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The mad half hour refers to a condition usually indoor house cats experience once a day. They are about expanding energy in one concentrated burst that goes from 15 to 30 minutes, without any apparent reason. The Mad Half Hour is an offbeat comedy following Juan (30) who is going through a period similar to the one of these cats.

In a tiny Danish town, an abandoned grain silo is to become an artistic landmark with an observation tower and international art center, aiming to revitalize the town which is caught in a downward spiral of depopulation and store closures. But not everyone shares the enthusiasm. "The Silo and Us" a warm portrait of the urbane and the provincial, of highbrow and low key, of horn-rimmed glasses and flannel shirts. And everything in between.

Feminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, Edgar Allan Poe, the complicated relationship between low-budget films with a political aim and the film industry, Robert Louis Stevenson, fiction, facts, greed, gold treasures left by the Jesuits in Argentina, the 19th Century vs. the contemporary and the search for truth and wisdom are the background for this portrait of a clash between a Swedish artist and an Argentine film director.