As a tormented filmmaker reaches new levels of success, the horrors of his film start to creep into his life.
Alex Nimrod, Jordan Rice, Brandon Whipple, Lisa Starrett, Brandon Gilbert, Devin Harris, Elizabeth Hadjinian, Trevor Van Auken, Lexi Minetree, Jacob Childress, Eric Eberle, Callie Skopelitis, Kyle Lacross II, Kevin M. Shiley, George Duryea, Janina Colucci, Cristina Goyeneche, Andrea Meier, Erin Lucid
Jordan Rice, Alex Nimrod, Maximus Jenkins, Kaleb Manske
Director of Photography: Kaleb Manske; Executive Producers: Jordan Rice, Alex Nimrod, Maximus Jenkins, Kimmi Colarossi, Jacqueline and David Gmach, Simon Jenkins; Associate Producers: Lisa Tudic, Jenna Ross, JJ Lippman, Saundra and Jason Rice, Margaret McCarthy, Gillian Callaghan; Editor: Kaleb Manske; Production Company: 4085 Productions LLC; Music: Lex Stout, Sam Mohart; Post Production Sound: Renata Finamore, Jordan Aldinger; VFX Team: Kaleb Manske, Gordon Horwitz, Milton Gourgel, Jimmy Paez, Johnny DiGiorgio; Key Crew: Dennis Morrison, Victoria Martzloff, Quinn O'Connor, Grace Gentile, Briana Brody, Sophia Grose, JJ Javier, Amelia Mackey, Charlotte Doyle, Andrew Rice; Colorist: Nathan Clark
Psychological Thriller, Horror
Anche il riccio respira (The breath of a sea urchin)
An 18 years old boy starts to feel uncomfortable with his friend and the people around him. He begins to withdraw from others, leading him to take a drastic decision for his future.
ANDREA PANNOFINO, BEATRICE LOTTI, DAMIANO LEPRI, PIETRO MICHELINI, PIETRO MOSER
1st assistant director: CARLO PIVA; Script supervisor: AURORA CATTANEO; Line producer: PIETRO MICHELINI; Set designer: CHIARA GUARINO; Sound engineer: GIANFRANCO ZANGARINI; Boom operator: GIACOMO FORNASIER; Sound editor: GIANFRANCO ZANGARINI, GIACOMO FORNASIER, RICCARDO PIZZO; Sound designer and music composer: GIACOMO FORNASIER; Sound mixer: MASSIMO FILIPPINI; Editor: AURORA CATTANEO; Costume designer: TALIA RESTREPO; Make-up artist: STEFANIA GRIGGI; Colourist: PETRO RONZONI; VFX: DANIELE TASSO; Cinematographer: PIETRO RONZONI
Jake Keller, a Dallas reporter, uncovers a "Smart City" surveillance conspiracy. Jake’s investigation takes him from the skyscraper office of an oil CEO to a drug den with guns at the ready. He discovers a network of corrupt politicians, hungry lobbyists, Deep State assassins, and gray aliens—only one of which might be a hallucination. With allies in short supply and a rising body count from suspicious accidents, the only question is which will unravel first: the conspiracy or Jake’s sanity.
Jason Nancarrow, George Welder, Evan Mason, Brian Hathorn, Michael Guinn
Executive Producer: Jason Nancarrow, Edmund Doherty, Nolan Shutler, Donald Lohr; Co-Producer: Natali Jones; Director of Photography: Jonathan Shahan; Production Designer: Michael Walsh; Editor: Kevin Fleming; Original Score: Bradford Nyght, Eric Daniel Meyer; Costume Designer: Kadi Uhack; Visual Effects Supervisor: Kevin Fleming; First Assistant Director: Michael J. Mills; Second Assistant Director: Natali Jones; "A" Camera: Jonathan Shahan; "B" Camera: Michael J. Mills; Drone Camera: Ryan Whitehead; Second Assistant Camera: James Hinkley, Dalton Jenks; Gaffer: Mark Johns; Script Supervisor: Jason Stark; Sound Mixer: Clint Wagoner; On-Set Dresser: Christian Alexis Vaca; Prop Master: Michael Walsh; Key Makeup Artist: Chelsea Lee; Hair Stylist: Kadi Uhack; Special Effects Makeup: Kadi Uhack; BTS Photographer: Billie Hara Sharp; CGI Artist: Kevin Fleming; Colorist: Kevin Fleming; Sound Supervisor: Clint Wagoner; Production Dialogue Editing: Clint Wagoner; Sound Design: Clint Wagoner
COSE DI FAMIGLIA / FAMILY MATTERS
La morte di un familiare. Una riunione di famiglia, due fratelli gemelli, Fabio e Sveva, ed un terzo fratello minore, Stefano. L’appuntamento è nella villa di campagna, Sveva li aspetta tutti lì.
The death of a family member, a family reunion, two twin brothers, Fabio and Sveva, and a third younger brother, Stefano. The appointment is in the country villa where Sveva is waiting for all them.
FOSCA BANCHELLI, LAURA SELLARI, MARTINUS TOCCHI
The story of Dino Pedriali a roman photograph. Hi did the famous naked pictures to Pier Paolo Pasolini. In his amazing life he had relationship with artist such as Man Ray and Andy Warhol.
pietro de silva, achille bonito oliva, raffaele curi, dino pedriali
Antonio is a forty-five-year-old Calabrian charcoal burner. He still lives with his father, a gruff and violent figure. In the background, job insecurity. Absence as a universal condition.
ANNA MARIA DE LUCA, CARMELO GIORDANO, DOMENICO MAIOLO, GIUSEPPE VELLONE
DOMENICO PISANI, VASCO MEDDI
Cinematographer: DAVIDE MANCA; Editor: SIMONE NAZZARENO VALENTE; Set designer: Simone SETZI; Costume designer: DOMENICO PISANI; Make-up artist: SILVIA VAVALÀ; Hairstyles: MASSIMILIANO BRUNO; Line producer: CINZIA SANNA; Sound engineer: ANDREA DI MARTINO; Music: YEHEZKEL RAZ
A recently retired woman begins hearing a strange noise her husband can’t hear. Is it all in her head or is there something out there?
Dawnie Finn, Mark Starratt, Shawn Vincent
Producer / 1st AD: Lianne Graham; Director of Photography: Ryan Kilbourne; Camera Operator: Ash Hardman; 1st AC: Maria Glover; Drone Operator: Sam Burns; Hair / MUA: Brenda Andrade, Luka Reshmi; Costumes / Set Dresser: Chanelle Berlingeri; Grip / Electric Swing: Aaron Kothiringer, Andrew Osawe, Luka Reshmi; Boom Operator: Aaron Kothiringer, Andrew Osawe; Editor: Ryan Kilbourne
The video is based on the song "I am not a racist, but ..." and was made in Brussels with the participation of the children of the "Center Communautaire Maritime (CCM)" of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean.
Some scenes were shot at the CCM, while others were shot outdoors in the Molenbeek-Saint-Jean district and in the city of Brussels.
In the video, two characters confront each other in different situations: in a pub, in a car inside a parking lot, during a walk in the city. The main character gives a strong and cynical voice to prejudice and clichés, trying to convince the other who is opposed to them. The irony of the text is amplified by the caricatured behavior of the main character and the reactions of the interlocutor. The games, laughter, expressions and spontaneous attitudes of children underline the absurdity of prejudice and clichés in a world that is constantly evolving.
Halfway through the video, the main character is filmed in the intimacy of his home, in the kitchen, while preparing a dish using the tagine and wearing the djellaba. The text and other elements present in the scene reflect the inconsistency of the protagonist, torn between prejudice and attraction to other cultures. And so the video develops and enhances the message of the song, namely that we are all made of the same substance and what differentiates us, our culture, life experiences, must be considered an added value and not a divisive element.
The ballets of the children and the two characters invite you to get involved and confront each other to improve and learn to live with others, in a world that will be increasingly multicultural and multi-ethnic.
Stefano Cinti, Guido Castellano
Stefano Cinti, Marco Locurcio
This movie is the story of a happy family!
The son of the family is antisocial, psychotic, skeptic and sexist who judges women by the smell of their cosmetics!
He believes that the smell of a decent woman’s cosmetics is different from an indecent one!
