温柔在心

　　In a dream Uncle Jack looks through a magic telescope owned by the ghost of a hermit and sees what life was like millions of years ago, including a battle between prehistoric monsters.

　　Beginning with a pivotal encounter between two men in Goiás in the 1980s, director Daniel Nolasco weaves a narrative that spans across time and, perhaps, multiple dimensions, driven by the intense forces of desire and love, as well as the suffocating weight of repression and silence. Nolasco, who was featured in Olhar’s Focus section during the pandemic, continues his distinctive and undefinable journey with a radically queer cinema that refuses to look away from the often paradoxical physical expressions of both desire and violence.

　　2002年，伊拉克战争爆发前11个月，美军驻伊拉克某军事基地发生奇怪事件，一个监控摄像机录下了诡异影像，更有试图查清此事的相关责任人员或者丧命或者疯狂。军方甚感事关重大，遂请来在这方面具有丰富研究经验的“鬼语者”海莉·桑兹前来调查被他们用特殊手段囚禁起来的“鬼魂”。随着沟通的深入，各种各样奇怪的是接连发生，身边或严肃或鲁莽的军人们着呈现出怪异的举止。这一切的背后似乎隐藏着巨大的秘密，“鬼魂”的真面目也渐渐地揭开神秘面纱……　　本片根据真实事件改编。

　　诸家老太有两个儿子梦龙和梦飞，以及一个养孙国荣。16年前，一伙以张振邦为首的歹徒为了报复诸老太在公安局工作的丈夫，欲把梦龙和梦飞活埋，国荣的父亲得知后，救出了兄弟俩，自己却被烧死，诸老太为了报恩，收养了国荣，并且对他十分疼爱。不想，16年后的今天，国荣却陷入了张的贩毒集团。梦龙出于对国荣的爱护，在知道国荣贩毒后，私下包庇他。在公安局工作的梦飞在缉拿国荣的过程中，国荣因拒捕被击毙，梦龙被梦飞带上了手铐。