Resurrection

This epic woven from dreams is a love letter to cinema and a mesmerizing, electrifying film experience. In a future world, humanity has given up dreaming in exchange for a longer life. Yet a few people still retain the ability to dream. One of them, Miss Shu, enters the dreams of a mysterious man, leading her through six sensory stories spanning a century of Chinese (film) history.

After Long Day’s Journey into Night, Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan returns with an elegy for an art form that, under his direction, proves to be very much alive. A mysterious fairy tale by a young talent with an old soul, unfolding across five dreamlike chapters, each connected to a sense and a period in film history. The film was awarded the Prix Spécial at the Cannes Film Festival.