Hai cercato: The Swamp
Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit / 1968
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns herself along with her cat in a nearby marsh. A decade later, Naoshige’s efforts to steal another woman trigger a curse on him when she also commits suicide at the same marsh — forcing him to suffer the consequences of his past actions.
Swamp Monster / 2022
Three kids (ages 3, 4, and 11) find a mysterious spider and phone in the swamp, while recording their experience in their house showing off these mysterious items, they encounter weird things happening around the room. While the swamp virus spreads turning people into the Swamp Monster, these innocent kids have no clue what's happening in this inter-dimensional multiverse.
Swamp / 2021
Somewhere in Eastern Europe, a middle-aged blue-collar worker rents a room in his flat to a young single mother and her son. The man searches for ways to get closer to her, but all his efforts are in vain. One night, he brings home a bottle of champagne and tries to surprise her, with the hope of developing an intimate relationship.
Swamp Dialogues / 2015
The Danube Delta in Romania - the 'Last European Sanctuary’ - is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. While major efforts are made to protect biodiversity, the plight of local communities is largely overlooked. Social scientists claim that the traumatic nature of the swamp bears heavy on the villagers' lives. But is Nature really to blame? Swamp Dialogues is based on an extensive field-research in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve. Through a careful ‘argument montage’ built entirely on cinematic language the film represents an anthropological analysis formulated in image and sound.
Breath Of Swamps / 2014
The documentary film narrates about blacklist swamps destined to drainage and life stories of its habitants. The film acquaints us with unusual beauty of swamps that save water, make the climate mild, are shelter for many species of birds and animals, as well as for the ancient legends. The film addresses the topic of swamps ecosystem devastation as a result of peat extraction. The audience will hear stories of locals about how their life and home changed by peat reclamation.
Horror in Happy Swamp / 1995
A grotesque story, based on Michal Choromanski's novel, about a polluted area where gas leaking from a swamp causes noses to drop off.
Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp / 1963
Nishina Saburouta is powerful but corrupted priest. One night, an old samurai who couldn't bear him any more, attempts to kill him, but without success. Saburouta is rescued by his niece, Keisuke at the last moment. Keisuke is a a good-for-nothing. Since that event, he always turns to his uncle when he needs money. Recently Keisuke feels his uncle isn't as generous as he used to be, he suspects that Saburouta has found out the illicit relation between Keisuke and his uncle's young mistress, Ohasu.
Hungry Swamp / 1988
This film, similarly to other amateur films by the authors, portrays the different forms of Hungarian subculture, investigating them and playing with them and the possibilities of their visual expression on film. In the lives of the heroes selected by the film, punk music, sex, action-films, aimless driving in cars mean the unconscious expression and fulfilment of their selves, set in the interiors of concrete block apartments as their environment.
Swamp Patch / 2019
Filmmaker Mike De Leon released this short on the eve of the 1986 EDSA Revolt anniversary. During its 5 minutes, De Leon draws a harsh critique of the Philippine president, Rodrigo Roa Duterte.
Warm Swamp / 2004
A chain of harshness. Brother’s divorce brings ceaseless conflict to the family. Disputes over custody of his kid and alimony constantly plague him, but I can neither help him nor ignore his troubles. Boyfriend seems to be selfish and makes me nervous. There are always anxieties lurking below the surface of any human relationships. This anxiety becomes incarnated in the shadowy face of a pervert hiding in the alley, and darkness has its metaphorical meaning in the entire film.
Swamp / 2017
Oscar lives with his grandparents in a humble country house that has been left in the middle of a large hydroelectric project. It is the last day to vacate their house and his grandparents, faced with the pain and uncertainty of leaving the land where they were born, prefer to end up under it.
Mysterious Swamp / 2013
It's a mysterious story about a black stork, some frogs and a terrible danger lurking deep in the Estonian swamps.
Collapsed Swamp, or Painter Yamashita Kikuji / 1976
A documentary about the iconoclastic painter Yamashita Kikuji that depicts the 1969 Tomurai-ten (Funeral Exhibition) of then-recent work by Yamashita and his late older brother Taniguchi Kunbi, the living space he shared with his wife and his pet owls, and scenes of the artist at work.
Swamp / 2020
The moment when something wonderful happened in the swamp.