After losing his partner in a mission, while being struck by lightning and getting bit by a Cobra at the same time, Kung Fury, detective of the Miami Police Department develops super powers that will help him defeat the red ninja. When he is assigned a new partner, Kung Fury decides to quit the force…
“Go and take a running jump” is a commonly used expression to get rid of someone that starting to become a bother. But it has also been used by director Mike Leigh as a word game that could refer to sports, an important topic of this medium-length film that was part of a series of…
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…
“Because all great men are Jewish: Woody Allen is Jewish, Spielberg is Jewish, Einstein is Jewish, Jean-Jacques Goldman is Jewish!” After his divorce, Benjamin’s dad doesn’t want to leave his house without reminding his son of his true origins. His mother is a catholic, yes, but his father insists that the blood of the Jewish…
Elisa is 16-years-old and the long summer hours seem never ending in her suburban neighborhood while she plays Truth or Dare and takes long walks with friends. One day, while she’s browsing through her dad’s library, she finds a book that catches her attention: the memoirs of a prostitute that narrates her experiences with her…
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…
Iraq. 2011. Nizar Rawi, the director of a Short-Film Festival in Iraq is preparing the second edition of his event in Bagdad. While revising the list of the short-films selected he realizes that only one comedy has been sent in… and it´s not even funny. That´s when he decides to bring a group of people…
“The first time he saw the island, Marini was politely leaning over the seats on the left, adjusting a plastic table before setting a lunch tray down. The passenger had looked at him several times as he came and went with magazines or glasses of whisky; Marini lingered while he adjusted the table, wondering, bored,…
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,…
Young Abdulay has just lost his brother in a car accident in Paris. Without thinking much about it, he decides to take his brother’s body to Mauritania to bury him close to his family, in the cemetery in his parent’s village. Three friends accompany him in this dangerous journey by car through the desert to…
A running jump | Mike Leigh · United Kingdom · 32 min Kung fury | David Sandberg · Sweden · 31 min Uranes | Chema García Ibarra · Spain · 60 min Superman Isn’t Jewish (But I Am, a Bit) – Superman n’est pas juif (et moi un peu…) | Jimmy Bemon · France · 30 min…
Ze’ev has been left by his wife, who has started a relationship with another man. Ze’ev, that has just turned 60, is not used to solitude and, after his wife’s departure, jealousy and memories take over him. But couldn’t this also be the beginning of something new? Isn’t there a faint thread of hope whenever…
If one wanted to exaggerate, one could say, that, indeed, everything is connected with everything. But that is not entirely true. The grand world net is spun with infinite delicacy… In the living room of the Klose family invisible twines are running together, which, when someone is handling any item in the room, cause…
A broken heart mostly happens as a consequence of a false image that we build ourselves regarding our loved one. In I Love You Deception (Je t’aime deception), Héloïse Haddad, director of this 40-minute long medium-length film, shows the audience four types of deceptions in love and life: the lost love (disappointment), betrayal, the search…
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