➠➠ FIDLab 2024

评语：The Big One. The ultimate earthquake. In that multi-layered story about the San Andreas Fault, the overlapping storylines reflect the geological layers of these mythical cinematic landscapes. This experimental road movie paints a broader portrait of the concept of fault, somewhere between reality and fiction and between geology and emotions.（https://fidmarseille.org/en/film/drop-cover-hold-on/）

评语：Faces, voices, visions, spectres chase each other through the streets of a city and the surrounding countryside. The wanderings of a homeless man, an autopsy, the making of a bell, children’s games. Days and seasons spin around history and traces of violence. Fragments of stories form a portrait of a place and a meditation on time and death.（https://fidmarseille.org/en/film/il-libro-dore/）

评语：Starting from an online practice in which streamers film themselves sleeping in order to monetize their time off, The Great Vacancy is a part essay, part anticipation film that presents a critical and poetic reflection on the contemporary articulation between fatigue, (self-)exploitation and the practices of connected screens.（https://fidmarseille.org/en/film/la-grande-vacance/）

评语：John Wilson, 67, mysteriously recovers from a fatal cancer. The seeming miracle throws him into an unfamiliar state of contemplation. John decides to apply to medical school, despite his advanced age. After many rejections, he is accepted at a school in the Caribbean. Events proceed to shake him out of his lifelong commitment to detachment.（https://fidmarseille.org/en/film/late-autumn/）

评语：After finding the body of a drowned fisherman, Rosario and her father leave the Pacific Ocean to try their luck in a mining village overlooked by a volcano. Rosario tries to adapt to her new life, but on the volcano, men are mysteriously disappearing, attracted by the night-time darkness of the mining galleries.（https://fidmarseille.org/en/film/malpais/）

评语：In 1860, under the British Raj, the first ship carrying Indian indentured labourers docked at Natal, South Africa. Guided by the ocean, mythology, theater & archives – political and familial – this film traces these departures, journeys and arrivals. An Arkati, a grandmother and a mythical river weave the reimagined tales of this event.（https://fidmarseille.org/en/film/tell-the-water-to-pass-on-our-dreams/）

评语：Jona, a museum guide, meets Denise, a Brazilian student. Helping to complete her academic work, Jona presents Denise to the painting “Appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene”. The passion between the two crosses the night, through the streets of Lisbon, but when they meet again she acts as if they had never met. Has it all been a dream?（https://fidmarseille.org/en/film/the-art-of-escape/）

评语：Dié Mèi and Ace are like brother and sister. One is a pop star in Taipei while the other joined the mafia there, betraying members of the Amis tribe to which they belong. After the death of her mother, Dié Mèi loses her voice. Ace, seeking redemption, must confront attacks from his gang. Like in the Amis myth, they both try to escape the deluge.（https://fidmarseille.org/en/film/the-langfang-republic/）

评语：Nicole is an Italian teenage TikToker stuck on holyday with her parents in Egypt. Playing an online video game, she grows a relationship with another player: Ya. Behind Ya is Yamen, a young Syrian living in a refugee camp in Beirut. An unexpected attraction disrupts their lives. A contemporary love story where virtual and real intersect.（https://fidmarseille.org/en/film/ya-niki/）

评语：After 30 years of documenting the queer history of his working-class, immigrant neighborhood, a filmmaker returns to his 2016 film Julio of Jackson Heights, about the 1990 gay bashing murder of Julio Rivera, a New York born-Puerto Rican sex worker, to interrogate the idea of heterosexuality as a fixed identity and examine its changing nature.（https://fidmarseille.org/en/film/julio-revisited/）

评语：Framed around a single night, Return to Vega follows Mick as she works the door of a nightclub and watches eccentric clubbers putter in and out of the club. When her shift ends she meets her girlfriend at a gay bar, and later has an encounter with a lonely stranger on the prowl. Return to Vega captures the intersections of contemporary urban life.（https://fidmarseille.org/en/film/return-to-vega/）