About the Beginning

About the Beginning

Some films you watch. This one you recognise.

2023 · 85 min · Drama, Science Fiction

Somewhere in the Balkans, Anna explores her power of intuition while road-tripping with her old friend Armando, an amateur video-blogger who tries too hard. When Anna starts to wonder if friendships have an expiry date, she meets Goran, a famous actor facing a personal crisis. Their brief encounter sparks in Goran a mysterious vision, guiding him to meet "H", a silent man who might have the answers he is looking for.

Directed by Amulio José Espinosa · Written by César Julio Ortega

Your Rating

Cast

Make it a double feature

3h 15m together

About the Beginning

The Invisible Fight

Both from Amulio José Espinosa.

More from Amulio José EspinosaSee all →

Land of Hope

Land of Hope · 2018

MovieHistoryDrama

Anni, a daughter of a wealthy family and used to secure life, falls in love with Veikko, a war invalid of the Continuation War. Anni leaves her past behind her and starts leading the life of a pioneer, in the wild forests of northern Karelia, in a settlement farm. After a rosy start, the fate crushes Anni’s dreams and her love for Veikko is put to a test.

The Invisible Fight

The Invisible Fight · 2023

The Invisible Fight

MovieComedyAction

After surviving a deadly attack, a guard on the Soviet-Chinese border decides to become a monk but must continually prove along the way that he's capable of becoming the enlightened man he set out to be.

Wedding of the Century

Wedding of the Century · 2021

Wedding of the Century

MovieComedyRomance

A celebrity psychiatrist struggles to find a date for a wedding. Her dearest ex is getting married and she needs to find someone fancy enough to hide the fact that she is lonely, drinks too much and is pretty fucked up in any imaginable way.

R.F. - (Short 2010)

R.F. - (Short 2010) · 2010

R.F. - (Short 2010)

When a man tries to fix his television aerial on a day like any other, in a city like yours or mine, a series of unexpected events turns this everyday upside down in a most magical way

Fingerpori

Fingerpori · 2019

Live action comedy about a fictional town and it's uncommon people, based on a comic strip 'Fingerpori', by Pertti Jarla.

Etiäinen

Etiäinen · 2022

Etiäinen: "an image, doppelgänger, or just an impression that goes ahead of a person, doing things the person in question later does.” This audiovisual piece explores the feeling of auto-exiling oneself: leaving behind the loneliness of the city to confront the strange vastness of nature. Living between memories and premonitions of both worlds.

More Like This

The Science of Sleep

The Science of Sleep · 2006

The Science of Sleep

MovieComedyDrama

A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.

Like Water for Chocolate

Like Water for Chocolate · 1992

Like Water for Chocolate

MovieDramaRomance

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.

The Ramen Girl

The Ramen Girl · 2008

MovieRomanceComedy

An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a ramen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.

The Family Man

The Family Man · 2000

MovieComedyDrama

Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles through this alternate suburban universe, Jack finds himself at a crossroad where he must choose between his high-power career and the woman he loves.

Dreams

MovieFantasyDrama

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.

Pacific Rim: Uprising

Pacific Rim: Uprising · 2018

Pacific Rim: Uprising

MovieActionFantasy

It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.

Synecdoche, New York

Synecdoche, New York · 2008

Synecdoche, New York

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 2008

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

MovieDramaFantasy

Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.

Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth · 2006

Pan's Labyrinth

MovieFantasyDrama

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.

Whale Rider

Whale Rider · 2003

MovieDramaFamily

A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Māori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou · 2004

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

MovieAdventureComedy

Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter