Beijing Lift-Off Film Festival 2025
Network Round Features
Monday, 1st December - Sunday, 7th December
1. Bora
Director/Writer/Producer: Zuzana Marianková
Director: Marek Najbrt
Writer: Zdeněk Jecelín
Producers: Michal Reitler,Tomáš Grombíř, Ondřej Zima, Silvie Michajlova, Zuzana Mistríková
Synopsis: Participants of „Encounter with Death“ course arrive to Porer lighthouse. They expected self-knowledge, instead there comes a shock. A strong storm cuts the participants off from the world, and in the morning they find one of them stabbed to death. Due to the storm, the land is out of reach and the isolation which was supposed to be a part of the therapy, turns into a trap. Death is much closer than they ever dared to imagine.
2. Cuberdon - The Curious Story of the War of the Noses
Director/Writer/ Producer: Frederik Van Melle
Country of Origin: Belgium
Synopsis: A story about two cunning candy vendors whose fight spiralled out of control and made headlines around the world.
3. Before They Arrive
Director/Writer/Producer: Ashraf Mtaweh
Producers: Jamal Awar,Mahmoud Korek
Country of Origin: Lebanon
Synopsis: The absurdity of normalizing the political, social, and economical catastrophes that have been governing the Lebanese daily life, comes to a boil when Samer and Rana try to get comfortable in preparation for some romance. All their advances are abruptly halted with all that is happening out of their control.
4. Yellow Memory
Director: François Kermoal
Producer: Media Jungle
Country of Origin: France
Synopsis: “Yellow Memory” - a title borrowed from one of his paintings - tells the story of Trân Trong Vû, a naturalized French painter born in 1964 in Hanoi, Vietnam, through the eyes, surprises, and remarks of Dan, his eldest son, a young Frenchman born in Paris in 1999. Beyond the portrait of an artist in exile and the meeting of a son with his father, the film delivers a universal message: painting and more generally art, cure poverty and heal from war.
5. Aldo Baldin - A Life for Music
Director: Yves Goulart
Writer: Yves Goulart
Producer: Nayglon Goulart, Marcelo Nigri, Yves Goulart
Country of Origin: Brazil
Synopsis: Aldo Baldin - A Life for Music is an operatic documentary that unfolds talented tenor Aldo Baldin as he journeyed from humble beginnings in the countryside of Brazil to becoming one of the greatest lyrical singers in the world of his time. He sang with the greatest conductors, performed in the most famous concert halls and recorded more than 100 albums. His story is told in the first person by the tenor himself and by musicians, friends and family members, who relive the unique career of this great Brazilian artist.
