“Don’t you think conquering space is something romantic?” (Feux, de Thibaut Piotrowski). Feux, by Thibaut Piotrowski, is an example of the numerous and increasingly popular artistic feats based on self-financing. Self-taught Piotrovski is the god of this black and white child universe treasured in a forty minute long half-length film. In Feux, three lost children…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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