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To whom does a monk raise a glass? To whom does he read his prayers? When the sun sits down the river, everything becomes gray and it's more difficult to distinguish between white and black and the borderline between them. The monk crosses this line in search of the answer.
It's an afternoon in Versailles, during the reign of Louis XIV.
Duy Em asks her father why he chose not to defend himself against racist remarks. His response transports both of them into his past life among the boat people of Vietnam.
The story of two brothers who grew up in a wealthy Moscow family and survived devastating revolutionary changes, but were arrested and sent to a camp in 1941 for their German roots. Very little information about their lives has survived, but the little that remains is incredibly beautiful and alive. The grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the heroes became film artists in order to try to understand what happened to their family in the last century and how to deal with this memory today.
In a world out of balance, the fateful symbiosis between a chestnut and a mushroom takes on a journey through the dark and toxic wasteland to find other living beings and a better place to live.
We try to enrich ourselves through prayer, faith and devotion to someone or something ‘other’. Similarly, we believe in the existence of ‘anomalies’, such as unknowable and uncontrollable monsters. But can such beliefs advance us?