Five Frames and one fine evening we went to tell a story

French Story

Invalid date •English

Years after the crime, three clueless investigators discuss the disappearance of a young tourist in a small French town.

The Eve

September 2015 •Italian

Simon is an eight-year-old boy who seems to have everything from life. He’s a handsome child, he’s rich yet unhappy. He senses that there’s something wrong with his life and this leads him to wander off thanks to his fervid imagination. His greatest wish is to leave the materialistic world behind since he isn’t fond of it. That’s why the only present he wants for Christmas is for Santa Claus to take him away to live in his fairyland toy factory. At the same time, a secret that his family has been keeping for a long time suddenly comes to the surface and it is feared that the worst might happen soon. The expectation for the stroke of midnight on the night before Christmas is transformed into reality for everyone on the eve of something truly different. Something terrible that might happen.

The death of the minotavr

September 2022 •English

The death of the minotavr talks about the concept of the heroine's journey. Suffering, horror and exhaustion lead the protagonist to a process of transformation, abyss and expiation, because only murdering to minotaur and everything he represents is possible to return to life. From the female gaze, it shows the depth of the emotional wounds caused by domestic violence; the same one that the surrealist Dora Maar lived and that ask why, as a society, instead of killing the minotaur, we blindly continue to send him women only to be devoured and ask them why they simply did not fight, why they did not try get out of the labyrinth.

Pieces Within

November 2024 •English

A poet's muse calls on his inner child to save their relationship.

Nourishment of the oblivion

June 2022 •English

Andrea and the simbionte travel to Toledo; when they arrive, they find a lonely bus station, which slowly turns off the lights for them. In the silence that surrounds them, Andrea watches the moment pass and with it her certainty about her future dream with the simbionte, feeling that everything she experiences is actually a memory.

DEAR ROBERT_

Invalid date •Portuguese

Longing of the idle plants

February 2022 •English

A film about using nature as a way to deal, cope and escape depression, a sense of melancholy and loss clouds over the film.

The Quiet Silence

December 2016 •Javanese

Bustoni, a performing arts worker who lives with his mother who are dying, has a question that distract his life. What will happen to a woman after death?

Anamnesis

December 2022 •English

A reclusive former star of British cinema reflects on the loss of her child and her past life in the spotlight.

Spectres

December 2021 •Latin

Three ancient heroes encounter the spectres of their dead loved ones and struggle to let them go.

Exquisite Corpse

February 2021 •Spanish

With her girlfriend lying comatose in the hospital, after having found her lifeless body in the bathtub, Clara starts the path of physical and psychological transformation with the goal of possessing her girlfriend again in some way.

Breathless

July 2018 •Russian

A committed synchronized swimmer tries to win the championship and the heart of the coach.

Thlípsi

December 2018 •English

A man who is paranoid and deluded by his own conspiracies that someone out there is after him must come to terms with the root of his suffering.

Puparia

September 2021 •Japanese

Something is about to change drastically, and the only thing to do is to witness it.

Temptation

October 2018 •English

The story of a sex worker struggling to connect with the people around him. As his world turns increasingly hostile, a descent into isolation brings him face to face with his past.

The Inexhaustible Variety of Life

January 2024 •English

A conversation between reality and consciousness.

The Sacred Disease

May 2016 •English

A bereaved epileptic ditches her pills and follows a mysterious woman to the outskirts of her town, where she slips back into the fearsome yet ecstatic throes of the seizure.

Once More Unto the Breach

October 2019 •Italian

July, 1941. After the beginning of the German invasion, an Italian soldier, a veteran of the colonial wars, is sent to the Soviet front. As he remembers the fairy tales his Russian mother used to tell him, the train he is travelling in crosses Europe on its way to the vast Ukrainian plains, where the enemy and a cruel winter await him… (Based on the experiences of several Italian soldiers.)

Difference & Repetition, 2020

June 2025 •English

In March 2020, an Argentine woman flees New York with her Peruvian husband for his family’s empty beach house outside of Lima, whereupon an unplanned pregnancy precipitates the destruction of her marriage. In the present, she rips the moments of this narrative from their context, and reconstructs her story to reckon with her profound feeling of loneliness and the experience of time in which it has trapped her.

Celestial

July 2022 •English

A visual barrage of nature, colors, and scenery combining into a montage that overwhelms the senses, playing with Wesendock Lieder's Richard Wagner piece.