The Hourglass Sanatorium(Sanatorium pod klepsydra)

Enigmatic and disorienting, Has unleashes a surreal phantasmagoria in his transformation of Jewish author Bruno Schulz’s poignant reflection on time and death. Moving through dreamscapes of dilapidation, a man visiting his ailing father in the sanatorium embarks on an internal odyssey, where ghosts of the past and present intertwine in a hypnotic dance. The collective trauma of the Holocaust looms over provocative, ethereal visual and aural juxtapositions, evoking a bewilderment of fantasies, and a labyrinth of decay. The crowning expression of Has’ visionary cinema, this Cannes Jury Prize-winner earned him the international recognition he had long been denied.

Cannes Film Festival: Jury Prize

20/12 (Sat): Film talk with Dunet Chan

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