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…
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 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.…
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…
In the darkness of the early movie theatres, filled with the smoke of tobacco, whispers and anticipating eyes; even though the primitive cameras weren’t able to record any sound at all, a range of possibilities opened its doors to offer sound to the moving images. Music was always the first option. Recorded in wax records…
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…
Peter lives in a small room with his heroin addict mother, in a miserable grey pension full of prostitutes and drug addicts. One day, his mother mysteriously disappears and leaves Giota in charge of him. Giota is a transsexual and can’t do much to protect Peter from the world around him. It won’t take Peter…
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