Camila Mora-Scheihing

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves mysteriously lost.

Un regista e una troupe di attori occupano un albergo solitario e diroccato sulle rive dell'Atlantico, in Portogallo, che fa da sfondo ad un film di fantascienza, la traversata di alcuni sopravvissuti in un mondo contaminato. Ma i soldi e la pellicola finiscono e la lavorazione del film deve essere sospesa. Il regista rintraccia il produttore a Los Angeles, dove si è nascosto perché braccato da gangster, ma entrambi cadono uccisi.

Ispirato a un fatto accaduto a Vienna durante la prima guerra mondiale, è la storia d'una vittima che uccide il proprio carnefice. René è un ragazzino che viene esaminato nelle sue tendenze omicide fin dall'età di cinque anni da una psicologa infantile: dopo una decina d'anni si griderà al successo dell'operazione. E anche all'assassino: il bambino uccide la zia. L'avvocatessa Solange assume la difesa. Nella mente di René prende fattezze il fantasma della zia. I due s'innamorano, ma il circolo vizioso si conclude tragicamente.

The first emotions in love with a young man of seventeen: Thomas who understands that his life belongs to him at last. Four young women contribute to his sentimental education.

In Voyage of a Hand, Ruiz constructs another of his concentric labyrinths that hits us right in the multifaceted center of our confusion. We might decide that what we receive was a story full of intentions; or we might decide that it was a spineless joke empty of sense or direction. In any case, it will be difficult to deny the acid sense of humor that animates the film.

Ruiz on the film: "I began La présence réelle (The Real Presence) first. I. N. A. had commissioned me to produce a personal vision of the Festival d'Avignon. This became a fiction about the theater because if I had filmed the actual performances at Avignon I would have had to respect their staging, I would not be able to change anything. As such, I wouldn't be doing anything more than a retransmission of Antenne 2 or FR3. And since a lot would have to be paid for rights to each play, it would end up costing as much as a fiction feature. So it is a story about the theater, a bit Rivette-ish. I shot all the exteriors in Avignon, the interiors in Paris a few days later and I finish the film next Tuesday."

In Paris, an Arab immigrant working as a projectionist becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman he sees on the cinema screen. Following a visit from a man claiming to be his uncle, his world begins to mirror a macabre and cyclical narrative.