Prostitute or chaste, that is the question!
Like an interrogator, he openly tortures his sisters mentally and emotionally.
Of course, the crime of the daughters of this family is very serious!!!
They want to get married!
They don't want to work like a servant at home!
And the funniest of all, they have bought a male doll.
The daughters of this family are victims similar to "Mahsa Amini" who are tried only for the crime of being a woman.
Women who may be your neighbors right now.
Can't you hear them crying?
Women looking for life and freedom!
Latifeh Eine Jafari, Dr.Houshang Varaei, MOJENO Film School
Women, Black Comedy, Psychological, Drama
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Le gemelle Eternalismo (The Twins Eternalism)
The Eternalism Twins is the story of two twins during the 60’s. One of them lives on the Earth, the other one floats in space as an astronaut. Once she heads back on Earth her twin sister 50 years older than her, while she is as old as she left Earth.
A documentary investigating how inmates, from their cells on Death Row, help penpals outside in their daily struggles. Through the words of the protagonists and their letters, we experience these meaningful, intimate relationships where dramatic, blood-drenched life stories mesh with every day domestic trivialities.
Nick Calori, Nico Sersale
Nick Calori, Nico Sersale
Nico Sersale, Nick Calori
Music: Mimis Nikolopoulos; Executive Producer: Christopher Hird; Sound Designer: Henning Knoepfel; Graphics & Titles: Garry Waller; Associate Producer: Elettra Pizzi; Colour Grader: Alex Grigoras
Documentary, Feature, Television
Photo Retoucher A-nan returns to the old house that saddens him. The eerily beautiful yellow flowers on the loofah trellis attract a whole nest of ants. As a child, A-nan accidentally killed all these yellow flowers when spraying insecticide on them to kill the ants. In a rage, his father beat him lame. This caused a lifelong conflict between them. The elderly and paralyzed father, now wrapped in diapers and covered with ants, evokes the painful memories of A-nan’s youth. A-nan sprays and kills the ants again. But how will A-nan unravel this knotted relationship with his father, entangled for so many years? How will he restore the loving beauty of the yellow flowers that once bloomed in the courtyard?
Huai-Zhong Wang, Ming-Siou Tsai, Bozhi Yang
Chien-Ping Lin, Yun-Ju Pai
Cinematograper: Chien-Ping Lin
Chinese, Chinese - Min Nan
Lori and the Six Six Sixties
“The Other Side of the Forest” is a fantasy Pop-Art Fairytale starring Lori Stott (BBC’s The Demon Headmaster’ and Ashley Sutherland,. It is the tale of a shy young woman seeking her fame in the dark work of the 1960s folk-music underground. Lori’s journey to stardom takes her on a journey far beyond the familiar music world she is trying to break into and instead breaks out to a forgotten past of rural landscapes, magic, myth, dead Gods and mysterious fallen angels”.
It is a bold mix of influences covering 1960’s British Youth-Film such as “Smashing Time’, Carnaby Street news-reels and the Counter-Culture texts ‘The White Goddess’, ‘The House on the Borderland’ and ‘The Golden Bough’.
It bravely plays with structure and narrative while playing with the genre tropes and musical group performances.
It was filmed with analogue sound and film equipment, incorporating various 16mm and Super8 processing techniques – hand developing, vintage cameras, sellotaped film editing, scratching, and film looping.
The film was edited by Andy Morrison (Lord of the Rings, The English, Outlander, The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Last Kingdom).
The soundtrack is exclusively written by Post-Punk legend, Jowe Head (Swell Maps and Television Personalities).
Lori Stott, Ashley Sutherland
Lori Stott, Ashley Sutherland, Ben Soper
"Rival" delves into the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on the world of photography. Through candid interviews with global photographers, the documentary unveils the profound shifts in the creative landscape. As AI blurs the lines between human and machine-generated images, "Rival" invites viewers to contemplate on the brave new world of image generation.
Shtander, shtander, Katya!
A story about the relationship of two teenagers, who used to look at each other as friends, but this summer he fell in love with her. She can't respond the same but is afraid of losing their friendship until a silly game destroys everything.
Stella Frišman, David Babayan
Soluzione Fisiologica / Pleasure
What seems to be an ordinary phone call between a man and a sex worker disguises a far more complex intent. A gesture of deep understanding. An act of unconditional love.
Quella che sembra un’ordinaria telefonata tra un uomo e un sex worker nasconde un intento ben più complesso. Un gesto di profonda comprensione. Un atto di amore incondizionato.
Stefano Accorsi, Paola Minaccioni, Edoardo Purgatori, Sandro Stefanini, Riccardo Catenacci, Andrea Rossi
Jacopo Pica, Elena Pedrazzini, Tomaso Pessina, Luca Maria Piccolo
DOP: Cristiano Di Nicola; Editor: Marcello Saurino; Music: Jean Michel Snider, Umberto Gaudino; Sound: Jacopo Lattanzio; Costumes: Sara Fanelli; Production Design: Alessandro Iacopelli
Akino is a trainee concierge at the Hokkyoku Department Store, an unusual department store that caters exclusively to animals. Under the watchful eyes of the floor manager and senior concierges, Akino runs around to fulfill the wishes of customers with a myriad of needs and problems in her pursuit to become a full-fledged concierge.
Natsumi Kawaida, Takeo Otsuka, Kenjiro Tsuda
Character Designs: Chie Morita; Animation Production: Production I.G
Who truly decided which vaccine had to be bought during the pandemic? We found out that most European governments asked for help from large global consulting firms such as McKinsey, Deloitte, Accenture or KPMG and others. Despite the existence of potential conflicts of interest and thanks to insufficient transparency legislation. But in fact, these companies have been influencing the economy and politics for decades. Pandemic has only exposed these links. Let's put it that way: while Covid-19 has infected millions of people, the consulting virus has infected governments all around the world.
Riccardo Bagnato Bulgarelli
Riccardo Bagnato Bulgarelli
Pietro Bernaschina (RSI), Antonio Civile (RSI)
Collaboration: Emiliano Bos (RSI), Daniela Fabello (RSI); Legal advice: Laura Bernasconi (RSI); Graphics: Fabrizio Bernasconi (RSI); Film editing: Marilyne Zeller (RTS); Cameraman: Gilles Brisseau (Actua, Geneva), Michael Clément (Actua, Geneva), Eric Jacquin (Actua, Geneva), Massimo Incollingo (Actua, Geneva), Philippe Eveque (Actua, Geneva), François Ducobu (INS, Bruxelles), Guillaume Parent (Mammut, Paris); Mixage: Pierre Bader (RTS), Elias Siddiqui, Edgar Biondina (RTS)
Documentary, Feature, Television, Web / New Media
In the De Angelis household, days pass slowly and Federico, a bored modern prince, experiences the world by detaching himself from it. The encounter with a special friend becomes an opportunity to be able to reborn from the ancient ruins of his family.
FRANCESCO SAVINO, JANE ALEXANDER, MARTA MENEGHETTI, CHRISTOPH HULSEN
DOP: SIMONE SADOCCO; MUSIC: LUCA ZADRA; MAKE UP: ELISA VALENTI; EDITOR: SIMONE MARGIOTTA
In 1873 a young pioneer family traveling through the wilderness befriends a complete stranger that says he is a rancher. However the young girl discovers that a white horse haunts the rancher. She then tries to convince her mother they are about to witness an extraordinary event of the book of revelations.
Joni Adhal, Amylea Meiklejohn, River Roubaix
Victor Pytko, Eric T Miller, Morey Reimund, Ellen Lawer Stella
Western, Religious, Drama
On a summer afternoon, Saverio and Cataldo, a student and a teacher, find themselves in the countryside that they usually see everyday trough the train window. The meeting becomes an opportunity to get to know each other better, allowing Saverio to read a poem he has just written.
The story is about the train crash happened between Andria and Corato, in 2016 in Puglia Italy, and it’s dedicated to the victims of this tragedy.
