Jeorge 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…
French 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…
Mia 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…
Berlin. 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…
A 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…
“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…
Franz 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…
Mi-ji works in a beauty parlor. One day she runs into her old friend Eun-na in the subway. A day later, a half-naked picture of Mi-ji is found at her work place. Although she is hardly recognized in the picture, Mi-ji will have to face her coworkers and explain who Eun-na is and why that…
In the imaginary world of The Missing Key, people have gramophones instead of heads. Young composer Hero Wasabi leaves Japan with his oboist cat Jacuzzi and travels to Venice. There he studies with Madame Zero, the terrifying director of the Scuola di Musica. One of his class mates, Count Telefino, is a crooked aristocrat with…
There is always a neighbour who never reveals himself. He is assumed to be a good neighbour because he complies with his civic and communal responsibilities, but we have never seen his face. However, this mysterious neighbour does know our life and is always right next to us, watching every move we make, listening to…
The Monster of Nix is a 30 minute long animated musical which tells the story of Willy, a troubled boy who fights the destructive force of an all-devouring monster in the village of Nix. The dark fairy tale comes through the hand of artist & director Rosto; known for his on-line 1998 graphic novel Mind…
Who hasn’t looked at their parents with a sunken suspicion they come from another planet? At some point we’ve all wondered…. But Romy, the main character of this story knows that her mom is an alien. Invasion from Planet Schrump (Invasion vom Planeten Schrump, 2011) is a 30 minute half-length film by German director Nadine…
Monette is thirteen years old and is living her first life crisis. It has nothing to do with dealing with adults, though, or any typical adolescent problems. Monette doesn’t realize, but she’s turned into another victim of the economic world order and needs money. To get it, she’ll come up with a dangerous plan in…
Eva es camarera en un pequeño bistró francés de Tel-Aviv y acaba de descubrir que está embarazada. Cuando está a punto de decírselo a su marido, el chef del restaurante, un gordo comensal entra en el establecimiento. La relación que se establecerá entre Eva y el misterioso gigante irritará al marido de la camarera. Gracias…
El barriga tiene 11 años y es el hazmerreír de sus compañeros de colegio. Sus padres quieren cambiar esta situación y hacer adelgazar a su hijo a toda costa. El muchacho, sin embargo, ha encontrado la manera de aliviar su sufrimiento, pero es un secreto que sólo contará a su simpática amiga Missymouse. Twist and…
Binta tiene siete años, vive junto al río Casamance (Senegal) y admira a su padre, un pescador empeñado en llevar a cabo una idea genial… En Los Ángeles la vida es como en cualquier otro lugar, con la excepción de un grupo de robots que viven integrados entre la población humana. Un robot-hombre bibliotecario vive…
Tras la muerte de su padre, Hao Nan, se siente destrozado. Con tan sólo 18 años decide vengarse de sus asesinos ingresando en una peligrosa sociedad secreta de Singapur conocida como la Banda de la Suerte Roja. Allí conocerá a Hei Ge, el líder de la banda, quien impresionará al muchacho con sus discursos filosóficos…
Si tiene algún sentido, sin duda es objetable. Con este pretexto la censura británica prohibió en 1927 la exhibición del mediometraje La coquille et le clergyman (1928), obra de Germaine Dulac, pionera y teórica de la vanguardia europea de los años 20 y comprometida feminista que destacó como una de las máximas exponentes del impresionismo…
Desde que Béla Lugosi se disfrazase de muerto viviente en White Zombie (Victor Halperin, 1932), que llegó a España como La legión de los muertos sin alma, el subgénero de terror se convirtió en un gran filón para la industria del cine. White Zombie sigue la estela dejada por la novela La isla mágica, de…
La única película de Alfred Hitchcock de la que se conservan apenas unos pocos fotogramas es “El águila de la montaña” (“Mountain eagle”, 1926), una de las primeras dirigidas por el director, de 57 minutos de duración e inspirada en una historia de Charles Lapworth. El mediometraje se rodó en Alemania y, a pesar de…
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