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30 years old junkie, Toshiro is addicted to a synthetic drug called « Limbo », Toshiro must complete a mission for his dealer in a neighborhood of Tokyo. An area under the order of a curfew for several months due to stranges homicides. The police are in search of a serial killer but the local population is convinced that the killer is all but human.
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Released
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JA
Homme de main de Caine
Auto Da Fé is a diptych that looks at migration through the lens of religious persecution. Presented as a poetic period drama, the film presents a series of eight historical migrations over the last 400 years, starting with the little known 1654 fleeing of Sephardic Jews from Catholic Brazil to Barbados. As the film develops, we are presented with tale after tale of populations being displaced along religious lines, right up to the present day migrations from Hombori, Mali and Mosul, Iraq. Religion, persecution and migration are, it seems, old and continuing bedfellows. The work was filmed on location in Barbados, but the landscape is deliberately anonymous, reflecting the universal nature of these stories.
