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Thursday 19 June
Friday 20 June
La Filmoteca
MONTAGES OF A MODERN MOTHERHOOD
Suk-jing leads an ordinary life with her husband and in-laws in the New Territories. Becoming a mother upends her familiar routine, forcing her to balance family expectations with career demands. The film offers an intimate look at her journey through the emotional shifts of motherhood, testing her resilience and redefining her identity.
TIGER'S POND
An idyllic south Indian hamlet reveals treacherous political depths when Pathi ends up pregnant after being sexually assaulted. Prabhu, who is set in his mind to be part of the village council, works to cover up the incident lest it stand in the way of his campaign.
With the precision of a meticulously planned thriller and a claustrophobic atmosphere, Natesh Hedge reflects on violence and power, corruption, and politics in an apparently peaceful community in southern India* Movie presented by its director.
UN FUTURO DE CINE: MARÍA ROMANILLOS
On the occasion of the Futuro de Cine award to maría Romanillos two of her last films will be screened and will take place the award ceremony with the actress.
FWENDS
Two old friends reconnect over a weekend. Their conversations flow naturally. Trivial matters and deep emotions intertwine as they address the ups and downs of their lives with honesty and a sense of humor.
Two friends and the city of Melbourne as a space to explore that combination of expectations and uncertainties that occurs during your twenties. Sophie Sommerville directs with agile pacing and smart dialogue a fresh dramedy about the hopes of life when you’ve just entered adulthood.* Movie presented by its director.
Teatre Rialto
PODCAST: ALBÓNDIGAS, CON SANTI ALVERÚ
Y de beber, albóndigas, hosted by Santi Alverú, is a podcast of interviews that can be watched live. In this 40th edition, Santi Alverú will interview at 12h María Romanillos, the actress who will receive this year's Un Futuro de Cine award and at 13h actor Sergi López, who premieres one of his latest films as a leading actor, La Terra Negra by Alberto Moráis.
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 1
Below we show you the short films that you can watch on Friday, June 20 from 5:30 PM and on Wednesday, June 25 from 5:30 PM at the Rialto Theatre. Click on the title of the short films to see their details.
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 2
Below we show you the short films that you can watch on Friday, June 20 from 8:00 PM and on Wednesday, June 25 from 8:00 PM at the Rialto Theatre. Click on the title of the short films to see their details.
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 3
Below we show you the short films that you can watch on Saturday, June 20 from 10:30 PM and on Wednesday, June 25 from 10:30 PM at the Rialto Theatre. Click on the title of the short films to see their details.
Teatro Principal
EXERGO
By focusing on the peripheral or hidden details of some paintings in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the female narrator relates several stories linked to the social, economic and psychological conditions of the artists, both past and present.
Friday 20 JUN | 17:30 h
Wednesday 25 JUN | 17:30 h
LA TERRA NEGRA
María returns to her family's industrial mill after years of absence, to work alongside her brother Àngel. Her return is met with disapproval from Àngel's friends. Àngel hires Miquel, an ex-convict, to help at the mill. Despite the suspicion and fear surrounding Miquel's past, he and María find solace and connection in their shared isolation.
*Movie presented by its team.
Saturday 21 June
Sala 7
TALK WITH DANIELA DE ÁNGEL + SERIES PROGRAM 1 + MEETING WITH THE AUDIENCE
11h-11:45h: Previous talk with Daniela de Ángel (Content Consulting Executive specializing in Spain, Latin America and the USA). Below are the series that you can see on Saturday June 21 from 11:45 and until 14:30 in Sala 7 of the Edificio Rialto.
SERIES SPECIAL SCREENING: FAVÀRITX
Screening out of competition and meeting with the team.
Marta Serra, a brilliant detective who exiles herself to the quiet island of Menorca, must face the hunt for a serial killer staging murders to look like suicides. During the investigation, Marta and her partner Àlex uncover a real estate corruption scheme orchestrated by the Portuguese mafia, which has chosen the peaceful island of Menorca as a “nursery” for its drug stashes.
