“Because all great men are Jewish: Woody Allen is Jewish, Spielberg is Jewish, Einstein is Jewish, Jean-Jacques Goldman is Jewish!” After his divorce, Benjamin’s dad doesn’t want to leave his house without reminding his son of his true origins. His mother is a catholic, yes, but his father insists that the blood of the Jewish…
Elisa is 16-years-old and the long summer hours seem never ending in her suburban neighborhood while she plays Truth or Dare and takes long walks with friends. One day, while she’s browsing through her dad’s library, she finds a book that catches her attention: the memoirs of a prostitute that narrates her experiences with her…
A series of egg-shaped objects have started to appear in the junk rooms and abandoned houses of a small rural area where Jose Luis lives with his grandfather. Scientists from all over the world are investigating the phenomenon and, for the time being, they all agree that the origin of these objects is extraterrestrial. Uranes…
Iraq. 2011. Nizar Rawi, the director of a Short-Film Festival in Iraq is preparing the second edition of his event in Bagdad. While revising the list of the short-films selected he realizes that only one comedy has been sent in… and it´s not even funny. That´s when he decides to bring a group of people…
“The first time he saw the island, Marini was politely leaning over the seats on the left, adjusting a plastic table before setting a lunch tray down. The passenger had looked at him several times as he came and went with magazines or glasses of whisky; Marini lingered while he adjusted the table, wondering, bored,…
A young couple from Los Angeles, Camille and G.J., organize a trip to Death Valley to break the monotony that threatens their relationship. Half-way there a call from G.J’s ex-girlfriend Morgan will change their plans. Morgan will spend the following days with the couple and this will make Camille and G.J. reassess their future together.…
Alva, a fifteen-year-old adolescent, accepts Martin´s perverse proposal in exchange for a cell phone and pretty clothing. Martin is an old business man that works as a pimp on the side. Together they travel to small towns and motels where clients await: middle-aged pedophiles. After several sexual encounters, Alva decides to escape, but Martin convinces…
A pair of broken shoes is the cause for two silent strangers to meet. Perhaps this is a simple love story, perhaps just the beginning of a friendship between two middle-aged adults that feel alone and too tired to fall in love like adolescents. Intermezzo is a beautiful story that takes place slowly, through gazes…
A morning like any other, Celia receives the visit of two strangers that are looking for her husband with whom they have some matters to solve. Celia soon discovers that her husband lives a double life and has several suspicious businesses. Celia becomes a kidnapping victim with unexpected consequences for all those involved. Geoff Bell,…
Lulu loves Henrik. She is the owner of an art gallery and he is one of her main clients. Henrik is married to Sophia but decides to invite Lulu to his house in the French Alps and, perhaps, start a new story together. However, Lulu´s anticipated holidays suddenly change when David, Henrik and Sophia´s son,…
Old Reason and young Luck meet on a bridge. The first doesn’t want to let the other one pass; the other doesn’t want to let the first one pass. Reason assures that no can live without judgment, but luck doesn’t agree. To prove his point, Reason enters a poor farmer’s mind to find out how…
A young girl wakes up one morning with a clear wish: she never wants to return home. She gets on a taxi and wanders through Taipei until nighttime. She doesn’t want to go back. The driver will become an accomplice of this girl’s escape in a story that Shih Li, director of this 35 minute…
Brothers Christoph and Stefan Brunner add a touch of film noir to La Cabina Festival. In thirty-minute long Blackstory, several lives will cross paths with fatal consequences. These parallel stories are shown in a split screen, where each image will complement the other and the viewer will have to ‘stay alert’ – words that Brunner…
Piet is Rolf’s old dog and he is sick. He suffers dysplasia and only a 3000 euro operation can cure him. That’s an amount Rolf doesn’t have, so he decides to bet everything on one race horse to try to save Piet. This is a beautiful old love story between a man and his dog.…
During the cold Polish winter, a small town in Mazovia receives the visit of a regional prophet. Several of local, idle, bored teens decide to visit him, hoping he will reveal secrets of their future. When they find him, Juras will surprise them with his strange predictions. Before becoming a film director in charge of…
Produced by the National Film School of Denmark as the graduation project of Milad Alami, the half-length film Nothing Can Touch Me (2011) has been controversial since its premiere. Portraying a situation related to school and high school shootings, the film has received several complaints from the Danish education sector. Its director spoke out: “I am…
Antonio Gairo is the only survivor of a vast 1964 nuclear disaster. It took place in Alos, a small village in the center of Sardinia, transforming it into a ghost town. Antonio suddenly recovers his long lost memory and tells the story of life in Alos before the accident; reconstructing with great detail the circumstances…
La próxima edición del Festival Internacional de Mediometrajes La Cabina llega este año pisando más fuerte que nunca. Para ir abriendo el apetito de mediometrajes, el Festival La Cabina ha preparado una serie de sesiones previas a su IV edición, que tendrá lugar entre el 4 y el 13 de noviembre, con pases de películas…
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