“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…
“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.…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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.…
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