Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • My Sweet Child
  • It Needs Eyes
  • Bookish
  • Hurt
  • Mysterious Behaviors
  • Snare of Evil
  • Cuidadoras
  • First Lady (The)
  • Noah's Arc: The Movie
  • Franklin
  • Thunderbolts*
  • Beneath the Scar: A Story of Resilience
  • Krishna Arjun
  • Eva i Bea
  • Velvet Vision: The Story of James Bidgood and the Making of Pink Narcissus
  • Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole (A)
  • Only Good Things
  • Transaction
  • Lioness
  • On the Streets (of Lagos)
  • Then & Now
  • Christmas Reunion (A)
  • Songs Inside
  • We Exist
  • Side Effects
  • Loulou
  • Murderbot
  • VIH: La causa justa
  • Teacher's Pet
  • More Perfect Union (A)
  • Next to Us
  • I Was Born This Way
  • Hal & Harper
  • State of Firsts
  • Outerlands
  • Secret Lives of My Three Men (The)
  • Latter-Day Glory: The Aftermath of Growing Up Queer in the LDS Church
  • Monk in Pieces
  • Flamingo Camp
  • Lurker

William, the New Judo Master

Country: Mexico, Language: Spanish, 96 mins

Original Title

William, el nuevo maestro del judo
  • Director: Omar Guzmán; Ricardo Silva

CGiii Comment

Once a successful singer in his native Sweden, William Clauson has found a refuge in Tijuana, Mexico, where he lives in a shop full of CDs that is also a mausoleum to the past. Around this mysterious character, Mexican directors Ricardo Silva and Omar Guzm*n build a dream-like and pain-filled world, as they explore the existential questions that torment him. A multitude of characters and events, suspended between past and present, reality and fiction, appear on the screen. In an endless cycle which annuls any progress of time in favour of the eternal repetition of sameness, Clauson becomes a Charon, a guide who leads us along this initiatory path of images, looking for an answer to our desperate need to escape from oblivion and to feel loved. This hybrid documentary is a kaleidoscope of pain, with echoes of Cocteau and Fassbinder.


Trailer...