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Ambitious high school filmmaker Barry Roth sets out to shoot his student film on real 16mm despite overwhelming obstacles and skepticism from his teacher. As production unravels—plagued by inexperience, missing actors, and dwindling resources—Barry is forced to confront his own limitations and the harsh realities of filmmaking.
When James is looking to submit his new short film to a festival, chaos ensues when he realises he submitted the wrong film.
New technology forces an alcoholic to reckon with his past.
After breaking a blood pact, Iris feels the consequences of that decision in her own body and realizes that certain ties do not disappear when a relationship ends.
A commission by Marc Salicrú to Jordi Boquet about the 3rd action at FiraTàrrega: an incursion by the Brigades of Popular Confusion before thousands. A city concert with over 350 participants (bands, firefighters, buses…) that shattered urban liturgy into a procession toward collective ecstasy.
A random apparition leads to the aquatic ape theory, an unproven evolutionary hypothesis that imagines an amphibious origin of humans. The idea of a certain origin is called into question, and if we cannot verify the past, on what do we base the future?
50 years after “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” electrified audiences, a drag theater company in the once-booming mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming, stages a shadow cast of the cult classic. Led by the charismatic 25-year-old performer Kenny Starling, the determined troupe spotlights the ongoing fight for queer visibility and acceptance in their community.
A group of gangsters who notoriously kill with forks struggle in the aftermath of a failed illegal deal.
Who picks up when you dial 112? In Berlin, it’s the staff at the fire department’s massive emergency call center. Newcomers are finding their way or giving up, while veterans provide support from the background. Anything can happen at any moment. And then New Year’s Eve arrives.
A strange interview with JUDAT about the new generation of underground cinema.
A selfish and destructive android adapts to the life of a cowboy in the desert wasteland.
The last remaining South Vietnamese naval officers reunite in California for what will likely be the final time, finding solace with the few people who understand the complexities that shape their life histories.
In a shifting, dreamlike world, a young girl begins to experience a changing body and the strange feelings it brings along.
Local filmmaker Salise Hughes returns with a dream about clouds and lightning and travel.
The reel and the real face off in the reality of this reel of reels that represent various realities. Really.
