Awake(2016)

My Dinner With An Android(en)

Documentarian Milton Muybridge, while in the process of investigating the disappearance of the eminent artificial intelligence scientist Talos Rosen, interviews Brigitte Helm, a waitress, and sole survivor of an ill-fated dinner party in which all the guests go missing in a curious manner. What does it all mean? Did they disappear... or did something else happen?

Astaroth(fr)

A musician is convinced her actor boyfriend is having trouble getting out of character.

Helen's Nose(en)

An overlooked woman finds much needed confidence when she experiences the horror of an additional growth on her face.

Moments(en)

A short film about a young man saying his last goodbyes to his girlfriend, talking about the moments they shared together.

Four(en)

A Dowager prepares for her birthday party. A young couple are on the run. A mysterious man in black watches from the shadows. Four rooms. One evening. Nothing is quite as it seems.

Heartstrings(en)

Disillusioned with life, love, and the pressures of the modern world, Jay goes on a quest for higher meaning. But when two violinists, one mysterious man and a briefcase seem to conspire against him, he discovers what really pulls the strings of his heart.

Outside the Box(en)

After a near-death experience, a man goes on an existential journey to understand his place in the universe.

Life's hard to who's soft(pt)

This is a short-film of the drama genre, named "Life's short to who's soft" about Soraia (Cláudia Cortinhas), a young woman who lives an euphoric life of hard-work in the city and Luís (Carlos Real), a young man who lives a tedious life in the countryside. Both have been living their lives in really miserable ways and without quite understanding it, want to bottom line trade their lives with each other.

Opening Night(en)

A teenage boy navigates the final minutes before his first theater stage performance, which includes experiencing his first kiss. Despite his rising anxiety, he shares a romantic moment with a classmate.

cuddlebear.AVI(en)

CuddleBear.AVI is a found footage short film about a young girl surviving her abusive father with the help of her imaginary friend, Commander CuddleBear.

The Clock Is Ticking(en)

The Clock is Ticking transports its audience into a collage of creative multimedia animation. This short animated film explores the passage of time. Angst grows stronger as Emily questions her purpose in a waiting room, surrounded by strangers with a similar destiny. At the sight of a teddy bear sitting alone on a chair, Emily can’t help but identify with the plushie. She dives deep into her subconscious, reliving her past and expanding into a potential future doomed to destruction. Time doesn’t wait, and the clock keeps ticking. Faced with this realization, Emily snaps out of her dream, deeply changed. She grabs the plushie and escapes the waiting room in a hysterical demonstration of freedom. Emily will no longer wait !

Bureaucracy Sonata(hi)

Set in an era of political crisis, this film follows four days in the life of a jailer whose passion for music is juxtaposed with a threat of a possible jailbreak.

The Möbius Trip(en)

A road trip pushes a dysfunctional family to the brink after their journey descends into a claustrophobic hallucinatory nightmare.

Viaticum(en)

Liz Newey, a recovering alcoholic, is in the midst of her early morning recitation of the Twelve Steps, when she's interrupted by a phone call. Her father, Frank Newey, estranged for twenty-three years, is on his death bed in a Toronto hospital.

The Fox Spirit Repays a Debt(zh)

A wife and a concubine seek freedom. In a game of seduction, together they join forces to defeat their oppressors.

Two Belles in Love(zh)

She smells her fragrance, she sees her talent... The ancient love story of Cui Jianyun and Cao Yuhua. The plight of these two women is told as they fall in love due to the admiration for each other's stunning beauty and literary craft. Adapted from the Kunqu opera & story by Li Yu, "Fragrant Companion/Lianxiang Companion", this short film includes a parallel between the play and "reality." The ending has been altered from the original play.

Oppenheimer: O Gênio Arrependido(pt)

Shelter(en)

A Jewish Prisoner who escapes from a Nazi Concentration Camp during work detail must then survive on his own in the bitter forests of Poland. He uses his memories of life as an artist in Paris before the war to keep him warm and from going mad.

Box on the Hill(en)

A man comes face-to-face with the dark choices of his past.

Sombras(es)

Dani, Freddy and Oscar are three teenagers who have no real ambition in life because they live in a neighborhood where smoking pot and making a quick buck are all that matter. Dani is pregnant with Freddy's baby; however, because she doesn't have the support of her grandfather, who is her only family, she is considering getting an abortion. In order to keep the baby, Freddy, along with Oscar, plans to pull off his most daring heist yet, but things spin out of control and one of them is put in serious danger.