Mikus(2018)

Two Halves(ru)

Three days before his wedding a strange woman mysteriously follows Evgeni everywhere and sticks to him. All attempts to separate the young people are unsuccessful. But is it therefore really worth cancelling the long-awaited wed- ding? The groom and the bride try hard to pretend that nothing special has hap- pened to them. However, ignoring outright that girl sticking to Evgeni becomes more and more difficult with every day.

El Asesino del Zodiaco(es)

Scooby-Doo: Agence toutou risques, vol. 1 : Le voleur de vélo(fr)

The Peasants(az)

A historical revolutionary film depicting the struggle of peasants and the Baku proletariat against landowners and Musavatists in 1919.

The Dachshund(de)

They’re small, clever, and incredibly strong-willed: dachshunds. Their soulful gaze wins hearts and fuels their lasting popularity. Once royal hunting dogs, they now take on unusual jobs—like Strolchi, a miniature dachshund who sniffs out woodworm in historic buildings. The bond between humans and dachshunds goes back to Celtic times. Archaeologists have even found joint burials of people and dachshund-like dogs. Versatile and charming, they thrive as city pets, hunting companions, and even racers—like those at the annual Wiener Race in Kirchheimbolanden. Beloved far beyond Germany, dachshunds have fans in France too, with events like Paris’s “Sausage Walk.”

Views on Trial(en)

The demonic Nicholas Diabolus is put on trial accused of interfering with people's lives.

Five Steps to Tyranny(en)

A look by Sheena McDonald at how ordinary people come to do horrible things. This is a politics lesson based on history and psychology.

13(ja)

The film is a continuous time-lapse with multiple exposures of the sunset from the same angle and position on 16mm film. The shoot was done in a span of 5 years. The title 13 is because the time-lapse has a 13-second interval per frame.

Dharmaveer 2(mr)

Explores Anand Dighe's life, tracing his political journey and capturing the essence of his impactful legacy as a prominent figure.

Garden of the Dead(en)

Convicts on a chain gang sniff formaldehyde fumes to get high. They attempt a prison break and are shot down by the guards. After being buried, they rise from the dead, killing all in their path with shovels and hoes.

Lone Justice: Showdown at Plum Creek(en)

A frontier sheriff copes with a missing corpse, Briton Oscar Wilde and an assassination attempt.

Don Juan Tenorio(es)

Don Juan Tenorio makes a bet with a friend as to which of them will commit more outrages in a year. He wins, killing twirty-two men and seducing seventy-two women. In the end, however, he is saved from damnation through a return to true belief and the love of a saintly woman, Doña Inés.

Strange Lines and Distances(en)

An experimental short film directed by audiovisual artist, Joshua Bonnetta.

Skin of a Mandarin(et)

The film delicately follows 25-year-old Anna, whose mother has died suddenly. She wants to send her Orthodox mother on her last journey according to customs, but she runs into bureaucratic rules that do not allow Anna to dress her departed mother herself. This conflict brings her together with Maria, a 45-year-old funeral home worker, who in this story represents the hidden fears of death and grief on a deep emotional level.

Facing the Void(fr)

In the collective imagination, mountaineering is seen as an elitist and dangerous activity. When the mainstream press talks about mountaineering, it is generally related to a drama or an exploitation. The mountaineers are then placed in two categories. On the one hand, reckless supermen, engaged in a death struggle with the mountains.

All About Mahmoud Darwish(ar)

Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. He won numerous awards for his works. Darwish used Palestine as a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession and exile.

The Last Runway 2, Commando Yaguareté(es)

Betty Jara reassembles the Yaguareté Commandos to exchange an imprisoned criminal for one of her own agents. A risky operation becomes even more so when she realizes they are not just fighting a drug ring but the highest spheres of power.

Polycephaly in D(en)

Informed by an underlying sense of anxiety and anguish, Michael Robinson’s Polycephaly in D nestles fragments of narrative within a collage of sound, image, and text that oscillates between the elegant and the discordant.

Das Haus Nummer 13(de)

David and his wife go to an old and strange house to look for antiques. But strange things happen to the wife. She suddenly seems to have disappeared without a trace in the house. However, when she reappears, she behaves strangely and frighteningly. David doubts his sanity. Is he awake or just dreaming, or does he really have to fear for his life?

Is It A Plaisir(en)

'Is it a plaisir' is an experimental short film that explores femininity and the body as a sharp territory, crossed by the tension between desire and imposition. Through symbolic, sound and visual saturation, the film acts from pleasure (plaisir), revealing a liberation that emerges in the midst of excess, where intensity and lightness, dark and light, intertwine, collide and converge.

Tape #23(en)

A young man in search of a place to live, finds a beautiful apartment that he will have to share with someone who is not the person he was waiting for.

Blood Pulls a Gun(en)

A teenage girl gets a keyhole look into a dangerous and mysterious world when a tattooed stranger checks into her roadside motel.

Arabesque(fr)

The film’s visual structure is principally composed of variations on the arabesque: arcs of light, water spouts, spider webs, burgeoning trees, flowers and foliage, a woman’s smile, arms stretching, an arm giving rhythm to a rocking chair. It uses natural elements (light, mirrors, water, and wind) and photographic techniques (multiple exposures and lenses) to distort the various elements, or to intensify their design.

Locksmiths(en)

Two robbers unknowingly break into the home of a murderer who is in the process of hiding his latest victim.

Voices of the Void(en)

When Dr. Kel gets tasked with decoding signals from space, he discovers shocking signs of extraterrestrial life.

Camping Idéal(fr)

Overnight. Friday(ru)

Once in a God-forsaken place, the heroine and her adopted daughter are forced to look for a bed for the night. Having found shelter in the building of an abandoned boarding school, she meets there close people from her past.

The Creepy Pegman and The Upsidedown Woman(nl)

Short film in which a group of children get to know the Enge Knijperman (the Grisly Pincher Man) who falls madly in love with the Onderstebovenvrouw (Upside-down Woman). However the 220-Volt-Witch and the Toilet Slave set out to spoil things. Experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name Ian Kerkhof.

Once Upon a Time(en)

We are first presented a cobweb castle, filled with the haunting doubts of the young protagonist. Spirits appear on the screen and are heard on the soundtrack. Gradually a female guide emerges and escorts the young man into an antechamber to another (and possibly higher) world.

Wolfman vs. Baragon(ja)

Wolfman instantly appears from behind some trees where he is reputedly abused by armed Japanese army tanks, he allegedly flees and later battles Baragon at a burning construction site.

STILL LIFE(en)

In the stillness of the night, a disillusioned man pours out his thoughts to a silent companion: a perspective on life, death and poetry.

The Moddey Dhoo(gv)

Past and present collide when a mythical beast is reawakened by a couple exploring a historic castle on the Isle of Man.

The Cult of Kiros(en)

After being abruptly evicted from his apartment, Mateo returns to his hometown, seeking refuge in a local house-sitting job. But as the house’s silence settles in, he begins to sense a presence lurking beneath—something that has chosen Mateo for something much bigger than himself.

Spectrum(it)

Frankenstein(en)

Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening with rage to a world that hates and fears him.

Not Normal(en)

In a time of anarchy and forgotten morals, one man obsesses over the way to fix it.

Uncle Jake(en)