生活第一章

　　年轻的美国导演米切尔｀哈文刚刚为他的下一部大作找到了素材——一个围绕着美丽的维尔玛和她的政客情夫拉斐而展开的真实的犯罪故事。他们在欺诈计划败露之后，枪杀了州长代表，最终这对时运不济的情侣戏剧性地双双自尽。

　　沉寂七年的北漂演员郝贝事业迎来翻身契机，正当灯红酒绿男欢女爱之际，突然出现一个七岁的儿子小龙，小龙一口咬定郝贝就是自己的亲生父亲，由此两人引发了一连串爆笑又不失温馨的囧事。

　　An insane man first loves then grows to hate his neighbor, an old man whose penetrating gaze unnerves the insane man. He plans a perfect crime and executes it one night. The next day, two officers knock on the insane man's door, investigating a shriek heard in the night. The insane man invites them in, answers their questions, and submits to an examination of his eyes by one of the officers, who proclaims him innocent. The insane man invites them to stay and relax awhile, then regales them with his theories of crime. His heart begins to beat louder. Angles on the set are skewed to suggest the man's internal disarray.

　　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

　　An ex-con gets released early from prison only to be forced into an undercover unit of six men and on his first day the other five are all killed. Now he must go face-to-face with the men who he was tasked to spy on, not knowing if they know who he really is.