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Two women must navigate a growing relationship and a zombie outbreak that turned only straight people.
Anna and Pauline are two lovers who have never seen each other's faces. They are in a long distance relationship, kept apart by an ocean, yet their love for each other seems undying. However, after two years of relationship, the frightening need for an in person meeting grows stronger and stronger.
Mathéo suffers from blank page syndrome. His conscience materializes to give him morals.
At a summer camp in 2007, João meets Ivo. We Were Just Brats is a possible narrative of a queer teenager who finds, in the dormitory and in the hip-hop and pop music of his world, a space that oscillates between self-discovery and punitive surveillance.
Liberty looks within the safe space of a relationship and how culture can be held creatively or destructively within the body.
Self-portraits of the artist’s emotional states to process the experience of going through breast cancer during the pandemic.
An animated journey about memories, sensory experiences, and the ways we connect with each other in a world rich with emotion and sensation. Inspired by meditative sensory exercises, this piece explores how we remember, feel, see, and are seen within our surroundings, with particular attention paid to the soundscape, which heightens the experience.
In the dirt it shall be found…
Chironomies is an ongoing series of videos that reveal the aesthetics of music conductors' gestures. The recordings of the musical works used are edited to retain only the relevant parts. The bodies, stripped of the superfluous and multiplied, leave traces that create patterns specific to each conductor. The result is visual and musical recompositions that navigate between figuration and abstraction.
The attention was not focused on the tourist attractions, but rather on the graffiti.
An avant-garde depiction of the Greek Good Friday.
Strange things occur for a couple after their first date...
Isa and Nik meet, fall in love, fight, make up, fight again and split. Then Klara comes along. And everybody starts over again. An improvised experimental-film about troubled lovers.
An experimental short film shot and directed by Nanine. A little peek into his industrial surroundings and focuses mostly on his independent filmmaking abilities
After the baby’s mother is killed by criminals seeking revenge against her father for his fight against corruption, the girl is left alone, freezing in a cradle abandoned in the snow. Her neighbor Askar accidentally finds her, barely alive, in the snowy yard. Realizing that every second counts, he rushes to save her, unaware that the danger is not over yet. The film explores themes of parental love, resilience, and the value of life in a world falling apart.
Prepare with Evan for his daily walk to work.
Two independent hitmen get stuck in a lift while their oblivious bounty waits impatiently outside…
Director Laura La France's film imperfect practice is a visual diary on Super 8mm, capturing one full year in a series of clips plucked from sad, wonderful and ordinary days. It was the year she turned 30. Her first year of marriage. The year her dream job became a nightmare. The year she lost an old man she really loved. A year of existential dread and experiential joy.
Saura, Filipe, João, Beatriz, Rita, and Marchana have a language of their own, shaped by the growing pains of childhood and the uncertainties of adult life. During the summer, Saura and Filipe, once deeply connected, begin to drift apart. As they try to understand what still remains between them, their language also begins to change, and with it the group of friends they share.