La Filmoteca
BOY IN THE POOL
Woo-ju meets Seok-young when he saves her from drowning. Their friendship will be tested when Woo-ju makes a momentous decision and walks away to follow his dream.
Intimate and tender, Boy in the Pool depicts the arrival of first love in all its fullness and bittersweetness. A simple story, built around its teenage protagonists, based on those small emotions that the camera unravels with the pool as the setting for their awakening to the world.
ANNA'S LIFE
Anna is a young single moonlighter mother who, on day, decides to migrate to the USA looking for a better life for her and her autistic son. She risks everything, sells her house and tries to find an american visa to get ahead a new and unknown country.
FWENDS
Two old friends reconnect over a weekend. Their conversations flow naturally. Trivial matters and deep emotions intertwine as they address the ups and downs of their lives with honesty and a sense of humor.
Two friends and the city of Melbourne as a space to explore that combination of expectations and uncertainties that occurs during your twenties. Sophie Sommerville directs with agile pacing and smart dialogue a fresh dramedy about the hopes of life when you’ve just entered adulthood.* Movie presented by its director.
THAT SUMMER IN PARIS
France, August 2024. The Olympic Games are in full swing. Blandine arrives in Paris to meet up with her half-sister and to get to know her niece, while she tours a city completely dominated by this extraordinary event.
With the Paris Olympics as a backdrop, Valentine Cadic builds an unusual summer adventure in which her protagonist, lost in the big city, must face her doubts and desires to rediscover herself.
Teatre Rialto
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 4
Below we show you the short films that you can watch on Saturday, June 21 from 5:30 PM and on Thursday, June 26 from 5:30 PM at the Rialto Theatre. Click on the title of the short films to see their details.
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 5
Below are the short films that you can see on Saturday June 21 from 17:30 and Thursday June 26 from 20h at the Teatro Rialto. Click on the title of the short films to view their file.
CORRE O VENTO
Branca visits her grandfather in a village hidden in the mountains of Galicia. With her arrival, the town's reality is transformed. The last inhabitants resist the disappearance of the rural world through their dreams, memories, and recollections.
Sunday 22 June
Sala 7
TALK WITH LEO ZIMBRÓN + SERIES PROGRAM 2 + MEETING WITH THE AUDIENCE
11h-11:45h: Talk with Leo Zimbrón, executive producer and co-founder of 3Pas Studio: Business Trends in the Global Industry 2025. Below are the series that you can see on Sunday June 22 from 11:45 and until 14:00 in Sala 7 of the Edificio Rialto. Click on the title of the series to view their file.
SERIES PROGRAM 3 + MEETING WITH THE AUDIENCE
Below are the series that you can see on Sunday June 22 from 16:00 to 18:30 to in Sala 7 of the Edificio Rialto with later meeting with their teams. Click on the title of the series to view their file.
SERIES PROGRAM 4 + MEETING WITH THE AUDIENCE
18h-18:30h: Meeting with the public and the creators of the Official Series Selection 2025: Co-productions, trends and specificities. Below are the series that you can see on Sunday June 23 from 18:00 and until 20:30 in Sala 7 of the Edificio Rialto. Click on the title of the series to view their file.
La Filmoteca
BUNNYLOVR
A drifting Chinese American cam girl struggles to navigate an increasingly toxic relationship with one of her clients while rekindling her relationship with her dying estranged father.
Katarina Zhu portrays, through claustrophobic planning, the anxiety of a hyperconnected generation whose emotional bonds reveal a fragility and frustration traceable to family breakdown and the difficulty of facing the transition to adulthood.
BAD GIRL
Ramya, a young Brahmin, is on her way to adulthood with one goal in mind: to find the ideal man while facing her traditional and strict parents, the imposed morals, and her chaotic adolescent mind.
Varsha Barath directs an energetic coming-of-age comedy that tells the struggle of its protagonist, Ramya, between the desires and longings typical of the end of adolescence and the strict morals and traditions that serve as the social framework in India.
THAT SUMMER IN PARIS
France, August 2024. The Olympic Games are in full swing. Blandine arrives in Paris to meet up with her half-sister and to get to know her niece, while she tours a city completely dominated by this extraordinary event.
