A hotel-room late at night: a young man is carried from the room unconscious on a stretcher. A woman and a man remain in the room where all three of them obviously have spent some time together. Only then, when the ambulance attendants have left with the young man, do the other two realize that there…
It has been a couple of years since Élias abandoned France to travel to Barcelona in search of a better future. His life is shaken between the fear of getting HIV and a confusing past of which he expects nothing. Élias works as a male prostitute in the streets of Barcelona but his life takes…
A character dies inside a film. The actor that performs his role, whose name in Semblante, becomes suspect of an impossible crime: having killed himself. While the film blends with reality becoming a real thriller, Semblante will have to prove his innocence to survive and save the woman he loves. A daring project by Pedro…
A human brain is artificially kept alive by the scientists in a lab. Through the subjective vision of Ypsillon (the brain’s name), the audience becomes a witness of everything that happens in the lab. With black humor and with focus on the human relations, we follow Ypsilon’s path from mere consciousness to the development of…
Romy, a young au-pair, decides to visit her mother after two years of having no contact with her. Her mother, an aged prostitute that scarcely leaves her clients satisfied, initially shuns her, but eventually decides to make up for the lost time. The two women resume their relationship, even though the past and the memories…
Paul is fourteen-years-old and has a passion for motorbikes that has led him to neglect his studies. One morning, he asks his friends to take care of his motorbike while he goes to a meeting with his teachers and, at his return, the bike is gone and nobody is able to tell him who has…
Poland. The communist regime makes thousands of citizens choose exile in search of better opportunities. Anna is seven years old and her mother has decided to emigrate, taking her and her sister Agnieszka to Occidental Germany to reunite with her husband. Anna thinks that what awaits her there are glittering automatic candy machines and a…
Roberto has just been retired due to his age and his accute diabetes. With his pension and severance pay he decides to learn how to drive and buys a red van to travel together with his wife Hilda, to whom he owes a trip of a lifetime to a town in which they both spent…
At dawn, during those calm hours when everyone is still sleeping, a man picks some flowers from his garden, preparing a beautiful bouquet with a pink dahlia in the center. When he returns home, his wife has passed away. This is the beginning of the silent and tender Petit Matin, by French director Christophe Loizillon.…
Antti Heikki fût, vendredi dernier, un des coupables du grand succès de la gala d’inauguration de La Cabina 2013. Pesonen, présenta son moyen-métrage dans la salle Luis García Berlanga pleine à craquer: ‘Korsoteoria’, son travail de thèse pour l’École de Direction de Cinéma de Helsinki. ‘So it goes’ (titre anglais du film), raconte l’histoire d’Elli,…
Virgile is travelling with his brother by car when they have an accident. Virgile’s brother dies and a funeral has to be organized. Virgile’s guilt – he was driving at the time of the accident – is critical. His family has decided to exclude him from the funeral but Virgile, still injured, has other plans.…
A child pretends to go to school but hides underneath a small bridge while an adolescent waits for the bus with tear-filled eyes. A woman picks them both up in her car and, scared, they hide in the shopping mall in the outskirts of the city. Before losing everything (Avant que de tout perdre) is…
Four friends organize a trip to a massive music festival in the countryside. At the access gates the tension grows and chaos breaks out, affecting those waiting at the door. One of the four friends is already inside, oblivious to what it happening outsite while the festival’s security guards are unable to control the situation.…
During the summer of 1979, 10 year old Jean discovers, close to the ocean, that his parents no longer love each other. Jean lives through the end of love, life, and, in some ways, childhood. Everything that sustains his childhood universe crumbles during the holidays. It might be that Jean has realized too soon that…
Last year, a few weeks before the Israel Film Festival opening, the advertisement posters that announced the twenty-ninth edition of the event had been torn down or painted over in white in almost every neighborhood of the capital. The poster portrayed a young girl riding a bicycle that harmlessly revealed her knees while pedaling. Nonetheless,…
A hold-up at a small betting house at the outskirts of the city can seem something easy for an experienced criminal, but for Mousse, the main character of this film, everything will get complicated due to his damn principles. The most important horse race is taking place and Mousse takes advantage of the chaos in…
Three friends, after a big party in the country house of one of them, decide to take their dogs and go out for a walk. Dawn is coming and, affected by alcohol and drugs, a series of small events take place that will end up in a mysterious disappearance. Short, upfront and simple, Gabriel Azorin’s…
So it goes tells the story of Elli, a young girl from Helsinki’s metropolitan area that has never left her country. Her only dream is to travel and see more of the world than the dark neighborhood that surrounds her. One day she meets Heze and, after spending all her savings paying off debts, sees…
Maurice is a tiger-penguin that lives his beastly life in a jungle when two emissaries of the South Pole arrive. They have been guided there to ask the “Great Tiger Warrior” to liberate their people from the evil walruses. Maurice agrees to do so and creates a commando with his jungle friends. In the South…
Three friends close to fifty are on holidays. They’ve deiced to organize a trip to the beach, leaving behind family, work and routine to be together again, the three of them alone, like before. After a short trip on a boat, they meet three much younger women. Humour and sensuality knit an unexpected complicity that…
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