Franco Ferrante, Pierdomenico Minafra
Edoardo Margotti, Ilaria Pascale, Greta Zamparini
Executive Producer: Silvia Morigi, Leila Rusciani; Director Of Photography: Francesco Filacchione; Composer: Orazio Saracino; Sound Department: Francesco Piro; Segretaria di edizione: Francesca Zonta
fiction, narrative, drama
In near future Seoul, suffering from pollution and housing issues, Shin-dong must find a new rental due to his landlord's notice. His friend suggests renting part of his place to complicate eviction. Shin-dong advertises, and a peculiar newlywed couple wanting to live in the bathroom appears. He accepts them, but their strange behaviors soon become unbearable.
Dae-geon Kim, Dong-won Heo
Eun-kyoung Yoon, Joseph Bahng
SF. Fantasy, Black Comedy, Thriller
Una Risata ci Salverà - A laugh will save us
‘Una Risata ci Salverà’: Esploreremo l’intersezione tra umorismo, satira e religione, analizzando come si influenzano reciprocamente. Attraverso interviste con comici, artisti e studiosi, scopriremo le battute irriverenti, le parodie sagaci e le caricature audaci che mettono in discussione i dogmi religiosi. Rifletteremo sul ruolo critico dell’umorismo nella fede e nella spiritualità, esaminando la sua capacità di sfidare le convenzioni sociali e di aprire il dialogo su temi considerati sacri. Un viaggio che ci farà ridere e riflettere, esplorando il potere della comicità nel contesto delle religioni e aprendo nuove prospettive sulle dinamiche culturali. ‘Una Risata ci Salverà’ inviterà a sfidare il potere attraverso una risata liberatrice."
"A Laugh Will Save Us: We will explore the intersection between humor, satire, and religion, analyzing how they mutually influence each other. Through interviews with comedians, artists, and scholars, we will discover irreverent jokes, clever parodies, and bold caricatures that challenge religious dogmas. We will reflect on the critical role of humor in faith and spirituality, examining its ability to defy social conventions and initiate dialogue on sacred topics. It will be a journey that will make us laugh and reflect, exploring the power of comedy within the context of religions and opening new perspectives on cultural dynamics. 'A Laugh Will Save Us' will invite us to challenge power through liberating laughter."
Sergio Staino, Moni Ovadia, Piergiorgio Odifreddi, Giorgio Montanini, Saverio Raimondo, Filippo Girdina, Alessandro Aronadio, Arianna Porcelli Safonov, Daniele Fabbri, Simone GEPPO Metalli, Sergio Spaccavento, David Le Breton, Ivo De Palma, Michelangelo Gregori, Daniele Ercolani, Sara Tortora, Michele Lorefice
Andrea (28) deve trascorrere l’ultima notte nelle stanze di Via Don Minzoni n.6, la casa dov’è cresciuto assieme alla nonna appena scomparsa, con il compito di chiudere le scatole e consegnare le chiavi ai nuovi proprietari la mattina successiva. Nelle ultime ventiquattr’ore tra le mura che hanno segnato la sua infanzia, un amarcord di spazi, colori e oggetti che gli ripor- tano alla mente il suo passato e l’appuntamento con il suo gruppo storico di amici per un’ultima partita di poker in Via Don Minzoni, una lunga tradizio- ne che morirà con la vendita della casa. In questo percorso di metabolizzazione della perdita – degli affetti, dei ricordi, di una parte di sé – Andrea cerca una misteriosa scatola blu che contiene qualcosa di molto prezioso.
FRANCESCO GAUDIELLO, LIA GRECO, MIRKO RISALITI, IRENE BATTAGLIA
Andrea FRANCESCO GAUDIELLOCaciagli
DOP: LUCA GALASSO; Music: FRANCESCO QUATRARO; Editor: ANDREA BONANNI
Sally gave Sam up for adoption 20 years ago- when they reunite, they fall romantically in love with devastating consequences.
Saara Lamberg, Jayden Denke
6th Anniversary - Six Pack Edition
Hauntology of the Retrodromomania
Hauntology of the Retrodromomania is an essayistic motion picture, a locomotory legwork, a deambulatory non-rural land survey, a casual journeying in a punctual dissertation around the phenomenon of the nostalgic feeling, discoursing on a late capitalistic landscape of social emotions, which are of yore, yet coloured of the postmodern tint of pixelated neo-noir, a socio-philosophical flâneur’s trip in critical theory escorted by the spirits of French post-structuralists. For a Sociology of Nostalgia revisited.
Documentary, Experimental, Feature
Avant-garde, Sociological
H(o)me(o)pa®t(h)y is a home entertainment healing system based on Homoeopathic medicine which one can at least to a certain extent autonomously manage as first aid tool, if you are skilled enough. As an allusion to David Cronenberg's Videodrome where the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers by establishing a new TV show dedicated to torture and punishment, H(o)me(o)pa®t(h)y instead is based on joy and healing. But will there be an overdose of globules? Insert 1 globules and start your solo home party! Cure yourself on so many occasions and relive a full relief. Your own H(o)me(o)pa®t(h)y kit is now available. Don't worry, be homeopathic!
Mascara Cartridge Déjà War
The world is an enduring war theater. Perhaps because it’s a men’s world? When cast in such a set women try to play out all their means, even performing a sad joy division or bowing down like a poor little thing. This in spite of being a fierce partisan or a tactical guerrilla expert.
The world is either a repeating making up of same actions, as in the movements necessary for the make-up moment, every single day. Persisting like a waterproof mascara – but will it alike prove itself bulletproof too? I guess no, a mascara can only be more or less dramatic. Like in a recrudescing war against more natural habits, occurring at large in the world theater.
Experimental, Expanded Cinema
Queen of the Luna Parking
Queen of the Luna Par(k)ing is a moving images arts by combining the element of the moon (from the Italian “luna” ) shining over a parking slot, where a girl is waiting for encountering someone, perhaps the king of the luna park. While acting in the gap of certainties like a lonely queen the moonshine splits its aura into the colours red/blue/yellow, interpreting the interstellar communication signals of Voyager 1 launched by the NASA in 1977. Exactly the year when the protagonist Wundersaar (Luna Queen) was born. Therefore the journey of the Voyager space probe can be seen as a metaphor for the expedition of every human being discovering the unknown in the deep space of life.
Experimental, Performance
A dream where obsession for German as a second language mixes up with an obsession for neatness and cleanliness as a distinctive feature of the national culture in question seen from the perspective of a foreigner. The dream is not a nightmare only because the set it is dreamt into is the seashore of the mare nostrum, where the dreaming subject is perfectly at home. A homeland which she, in turn, in her more secret thus naïf dreams would dream of being cleaner and tidier as in the reality, especially in front of such beauty of nature. As is right and proper.
Reversed gender surrender of an acid society that obeys mainstream restrictions and prescriptions of how and what to be.
A virtual reality installation about the physical laws of thermo-dynamics, contrasted in the colors red (hot) and blue (cold), creating an engagement of opposites.
5 Impressions of Marilyn Monroe in the Bathroom
“We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle"-- Marilyn Monroe
Creator, Director, Co-Editor: Suzan Averitt; Creator, Camera, Editor, Soundtrack, Sound Design: Jeff G Peters
Experimental, Short, Other
Experimental, Short, Collage, mobilephine
Boys come and go—from the boudoir to the confessional to the lab, the cabinet where K lives is a whirlwind of drugs, horny nightmares, and lustful stories. Until one fateful encounter.
A film about danger and desire in the modern world, and how interchangeable those desires all are.
Playfully adapted from Robert Wiene's 1920 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Fette Sans, Frank Hauschildt
Composer: Andreas Reihse; Editor: Fette Sans
Experimental, Queer, Snuff, Provocative
Trilogy of musical short films. The protagonist is Aiken, a cold and ruthless killer from a secret agency. After his daughter’s death, destroyed by grief, when he has to kill the target, who in turn has a daughter, hesitates and gives up killing. Now deprived of a reason to live, he is no longer focused and during a second mission is captured, tortured, and buried alive by another killer.
Vladimir Zaleski, Giulia Alberti, Matilda Cominoli, Angelica Destefani, Nicola Cominoli
Executive Production: Febo Film Srl; Music: Cosmophonix Production; First Assistant Director: Andrea Cominoli; Direction of Photography: Stefano Bianchi; Editor: Stefano Bianchi; First Camera Assistant: Filippo Brizzolari; Second Camera Assistant: Francesca Avanzini; Gaffer: Andrea Scutra; Make up Artist: Giulia Truzzi; Stylist: Lea Bevilacqua; Color Correction: Andrea Cominoli
Experimental, Music Video
Mr. Tagliaferri is a bored and frustrated working man, alone in a shabby hotel. In order to have some fun in the weekend, he tries to call an escort. But the world in which he's living is a disturbing dystopia halfway between Kafka, Orwell, Snowden and our everyday life made of surveillance and perpetual emergency.
