Rumours about a mythical free land sow havoc in an ultra-regulated society where citizens wear paper bags on their heads to dissolve their differences. In this stylish sci-fi animation, a well-oiled system with echoes of George Orwell’s 1984, starts crumbling when whispers of a land where freedom reigns begin to spread. The hero, a fresh council member in love with a free-spirited girl, finds himself involved in a complicated net of incidents that open his eyes to a new reality.
Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust is based on Ishan Shukla’s 2016 multi-award winning short and voiced by a star cast including Golshifteh Farahani, Asia Argento, Lav Diaz and Gaspar Noé. Shot using a video game engine geared toward greater innovation and aesthetic control, the film combines 3D and 2D technologies to build cool, sophisticated visuals, architectures with pronounced geometries, and a noirish atmosphere. Shukla revels in classical dystopian topics: a society of control, pervasive brainwashing, amorphous crowds, the impulse toward liberation and the mirrored fear of it. He simultaneously establishes intriguing parallelisms with recent contemporary events – revolts for freedom, civil disobedience and the masked pandemic world.
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《墓地情歌》的主人公是一位年老孤僻的男子派佩，他是菲律宾摇滚传奇人物乔伊·史密斯的头号粉丝，长年在俱乐部里模仿他的偶像，直到某一天，他要在偶像的复出演唱会上暖场，还和他的经纪人谈了一笔交易：帮偶像代笔写一首情歌。这是一件他和这位摇滚传奇人物都没做过的事。 本片由菲律宾摇滚传奇人物派佩·乔伊·史密斯一人分饰两角，同时饰演模仿自己的头号粉丝派佩和在故事中短暂露脸的本尊。他在片中调侃自己的传奇人生，也感叹菲律宾摇滚的日渐式微。

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Not so much a documentary, nor a compendium of interviews, but an almost rarefied glimpse into a wholesale revolt from a rigid paradigm long upheld by the west as the only way to make a film.