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,…
Here you have the whole program of this edition.
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…
There’s less than one month left for the Festival to start. That is why we want to celebrate a party to warm up engines facing the 10 most important days. This time we move to the Ruzafa district to have a varied medium-length film night. The chosen place will be the Obrapropia Publishing House (40…
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…
Agnes doesn’t feel fulfilled. She is bored of her relationship with her girlfriend and the work she does for her father doesn’t satisfy her. Agnes longs for a change. When her father introduces her to his new wife Annalyn whom he has met during his holidays in the Philipines, both women will start a great…
The International Half-Length Film Festival La Cabina is celebrating several activities previous to the opening of its 6th Edition. Today, October 4th, a new edition of La Cabina Classics will be taking place at 8.00pm, adding up to a total of four successful editions. A silent film classic will be screened as an open-air event…
Ze is fifty years old and works at the Port of Lisbon, where he loads and unloads containers from boats. Day after day he gazes resentfully at the boats he will never sail in. He has been secretly saving up some extra money that he makes at work to reach his dream: dumping his wife…
Videoboy is a free adaptation of the story of this same title by Norwegian writer Tore Renberg. The story takes place in the late 80s and narrates how the friendship between two thirteen-year old kids, Hasse and Paol, is tested when they accept to visit Jan Inge, a strange adolescent that is famous for his…
On Saturday the 21st of September the first presentation event of La Cabina Festival took place. Once again we’d like to thank everybody that joined us for this event, where we viewed the screenings of half-length films ‘Blackstory‘ and ‘Welcome… and our condolences’ and where we experienced the Mediometrash experience live. We’d also like to…
In a small village in the countryside lives Nader, a nine year old kid that loves to run. Pollito doesn’t run for a reason, he runs because he needs to, because that’s what he lives for. One day, when Ramadan is near it’s end and he is shopping for new clothes for the Aïd party…
It’s 1991. A massive wave of Russian Ashkenazi immigrants arrives to Israel. Mish is 12 years old and records his arrival to the Promised Land with his video camera. The traumatic experience of immigration becomes absurd when the family’s grandaunt dies during the flight just before landing. Misha’s parents will have to confront the busy and…
On a rainy night, Przemek the hamster falls out of one of the windows of an old building. The loving owners of Przemek, Mrs. María and Mr. Wenceslao find the dying hamster and decide to take it to the town vet, that promises to save its life. This small tragedy becomes the trigger of a…
A group of friends prepare their yearly trip to a small island, where they celebrate the Summer Solstice night. After many years of friendship, they all think they know each other, but Meike’s arrival to the group will make them see things differently. Like a buffoon than shows a mirror to all the members of…
“The Greek word for return is ‘nostos’. ‘Algos’ means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.” (Ignorance, Milan Kundera). September 11th of the year 1973 the history of Chile changed. The coup d’état headed by General Augusto Pinochet gave way to a military dictatorship that lasted for almost twenty years. Crimes, tortures…
In a small rural village, in an unknown time, after a bleeding, a survivor awakes remembering nothing of what has happened. A nice lady will take care of him in her house, hoping he recovers. A strange relation will grow between the forlorn old lady and the man with no past, while the myth of…
A small vengeance, a young girl asphyxiated by the weight of the past and an expert hunter come together in Miyuki, the Japanese thriller by Hideto Mori that lands in La Cabina with the best of the Asian suspense genre. Years earlier her father tried to kill her, and Miyuki hasn’t been able to forget.…
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