“Something is wrong with my memory” confesses Edward in front of a camera. He is 79 years old and has Alzheimer’s. However, the memory of his son Dawid works perfectly well, and he remembers the long periods of time his dad, who worked as a sailor, would spend away from home without keeping in touch.…
Alicia dreams about being an actress while she wastes her talent and strength dressed up as a clown in a travelling circus. A circus that takes her to a remote mountainous region far from her hometown of Cuba, to a town where there is no electricity and an old-fashioned circus show is quite the event.…
Agnes and Otto live far from the world in the old hamlet of their father. Halls, rooms, and corridors seem empty to them … since their mother does not walk them. They don’t know it, but she passed away when they were children. Determined to combat the yearning for their children, each birthday the father pretends…
Lucas is visiting his sister on a remote island in southern Chile before moving abroad. An unlikely romance grows when he meets Antonio, a struggling young fisherman. The intimacy they share grows and will have to face the prejudices of a society that is still anchored in old taboos. A new generation of Chilean…
Justine is a solitary 30-year-old woman that buys a repossessed apartment at an auction. The day she decides to move into her new home, her keys don’t fit in the lock and she realizes there are still two tenants living in her new apartment: a mother and her daughter, who suffers an acute mental illness.…
Based on a true story, Mendel’s Joke (Fokusy Mendelya) tells the story of genetics professor Boris Grigorievich. One morning, on his birthday, while Boris is driving to one of his classes at the university, his calm life will suffer a dramatic change when a pregnant woman about to give birth asks him to take her…
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.…
Greek director Konstantina Kotzamani returns to La Cabina four years after her first participation to present her 30-minute-long medium-length film Limbo. The first thing that catches the viewers’ attention of Kotzamani filmmaking is her fascinating visual culture. The photography itself is already a piece of art in Limbo, where one can find traces of Francesca…
Westfalia. 1873. Hans Herberholz is a farmer that returns home after a long working day and discovers that his farm has been plundered. His wife lies dead on the floor and his defenseless daughter is still alive, hiding in a corner of the farm. To avoid the abuses of landowners and thieves, Hans will have…
Bru is a dognapper. He picks up any distracted dog and hides it at home waiting for its owners’ ads to appear in parks and shops. Then he contacts them and generously returns their dogs in exchange for a reward. One day, after his usual supermarket shopping, Bru runs into a lost dog and follows…
When a loved one dies, their objects become small amulets, like relics, for those that mourn their death. A glove, a book, a pencil, their shoes…. Each thing the deceased touched throughout his or her life becomes something sacred. At some point during the mourning period, the family and loved ones of the deceased will…
In Charles de Gaulle’s France, while most students searched unsuccessfully for the beach under the cement of Paris’ cobblestones, a group of pregnant girls and adolescents have been committed to a catholic boarding school. Marianne is 19 years old and, as the other girls she lives with, she keeps a secret that must never leave…
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…
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