Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary / 2022

Longing / 2016

A semi-autobiographical short about a young man musing about the nostalgic joy of being a careless child.

Longing / 2015

Haruka and Manami are junior high school students. They go to the public library to do homework. Haruka is worried about her mother's surgery but she can't tell Manami about it. Haruka mistakes a strange girl for a ghost.

Sorrows of Deep Longing / 2019

Jen, a daughter of a poor farmer really wants to go to school. Unfortunately, his father do not want to support her. Monica, a young rebel heard what happened and invited Jen to join the rebel movement, in exchange of helping her with her dream. When Jen arrives at the rebel camp, she realised that it was not the education she expected.

Sisters in Longing / 2022

They are bonded by their pain, longing, and their current residence – a semi-open prison for women. While staging Anton Chekhov’s play, Three Sisters, together with professional actors, imprisoned women reveal their harrowing life-stories, dreams and the longing for a decent life outside the prison walls.

My Passionate Longing / 1956

The nurse Nina becomes sterile after an illegal abortion and keep it a secret from her husband.

The Longing / 2002

It is set in a dreary village in the Schwabian-Frankish Forest where the seemingly reserved Lena lives with her tyrant of a husband, Johannes, in a loveless marriage. Johannes is the village's spiritual leader and Lena is his faithful, ever-ready-to-serve wife. Lena's daily life is characterized by grinding monotony, a life narrowly circumscribed by nursing, organ playing and the duties of the marriage bed. The mysterious murder of a village girl suddenly knocks this humdrum existence off its tracks. In the wake of these events Lena discovers the affection and tenderness for which she has always longed in Paul, the village mechanic. This encounter is the start of an emancipation that leads her not to reveal Paul's secret regarding the girl's murder, for fear of losing her newly won piece of happiness. In turn it means she has to remain silent, as she has always done in her many years of marriage. So it is that this love ultimately turns Lena herself into a fallen angel.

Longing / 2022

Against the backdrop of Partition, independent India’s first hockey team defeats England, their erstwhile coloniser, to win the Gold at the 1948 London Olympics. Six decades later, when Nandy Singh, a member of this iconic team suffers a stroke, his tenacious struggle to recover, inspires his daughter to retrace his journey. Using archival footage and interviews with teammates, she reveals lives shaped by the Gold, and by Partition that made them refugees. Revealed also is a friend in Pakistan never spoken of before. Her journey in search of him morphs into a quest for the lost ‘watan’ (homeland).

The Longing of Michael Dudok de Wit / 2016

Michael Dudok de Wit was asked by the famous Japanese animation studio Ghibli, to create his first feature length animated film. This would be Ghibli's first international co-production ever. Maarten Schmidt and Thomas Doebele followed Dudok de Wit and his team during the complex creative process for over two years. He is a perfectionist that is used to making his own hand drawn animated films by himself. For this new and timely production, he was assisted by a team of 20 to 30 artists from all over Europe.

Dor (Longing) / 2022

A young man returns to his native Romania to make a fresh start as a shepherd. Jannes Callens’ film moves at the same pace as a pasture crossing, between expedition, pause and contemplation. Striking images of this profession merge with existential considerations. How can you guide a flock when you’re a little lost yourself?

Longing For an Island / 2021

Somewhere in France, at the edge of a pine forest facing the ocean, a hidden holiday camp created by white Russians over seventy years ago. In this summer kingdom, there are children, animals, wooden huts, babushkas and floral fabrics. Generations that live and grow together. And also an old man who is going to die, a son who wants to leave and a child who watches them.

Sleeping Longing / 2019

A young woman finds herself spiraling after the death of her father.

The Longing / 2019

We follow the day of an elderly man,who seems absorbed in a spiral of sadness.

Be Longing / 2023

That year, Jean drifted away from her hometown, straying into a new land. Three years have passed, while Jean feels she has found a new home, past trauma still weighs on her mind. It is time to be reacquainted with the city she has missed and since become unfamiliar. More importantly, she is to be reunited with her temperamental mother. Will there be a merry ending waiting for the prodigal daughter’s return? Will reconciliation be possible for our conflicted young people in Hong Kong? A portrait of the era of estrangement and displacement.

Longing / 2016

Through the fate of the children who are born, grow up and mature in difficult living and social circumstances, Longing talks about chidlren's rights and problems that must be solved by the youngest members of our society.

The Fire Longing For The Mist / 2018

Drupadi, a woman who hardly contains her longing, begins a long mythical journey to find her separated lover, Bima. In the midst of her exhaustion, just when she is about to rest, she heard a voice. Intrigued by the mysterious noise, she decides to track it down, and slowly found herself lost, deep into foreign places. There she is then founded and trifled by whimsical creatures. Little did she know, she has been herded to the other world, where she is then transformed and meet Bima, who has been preoccupied in a limbo.

Susan's Longing / 2009

Susan is longing for her boyfriend Anders who is away on business. Isolated in the flat they recently moved into, she has got the feeling that someone is visiting the apartment during night-time, and she has nightmares about living in the streets searching for Anders who has left her behind.