祈祷2018

　　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

　　潘华凤受邀至台湾参加研讨会，她此行除了研讨会外，还要与失散多年住在台湾的哥哥潘华锦见面，兄妹俩六十年没见，哥哥盛情款待她以及她的女儿迎晨，这让潘华凤倍感温馨。 其实哥哥华锦有个大秘密，他真实身分其实并不是贸易公司大老板，而只是饭店的清洁工，他编织这个谎言只是为了让妹妹华凤不要担心他，也希望给华凤留下好印象。幸亏有饭店副理王木杉的帮忙，否则华锦的这个大计划是无法成功的。但没想到，饭店总经理出差提早回来，华锦看似完美的计画变得岌岌可危。正当他们在享受亲情之余，他不知道有个坏消息在等他。
　　由于多月被客人客诉，总经理已决定要辞退华锦，华锦感到人生无望，同一个晚上，华锦不幸地让迎晨和华凤看到了他在饭店垃圾场独自清理垃圾，华凤万万想不到自己的哥哥为了招待她们，竟隐瞒自己是清洁工的身份，为了顾及潘华锦的面子，她于是决定不揭穿这事实。
　　离别的时候，两兄妹依依不舍，华凤含著泪水告诉华锦，希望华锦抽空回浙江老家一趟，让他们兄妹俩再一起好好品尝地道的家乡酒…… 华锦在回家的路上，妹妹的话一直在他脑海浮现，他脸上露出微笑，想着家乡酒的味道，没错，酒是故乡浓，只是，浓的不是酒，而是，乡愁。

该片讲述第一代空心手工挂面传人张家根艰难困苦与命运抗争的一生。人到晚年，根根回忆起早年以身护井被炸身亡老伴秀秀，带着深情的怀念，根根主动选择“不吃了”，决意追寻老伴而去。临终前根根自己为自己选墓地，打棺材，试寿衣，从容淡定走向另一个世界。

　　一封关系着民族兴亡的密函，风雨江山，英雄辈出；一次惊心动魄的盗密行动，烟雨浮生，恍然如梦。乱世风云，变幻无测，看乱世儿女救国危难之中。