With the Paris Olympics as a backdrop, Valentine Cadic builds an unusual summer adventure in which her protagonist, lost in the big city, must face her doubts and desires to rediscover herself.
THE WOUND
Every year, Xolani, a lonesome worker, takes part with other men in his community in a xhosa initiatic ritual. Kwanda, a young boy from Johannesburg, who is under Xolani's care, gets bullied by his companions because of his posh origins and his sensitivity. When Kwanda discovers Xolani's big secret, the life of the two men will radically change.
Teatre Rialto
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 6
Below are the short films that you can see on Sunday June 22 from 17:30h and Thursday June 26 from 22:30 at the Teatro Rialto.
Click on the title of the short films to view their file.
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 7
Below are the short films that you can see on Sunday June 22 from 22:30 and Friday June 27 from 17:30 at the Teatro Rialto.
Click on the title of the short films to view their file.
Monday 23 June
La Filmoteca
BAD GIRL
Ramya, a young Brahmin, is on her way to adulthood with one goal in mind: to find the ideal man while facing her traditional and strict parents, the imposed morals, and her chaotic adolescent mind.
Varsha Barath directs an energetic coming-of-age comedy that tells the struggle of its protagonist, Ramya, between the desires and longings typical of the end of adolescence and the strict morals and traditions that serve as the social framework in India.
MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL
From Toronto to Oslo, we follow the journey of a young academic: Audrey Benac. Audrey undertakes a quest towards one forgotten woman — the acclaimed early 20th-century Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow — as she simultaneously flees from another: her mother.
Sofia Bohdanovic delivers a film with a glacial aesthetic, unsettling rhythm, and mysterious breath. It’s a portrait of an obsession with music as an emotional landscape and a psychological study of a character marked by a difficult relationship with her mother and a total devotion to that ghostly music she has made her object of study.* Movie presented by its director.
LUNA DE VALÈNCIA: RADU JUDE. CARICATURANA + AFERIM!
Caricaturana (2021, 9'): Based on an idea by Eisenstein, who dreamed of composing the 101 poses of Robert Macaire, a popular French character who personifies the unscrupulous swindler, as depicted in the 101 lithographs of Honoré Daumier's Caricaturana series.
Aferim! (2015, 108'): Early 19th century. Costandin, a local policeman, is hired by a boyar to track down Carfin, a gipsy slave who ran away from his property. Costandin begins pursuing the fugitive, thus beginning a black-and-white road movie about Roma slavery in 19th-century Romania.
Radu Jude will visit Valencia to receive the Luna de València award, which acknowledges his contribution to contemporary cinema, and to accompany the retrospective dedicated to his work.
LIGHT AS FEATHERS
16 years old Eryk lives with her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother in a small Polish village. He keeps a very intimate relationship with his ravager and manipulative mother. The consequences of that bond arise when Eryk falls in love with his neighbour Klaudia.
Teatre Rialto
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 8
Below are the short films that you can see on Monday June 23 from 17:30 and Friday June 27 from 20h at the Teatro Rialto.
Click on the title of the short films to view their file.
LUNA
Asturian director Pablo Casanueva conducts a research process into the memory of his family, who were nearly wiped out during the Civil War and the Franco regime, uncovering their story "on the borders, in the fields, and in the prisons."
* Movie presented by its director.
Tuesday 24 June
Teatre Rialto
PODCAST: SIN CRITERIO
Two young NEET and one indie guy talk about cinema. Hosted by Marc Martínez-Campayo, Alejandro Piquer, and Aitana Roda, they will interview Carlos Madrid, director of Cinema Jove.
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 9
Below are the short films that you can see on Tuesday June 24 from 17:30 and Friday June 27 from 22:30 at the Teatro Rialto.
Click on the title of the short films to view their file.
TE SEPARAS MUCHO
A double love story: that of the woman behind the camera, and that of her parents. A narrative voice that reflects on the images and weaves a shared story. And one central question: can cinema change a life? With this material, Paula Veleiro crafts her first feature film—a dizzying narrative about love and breakups.
