Looking for an Angel
Directed by Akihiro Suzuki
Mostly seen at the time of its release on the gay pink film circuit and recently restored to its rightful place in the Japanese arthouse canon, Akihiro Suzuki’s debut is an experimental foray into grief and memory, set against a blue-hued, hazy city.
A Tokyo greengrocer puts his livelihood at risk to extend help to a group of Chinese exchange students. A lesser-seen masterpiece from director Nobuhiko Obayashi (House) that chronicles the end of a decade marked by the Japanese economic bubble and the brutal close of possibility in China.
Lonely, alienated Sonya struggles to keep her family-owned funeral home afloat. Until an unexpected corpse lands illicitly at her doorstep. A powerful meditation on our universal longing for connection, Dwein Baltazar's Ode to Nothing is one of the most captivating arthouse horror films to emerge from the Philippines.