Jam Films 2

The Way to My Father’s ... In the fall of 1986, Richard Fung made his first visit to his father's birthplace, a village in southern Guangdong, China. This experimental documentary examines the way children of immigrants relate to the land of their parents, and focuses on the ongoing subjective construction of history and memory. The Way to My Father's Village juxtaposes the son's search for his own historical roots, and his father's avoidance of his cultural heritage.

The Exquisite Hour Half lullaby for the dead, half lamentation on the twilight of the cinema.

Tem Boi na Linha

Angelos' Film Angelos Papanastassiou, the man behind the camera, a story of a Greek patrician of WW2 times Athens. In the very first days of the Nazi occupation Angelos decided to record and document the Greece motherland's sufferings. Using a clandestine 16-mm film camera risking daily his own, and his families life, filmed, documented the Nazi atrocities in Athens all through the German-Italian occupation. Meanwhile his daughter, Loukia was born and we follow her first steps as the family life images juxtaposed over the tragic chapter of modern Greek history. Angelos Papanastassiou secretly developed, edited and saved the films, which later become one of the principal evidence of the Nazi atrocities at the Nuremberg Trials 1947. The Angelos’ Film composed from a unique film journal of wartime Athens and offers a new insight to Greece’s past, with the music of Tibor Szemzõ.

Black Fire Mengyu wants to go straight after inheriting his father's crime empire but evil police Captain Zhang pressures him to continue the criminal activities.

Father and His Three Son... This film is constructed from the diary films of Zoltan Bartos, amateur filmmaker and composer of popular dance music. Shot from the 1920s through the middle of the 1950s, the film reflects both private and official history.

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Again About the Dragon a... An animated film based on an ancient Georgian fairy tale about a dragon that captured a spring and demanded a 'beautiful girl' in exchange for water every day. A brave knight defeated the dragon and returned the spring to the people. This is the content of the original tale, but the animated film also presents alternative versions of the events.

The Tale of a Silly Chic... A parable about meaning of life, starring a recently-hatched chick who can transform into different creatures.

The Tale of Bacho and Hi... Based on the fairy tale of the same name by O. Ioseliani. About the little boy Bacho, who helped the forest animals that had run away from home return to their mothers.