Sally lives committed in an institution with other adolescents where their supernatural powers are treated as if they were mental illnesses. Sally, the main character of this story, dominates telekinesis, and Tingeling, a young sociopath is able to communicate telepathically. The friendship between Sally and Tingeling grows when they decide to rebel against the institution…
“Your place or mine?” is a question that, if they are lucky, night owls ask the girl that they are waiting for at the bathroom door or the boy that paid for those beers, with whom they’ve only just exchanged some funny memes at the bar. This is the idea behind the medium-length film Your…
Like every fortnight, a divorced father picks up his 8-year-old daughter to spend some days with her. Everything seems normal until Lea’s father starts acting strange. This 30-minute long drama by German director Patrick Vollrath is attractive due to its rhythm and the constant growth in tension. The two main characters of this medium-length film…
28-year-old Sarah is an artistic photographer that is obliged to return to her small Irish hometown of Newry where her mother lives, after not being able to build a successful career. She is unable to confront her new reality and decides to leave on a road trip with her two adolescent friends in an attempt…
Stella is 12 years old and lives in a residential neighborhood dominated by a grey cement skate park. Her best friend is Fixer, a BMX enthusiast that she finds charming but slightly disturbing. When Stella’s mother decides to give her dog away to a sinister pair of twins, Fixer offers Stella a strange job in…
Christian is part of a scientific experiment with a new psychotropic drug. After the death of one of the participants, Christian and his girlfriend Anna discover that the doctors have covered up the incident. When Anna starts feeling the effect of the medication, Christian decides to escape and look for help. Nobody, nor the doctors…
The word céfran is part of the original title of this comedy (Le dernier des céfrans). It’s a difficult word to translate, since it belongs to French slang, is used by certain immigrant groups and is created by changing the order of the syllables in a word. Céfran is the result of inverting phonetically the…
Thanks to popular culture, sport illiterates are able to get a glimpse of the great sacrifices that dancers and gymnasts – to give some examples – have to make to become successful professionals: dietary restrictions, extreme diets, dangerous injuries and sometimes even hormone treatments. Jockeys, those feeble-looking men that ride horses on races also live…
A series of egg-shaped objects have started to appear in the junk rooms and abandoned houses of a small rural area where Jose Luis lives with his grandfather. Scientists from all over the world are investigating the phenomenon and, for the time being, they all agree that the origin of these objects is extraterrestrial. Uranes…
A young couple from Los Angeles, Camille and G.J., organize a trip to Death Valley to break the monotony that threatens their relationship. Half-way there a call from G.J’s ex-girlfriend Morgan will change their plans. Morgan will spend the following days with the couple and this will make Camille and G.J. reassess their future together.…
Alva, a fifteen-year-old adolescent, accepts Martin´s perverse proposal in exchange for a cell phone and pretty clothing. Martin is an old business man that works as a pimp on the side. Together they travel to small towns and motels where clients await: middle-aged pedophiles. After several sexual encounters, Alva decides to escape, but Martin convinces…
A pair of broken shoes is the cause for two silent strangers to meet. Perhaps this is a simple love story, perhaps just the beginning of a friendship between two middle-aged adults that feel alone and too tired to fall in love like adolescents. Intermezzo is a beautiful story that takes place slowly, through gazes…
A morning like any other, Celia receives the visit of two strangers that are looking for her husband with whom they have some matters to solve. Celia soon discovers that her husband lives a double life and has several suspicious businesses. Celia becomes a kidnapping victim with unexpected consequences for all those involved. Geoff Bell,…
Lulu loves Henrik. She is the owner of an art gallery and he is one of her main clients. Henrik is married to Sophia but decides to invite Lulu to his house in the French Alps and, perhaps, start a new story together. However, Lulu´s anticipated holidays suddenly change when David, Henrik and Sophia´s son,…
Roberto has just been retired due to his age and his accute diabetes. With his pension and severance pay he decides to learn how to drive and buys a red van to travel together with his wife Hilda, to whom he owes a trip of a lifetime to a town in which they both spent…
Virgile is travelling with his brother by car when they have an accident. Virgile’s brother dies and a funeral has to be organized. Virgile’s guilt – he was driving at the time of the accident – is critical. His family has decided to exclude him from the funeral but Virgile, still injured, has other plans.…
A child pretends to go to school but hides underneath a small bridge while an adolescent waits for the bus with tear-filled eyes. A woman picks them both up in her car and, scared, they hide in the shopping mall in the outskirts of the city. Before losing everything (Avant que de tout perdre) is…
Four friends organize a trip to a massive music festival in the countryside. At the access gates the tension grows and chaos breaks out, affecting those waiting at the door. One of the four friends is already inside, oblivious to what it happening outsite while the festival’s security guards are unable to control the situation.…
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,…
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…
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