* Movie presented by its director.
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 10
Below are the short films that you can see on Tuesday June 24 from 22:30h and Saturday June 28 from 17:30 at the Teatro Rialto.
Click on the title of the short films to view their file.
La Filmoteca
MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL
From Toronto to Oslo, we follow the journey of a young academic: Audrey Benac. Audrey undertakes a quest towards one forgotten woman — the acclaimed early 20th-century Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow — as she simultaneously flees from another: her mother.
Sofia Bohdanovic delivers a film with a glacial aesthetic, unsettling rhythm, and mysterious breath. It’s a portrait of an obsession with music as an emotional landscape and a psychological study of a character marked by a difficult relationship with her mother and a total devotion to that ghostly music she has made her object of study.* Movie presented by its director.
THE BOTANIST
In a remote village in Xinjiang, a young Kazakh boy named Arsin finds solace in the company of plants. He soon meets Meiyu, a spirited Han girl whose unpredictable nature reminds him of a rare, otherworldly plant. As their friendship blossoms, it becomes a delicate dreamlike allegory that blurs the lines between reality and the enchanting world of botany.
With an aesthetic that combines meticulousness and an approach that plays with the poetry of intimacy, The Botanist explores, from the children’s perspective, the changes and transformations—both rural and urban—that shake contemporary China.
CURT CREIXENT: INVITED FESTIVAL D’A FILM FESTIVAL BARCELONA
Below is the list of short films selected by Curt Creixent as part of the D’A Film Festival Barcelona program.
The D’A Film Festival Barcelona is an event dedicated to auteur and independent cinema, presenting the best of contemporary film every year across several venues in the city
HONEYMOON
February 23, 2022, a small town near Kyiv. Taras and Olia spend the first night in their new apartment. At dawn, they are waken up by the explossions.They fail to leave the town on time and the Russian troops arrange headquarters in their building. The couple finds themselves trapped in their flat with no electricity, water, and mobile connection.
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine reflected from the most intimate perspective. Zhanna Orzina makes her feature film debut with a movie in which the personal and the historical intertwine through the lives of newlyweds trapped in their apartment while, outside, the war shatters their reality.
Wednesday 25 June
Sala 7
CURT CREIXENT: SHORT FILM MEETINGS. SEANCE 3
- 10h. Masterclass Pre production On Track: delivered by Lorena Torres (Producer at The Fly Hunter).
- 12h. Music for short films: Arnau Bataller (composer), Isabel Latorre (composer) and Francisco de Zulueta Dorado (composer and Audiovisual Music and Sound Design UPV professor). Moderates Nieves Pascual (Palau de la Música Ass. Manager).
PROGRAM 1: YOUNG PEOPLE’S AUDIOVISUAL MEETING
16h Amateur sreening session
- Catalina i Magaluf. Maria Pujalte Aleñar (Palma, Mallorca, 9').
- Pocas nueces. Paula Rodrigo (Madrid, 12').
- KillJote. Ángel Villahermosa (Ciudad Real, 12').
- Lirio. Itzá Mendy (Valància, 13').
- TOU. Pol Alvaro Puig (Girona, 15').
- Confesión. Manuel de Sobrón (Madrid, 6').
- Rapan. Álvaro Leivas (Valencia, 13').
- ¿Dónde estás?. María Moreno Novoa (Pamplona, 14').
- Patrimonio. Aitor Abio (Durango, Bizkaia, 14').
- Lencería Milagros. Jana Moreno (Barcelona, 14').
La Filmoteca
HONEYMOON
February 23, 2022, a small town near Kyiv. Taras and Olia spend the first night in their new apartment. At dawn, they are waken up by the explossions.They fail to leave the town on time and the Russian troops arrange headquarters in their building. The couple finds themselves trapped in their flat with no electricity, water, and mobile connection.
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine reflected from the most intimate perspective. Zhanna Orzina makes her feature film debut with a movie in which the personal and the historical intertwine through the lives of newlyweds trapped in their apartment while, outside, the war shatters their reality.
