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Jul 2026
Part of a series of found landscapes, filmed on a single 8mm roll.
Jun 2026
INTRALUZ follows Ella, a woman caught between memories and symbols that come to life, reminding her of past moments and unresolved emotions. Through poetic encounters and elements of magical realism, Ella journeys through her inner world, confronting fears, desires, and doubts. This voyage allows her to reconcile with herself and accept who she truly is, discovering the freedom that emerges when one dares to look within.
Three boys decide to finally explore and break in into there crazy neighbour on the street and look and explore his house and what happens next is crazy
After the Football Association’s decision to ban transgender women from women’s football in England, we returned to speak with Emily, Lucy Clark and the TRUK United community about what the decision means for them, their future in the game, and why football matters so deeply. For Emily, football has been a place of belonging through some of the hardest moments of her life. For Lucy, it’s about fighting to ensure future generations can continue to find that same community. This isn’t just a film about football. It’s a conversation about identity, resilience, belonging and the human impact behind the headlines.
A girl and her mother made a short film about their trip to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Role Models follows Sophie, Erin and Fletch as they spend the day recovering from a part from the night before. Erin who ruined the party by letting it slip that the birthday girl cheated on her boyfriend. Spends the day on the couch thinking about what she’s done, out of pity fletch offers to go to the shops for her which is. Decision he would soon regret. On the flip side of all of this Sophie spends the day setting up to do a dj set at what she presumes is a night club as she arrives it soon becomes clear she’s made a mistake
A lone space explorer who investigates a distress signal on an uncharted planet, only to become stranded as strange events begin to unfold around him. As isolation takes its toll, he uncovers a mystery that challenges his understanding of reality itself.
after the boss of the mafia family changes, the new bosses brother pays a gangster to take him out so he can be the new boss. after the assasin meets the boss things get philosopical.
Casa d’altri // Fujenti was conceived as a diptych, two variations on the same religious theme, the paradoxical meaning of prayer and devotion. If, as Sergio Quinzio suggests, prayer is a negative moment marked by God’s constant lack of response, the first part, freely inspired by Silvio D’Arzo’s Casa d’altri, explores this question through a single figure. A wanderer moves among saints, churches and books, posing a scandalous question to theology. The second part shifts the same question from the individual to the multitude. Through archival materials connected to rites, processions and popular pilgrimages, the film observes bodies that pray, walk, wait, and offer fatigue, voice, tears and presence. Following Quinzio’s intuition, the praying figures do not appear as pacified images of devotion, but as needy creatures, beggars before the invisible, bodies asking for the fulfilment of a concrete lack.
Shira, a teenage girl from a kibbutz in northern Israel, begins working at the kibbutz fish ponds. Working in the same place where her mother worked in her youth brings a story from the past to the surface.
Set in rural Ireland, For Séamus explores the silent struggles between fathers and sons, revealing a story of reconciliation, legacy, and love left unspoken.
Mar 2026
Edith, a woman in her sixties, avoids looking around, terrified of catching a glimpse of the creature behind her hallucinations. She spends her day staring at a blank wall, lost in painful memories of her daughter.
Aug 2026