韩剧荆棘鸟

directed by Jang Sun-Woo is a personal essay on Korean cinema told as a journey through a country torn by war and crushed by military dictatorships and colonial oppression. The journey takes Jang Sun-Woo from Seoul to the de-militarised zone near the North Korean border, interviewing noted filmmakers, local farmers, and cinema-managers along the way, looking for the essence of the much-censored national cinema.

身毒丸少年丧母，他终日沉浸在怀念母亲的悲痛之中。父亲为了家庭，从妓院买回来妓女抚子担任孩子们的继母，抚子带着领养的孩子千代一起进入了这个家庭。抚子努力维系这个家，然身毒丸过于执迷过去，对这个继母始终心怀敌意，母子之间的隔阂 逐渐加深。最终，忍无可忍的抚子通过诅咒弄瞎了身毒丸的双眼，而逃出家门的身毒丸为了报复继母，杀害了无血缘关系的弟弟千代。父亲因无法承受巨大的打击而去世。家破人亡后，身毒丸悔不当初，最终与继母冰释前嫌，以恋人的身份生活下去。

故事发生在六十年代的塔尔萨城，在这里，学生们分为南北两个帮派，南帮的都是一些含着金汤匙出生的富家子弟，而北帮则充斥着出身贫民窟的名不见经传的穷小子们，南北两帮向来势不两立水火不容，常常发生激烈的矛盾和冲突，是当地巨大的不安定因素之一。波尼博伊（C·托马斯·豪威尔 C. Thomas Howell 饰）、约翰尼（拉尔夫·马奇奥 Ralph Macchio 饰）和达拉斯（马特·狄龙 Matt Dillon 饰）是北帮成员，彼此之间友谊十分坚实。在一场恶斗之中，约翰尼失手将南帮成员鲍勃（雷夫·加勒特 Leif Garrett 饰）杀死，在达拉斯的帮助下，波尼博伊和约翰尼藏身在一座教堂之中，这里成为了两个男孩子暂时躲避外界残酷纷争的世外桃源。

From filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky comes an epic, intimate and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction – and offer hope for survival and a way forward. Centering on a landscape project by the Italian architect Michele De Lucchi, Kossakovsky uses the circle to reflect on the rise and fall of civilisations, capturing breathtaking imagery from the temple ruins of Baalbek in Lebanon, dating back to AD 60, to the recent destruction of cities in Turkey following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in early 2023. Rocks and stone connect the disparate societies, from ghostly monoliths stuck in the earth to tragic heaps of concrete rubble waiting to be hauled off and repurposed anew. Through Kossakovsky’s inquisitive lens, the grandeur and folly of humanity and its precarious relationship with nature posits the urgent question: How do we build, and how can we build better, before it’s too late?