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
主要讲述到石狮上学的江西男孩小树和石狮退休体育老师黄文胜的友情故事。 体育老师黄文胜发现小树的短跑天赋后,为小树精心安排训练,激发其夺冠的信心。值得一提的是,整个电影的画面拍摄都是在石狮取景,在讲述故事的同时,还展示了石狮的城市风貌、历史文化、商业氛围、人文情怀,反映石狮人包容、友善、乐于助人的精神品质。