Martino Sartori, Alessandro Ferrini
Alessandro Ferrini, Roberta Gambaro, Emanuele Zelaja, Massimiliano Sartori
Gianmaria Sisca, Alessandro Ferrini, Martino Sartori
Martino Sartori, Alessandro Ferrini, Roberta Gambaro, Emanuele Zelaja, Scimmia Divina - Collettivo Cinema Emergenziale
During a business trip to Venice, a couple offers a ride to a mysterious hitchhiker.
A wrong path at the very wrong time will lead our people in the midst of an intergalactic war between humans and aliens.
Francesco Roder, David White, Erica Alberti, Alessandro Ravagnati, Cristina Baldino, Vittoria Malignani, Paolo Fagiolo, Mattia Cassaro
Dario Bagatin, Amerigo Porcu Neri
Crazy Crabs from Outer Space
Pirjo, still stuck in her past, gets kidnapped by her pet crab Sebastian who turns out to be an alien. Sebastian wants to save her since the world is about to end at 10 o’clock today. However, Pirjo refuses to leave the planet without a memento of her beloved Ester and Sebastian won’t leave without Pirjo. The clock is ticking.
Lena Labart, Tuomas Rinta-Panttila, Saana School Koivisto
There's a group of women who are making a puppet show for their children. They have a director, Orsolya, who tries to teach them how to work together and with the puppet. However working with these women is a little bit difficult, but the question is: why?
Zsuzsanna Rácz, Pallai Mara, Horváth Fruzsina
András Schmidt, Anna Sípos, Peter Fazakas
editor: László Gyula Hegedűs; cinematographer: Domonkos Józsa
drama, socio, prison, women
Fish Eye explores the struggle of expression through the eyes of a homeless man's soul wandering through a diverse city. It is a 15-minute stylized film starting from the perspective of a homeless artist. After his sudden death on the streets, his soul wanders around the city viewing strange instances in different peoples lives as they pass by each other. It is an honest look into the conversations and deep emotions of 22 city dwellers. Their perspectives range broadly from backgrounds of the rich, the poor, young, old, businessmen and criminals. They each individually explain their own personal philosophies on why things are the way they are, and why they do what they do. This all forms a subtle but inescapable theme: Confidence is silent, and insecurities are loud. Fisheye was shot all in one take around 8 city blocks. We utilized 22 improvisational actors from the Chicago-land area with professional backgrounds.
Animation, Experimental, Short, Student
The unbelievable real life story of one of the most highly-respected immunologists and geneticists, Czech-Canadian Professor Emil Skamene. He devoted his life to uncovering the secrets of genes, while not knowing is own identity for many decades! He discovered that he was actually someone else by coincidence.
Professor Emil Skamene, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.P. (C), M.A.C.P., F.R.S.C., O.Q. physician, pedagogue, scientist. During his prolific professional life he wrote 250 professional publications, received tens of distinguished awards and even had the Nobel Prize within reach. He is the founder of the Institute for Clinical Research at McGill University in Montreal, a member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic and a Knight of the National Order of Quebec.
This is just one page of the life story of Professor ES. A chapter about the successful scientist, who is a world leader in his branch. However, the second chapter, concerning his personal life, is just as interesting.
Professor ES was born during the Second World War in Buchach in Galicia around August 1941.
His precise date of birth is unknown. He did not know his real identity for thirty years. He was born as Emil Kleiner, a child of Jewish parents, the son of important Galician notary Benio Kleiner and his wife Giselle. His parents died during the pogrom in 1943. However, shortly before their death they managed to arrange for their eighteen-month old son to be taken on the difficult journey to Prague.
Only 4 of the 16,000 Jews in Buchach survived the war. Professor Skamene’s lifelong endeavours arise from his desire to show that his life was worth rescuing.
Filmed in the depths of the lockdown of early 2021, Member State is a 100-minute feature created entirely from improvisation. This film explores personal relationships put under pressure by the imminent collapse of the European Union. Member State investigates external situations which are already bubbling beneath the surface of present day EU: the potential end to freedom of movement and rightwing extremism’s return to Germany.
Milena Rendón, Paolo Schoene, Sabine Schroeder, Edan Rowett, Sara Rut Arnardóttir, Siebe Schoneveld, Daniel Straube
Director of Photography: Alan Dresti; Art and Production Design: Isabelle Schmitz; Gaffer, AC, 2nd Unit Cinematographer: Jayden Bailey; Editor: Grattan Aikins; Sound Operator: Lawrence Bolton
Three rich and bored guys decide, in a completely random and unmotivated way, to fill their afternoon by carrying out a fake robbery against the local tobacconist, whom they know by sight.
The story tries to stage a grotesque drama in which it is difficult to identify good and bad, dragging the characters into a narrative and temporal vortex that puts them now in the position of the victim, now in that of the executioner.
Lorenzo Spolverato, Gregorio Cavallaro, Marco Schillaci, Francesco Oranges
ACCADEMIA 09, Debora De Benetti
A guard is plunged into a strange situation on his first day on the job
Finn Murray, Ranjan Sigdel
Animation, Short, Student
A down and out trombone player finds himself at a crossroads with his career and life in a dark, wet alley at night.
Michael McCallum, Ginneh Thomas, Andrew D. Standstedt
Anthony “Tucker” Amirante, DT Kofoed, Michael McCallum, William C. McCallum, Lucas Nielsen, Andrew D. Sandstedt, Eric Shalayko, Ginneh Thomas
Michael McCallum, William C. McCallum
Director Of Photography : Lucas Nielsen; Editors: Lucas Nielsen, Michael McCallum
"Dreams can be a reason to live or a reason to die."
The film depicts the harsh reality of part-time lecturers who are unable to find tenured posts to continue their research, tackling contemporary issues of the Japanese academic system such as the repayment of student loans, discriminatory low wages and mental exhaustion.
Within a social cohousing during the COVID epidemic, two nice retired guests with very different personalities invent a social page followed by millions of young people throughout Italy. Their story will thrill all their fans, even when the truth is discovered ...
Key cast: Francesco Porfido, Silvia Briozzo, Alberto Baraghini
Reprise is a playful narrative experiment of a critical nature - a riddle in a seamless loop. (Please read the director's statement).
Romina Küper, Katrin Flues, Benedikt Crisand, Anna Platen, Marielena Krewer, Stefan Mogel, Stefan Hornbach
Director of Photography: Jesse Mazuch; Art Department: Elena Vonderau, Katharina Janson, Senta Hetzer, Anissa Kholte; Sound: Hagen Waechter, Malte Lahrmann, Christian Obermaier, Jochen Jezussek
Psycho-thriller, Experimental, Loop
A brief and educational video about a young roboticist's current project.
Marina Barham, Natasha Fedor
Tendai Savage, Cameron Strittmatter, Jacob Wilson
Editors: Wes Latta; Production Company: Failure Island
LOGLINE: Lilith, a brilliant artist living in isolation, decides to face her deepest trauma with a new series of paintings based on the alchemical process. Seduced by her narcissistic caretaker Kat, Lilith loses her grasp on reality as Kat assumes her identity.
SYNOPSIS: Grieving the loss of her mother and sister, Lilith is completely alone except for her relationship to her caretaker Kat. Obsessed with the alchemical process of transformation, she embarks on a new series of alchemically inspired works to face her trauma.
As Lilith and Kat become increasingly invested in her latest series, Kat makes a deal to sell Lilith’s work at a local gallery.
Kat’s growing obsession with Lilith and her art pushes Lilith’s mental state to the limits as the subjects in her paintings begin appearing to her in visions and dreams. As their relationship becomes convoluted, Kat spends more of her off-hours with Lilith, blurring the lines of professionalism and romantic interest.
