Night Child

My Pana

March 2023 •Spanish

Pana is a popular world from Venezuelan slang that means many things: as a noun it refers to a friend, a good person; as an adjective, it’s a positive quality, someone nice, someone friendly and enjoyable. A coming-of-age story, the short My Pana is also a tale of immigration and exile, a portrait of a teenager adapting to a new society with the few tools he knows to survive: his youth, his body and, ultimately, his own resilience. Through the point of view of a teenager we’ll understand the hardships of million of Venezuelans abroad and the consequences of corruption, exile and the fractured soul of a person who was pushed to leave his true life to adapt to a hostile new place.

Adams

August 2019 •English

One of the first film adaptations of Booker Prize-winning author George Saunders' work, this examination of white male rage against " the other' tells the story of Roger (Patton Oswalt) and Adams (Fred Armisen), two neighbors locked in an escalating conflict.

Mirror Neurons

March 2014 •English

The story of Danny, a girl with Asperger's Syndrome, and Pete a circus performer. Pete enters Danny's life as a catalyst for transformation. With a Black and white selective vision, Danny fights the over protection of her mother, encouraged by the new feelings that this new character has provoke in her. Using Pete as an excuse Danny screams to her mother: 'Let Me Walk My Life', and by doing so, she manages to shift her own perception just enough, to be able to perceive some color to her life.

Seol-hee

April 2016 •Korean

While working in a convenience store to makes ends meet, Yeonhee meet her high school classmate Seolhee. She is mentally handicapped. Everyday thereafter, Seolhee comes to visit Yeonhee at the convenience store.

Rhythm of First Love

January 1966 •Czech

A simple love story takes place in a luxurious hotel in Karlovy Vary, the hero of which is a shy young man who works in the elevator. He catches a glimpse of an exotic beauty from South America and, with little knowledge of foreign languages, assumes that she also reciprocates his feelings...

Quarantine

February 2015 •English

Clark has been quarantined his whole life and inundated with selective media. As the monotony of his minimal environment weighs on him, Clark starts to crave one thing - touch.

Paris Ficelle

January 1982 •French

Nano

June 2017 •English

In the near future, nanotechnology administered into the bloodstream can sync with computer apps to augment the human genome. A new law mandating and regulating this once elective procedure meets resistance from hacktivists who are conspiring to thwart the impending roll-out of "Nano version 2.0."

The Intermediate Step

September 2019 •Spanish

Yolanda is a young girl who practices athletics, it's her passion. But she's not training the way she wants, there is something wrong on her life and it's about to explode.

Limbo

November 2020 •Spanish

Killed in war, a man must overcome the various obstacles he encounters in limbo to save his life and thus meet his son, about to be born.

La noche de las ponchongas

June 2013 •Spanish

Before going away to live in Barcelona, Jorge spends his last night with his three best friends in a forest near the town. When everything seems to indicate that it was a bad idea, something happens that none of them could have dreamt of: three older girls are sunbathing half-naked on the other side of the river.

Scarecrow

January 2000 •Russian

One day the boy met a friend who understood him without words.

NEWBORN

October 2018 •English

A couple is overjoyed to welcome their firstborn into the world. Euphoria slips away when they return to an unwinnable argument over the name they will give their son.

Blake: The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell

January 1983 •English

A portrayal of artist/poet William Blake's effort to capture "an eternal world of the permanent realities of everything we see reflected in the vegetable glass of nature." Winner of the Columbus Film Festival "Chris" and the Cine Golden Eagle.

Jermaine & Elsie

September 2017 •English

Elsie is a fiercely independent, equally opinionated pensioner with a drink problem and reliant on daily help including Jermaine, a black, sexually ambiguous carer. Initially, their relationships is combative but he wins her over with his non-conventional ways. When Jermaine disappears without a word, Elsie is determined to find out what happened to him.

Larsen

May 2017 •French

Maude and Clothilde have been together for several years but no longer look at each other. When Maude suddenly loses her hearing, she tries to get closer to Clothilde who constantly avoids her.

Leave of Absence

July 2017 •Hebrew

After his daughters accidentally bleach his hair, before another stressful family dinner, Meir decides to escape. The middle-aged, suburban history teacher unexpectedly finds what he needed when a chance encounter with his former students plunges him into a night of pure rebellious energy.

Being Brave

January 2021 •English

This short film tells the story of Beckett, a smart and intriguing twelve-year-old, and his relationship with his divorced parents, James and Cindy. The separation took place when James came out as gay man.

Quiet

January 2017 •Lithuanian

A point of view on clergy sexual abuse.

La mort petita

April 2022 •Catalan

Adela is a single mother, hardworking and humble. While she works, her mother takes care of her son. Immersed in her obligations that don't allow her to think about her, she will be forced to open her eyes and face a new reality when, on an early morning, her mother runs away from home and begins to show the first signs of dementia.