CURT CREIXENT: SHORT FILMS FROM THE RUA ESCURA COOPERATIVE
Below is the list of short films selected by Curt Creixent as part of the Rua Escura program.
Each year, Rua Escura stands out for presenting unique proposals that explore new ways of narrating and experiencing contemporary cinema, establishing itself as a benchmark for auteur and independent film in Portugal.
LUNA DE VALÈNCIA: RADU JUDE. BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN
Radu Jude will visit Valencia to receive the Luna de València award, which acknowledges his contribution to contemporary cinema, and to accompany the retrospective dedicated to his work. On the 25th, he will be at La Filmoteca to present Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, the film that won the Golden Bear at the 71st Berlin Film Festival, held in 2021.
A high school teacher must cope with rejection and attacks from those around her when a pornographic video starred by her is leaked online. Divided into three episodes, the film includes a self-contained middle section that serves as a dictionary of concepts interpreted from a corrosive outside perspective.
BOY IN THE POOL
Woo-ju meets Seok-young when he saves her from drowning. Their friendship will be tested when Woo-ju makes a momentous decision and walks away to follow his dream.
Intimate and tender, Boy in the Pool depicts the arrival of first love in all its fullness and bittersweetness. A simple story, built around its teenage protagonists, based on those small emotions that the camera unravels with the pool as the setting for their awakening to the world.
Teatro Principal
EXERGO
By focusing on the peripheral or hidden details of some paintings in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the female narrator relates several stories linked to the social, economic and psychological conditions of the artists, both past and present.
Friday 20 JUN | 17:30 h
Wednesday 25 JUN | 17:30 h
TÓXICO
Abel is the leader of a group of low-level thieves who live on the fringes and whose philosophy is to live without ties or ties. One day, he decides to plan one last heist with the intention of retiring. *Movie presented by its team.
Teatre Rialto
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 1
Below we show you the short films that you can watch on Friday, June 20 from 5:30 PM and on Wednesday, June 25 from 5:30 PM at the Rialto Theatre. Click on the title of the short films to see their details.
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 2
Below we show you the short films that you can watch on Friday, June 20 from 8:00 PM and on Wednesday, June 25 from 8:00 PM at the Rialto Theatre. Click on the title of the short films to see their details.
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 3
Below we show you the short films that you can watch on Saturday, June 20 from 10:30 PM and on Wednesday, June 25 from 10:30 PM at the Rialto Theatre. Click on the title of the short films to see their details.
Thursday 26 June
La Filmoteca
BUNNYLOVR
A drifting Chinese American cam girl struggles to navigate an increasingly toxic relationship with one of her clients while rekindling her relationship with her dying estranged father.
Katarina Zhu portrays, through claustrophobic planning, the anxiety of a hyperconnected generation whose emotional bonds reveal a fragility and frustration traceable to family breakdown and the difficulty of facing the transition to adulthood.
LUNA DE VALÈNCIA: RADU JUDE. I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS
Radu Jude will be visiting Valencia to collect the Luna de València Award, which recognizes his contribution to contemporary cinema, and to accompany the retrospective dedicated to his films. On the 26th, he will be at La Filmoteca to present I Do Not Care If We Go Down History as Barbarians, movie that won, among others, the Best Director and Best Film awards at the 56th Gijón International Film Festival, held in 2018.
"I don't care if we go down history as barbarians". These words, spoken by the Council of Ministers in the summer of 1941, launched ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.
Mariana, a young artist, attempts to reconstruct the anti-Semitic Odessa massacre of 1941. As she develops her spectacular project, she is forced to confront and overcome all the objections that arise, both from the authorities and from the residents she hires as extras.
MONTAGES OF A MODERN MOTHERHOOD
Suk-jing leads an ordinary life with her husband and in-laws in the New Territories. Becoming a mother upends her familiar routine, forcing her to balance family expectations with career demands. The film offers an intimate look at her journey through the emotional shifts of motherhood, testing her resilience and redefining her identity.