As Lilith develops feelings for Kat, Kat pulls away becoming negligent and abusive. As Lilith’s condition worsens, the entities from her paintings reveal her darkest inner fears and memories. The entities of her paintings begin to manifest in her waking state as nature begins taking over through a vigorous deterioration of her physical space. As Lilith walks the line between creativity and self-destruction, her realities collide and she must make a choice as to which demons she will face, and how far she is willing to go to achieve artistic perfection.
Bernadette Cuvalo, Johanna Warren, Sera Barbieri, Dawn Perryman
Ettie Wahl, Hannah Walls-Scott, Veronica Compton-Wallace, Micah Fusco
Editor: Gabe Shelton-Jenck; Composer: Emer Kinsella; Visual Effects: Ian Hubert; Cinematography: Brody Willis; Production Designer: Georgianna Nielson; Art Director: Kaitlin Romig; Sound Design: Ajeng Canyarasmi
Psychological Thriller, LGBTQ, Drama, Surreal
It’s a self-examined process for assess your present time. In the regular bass sound surround space, you could find there’s a few teenagers are having a madness house party, and there’s a girl awake but exhausted for being there. There’s a slightly smog or light gently but regularly move in the space. The smog represented a spiritual inside a space. It could be the spiritual from you or others. It’s like you are just in a conference or a party and suddenly there’s something pull your spirit away from your body. It makes you look at yourself in a different angle, but you’re still in the group. What would you do and what’s the connection between you and others?
If the smog was another you – a same existence from another world to look at your body in this group full of chaos and desired. However, there’s nothing you can changed as a member in this group. All you can do silently look down at your body, and move away quietly.
If the smog wasn’t you, it was an outsider of this whole group of people. You are paralysed to make any specific change in the group although your body still in there. What you should do and what would you do? You are just upon there and silently away from all these scenes made by human being.
There’s certainly no right or wrong answer for this topic. This just point out the way how you look at yourself. It’s a discussion about the existence of yourself. What makes you becomes the present existence and what’s track you would leave in your life.
Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
On the road in a desperate attempt to reunite with his estranged wife, Elliot takes respite at a desert motel. He encounters Greta, a mysterious woman bearing a striking resemblance to his wife. Elliot soon discovers her secret and descends into a mind-bending journey that forces him to question exactly who she is and where they are.
Haunting and hallucinogenic, SILENT RIVER is a layered and nuanced film that boldly challenges the very notions of reality and illusion.
West Liang, Amy Tsang, Max Faugno, Chandra Anderson, Dakota Loesch
Chris Chan Lee, Robert Cho, West Liang
Executive Producer: Philip Lam; Director of Photography: Norbert Shieh; Editor: Chris Chan Lee; Composer: Brian Ralston; Production Design: Jennifer D'Amore
Supernatural Psychological Drama
Samy Blum (Lucia Kotikova) does not remember anything. Neither day nor night.
She doesn't remember when her own perception began to crack and the horrors of her past began to trickle in. Was it because of her work at Café Devi? Because of the drugs? Did it have to do with the visit of that one guest (Christoph Müller) who had looked so familiar to her?
In panic and seemingly lost, Samy awakens in her inner world - rooms of darkness and dissociation. Dreadful scars continue to tear open piece by piece. Something chases Samy through the realm of this pain, in which every perception of reality threatens to drift away anchorless and only one thing becomes unimaginable: to forget.
SINTER was created in 2019 as a feature-length script at the "Münchner Drehbuchwerkstatt" and was realized as a short film in Berlin and Potsdam in 2021/22. The film makes two debuts: as the first feature film by the author Philip-Laszló Koch, and in film direction by Daniel Noël Fleischmann.
Lucia Kotikova, Christoph Müller, Johanna Kolberg, Sabine Friedrich, Daniel Hölzinger, Jannik Mühlenweg, Nina Siewert, Leonie Euler, Carina Thurner, Saladin Dellers, Christoph Gummert, Volker Figge
CO-Producer: Carolin Hellmann; DOP: Jan Fecke; Art Director: Marie-Christin Riedel; Set Design: Ilgın Özkazanç; Editor: Nikita Fedosik; Sound Engineer: Fanny Huder; Music by: Steffen Dix; Costume Designer: Natalie Soroko
Solastalgia, a neologism coined in 2003 by philosopher Glenn Albrecht, describes “a form of psychic or existential distress caused by environmental change. A loss of certainty in a once predictable environment is common among groups that express solastalgia.”
The primary imagery for this work was collected during a two-month fellowship in central Italy, a country known for its stone hilltop towns and villages, pastoral landscapes, and heritage preservation- a kind of opposite to the American ethos of renewal and development so keenly observed and felt in the current Seattle urban makeover.
The work is composed of several sets of slow-moving synchronous tableaux displayed across four vertically placed compositions that together form a traditional triptych. While digital in origin, the imagery can be thought of, in my view, as
belonging to a sub-genre of painting.
Babette DeLafayette Pendleton
This drama focuses on Jean, a tired boy whose mind starts modifying reality when he meets Jolie. A mysterious woman that allures him from the get go.
Ignoring common sense he endangers his life in order to reach her.
Art Directors: Albert García Boté, Alba Vila López; Animators: Marc Roca Fernandez, Joan Alarcón Carlin, Luca David Cipriani, Albert García Boté, Eloi Torras Almirall; Art Department: Violeta Cliffe Malara, Paula Martinez Lorca, Maria Laura Luque
A uniquely epic journey into the wide and colourful subconsciousness of a teenager, trying to change his family's shared desolation and to break free from past trauma.
Maksim Karushev, Alla Chernikh, Evgeniy Frolenkov, Kira Mikutskaya, Diana Shulmina, Petr Kudryashov, Nikita Kondratyev, Dimitriy Likhodedov
Konstantin Likhodedov, Kir Likdov
Cinematographer: Kir Likdov; Editor: Kir Likdov; Sound designers: Dmitriy Buslaev, Kir Likdov; Assistant Director: Nikita Kondratyev
A young girl, who leaves to meet her tutor, seems to be the target of a dark hunter and a disturbing maniac.
While the maniac leaves bodies in his path, while brooding over his past and his fallen dreams, and as the hunter unveils larger criminal intentions, the tutor leads the child towards an education that is completely out of control.
Stephanie E. Kohler, Paulin Tadadjeu Dadjeu, Alonso Leal-Morado, Grace Kanchanita Meekaew
Corticella, Bologna’s suburbs. The Serendippo association and the artist Athena, call fifteen artists in order to repaint the Civic Centre William Michelini, a partisan of the neighbourhood. Exchanges and generational clashes between very different people, bounded together by the same goals, will be shown.
The project proceeds with the repainting of a wall in Bologna’s plain centre, where the artists will experience completely different scenarios.
Paolo Maggi, Iulia Stanescu
Audio mixing: Sergio Brunetti; Cover: Giorgia Gallivanoni
Man is moving and taking the next step in his life. He finds memory from the past that pulls him deep inside of it. His dramatic past keeps a grip on him and won't let him move forward in his life. Fear to let loose, struggle to take the next step. The compelling need to understand the past is the force for him to reach toward the future. Whatever the future is.
This dramaciously dramatic drama piece is told with a strong visual style and is non-verbally driven by beautiful music.
Teemu Saarinen, Ville Aittokumpu, Azh Boyzz
Janne Karjalainen, Jonna Nissinen
Teemu Saarinen, Ville Aittokumpu, Azh Boyzz
Teemu Saarinen, Ville Aittokumpu, Azh Boyzz
Makeup&Hair/Script supervisor: Iina Rajamo; Cinematographer&Editor: Teemu Saarinen; Production Design: Ville Aittokumpu; Gaffer: Eetu Keränen; Grip: Jyrki Kuitto; Composer: Heinrich Dressel; Sound&Foley: Tatu Aittamaa; Poster Art: Chad Keith
After the New Republic Patriot Party seizes control in America , and passes a law requiring all males over 35 to have a vasectomy to keep the number of babies with birth defects down, Jamie decides to flee to Canada on the eve of his 35th birthday.
Sam Meader, Phil Idrissi, Max E Williams, Kat Mahard
Mark Hensley, peggy lewis
Director of Photography : Srushti KALSE
In a perfect world, where emotions can be only felt through a technological device, there are some who still struggle against the system. Jack, a young man, accidentally discovers a puzzling truth behind a new update for the device, which makes it possible to record dreams. Helped by Sam, a skillful hacker, he'll embark on a dangerous mission to retrieve data that could change reality as they know it. Along the way he'll eventually meet with Judy, a proudy young woman searching for her place in the world. Together, they'll be faced with an impossible choice.
