Critics’ Week Closing Short Film Program

Walker

What is beauty? Four filmmakers (Ann Hui, Gu Changwei, Tsai Ming-Liang, Kim Tae-yong) give their singular visions to this unfathomable question. Tsai Ming-Liang’s Walker ponders aloud if Hong Kong is beautiful, or strangely beautiful, or beautifully strange.

Directed by: Tsai Ming-Liang
No dialogue.

Manha de Santo Antonio (Morning of Saint Anthony’s day)

Tradition says that on June 13th, Saint Anthony’s Day – Lisbon’s patron -, lovers must offer small vases of basil with paper carnations and flags with popular quatrains as a token of their love.

Directed by: João Pedro Rodrigues
In Portuguese with French subtitle.