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Gabriele
Gabriele loses his precious helmet and starts an epic journey for find it.
Tuesday 1 September
Gabriele
Gabriele loses his precious helmet and starts an epic journey for find it.
Square
When things are not going your way there’s always help.
“Kinship”: A Short Film
Hari Raya Puasa is a religious festival celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. To commemorate this significant day, PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency, produced its first festive short film, “Kinship”. The story follows two orphaned brothers who are virtually inseparable. Their relationship is put to the test when one of them receives news that he is going to be adopted. Can the brothers reconcile with each other after a deep misunderstanding causes a rift between them? Will they be separated for life? The film tells of family ties and forgiveness, which are both central to the spirit of Hari Raya. It finally resolves with a meaningful Malay proverb – “Air dicincang tidak akan putus”, which loosely translates to “water doesn’t break apart when you chop it” – imparting the notion that kinship is enduring and precious, just like water.
Nuovo Cinema Para-Virus
During the lockdown, the cinema sends a video letter to humankind. The theatres are closed, sets are locked, and the cinema can no longer create new dreams.
You're not a Fool, Grandpa
A little girl, now a woman, writes to her grandfather, wounded by a mental disorder. She watches him as he seethes inwardly, pondering the place of childhood in suffering.
Doll's Torturation (Como Matar Uma Boneca)
Lady is an Environmental Photographer who finds a doll in the forest and delivers it to the nearest house to a strange woman. Lady wears an Oxumaré cord from an African-derived religion, which forms a link between heaven and earth in a kind of request for ancestral help. While the strange woman feels protected by her belief and whiteness. A story told through symbols that represent marks of the past, the present and the power of ancestry, breaking stigmas and bringing reflections. "Content note: This film contains depictions of racist iconography used in service of anti-racist commentary." Enquanto tira fotos, Senhora encontra uma boneca na floresta e a entrega na única casa da região para uma mulher. A fotógrafa ambiental usa um cordão de Oxumaré, que forma um elo entre o céu e a terra numa espécie de pedido de ajuda ancestral; enquanto a outra mulher se sente protegida por sua crença e branquitude. Uma história contada através de símbolos que representam marcas do passado, a atualidade e do poder da ancestralidade, quebrando estigmas e trazendo reflexões.
Schrodinger's Cat - Intergalactic Super Spy
What do you get when the greatest spy kitty in the known universe, an emu with a touch of megalomania and a pair of cheeky kiwis cross paths? "Schrodinger's Cat - Intergalactic Super Spy" that's what! The nefarious General Emmanuel Eduardo Estophelos Emu the Third is determined to pull off a daring heist when his plan is unexpectedly interrupted by the coolest cat in the espionage business, Agent Guybrush Slade. Will General Emu succeed? Will Agent Slade stop him? Will the kiwis watch everything unfold with a bag of buttered popcorn? FIND OUT! MEOW!
Bragging Rights
3 superhero housemates try to out brag each other with their accomplishments.
Actress
An Actress prepares for a Lady Macbeth audition, while simutamously making a major life desion with her husband.
Soundbound
Soundbound is the newest film of director Sjoerd de Bont
RINGO ROCKET STAR and his song for Yuri Gagarin
‘RINGO ROCKET STAR and his song for Yuri Gagarin' is a dry tragic musical comedy (short) film about a gipsy guy who does think he can be famous by writing a song for the first man in the space 'YURI GAGARIN'...
I love you so much
In life, we love and unlove. In life, everything begins, everything ends, and everything continues.
Momo
The story is about a racoon who is obsessed with cleaning. One day he runs out of liquid detergent. He goes to the supermarket to steal cleaning supplies and then he starts cleaning. What he cleans that turns pure white. As a result, he causes more and more problems for the people around him. The people chase him out of the city, so he runs away into the forest to clean. As time goes by, the winter sets in and he stops cleaning, because everything has turned white. However, he sees himself on the ice and realizes that he is not white.
The Empty Cradle
After a traumatic loss, a mother becomes trapped inside a house that seems to absorb her grief. As silence deepens and reality fractures, the line between presence and absence dissolves. The Empty Cradle is a psychological horror film that transforms maternal grief into an immersive experience of isolation, guilt, and unseen collapse.
A Day with Anxiety
Anxiety disorder affects more than 300 million people worldwide from all walks of life, in a myriad of different ways. it can be a debilitating all-consuming destructive mental illness that affects suffers and carers alike. A Day with Anxiety looks at the way this can affect daily life in a satirical but equally emphatic way.
