La Paloma

Bestiary

October 2023 •French

When the girl they call "the dog" leaves their school for good, Pauline and her gang decide to choose for themselves a new pet hate, in spite of their friend Julie's warning. Among unspoken words, rivalries and impulses of violence, this infernal quest might turn everything upside down.

Un Chien Andalou

June 1929 •French

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

Dopplebanger

June 2022 •English

A mysterious woman is forced to face herself in this dizzying karaoke nightmare.

Absolution

January 2016 •English

An old woman thinks back to the murder of her husband by British officers.

Button Man

June 2022 •English

Inspired by true events, this raw Australian horror follows 2 sisters on a hiking trip gone wrong, when they realise they aren't alone in the Victorian High Country.

Sea Roar

January 1988 •Japanese

In a certain fishing village, a memorial service is held to burn abandoned boats, and old fishing boats that have finished their duty have a dream on the verge of death. Deep-sea fish galloping through the alleys, fishermen pulling long ropes, ghosts of screaming girls...

A Burlesque on the Opera Carmen

March 1951 •English

Peter Sellers makes funny voice narration over the Chaplin film A Burlesque on Carmen (1915).

Animal Kingdom

April 2012 •Croatian

A short film set in the 1990s about a boy who collects Animal Kingdom stickers.

Cistema

August 2022 •Spanish

To buy a dress, Coral, a young sex worker agrees to get in the car with a client with a certain reputation.

Under Thy Wings

Invalid date •English

Nia Belafonte, a high-powered corporate mom, is confronted by a homeless man that changes her life forever.

Corner

June 2022 •Portuguese

The corner of a street is matched and mixed with the chant of a bird recorded on that same street. A symbiotic relationship is triggered: the rapid and successively repetitive montage cuts between the image of the street and the corners of the video frame itself produce new textures and shapes in our brain, whilst the sound follows the same rhythmic movements by emphasizing different “corners” (frequencies) from the bird’s singing. The energetic potency stemming from the junction of these elements creates a new image that is almost tactitle, maleable and rippling. The result is a somewhat humorous operation of the portuguese word "corner" throughout the different stages of making the piece, finally unveiling a piercing physical and kinetic experience for all the corners of our eyes and ears.

Saturday Morning Gift

December 2010 •Arabic

A short film based on a real interview with a kid survived the 2006 war on Lebanon.

Under This Luminous Sky

June 2022 •English

In a Kingdom where the monarch is increasing control onto its citizens, two friends share a bittersweet goodbye.

No Joke

May 2016 •English

As graduation draws closer, a college student finds herself torn between a stable job and her passion and field of study: being a clown.

Chipper

April 2023 •English

After receiving a mysterious letter, a wayward son returns to his childhood home to wrestle with a dark family secret.

Det ottende sakramente

November 2021 •Danish

Daybreak Express

January 1953 •English

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.

Carne

May 1991 •French

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.

Pig

January 1999 •English

A young man journeys through a desert, where he is kidnapped by a sadistic stranger clad in a pig mask. The stranger proceeds to brutally torture the young man, who then finds himself escaping into his imagination, with fantasy and reality intersecting.

Superheroes without Superpowers

August 2019 •Italian

The main (super)hero of Beatrice Baldacci’s documentary is a person depicted as the sum of her memories. The story of the director and her family is told in the first person, with home VHS recordings that show both Beatrice’s mother and Beatrice as a child taking on the role of an agent of memory. Outdated technology transforms the events of twenty years ago into an archaeological object.