Agnes doesn’t feel fulfilled. She is bored of her relationship with her girlfriend and the work she does for her father doesn’t satisfy her. Agnes longs for a change. When her father introduces her to his new wife Annalyn whom he has met during his holidays in the Philipines, both women will start a great…
DetailsZe is fifty years old and works at the Port of Lisbon, where he loads and unloads containers from boats. Day after day he gazes resentfully at the boats he will never sail in. He has been secretly saving up some extra money that he makes at work to reach his dream: dumping his wife…
DetailsVideoboy is a free adaptation of the story of this same title by Norwegian writer Tore Renberg. The story takes place in the late 80s and narrates how the friendship between two thirteen-year old kids, Hasse and Paol, is tested when they accept to visit Jan Inge, a strange adolescent that is famous for his…
DetailsIn a small village in the countryside lives Nader, a nine year old kid that loves to run. Pollito doesn’t run for a reason, he runs because he needs to, because that’s what he lives for. One day, when Ramadan is near it’s end and he is shopping for new clothes for the Aïd party…
DetailsIt’s 1991. A massive wave of Russian Ashkenazi immigrants arrives to Israel. Mish is 12 years old and records his arrival to the Promised Land with his video camera. The traumatic experience of immigration becomes absurd when the family’s grandaunt dies during the flight just before landing. Misha’s parents will have to confront the busy and…
DetailsOn a rainy night, Przemek the hamster falls out of one of the windows of an old building. The loving owners of Przemek, Mrs. María and Mr. Wenceslao find the dying hamster and decide to take it to the town vet, that promises to save its life. This small tragedy becomes the trigger of a…
Details“Don’t you think conquering space is something romantic?” (Feux, de Thibaut Piotrowski). Feux, by Thibaut Piotrowski, is an example of the numerous and increasingly popular artistic feats based on self-financing. Self-taught Piotrovski is the god of this black and white child universe treasured in a forty minute long half-length film. In Feux, three lost children…
DetailsA group of friends prepare their yearly trip to a small island, where they celebrate the Summer Solstice night. After many years of friendship, they all think they know each other, but Meike’s arrival to the group will make them see things differently. Like a buffoon than shows a mirror to all the members of…
Details“The Greek word for return is ‘nostos’. ‘Algos’ means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.” (Ignorance, Milan Kundera). September 11th of the year 1973 the history of Chile changed. The coup d’état headed by General Augusto Pinochet gave way to a military dictatorship that lasted for almost twenty years. Crimes, tortures…
DetailsIn a small rural village, in an unknown time, after a bleeding, a survivor awakes remembering nothing of what has happened. A nice lady will take care of him in her house, hoping he recovers. A strange relation will grow between the forlorn old lady and the man with no past, while the myth of…
DetailsA small vengeance, a young girl asphyxiated by the weight of the past and an expert hunter come together in Miyuki, the Japanese thriller by Hideto Mori that lands in La Cabina with the best of the Asian suspense genre. Years earlier her father tried to kill her, and Miyuki hasn’t been able to forget.…
DetailsJeorge Elkin depicts everyday life in a small remote village in the wild Scotish moors. But one day, a well-known TV star and cameraman arrive in town, and they’ll have to confront the absurd reality its residents live. This medium length film is an outrageous homage to madness and life, whatever it is they mean in…
DetailsFrench director Sophie Letourneur returns after the success of her first film La vie au ranch, with a half-length film, The Shady Sailor (Le marin masqué, 2011). During 36 minutes, Letourneur narrates the trip friends Sophie and Laetitia make to Quimper, a small town in Brittany, to find the ‘shady sailor’, Laetitia’s first love. Filmed…
DetailsIn the darkness of the early movie theatres, filled with the smoke of tobacco, whispers and anticipating eyes; even though the primitive cameras weren’t able to record any sound at all, a range of possibilities opened its doors to offer sound to the moving images. Music was always the first option. Recorded in wax records…
DetailsMia lives with her older brother Levin. Things have changed between them lately. After their father’s death, Levin has taken refuge in drugs. Only Mia can help him. In this mix of fantasy and reality, Mia has to enter the Minotaur’s labyrinth where she will unfold an adventure she never would have imagined. This German…
DetailsBerlin. Fall. Nine-year-old Lilli lives with her mother and six-year-old brother Paul in a central apartment in the city. Her mother is sick and her relapses are more and more frequent. Lilli and Paul take care of her, trying to keep their family life seemingly normal and hiding her sickness from teachers and neighbors. But…
DetailsA small theatre company is rehearsing Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw, days before the opening night. In this famous Victorian play, later adapted as Hollywood blockbuster My Fair Lady, phonetics professor Henry Higgins tries to improve florist Eliza Doolittle’s language, given that she has a terrible accent and uses inappropriate vocabulary. George Varsimashvili, director and…
DetailsPeter lives in a small room with his heroin addict mother, in a miserable grey pension full of prostitutes and drug addicts. One day, his mother mysteriously disappears and leaves Giota in charge of him. Giota is a transsexual and can’t do much to protect Peter from the world around him. It won’t take Peter…
Details“Eppur si muove” (“But, however, it moves”), the legendary phrase that Galileo pronounced and still resonates in the streets of Florence is an inspiring sentence. How to demonstrate the Earth revolves around the Sun without terrible consequences? How to make a planet turn without changing all the system? Quimu Casalprim, director of this 50 minute…
DetailsFranz is an Austrian playboy that time has caught up with. He decides to look for love in foreign country. Through an on-line matching site, he meets Olga, a nurse that lives in Ukraine. Franz travels to Kiev to meet Olga but things won’t turn out exactly as he expected! Hello my name is Olga…
Details
Castellano
Català