INFORMATION
Director: Anthony Chen, Jafar Panahi, Laura Poitras, Dominga Sotomayor, Malik Vitthal, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, David Lowery
Year: 2021
Duration: 115’
Language: VOSE
Genre: Drama
SYNOPSIS
The Year of the Everlasting Storm, an anthology of short films directed by seven transcendental filmmakers, encompasses a repertoire of stories focused on the quarantine that besieged and stopped the world because of the COVID-19.
BIOGRAPHY
After several short films and documentaries, Jafar Panahi directed his first feature The White Balloon which premiered in 1977 in Cannes’ Directors Fortnight and won the Camera d’Or. Some of his works such as The Mirror, The Circle, or Offside also won awards such as the Golden Leopard, the Golden Lion, or the Jury Prize, respectively. Jafar Panahi’s films are known for portraying realistic images of the Iranian society, causing them to be banned from the screen in Iran.
Director and screenwriter Anthony Chen was born in Singapore, in 1984. He participates in the anthology The Year of the Everlasting Storm with his film The Break Away. Chen has written and produced the movie Ilo Ilo (in 2013), which has won several awards such as the Best Director (in the 2013 Asia Pacific Screen Award) or the award to the Best Film in the 2013 Dubai International Film Festival.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul also includes his film Night Colonies in The Year of the Everlasting Storm. Weerasethakul was born in 1970 and he is a director, screenwriter, and film producer of independent Thai films. He has won several awards such as the Jury Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival (with his film Tropical Malady), or the Palme d’Or prize at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival (for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives).
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180º Rule

18Khz

1990

A Balance

A Leave (휴가)

A Love Unknown

A New Day

A’HR

Abhijan (THE EXPEDITION)

Along the Sea

Anima

APARAJITO (THE INVINCIBLE)

Apur sansar (the world of apu)

Aranyer din ratri (Days and nights in the forest)

Around The Table

Bandar Band

Bedridden

Better Days (少年的你)

Bipolar

Borderlands

Bridge

Café By the Highway

Camino Skies

Can Neither Stay Here, Nor Journey Beyond

Captive (Nazarband)

Cartas de Akyab

Charulata (Charulata or the lonely wife)

Children of the Night

Cinema Shahre Gheseh

COLD

Come Here

Crossroads (Tapguan)

Debris of Desire

Devi (The goddess)

Don’t Go Too Far (멀리가지마라)

Drifting (濁水漂流)

Drive My Car

Drown (Shena-ye Parvaneh)

Drowning In Holy Water

El Barro de la Revolución

Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt)

Eternally Younger Than Those Idiots

Far Frontiers

Faraway My Shadow Wandered

Fire on the Plain

Friends and Strangers

Ganashatru (An enemy of the people)

Ghare-Baire (Bimala’s world)

God on the Balcony

GOOPY GYNE BAGHA BYNE (GOOPY AND BAGHA’S ADVENTURES)

H is For Happiness

Hail, Driver

Hand Rolled Cigarette (手捲煙)

I am Vasantrao

I Don’t Fire Myself (나는 나를 해고하지 않는다)

I Met A Girl

In the Wake

Jalsaghar (The music room)

Jeux de Plage

Josée (조제)

Just 1 Day (給我1天)

Keep Rolling (好好拍電影)

Lato Kosero

Life in 24 Frames

Lockdown

Los mensajes ocultos de Ganga

Love, Life and Goldfish

Mahanagar (One Night in Kathmandu)

Mahanagar (The Big City)

Malu

My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan

Nayak (The Hero)

Not Today

On Your Mom, Get, Set, Go! / Zero to Hero (媽媽的神奇小子)

One More Rainbow (Isa Pang Bahagari)

One Second Champion (秒拳王)

Our Midnight (아워 미드나잇)

Paranoia

Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road)

Pratidwandi (The Adversary)

Ready O/R Knot (不日成婚)

Restart

Rosemary’s Way

Running to the Sky

Sehar

Shakha Proshakha (Branches of the tree)

Shatranj Ke Khilari (The chess players)

Son of the Macho Dancer (Anak ng macho dancer)

Stars Await Us

Stoma (造口人)

Streamline

The Australian Dream

The Badger

The Blue Girl (Dokhtar-e Abi)

The Dogs Didn’t Sleep Last Night (Sag-ha Dishab Na-khabidand)

The Flute

The Forbidden Strings

The Fourth Round (Rand-e Chaharom)

The Great Indian Kitchen

The Inheritance (Mord-e Khor)

The Lake

The Reversed Path (Masir-e Makus)

The Road to Eden

The Single Tumbler

The Slaughterhouse (Koshtargah)

The Woman

The Women

The Year of the Everlasting Storm

Time (殺出個黃昏)

Ulbolsyn

Unboxing Girl (평평남녀)

Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

Walnut Tree

Water Boy

What We Left Unfinished

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Gūzen to Sōzo)

Where is Pinki?

Wind

Wu Hai

Yellow Cat
