Catalogue

»Drifting Clouds« is a film about unemployment with a happy ending.

»Lights in the dusk« concludes the trilogy began by the »Drifting Clouds« and the »The Man Without a Past«. Where the trilogy's first film was about unemployment and the second about homelessness, the theme of »Lights in the dusk« is loneliness.

»The Man without a Past« delivers a new edge to the story that stirred viewers all around the world in »Drifting Clouds«.

A mistaken delivery in mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (mumbai’s Dabbawal- lahs) connects a young housewife – ila singh to an older man in the dusk of his life – saajan thomas, they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

Through little-seen archive and his characteristically cinematic analysis, Mark Cousins narrates the ascent of fascism in Italy and its fall-out across 1930s Europe. Both essay film and historical document, Cousins contextualises history through the now, holding a mirror to a political landscape of a creeping far right and manipulated media.

THE MIDDLE MAN is a darkly humorous social satire which takes place in a small town that is experiencing an epidemic of accidents and deaths. The town is run by “The Commission” – the Sheriff, the Doctor and the Pastor - who decide to hire a ‘Middle Man’ whose sole responsibility will be to inform the family when an unfortunate incident occurs. Frank Farrelli is a quiet, thoughtful man who proves perfect for the job. He takes his new role on with gusto and quickly becomes the town’s beacon of bad news. But the pressures of the job and a budding new romance overwhelm Frank. To ease his burden, he calls in a ‘favour’ that ends up in a horrifying yet oddly amusing murder.

"The milk of sorrow", set in Peru after the long war of terrorism, is about unresolved personal and collective memory. The return of repressed violence buried deep inside a girl is transformed into healing and hope.