Vimukthi Jayasundara

The film takes us to Sri Lanka in an indefinite and desolate post-war setting, almost in the middle of nowhere: "God is absent, but still the sun rises, over a lonely home between two trees in a forsaken land."

In a Bengali forest, a madman encounters a European soldier. In Kolkata, an architect struggles to complete a grand project. Mushrooms knits these two scenarios together in a series of haunting images. (tiff.net)

In this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic, coprophagic, and drug addled lifestyle. The film follows the poet, and his lover Dinamene, as he writes his masterpiece, the epic poem "Os Lusiadas." He travels from the cacophony of the Indic jungles, surrounded by allegorical elephants and rhyming macaques, to the frontier of Heaven and Hell, where he is confronted by his fantasy: fame and immortality.

The young man fell from the sky. Communication relay burns. Flee from the city and its commotion, return to nature. Become part of another story. That of the legend of the prince. In the hope of a love, hiding behind the hollow in a tree. Nothing magic is improbable. What happened yesterday, may happen again tomorrow. (imdb)