Roberto Gentile, Rebecca Dosio, Lorenzo Melli
Director Of Photography: Lorenzo Bussone; Editor, Colorist: Simone Dosio
Sci-fi, Adventure, Thriller
The year 2045, the Sunlight Systems corporation has discovered a way to modify the human brain through a neuroimplant, or NI. Intelligence has become for sale. Money now determines social status and professional success. Many people have risen to the social elite by being implanted with an NI, while others have chosen not to for financial or ethical reasons. This has led to a split in society, where career advancement is virtually impossible without an NI.
Unemployed programmer Jacob Carus develops a program that can be used to gain control over people and wows the board of Sunlight Systems. When he wants to prevent the work on his project from being snatched away from him, he is faced with a momentous decision.
Wolfgang Zarnack, Claudia Plöckel
Rashid Ben Dhiab, Oliver Clark
From playing Frank Longbottom in Harry Potter to Adolf Hitler in Captain America, as well as standing in for Anthony Hopkins and Jude Law; James Payton has been part of the British Film Industry for the best part of 20 years. Yet he is still largely unknown.
Director Oliver Guy-Watkins followed James for a year as he attended Comic Cons, taught wizardry skills to children and was cast as Tony Blair in the Nick Moran helmed film Creation Stories.
This is a story of fandom, loneliness and perseverance, that plays with the boundaries of reality and fiction, but do we find out Who Is James Payton?
James Payton, Nick Moran, Chris Rankin, Georgina Leonidas, Tony Slattery
The year is 1672 and the Dutch Republic is being attacked by an immense force of 120.000 french soldiers commanded by Louis 14th. To save the Republic and it’s citizens, a big chunk of land, more than a 100km’s, is being flooded with water to make sure the French army can not reach the Republic’s heartland of Holland. Any farmers living in the area are instructed to leave everything behind and let their land be flooded. In Flood we follow Sijmen, eldest son of farmer Karel, who discovers the danger his family is in is closer than expected. As he starts to prepare his family to leave the farm, the silent battle between Sijmen and his father grows intenser fast. Like many of his fellow farmers, Karel is not yet ready to give away and leave his land.
Maas Bronckhuyzen, Ian Bok, Marcel Faber, Catalijn Willemsen, Floris van Kampen, Maartje van den Dool
Thomas Mataheru, Jolijn van Rinsum, Sjors Mans, Nils Verkooijen
An unwanted pregnancy has unexpected consequences.
Elia SCHILTON, Silvia LUZZI, Alessandra GIGLI
Marco CONSENTINO, Silvia LUZZI
Cinematography: Stefano USBERGHI; Editor: Mattia LEVI; Music: Mattia CARRATELLO
On a sweltering day at the pools, monotony conspires to take us on an ethereal journey. A bored front desk attendant reads the acknowledgments of a paperback while dreamily observing the swimmers.
Arvid Eriksson, Louise Wallace
Arvid Eriksson, Nikhil Madhan
"With realistic acumen and artistic expertise, Adieu Lacan portrays the struggles of a young woman, Seriema, who is trying to understand why her path to motherhood has reached an unbearable impasse. Following two miscarriages and the possible loss of her marriage, Seriema travels to Paris in 1972 to undergo psychoanalytic treatment with the maverick French analyst, Jacques Lacan. Her analysis is an attempt to help her to disentangle the enigma of her question: why has motherhood become a seeming impossibility? Inspired by the story of Betty Milan, a Brazilian psychoanalyst and writer, it follows closely her own actual psychoanalysis with Lacan. Based on two books, Goodbye Doctor and Lacan’s Parrot, in which Milan recounts her analytic work, Adieu Lacan offers an insightful and accurate account of an actual psychoanalytic cure."
- Mavis Himes, Psychoanalyst and author of "The Power of Names."
DAVID PATRICK KELLY, ISMENIA MENDES
RICHARD C LEDES, BETTY MILAN
CINEMATOGRAPHER: VALENTINA CANIGLIA
Alephia 2053 is a story about three individuals in a race against time, and each other, to deal with the source of a cyberattack that has infiltrated the most secure surveillance systems of the most sophisticated and authoritarian regime in history.
Developed to be primarily published on streaming platforms,
the movie and its hosting website (alephia.xyz) Allow the viewer to
explore and experience life in dystopian fictional Alephia in the year 2053.
Khaled El Sayed, Ali Saad, Gihan Malla
Rabi Sweidan, Marwan Harb, Jules Kassas
The idea of telling the failure from a funny and at the same time constructive point of view seemed to me an urgent necessity. Given the current situation, where the spread of Covid has made us more fragile and vulnerable, the exploits of these extraordinary champions of defeat, protagonists of the film, give a tonic and regenerating effect for the soul. In short, it was the right story, at the right time! “Dare to lose to win”, the meaning of the film could be summed up in this slogan, where failure is no longer told as an unbearable burden but rather as a precious opportunity for growth. Talent is often associated with precocity, in many cases it is true: at 16 Maradona made his first hat-trick as a professional, Chaplin at six made his debut in the theater. However, there are artists like Cezanne who up to 40 years old did not promise well at all. What turned him into internationally renowned men? Cezanne is what is called "Late flower". The flower needs sun and water to be born. The late flower only needs one thing; to fail. Only through failure does it find its way, it strengthens and blossoms. At the beginning of their path a late flower and a failed one have the same trend, only over time one blooms while the other remains constant in the results. In short, the late flower manages to capitalize on its failures, it feeds on it to become strong.
ANDREA MUZZI MIRIAM BARDINI MICHELE CRESTACCI ALESSANDRO RICCIO PAOLO CALABRESI ANGELA FINOCCHIARO ENZO GHINAZZI DANIELE MARMI NUNZIO CAPPIELLO
Ilinca, an eight-year old orphan discovers God and starts praying for a family. A possible adoptive father appears at the orphanage, but his intentions are not the best. Ilinca's magical thinking and purity make her an easy target. After he lies and rapes two of the girls (Ilinca and Sofita) in the orphanage, a strange friendship forms between these girls. They start thinking of themselves as angels who do not feel pain, so they tease and test each other. Ilinca finds out her new friend will be adopted and is only consoled when Sofita brings her a puppy as a new friend. Together, they try to see if the puppy is an angel as well and kill it accidentally. Sofita is refused by her adoptive family and Ilinca realizes she has to do anything in her power to make the family take her. She runs to their feet and prays to God that they understand their way of thinking, as it was influenced by the rapist. In the end, the family decides to adopt both girls.
Thea Antonia Tocan, Alexia Ioana Frasineanu, Marcela Motoc
Stefana Popa and Alex Popa
Children's Rights, Fiction, Human Rights
The sacred satire of the "stand art" host and great stuff before they become dust.
Anders Anttila, Frank Boyle
Two lranian girls have to meet each other in Bologna
An exploration of the type of lunacy which often parades as politics, Elected Girl takes a wild ride through the minds of those who package whatever can be sold to the voting public. They have found their next savior to be sold to the voters, and she has found the perfect vehicle to change the nation as she sees fit.
Experimental, Music Video
A revolutionary businessman tries to conquer the world with $2,000.
Jonathan Taub, Leandro Taub
Leandro Taub, Elizabeth Ehrlich, Christian Bargados
Jonathan Taub, Leandro Taub
Line Producer: Manouk van Kuyk; Cinematographers: Jesse Mickle , Jonas Schneider ; Production Management: Zee Marla Osh; Post-Production : Alfredo Acevedo; Art Department: Ignacio Farias; Sound Department: Niklas Matthaei, Benjamin De Vuyst; Edition: Leandro Taub, Jonathan Taub, Benjamin De Vuyst, Alfredo Acevedo; Colour Grading: Ana Montaño; Sound Design: Emmanuel Gayosso, Mauricio Nicoli; Foley: Niklas Matthaei; Animations: Ánfer Chávez , Sophia Schomberg , Nikolaus Baumgarten; Graphic Design: Ánfer Chávez , Stephan Van Kuyk
What does aging mean in a society when lives become longer? With their friend's camera, two young filmmakers follow four regulars of Hamburg’s FALTENROCK party scene where you have to be over 60 to get in. Mechthild, Christiane and Volker and Christian fly to China, love the symmetry of their bux tree, they volunteer for refugees and disappear into the realm of Facebook for three hours at a time. Dealing with our own vision of age, always means confronting society’s image of it. The documentary FALTENROCK wants to move between those images and challenge our own ideas about retirement. Do we need a new definition of “old”? Empathizing with different lifeworlds also means understanding that anything is possible. Only one thing is certain: Retirement doesn’t have to mean that life is coming to a standstill.
