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.…
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…
Who hasn’t looked at their parents with a sunken suspicion they come from another planet? At some point we’ve all wondered…. But Romy, the main character of this story knows that her mom is an alien. Invasion from Planet Schrump (Invasion vom Planeten Schrump, 2011) is a 30 minute half-length film by German director Nadine…
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…
Produced by the National Film School of Denmark as the graduation project of Milad Alami, the half-length film Nothing Can Touch Me (2011) has been controversial since its premiere. Portraying a situation related to school and high school shootings, the film has received several complaints from the Danish education sector. Its director spoke out: “I am…
Antonio Gairo is the only survivor of a vast 1964 nuclear disaster. It took place in Alos, a small village in the center of Sardinia, transforming it into a ghost town. Antonio suddenly recovers his long lost memory and tells the story of life in Alos before the accident; reconstructing with great detail the circumstances…
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…
El barriga tiene 11 años y es el hazmerreír de sus compañeros de colegio. Sus padres quieren cambiar esta situación y hacer adelgazar a su hijo a toda costa. El muchacho, sin embargo, ha encontrado la manera de aliviar su sufrimiento, pero es un secreto que sólo contará a su simpática amiga Missymouse. Twist and…
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…
Ante la reciente decisión del Ayuntamiento de Valencia de suprimir la Mostra de Valencia, la dirección del Festival Internacional de Mediometrajes La Cabina desea manifestar su profundo pesar por la suspensión indefinida de un festival que es un verdadero referente en el panorama cultural nacional. Lamentamos la decisión del máximo organismo municipal que pone punto…
Este viernes, día 23, hablaré sobre el Festival de Mediometrajes La Cabina en el Pecha Kucha Night VOL.11. Será en el Sporting Club de Ruzafa (C/ Sevilla, 5) a partir de las 19.30 h. Ésta es mi primera experiencia como speaker en el Pecha Kucha de Valencia. Siempre he tenido curiosidad por participar en algún…
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