Jana and Jonas have met on the Internet. One night, with no prior notice to her family, Jana invites Jonas over to dinner to meet her parents. While they chat and eat, Jonas confesses, as part of an innocent conversation, that he had been abandoned by his mother when he was only 6 years old.…
18-year-old Julia has just arrived from Paris to New York to move in with her father. One day she meets Melvin, a young New Yorker that makes money posting beatboxing battles on the Internet. After several failed attempts, Melvin manages to convince Julia to quit her job at a specialized film shop and focus professionally…
Tamara has decided to break up with Hans. It has been some time already that the only thing left for them were the ruins of a relationship that used to be happy. They both live in a beautiful country house isolated from everything together with Hans’ father, whom Tamara has been taking care of as…
A local Macedonian tale tells the story of Marshal Tito’s private villa, in Ohrid, where a different menu was prepared daily in case he ever visited this summer residence without prior warning. Everything was scrupulously arranged for his arrival and the villa service staff awaited the communist leader with the table set. Under no circumstances…
Dolça (Noémie Schmidt) is 18 years old. Sam (Julian Perquis) is 10. They both met in the summer camp where Dolça worked and became good friends so now Dolça takes care of Sam while his mother, recently divorced, is working. Their mutual understanding grows and Dolça accompanies Sam to spend his holidays with his dad,…
Summer time has ended and Celeste, the security guard of a camping near the beach, is getting ready to close its doors. On her last night of work, during an intense storm, a family arrives asking for lodging after missing their return ferry and Celeste lets them in. While the family is settling in, a…
Rezo lives in a retirement home. One morning, while reading the newspaper’s obituary section, he decides to attend a funeral of somebody he doesn’t know. He attends the vigil, helps carry the cask to the cemetery together with other men and participates in the kelekhi, the banquet after the funeral. The tamada, or master of…
Grandma’s Day (Dzien Babci) is celebrated in Poland on the 21st of January after the magazine Woman and Life (Kobieta I Życie) made it popular in 1965. Since then, every 21st of January, grandchildren send flowers, postcards and sweets to their grandmothers and large family meetings are held to conserve the tradition. Grandma’s Day is…
In 1980, the director of The exorcist (1973), William Friedkin, directed Cruising, a controversial thriller that starred Al Pacino and was set in the leather bars of New York’s underworld. Pacino portrays an undercover policeman that infiltrates the gay subculture clubs to investigate a series of sexual crimes that had been taking place night after…
Sally lives committed in an institution with other adolescents where their supernatural powers are treated as if they were mental illnesses. Sally, the main character of this story, dominates telekinesis, and Tingeling, a young sociopath is able to communicate telepathically. The friendship between Sally and Tingeling grows when they decide to rebel against the institution…
“Your place or mine?” is a question that, if they are lucky, night owls ask the girl that they are waiting for at the bathroom door or the boy that paid for those beers, with whom they’ve only just exchanged some funny memes at the bar. This is the idea behind the medium-length film Your…
Like every fortnight, a divorced father picks up his 8-year-old daughter to spend some days with her. Everything seems normal until Lea’s father starts acting strange. This 30-minute long drama by German director Patrick Vollrath is attractive due to its rhythm and the constant growth in tension. The two main characters of this medium-length film…
28-year-old Sarah is an artistic photographer that is obliged to return to her small Irish hometown of Newry where her mother lives, after not being able to build a successful career. She is unable to confront her new reality and decides to leave on a road trip with her two adolescent friends in an attempt…
Stella is 12 years old and lives in a residential neighborhood dominated by a grey cement skate park. Her best friend is Fixer, a BMX enthusiast that she finds charming but slightly disturbing. When Stella’s mother decides to give her dog away to a sinister pair of twins, Fixer offers Stella a strange job in…
42-year-old Freddy is an obsessive trainer of a neighborhood soccer club. His dream is to raise the local championship´s trophy after thirty years of a scoring drought. There are only a few hours left for the important final match and a grave family incident jeopardizes his goal. Hunger is a family drama framed inside a…
Henriette (Andrea Braein Hovig), a highschool teacher, narrates in detail her love story with one of her students, fifteen-year-old Daniel. Throughout the 53 minutes of this medium-length film Henriette is the main character: a fixed shot in the teacher´s kitchen where she monologues about her relationship with Daniel from its beginning. It´s, without doubt, a…
After losing his partner in a mission, while being struck by lightning and getting bit by a Cobra at the same time, Kung Fury, detective of the Miami Police Department develops super powers that will help him defeat the red ninja. When he is assigned a new partner, Kung Fury decides to quit the force…
“Go and take a running jump” is a commonly used expression to get rid of someone that starting to become a bother. But it has also been used by director Mike Leigh as a word game that could refer to sports, an important topic of this medium-length film that was part of a series of…
Christian is part of a scientific experiment with a new psychotropic drug. After the death of one of the participants, Christian and his girlfriend Anna discover that the doctors have covered up the incident. When Anna starts feeling the effect of the medication, Christian decides to escape and look for help. Nobody, nor the doctors…
The word céfran is part of the original title of this comedy (Le dernier des céfrans). It’s a difficult word to translate, since it belongs to French slang, is used by certain immigrant groups and is created by changing the order of the syllables in a word. Céfran is the result of inverting phonetically the…
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