Leonie Kock, Janina Rasch
Leonie Kock, Janina Rasch
Leonie Kock, Janina Rasch
Documentary, Feature, Student
comedy, drama, society, dance, aging
The video, filled with reflections of collective and personal meanings, narrate, using small vignettes of poetic expression, a heartbreaking world where Man tolerates the onslaught of his tragic and arbitrary destiny with a kind of stoicism that, in some strange way, allows him to point out, accuse and finally redeem himself.
In this universe there is cynicism, hope, light, shadows, contemplation and detonation.
A nameless woman and a nameless man, travel across a snowy landscape and discover the limits of their connection through dominant-submissive dynamics.
Ali Emir Tapan, Kaan Mujdeci, Muge Buyuktalas, Yaya, Letisya Tapan
If It's All the Same to You
Music video for the Montreal band Reviews.
Today Ettore is a lonely man. A man, it seems, unsuitable for what awaits him out there. He has his own apartment, though, where he can be safe. But what if he doesn’t have that either? What happens? Against the backdrop of a city in revolt, Ettore’s story intertwines with that of a young African boy, like him guilty only of being born in the midst of the Storm.
Ivan Olivieri, Haroun Fall
D.o.p.: Niccolò Palomba; Editor: Antonio Chiricò
Il Prigioniero / The Prisoner
BRIEF HISTORY OF A PARADOXAL PRISON. Obedience and justice in the individual-society relationship Paolo and Maria take their leave happy one morning like any other. Misunderstanding, Paolo is accused of a theft, chased by passers-by, caught by a policeman and taken to a cellar, where he is told to stay. In order not to contravene the orders received, he decides to stay there beyond any reasonable measure, until he convinces his wife to share the absurd fate with him.
Paolo Musio , Sabrina Impacciatore, Franco Ravera, Mariano Pirrello
Federico Olivetti, Francesco Canova
IN SEARCH OF MONSTERS is an exploration of the American “War on Terror” 20 years after the 9/11 attacks, a film about Guantanamo, a study of the members of the Special Projects team – men and women accused of torture.
One of their victims, Mohamedou Slahi, was freed from Guantanamo in 2016. In 2017 Journalist John Goetz starts his search for Slahi’s torturers – a 3-year journey across America.
As the journey continues, members of the Special Projects team agree to appear on camera, and a remarkable revelation occurs. It seems Slahi is no longer the victim: he has learned to reconcile himself with his past. It is the Americans who are lost. Stuck in the past, suffering from nervous illness, it is America that now seems the victim of the shadowy side of the War on Terror.
We are probably the last generation to experience a clear difference between being online and being offline. INFORG embraces the future of being 100% online, a revolution in which the real world is totally absorbed by electronic smog and supermassive black holes.
An avantgarde music film with a story told by music and holes. Inspired by the extraordinary ideas of professor of philosophy, Luciano Floridi.
Animation, Experimental, Short
With her high school under siege, a teenage girl fights for her life in a standoff with the active shooter.
Niki Koss, Theresa Picciallo, Robert Johnson
Music video for Angelica’s song “Karma”. The film recounts in various scenes the transition from a dimension of solitude and detachment to one of company and celebration, where the singer immerses herself among people.
Fabio Cotichelli, Emiliano Neroni
Davide Cipolat, Video Ex Machina, Carosello Records
DOP: Ciro Di Niccolò; Video Editor: Jacopo Ramella
Sam is a vagabond who wanders through the city; trapped by a strong sense of inadequacy, he will meet various characters in a semi-surreal journey. Inspired by "Notes from the Underground" written by Fedor Dostoevskij.
Samuel Camp, Ieva Vizgirdaite, James T. Majewski
Tommaso Frangini, Rui Xu, California Istitute of Arts (CALarts)
Music: Filippo Beretta; Sound: Luca Capruso; Editing: Meridith Sommers; Photography: Ignacio Genzon
A lonely woman tries to enter relationships, but every attempt to become closer with a new partner ends up with a deep trauma.
After a series of failures to share her love with her beloved ones, she decides to literally share it with the whole world by becoming a prostitute.
Arseny Nazaruk, Daniil Vershinin, Ksenia Zemlyanushina
Director Of Photography: Elena Topal
Moving Barcelona is a magical realist dance story about the Catalonian capital, an autonomous region in the Spanish State contending with an identity crisis. A city with everything going for it is still haunted by the ghosts of its past and despite much progress, it finds itself unearthing old wounds. Narrated by celebrated actor, Pep Munné, who appeals for calm, there is a sense of reassurance that all is okay. The movement of the city however tells a different story, and he is resigned to the fact that things inevitably, are the way they are. Barcelonians, in pursuit of happiness, find themselves on a treadmill to nowhere in a tale of modern day life. Moving Barcelona is the eighth film in an award-winning collection of works by the London-based film-maker, Jevan Chowdhury to capture the world as a stage. Life on the street in London, Paris, Brussels, Dallas, Prague, Yerevan and Athens have all been recorded in this growing canon.
Co-Director: Laura Obiols; Composer: Kevin Matley; Narrator: Pep Munné; Executive Producer: Catherine Allard, Antoni Gutiérez-Rubí ; DOP: Jevan Chowdhury; Camera Assistant: Alberto Balazs; Cast: IT Dansa, La Veronal; Editor: Jevan Chowdhury
Experimental, Music Video, Short, Other
Dance, Experimental, Poem
An injured school bus driver forced into retirement scavenges for survival at a radioactive beach in Brooklyn. An ode to aging — Mudlarker follows 66-year-old Adele Daly as she finds a means and a sense of belonging at Dead Horse Bay, a historic landfill littered with junk.
Miles G. Cohen , Seb Tuinder
Adele Daly , Merrill Kazanjian
Documentary, Short, Student
Mute follows a middle aged woman as she unloads the details of her husband's infidelity on a deaf hitchhiker. What starts as just a ride becomes something much more sinister.
Mute is based on the short story of the same name by Stephen King, acquired through his Dollar Baby program for emerging filmmakers.
Cynthia Preston, Amanda Richer, Josh Vokey, Randy Butcher
A journey on the water, from the headlights of the vaporetto, new realities of light emerge.
Darkness squeezes human artifacts, thinning their boundaries.
The faint lights persist in their artificial presence.
Constructions resting on a broken mirror.
Fragments return images, distorted and complex.
Existing realities, but hidden from view, emerge.
The light is Byzantine decoration, lightning in the night, vision in the dark.
Bridges are patterns sewn on a tablecloth, houses on the water are wallpaper, "calli" (streets) and canals black chains.
In the postcard city, always the same at the eyes of tired lovers, emergence of senses for fleeing souls.
Experimental, Music Video, Short
„Off-season” tells a story about fourteen-year-old Adam, who lives in a holiday resort by the sea, that is run by his parents. When a mysterious, mature Woman arrives to the resort, Adam becomes immediately captivated by her. Spying on her slowly turns into an obsession, which makes him explore his sexuality. While trying to grow up, Adam rebels against his parents who still perceive him as a small child. The movie touches on the subjects of coming-of-age, love, but also family and its disintegration while facing non-easy actions.
Ignacy Klim, Anna Moskal, Sylwia Nowiczewska, Norbert Kaczorowski
An actress assaulted on a film set during the filming of a sex scene, must choose whether to pursue accusations or complete the film that could start her career.
Claire Autran, Vanessa Bradchulis, Max Monnig, Lorraine Wochna
Crew: Wenting Deng Fisher, DP; Editor: Bonnie Rae Brickman; Music: Elizabeth Ziff
This is the story of one of the most iconic cars ever built and specially made for neorealist Maestro Roberto Rossellini.
