afford. And so, between the good advice by Mosè the donkey and the pranks by chicken N’Giulina, Maurizio is faced with a growing series of adventures and comes to the realization that, if his dream is to come true, he must be determined to see it through right to the end.
