Guy Maddin

While their mother is dying, two young children hear Icelandic folk tales from their grandmother.

Guy Maddin's portrait of his native city is intensely idiosyncratic and hilariously unreliable, constructed around his apparently doomed imperative to escape the place, and with it his mother.

A surreal ode to both San Francisco and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo that warps together various pieces from films and television.