Resurrection

Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Bi Gan's latest film is total cinema – a formally virtuosic ode to the medium of film, a film-odyssey, a film-dream, whose individual segments refer to the human senses. According to the Chinese director, cinema is capable of affecting each of them – delighting and shocking.

Bi Gan's vision is a futuristic dystopia in which not being able to dream means being immortal, and those who dream (dream cinema!) are Fantasmers condemned to eternal, oneiric wandering.

This epic, formally masterful film takes us on five extraordinary journeys through the history of the tenth muse – from expressionist silent cinema, through wartime noir, a Buddhist parable, a neorealist heist movie, to a millennial vampire love story. It is free, mesmerizing, delightful cinema – a display of pure imagination.