Persona non grata(2020)

Venezia - La più antica città del futuro(it)

Through the Haze(pt)

As the afternoon light fades, two kids play in the woods by a lake. When one of them disappears, the lake and its inhabitants take hold of the narrative and, when the darkness sets in, build up the walls of a maze that encircles the two kids. While one wanders through the forest searching for his friend, the silhouettes, textures and sounds of the forest slowly exert their mysterious grip.

Iceberg(pt)

It's the second wave of the COVID pandemic in Rio de Janeiro. There's no water in Madá's old mansion, a sewing cooperative where sheltered LGBTQI+ young people live and work. Renê, one of the residents, paints the anguish of a mysterious spirit that haunts the shelter through the plumbing. Across town, a loner middle-aged plumber, Ismael, is tormented by the same curse.

Hertzienne Connexion(fr)

Mourning Run(en)

As a young woman goes on her daily morning runs, an underlying plot is revealed.

Curtain(ar)

After experiencing traumatic events, a nurse has difficulty performing her duties due to a hostile work environment.

Sleight(en)

A late night radio host goes off on a rant about his disdain for magicians. But when a man claiming to be a magician calls on air, things get increasingly sinister.

Strangers(en)

Strangers revolve around a solitary photographer who captures portraits of unknown individuals by confining himself inside a photo booth. However, the photographer's clandestine activity comes under jeopardy when a mysterious woman begins to make frequent visits to the booth.

The Cure(en)

Alone, driven by hope, a blind painter wanders through the shards and shivers of the past in search of hopeless certainty.

Letter to Hong Kong(ko)

Away from her home in Hong Kong, Vivi records her daily life as a member of Loona in a video letter to her parents.

Bed & Breakfast(en)

After a feverish dream, a paralysed dreamer finds themselves trapped within a purgatory of their sleep, as they begin to fuse with their bed. The purgatory begins to refract the dreamers mind, as they are confronted with multiple incarnations of themselves struggling to awake. Bed & Breakfast is inspired by the neurodivergent experience of procrastination, and inertia. Questioning the nature of memory, identity, and the fabric of reality, by plunging you into the psyche of a paralysed dreamer where reality is far repressed.

Truth Comes Out of its Well to Shame Mankind(pt)

Natália is a college student who still lives with her parents, in her childhood home. Her estranged older sister arrives for a visit, bringing along infancy memories Natália doesn't recall. Her sleepless nights digging through her archives seem to trigger strange phenomena that might threaten Natália's safety.

Meshes of the Afternoon(en)

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.

Deliria(sv)

A slow, hot summer afternoon. A father sleeps while his child is drawing with pencils in a cross word puzzle. A wind moves through the grass - something bad is about to happen.

Meeting with Sarah Jessica(en)

Dori finally achieved her dream - having dinner with her favorite actress.

Brenda and Billy and the Pothos Plant(en)

Two estranged siblings, a botanist and a magician, come together to try and raise their mother’s body from the dead.

Man in the Moon(en)

When an under appreciated single mother intercepts a strange transmission on her pocket radio she suspects that it may be linked to her teenage sons mysterious homemade gaming headset.

The Last Thanksgiving(en)

Stepmother Doris' final feast turns deadly when her dying husband's three children plot to poison her, driven by a sinister desire to claim their father's inheritance.

Rorrim(en)

A young woman suffering from recurrent memory blackouts finds herself in different parts of her house without remembering what happened or what she was doing. She decides to install cameras and record herself, only to discover a dark truth.

Vestige(en)

A young boy who has lost his father. An old man seeking a connection with his grandson. A supernatural discovery that might provide them both with the answers they crave.