Be ready to be swept away by the mesmerising fables about nomadic protagonists in search of lost link with life.

The outing begins with director Nicolas Roeg’s monumental Walkabout, adaptation of John Vance Marshall’s novel. Painterly in its picturesque presentation of contrast between modern, urban civilisation and life in natural world, the mystical masterpiece spotlights on physical, spiritual and emotional sojourn of two city children stranded in rugged Australian outback, struggling to steer their way back. With an innocent family picnic turning into a survival struggle, the two take the aid of aboriginal boy to navigate through wild trackless desert in search of lost home.

The absurdist comedy Chronicles of a Disappearance by Elia Suleiman in his own words explores “the effects of ghettoisation and marginalisation on Palestinian psyche,” as he returns to land of birth to find his roots and a culture uprooted. Through interesting vignettes alternating between the absurd, ironic and melancholy, the docu-film, with its combination of personal tale, history and autobiography “depicts surreal cultural and political powerlessness of a young, politically-aware generation of Palestinians.”

Chronicling life of a reclusive, taciturn and mysterious hit man, who swears by Samurai credo, Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai with Forest Whitaker at helm, provides fascinating mesh of gangster tale and samurai flick. For company atop his roof shack he has a homing pigeon. 

The film follows the cold-blooded assassin’s sojourn for survival as he takes on the gang members who do not take kindly to his strict adherence of ceremonial coda of loyalty and honour.

Screenings Fri-Sun (Jan 25-27), 6.30 pm, Ashirvad, 30, St Mark’s Road Cross, Opp SBI. Admission by membership only. For details call: 2549 2774 / 2549 3705/ 9886213516.