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OCCHIO

September 2024 •Italian

An important sensory organ, the eye, is damaged. The exhausting healing process takes us on an inner journey full of pain, fragility and mental unrest, in which even superstition and witchcraft seem to have an influence on recovery.

The We Should Game

September 2023 •English

Fame driven Ken Dean becomes the subject of a documentary when he attempts to start a pornography company. Following the failure of the company, Ken uses his father's religious music to start a Christian rock band but finds himself trapped in a gay conversion cult.

Abysse

March 2024 •French

Witness

January 1982 •

Experimental short film by Barbara Sykes

Manduka

December 2023 •Kannada

A girl suffering from schizophrenia accidentally meets four criminals. Meanwhile in an hide and seek with Police and the criminals lies the mystery.

Fragmento

January 2023 •Portuguese

Anhell69

May 2023 •Spanish

A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre-production of his first film, a Class-B movie with ghosts. The young queer scene of Medellín is casted for the film, but the main protagonist dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 21, just like many friends of the director. Anhell69 explores the dreams, doubts and fears of an annihilated generation, and the struggle to carry on making cinema.

Grid

October 2021 •Portuguese

A ritual of grids, reflections and chasms; a complete state of entropy; a space that devours itself; a vertigo that destroys the gravity of the Earth; a trap that captures us inside the voids of the screen of light: «That blank arena wherein converge at once the hundred spaces» (Hollis Frampton).

Ossessione

June 2024 •Portuguese

Two Italian brothers, Franco and Giovanni, are marked by envy and resentment. While Giovanni, a talented painter, gains recognition in Brazil, Franco stays in Italy, enjoying the attention of their parents —attention that was always denied to the younger brother. When Franco asks Giovanni for a painting during a brief trip to Brazil, the bitterness between them reaches a breaking point, revealing a truth as painful as the artwork created.

Kids

June 2020 •Spanish

All Blurry Around the Open Flame

March 2025 •English

A short film about the abstract processes of light becoming a physical form in the landscape.

Bestia

September 2024 •Spanish

Man is constantly confronted by the one eyed beast. When peeking through the hole in his box, he discovers a truth that transforms his life. Every time the beast observes him and the darkness approaches his box, he becomes an embarrassed being.

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Invalid date •Spanish

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January 2013 •

An unknown girl breaks out of her daily grind by undergoing an intense audio-visual trip.

Echo

September 2023 •English

A reframing of the classic tale of Narcissus, the director draws on snippets of conversation with a trusted friend to muse on gender and identity. Just as shimmers are difficult to grasp as knowable entities, so does the concept of a gendered self feel unknowable except through reflection. Is it Narcissus that Echo truly longs for, or simply the Knowing he possesses when gazing upon himself?

Radar

January 2006 •English

A compilation of light cones of electric torches.

Once Faithful

February 2024 •English

Days slip away in a former baptist church haunted by its past

Double Exposure

October 2024 •English

A photographer girl enters a street to take street photographs as usual and takes a few photos that she thinks are normal. When she washes the photos and hangs them, she sees that she is actually in one of the photos and goes in search of that person.

insomnia

October 2023 •English

a doll finds herself dealing with loss, betrayal, anger and confusion after she finds herself abandoned abruptly by her creator and a stranger takes over her home

Her Trifles

October 2023 •English

An adaptation of a classic story, Her Trifles expores the mistery of a sudden death, the bond among women and the efficiency of a limited view.