Heaven & Hell
In this film, I’ve sought to create a multi-sensory audit of a world in collapse, bridging the widening chasm between political hypocrisy and our fractured social reality. By centering the film on the recurring motif of a fraying flag, I wanted to expose the terrifying fragility of democracy as it buckles under the weight of human greed. I chose to set this human turmoil against the indifferent majesty of nature—where falling snow and rising oceans serve as a silent witness to our choices. Complemented by Veryan’s haunting soundscape and Liz Helman’s narration, the work stands as a cinematic elegy for the marginalized. Ultimately, it is a poetic reminder that while the powerful debate our future, the heaviest burden is always borne by those least responsible for the crisis.
dégagé ma fille, do
Lena is a dancer. Doubting herself under pressure, she slips and begins to spiral.
Passingness
Passingness is a haunting exploration of identity, memory, and the fragile edge of reality. As the narrative unfolds through emotionally charged performances and a tense, introspective atmosphere, the audience is drawn into a fragile space between being and disappearing. A haunting meditation on identity, loneliness, and the terror of not being seen. Driven by intense, intimate performances, the story unfolds in layers of psychological tension, revealing inner scars, blurred truths, and the quiet terror of not knowing who you are—or if you ever were.
MANIERA GRECA
The night comes to its end at the greek night club (bouzouki-dance floor). It’s five o’clock in the morning. The few last clients left at the club are clapping out of habit for the opening singer while she finishes her appearance with a long ‘goodnight’. Nobody could have guessed what would happen when the leading star of the night program, the famous singer Koureas, begins to sing his brand new hit, a zeibekiko* song called, ‘the bearded man’. A sequence of ecstatic events? A raised challenge? Hugs hanged on alcohol? Maniera Greca or in other words, the way the world goes round? We are the witnesses of the clients leaning on their drinks with their eyes on us, our eyes on them and Katerina Gogou, still looking straight to all of us..37 years later. *Greek folk dance of free choreographic structure
I HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU
He will tell you what you want to know.
iRony
A film that explores the relationship between man and technology...told from the perspective of a phone. Variously described as an Animation, an Experimental Film, a Narrative, a Documentary or a Film-Poem depending on who you speak to, this hand drawn animated film is based on the poem 'Seven Billion' written by the film director that won 2 National poetry awards: The Young Australian Writer’s National Award for Poetry, selected out of a field of 30,000 and the Karen W Treanor Poetry Award (Youth). iRony has been selected to 7 Academy Award Qualifying Festivals. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tZUdUJdpuw&feature=youtu.be
The Terminus
Adam has played women all his life. He only cares about himself. At the end of the day he'll discover there are things he should have done differently.
Long Live
A man reflects on his life and the passage of time as he moves through a forest.
Playing house
A little girl is playing house by herself. She makes food out of toys and sets the table. Then a little boy comes in and she greets him with joy. But things are getting darker while they are pretending...
A Cornish Summer
‘A Cornish Summer’ is a short animated documentary about Virginia Woolf’s childhood. Summers in Cornwall.documentary about Virginia Woolf’s childhood Summers in Cornwall. This documentary explores the Stephen family habits while on vacation and the influence these experiences and dynamics had on Virginia’s work later on, in particular their role in ‘To the Lighthouse’ (1927) and ‘The Waves’ (1931).
CASTI quel che costi - (Casti, whatever it takes)
An artist is asked by a fraudulent showbiz agent and an improvised historian to write a "performance" to commemorate Giovanni Battista Casti on the three hundredth anniversary of his birth. A situation and a tribute that, much like the author in question, can only result in a satirical portrayal of today.
False Lucidity
When a troubled young woman utilizes her increasingly vivid dreams as a form of escape that blur the line between reality and illusion, she finds herself trapped in a world where memories, guilt, and fear take on a life of their own. As disturbing visions invade her waking hours, she struggles to distinguish what is real from what exists only within her fractured mind. As she dives deeper the boundaries of reality continue to collapse. As her grip on the truth slips away, she must confront the darkest parts of herself before the illusion consumes her completely. In a battle between perception and reality, the greatest threat may not be what she sees—but what he refuses to see. False Lucidity is a haunting psychological thriller that explores identity, memory, and the terrifying consequences of believing a lie that feels real.
New Paths, Old Roads
Born and raised in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, a now 80-year-old Wendy recounts the limited opportunities and systemic barriers that kept her childhood community in economic stagnation. Retelling her journey to forge a different future as a young woman, she makes the bold decision to leave everything she’s ever known behind—family, home, and the familiar landscape—to pursue work in the nation’s capital.