It left its native Italy over half a century ago to lead a very different life, first in quiet French retirement before sailing for America where it found stardom. Now we’ve brought it home to be reunited with the humble streets and personalities of its youth, to reveal the untold human stories behind the bright lights and glittering celebrity…and to roar.
Mirko Venturi, Eleonora Eutizi, Mario Savona, Renzo Rossellini
Guido Scassellati Sforzolini
Simon Kidston, Guido Scassellati Sforzolini, Emanuele Collo
A small visual essay on lonliness.
Tragicomic notes on being alone, through the equation of summer, of the sunny suburbs and of old songs.
The rhythm and the reiteration of silences, angular shadows, midday crickets. Of archaic audio accompanying desolate and courageous souls.
"There are no bogus storytelling of boredom, but the slow and imperceptible evolution of tender movements of hope".
Fabio Donatini, Antonello Grassi
Fabio Donatini, Francesco Merini
Editing: Fabio Nicola Spaccucci; Fothography: Ebraheemi Shappour
Documentary, Experimental, Music Video
Drama, Experimental, Videoclip
Ezra is a street artist who feels time is running out to succeed in the art world. With an unhealthy obsession with social media he is followed online and encouraged to go around town, take pictures and repost work in exchange for likes. Ezra starts to do what this online personality wants pushing him into daring and dangerous scenarios.
Music: James Longley; Editor: Tim Grabham
Animation, Experimental, Short
Jimmy has dreams of a better life. Living, however, might not be an option as his past is suddenly proving difficult to reconcile.
Brandon Wayne, Carlotta Migliolo, Mark Adams, James Raydan, David Carfora
Associate Producer: Hussein Khoder; 1st Assistant Director: Hussein Khoder; Cinematographer: Benjamin A. Thompson; Editor: Benjamin A. Thompson; Gaffer: Cassten Roberts; Sound Recordist: Alex Christensen, James Browning; Make Up and SFX: Emma Rose, Armanda Dickson
Drama, Romance, Dark Comedy
Documentary short film about my father, his horrible job ( as a forensic pathologists) and my memories about him.
Animation, Documentary, Short, Student
A woman recounts a nightmare in which she is at a garden party speaking to a stranger who is not real.
Harriet Gordon-Anderson, Hayley Sullivan
An old man spends the day wandering the streets of Istanbul. He communicates with the trees and seagulls rather than other people. All day, he checks the ATMs to find change like a child, even though he does not own an ATM card. He gets happy when he finds money and indignant when he doesn’t. For the old man, life is like a game that has remained from his childhood. And the sycamore leaves are a part of this innocent game.
Mahmut Gökgöz, Barış Aksavaş, Sefa Turan
Syndafloden (The Deluge) is the first joint full-length feature film by Jenni and Lauri Luhta. The work is visual-cinematic, realized through digital collage technique. The film's script is based on the prophecies and riddles in the work diaries of Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519). The work on the film began in the spring of 2019, when 500 years had passed since Leonardo's death and the Notre Dame of Paris caught fire.
Our journey starts with Leonardo wandering amongst nature's sublime wonders and rumblings, finally coming upon a cave. A secret is found therein: it is Death (played by Jenni Luhta), reciting Leonardo's prophecies in Swedish for the remainder of the film. Through Leonardo's words and visions, we look into the state of the contemporary world, our present age that was born from the shock of the 20th century and the World Wars. As our story is narrated by Leonardo through Death's lips, our emotional guide for the duration of the trip is Olavi Paavolainen (1903–1964), a Finnish critic and essayist to whom this film is dedicated. As Paavolainen represents the 20th century tragic European (melancholic Parisian influence on modernity, fears of decline of the West, witnessing WWII, genocide and atomic bombings), the present is portrayed by a fish-eyed Follower (played by Lauri Luhta) of Death. The passive Follower accepts the strange death of Europe, as well as his own death, but in his total, futile emptiness is ready to be reborn, realizing that the great turning in the West away from what is best began already before Leonardo’s time, the so-called Renaissance...
The unique translations of Leonardo's fragments to Swedish used in the film were made in collaboration with visual artist and translator Magnus Strandberg. Syndafloden is in Swedish language, because "Döden talar svenska" ("Death speaks Swedish") as the meme goes. The character of the narrator cannot be seen in isolation from the "medieval" figure of Death in Ingmar Bergman's Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal). Moreover, the filmmakers find Swedish language to be as "sjungande" ("singing") as Italian. The directors have also been inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky’s last work Offret (The Sacrifice), which was filmed in Sweden.
All kinds of deals go down on the golf course and this is one for the history books.....
The year is 2069. Aboriginal Australian girl Luna, the only child ever born on the Moon, yearns to travel to Earth but her weak Moonling body would never survive there. At least that’s what her mother has always told her …
Georgina Jenkins, Sue McPherson
Director of Photography: Robb Shaw-Velzen; Editor: Bill Russo; Composer: Madeleine Cocolas; Sound Designer: Tim Duck
Miguel, 17 years old, lives in the country side with his grandfather.
One day, while cleaning the bottles of beer that his grandfather had left, he notices a peculiar red string that goes towards the forest and seems to have no end. Attached to the string is a
cup. After the young man wonders, he hears a voice coming from the object. The voice of a girl named Lidia.
Rubén da Silva, Mariana Montenegro
Rodrigo Ferreira, Sara Rosa
Sara Rosa, Rodrigo Ferreira, Lusófona Filmes
Director of Photography: Duarte Rodrigues, Dan Ilco
While sitting comfortably in her living room, feet propped up on the coffee table, Star receives quite the shock. What ensues is a journey inward, accompanied by the faces and facets of her ego. This story is stylistically kitsch and told through dance for camera in five acts.
Tao Siye, Dong Lingyu, Qian Tingting, Shirley Zhao, Amelia Jin, Miki Bin
Zhang Lin, Chen Chun, Aly Rose
Experimental, Short, Other
(Cinematographic Documentary) Giovanni Paneroni 23/01/1871 - 02/01/1950 of Rudiano (BS). From ice cream maker and pastry chef to self-educated astronomer and unaware pataphysicist, Paneroni disagreed with the whole astronomical world shouting "The earth does not turn, oh beasts!". Indeed, he cultivated with conviction his personal anti-Galilean theories about the universe, defending them honestly with heart and passion, being noticed in Italy and also abroad, between seriousness and extravagance, in University, political and popular field until the end of his days. His theories have acquired over the years an artistic and cultural symbolism beyond the concepts contained in them.
FRANCO BALDUZZI, EMANUELE COMINELLI, GIUSEPPE MURACHELLI, GIANNINO ZUCCHI, ENRICO MIRANI, VITTORIO VEZZOLI, EDOARDO LUCA RADICE, TANIA SOFIA LORANDI, LAURA SALERI, MARIA FORNARI, GIUSEPPINA ALLEGRINI, FEDERICO MANENTI, ANGELA PANERONI, GIOVANNI RIVA
WILLYCO ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE
COLLABORATORE ALLA REGIA: EMANUELE FANELLI; SOGGETTO E DISEGNI: GIACOMO ANDRICO; MONTAGGIO: GIACOMO ANDRICO; COLLABORATORE AL MONTAGGIO: EMANUELE FANELLI; MUSICHE ORIGINALI: CLAUDIO SMUSSI
“TIME is not real - it is a human construct to help us differentiate between now and our perception of the past,
The concept of time is simply an illusion made up of human memories, everything that has ever been and ever will be is happening RIGHT NOW.
Pepo Alfaro , Elena Gutierrez, Pablo Garrido
Pepo Alfaro, Eduardo Ostos
11:11 Filmakers, Ed is Dead
Sci-fi, Distopian, Globalization
When the young photographer Simon sets out to photograph a motif that has has been on his mind for a long time,
he is hit by the tour-bus of an overtired punk band.
Concise scenes from his life appear before his inner eye:
Memories of things past, habitual actions and schemes of the present, narratives and fictions.
Julian Simon Pache, Mattias Engling
Julian Simon Pache, Lukas Soboll
Executive Producer: Dennis Faßbender; DOP: Lukas Soboll
Experimental, Short, Student