Funahashi Atsushi
Japan
2013 | 00:35:00

Atsushi shows the helplessness, missing will to take consequences and hypocrisy of the Japanese politics and atom industry management concerning the catastrophe in Fukishima. He portraits people, who even two years later still living in emergency accommodation waiting for an answer (or an excuse) of their politicians. These people put on the waiting line don't take much care of the global consequences of the accidence, for example in Germany. Even when the TV is offering news, they are playing cards. Only from time to time there we observe a kind of resistance, more or less helpless expressing their resentment.

Xiaolu Guo
Great Britain
2014 | 01:10:00

Introduced by a Warhol-esque newsreader, Late at Night presents the voices of a number of Londoners - working class people, street gang members, beggars, bankers and others, most of them excluded from the area they live in, the newly gentrified London East End. Their words build a network of responses to the hyper capitalist world we live in. As George Orwell said: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.” Focusing on Britain’s relentlessly mean streets and its dwellers, each fighting their ground in their own way, this film essay uses words, writing and images to construct an image of today’s Britain and leads us to question our future under the institutional madness of global capitalism.