BROTHER'S KEEPER
Set over the course of a tense day at an isolated boarding school, this moral drama follows a boy's desperate fight to save his sick friend in the face of a strict and rigid bureaucratic system.
Sala 7
PROGRAM 3: YOUNG PEOPLE’S AUDIOVISUAL MEETING
16 h. Amateur session screening.
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De tanto usarlo. Iván Melguizo (Madrid, 9').
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El otro lugar. Roberta Chávez (Madrid, 13').
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La cura. Rosendo M. Diezma (Sevilla, 15').
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Huesos. Luis Paredes (Madrid, 14').
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Utopia. Una casa es una casa. Mateo Baselga (Madrid, 14').
17:15 h. Amateur session mentoring.
IKEA 'FIRST TIMES' CONTEST
IKEA First times contest finalist shortfilms.
Teatre Rialto
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 4
Below we show you the short films that you can watch on Saturday, June 21 from 5:30 PM and on Thursday, June 26 from 5:30 PM at the Rialto Theatre. Click on the title of the short films to see their details.
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 5
Below are the short films that you can see on Saturday June 21 from 17:30 and Thursday June 26 from 20h at the Teatro Rialto. Click on the title of the short films to view their file.
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 6
Below are the short films that you can see on Sunday June 22 from 17:30h and Thursday June 26 from 22:30 at the Teatro Rialto.
Click on the title of the short films to view their file.
Friday 27 June
La Filmoteca
TIGER'S POND
An idyllic south Indian hamlet reveals treacherous political depths when Pathi ends up pregnant after being sexually assaulted. Prabhu, who is set in his mind to be part of the village council, works to cover up the incident lest it stand in the way of his campaign.
With the precision of a meticulously planned thriller and a claustrophobic atmosphere, Natesh Hedge reflects on violence and power, corruption, and politics in an apparently peaceful community in southern India* Movie presented by its director.
LUNA DE VALÈNCIA: RADU JUDE. DON'T EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD
Radu Jude will be visiting Valencia to collect the Luna de València Award, which recognizes his contribution to contemporary cinema, and to accompany the retrospective dedicated to his films.
An overworked and underpaid production assistant must drive around Bucharest to film the casting call for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company. One of the interviewees says something that sparks a scandal, and she has to reinvent the whole story.
THE TUBE WITH A HAT
Very early in the morning, Marian, a 7-year-old boy from a small Romanian village, wakes up his father and persuades him to go to the city to fix their old TV set. The father and son begin carrying the TV set there, hoping they will find Bichescu, a specialist, who will fix their problem.
REHANA
Rehana, an assistant professor at a local medical college, finds herself in a difficult position after witnessing a sexual assault in which she knows both the victim and the perpetrator. Rehana will try everything she can to have this abuse recognized by the faculty just as she receives a complaint from the school about her six-year-old daughter's unusual behavior.
Teatre Rialto
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 7
Below are the short films that you can see on Sunday June 22 from 22:30 and Friday June 27 from 17:30 at the Teatro Rialto.
Click on the title of the short films to view their file.
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 8
Below are the short films that you can see on Monday June 23 from 17:30 and Friday June 27 from 20h at the Teatro Rialto.
Click on the title of the short films to view their file.
SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 9
Below are the short films that you can see on Tuesday June 24 from 17:30 and Friday June 27 from 22:30 at the Teatro Rialto.
Click on the title of the short films to view their file.
Saturday 28 June
La Filmoteca
THE BOTANIST
In a remote village in Xinjiang, a young Kazakh boy named Arsin finds solace in the company of plants. He soon meets Meiyu, a spirited Han girl whose unpredictable nature reminds him of a rare, otherworldly plant. As their friendship blossoms, it becomes a delicate dreamlike allegory that blurs the lines between reality and the enchanting world of botany.
With an aesthetic that combines meticulousness and an approach that plays with the poetry of intimacy, The Botanist explores, from the children’s perspective, the changes and transformations—both rural and urban—that shake contemporary China.
FLY ON
After her lover death, Watako should come back to her marital life keeping for herself a full past of cheating. Old and buried emotions start to arise and she decides to face the reality.