An experimental short film that explores perceptions of Dominican cinema and its identity through personifications of commercial and independent film styles.
Jason Peña
Marta Sosa
Héctor Ramos
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An experimental short film that explores perceptions of Dominican cinema and its identity through personifications of commercial and independent film styles.
2024-09-17
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Does our cinema represent us?
Jack longs to escape his monotonous routine, but obedience to society and fear of change leave him with more of the same: a busy, yet unfulfilled existence. In this off-kilter world, a group of extractors are targeting those who have neglected to truly live. Jack is next.
A story through a child's eyes about living through a drought.
Three generations of Youngseok’s family live together in a house. Even though his mentally ill grandmother’s time on this Earth is gradually running out, Youngseok is embarrassed by the way she behaves like a child in front of his friends despite her efforts to take care of him. The film displays the challenges of a family who live with a dementia patient, told from young Youngseok’s perspective. Dreamlike summer nights in the film evoke the innocence of childhood, and the gathering of dear friends and family.
A married woman falls in love with a 19-year-old girl, and she has to make a choice between her family and the one who might be the love of her life.
A father joins his son as he searches for Heaven in the night's sky, each hoping to catch a glimpse of his own grandmother.
Meike and Ursula are planning to start a family. They arrange for a donor to help them. Meike is excited and ready. But is Ursula?
Ten year-old SETH wants to give up his toys, but his work-numbed mother LILY needs the spark of their playtime more than he does. Her insistence that he keep the toys leads to some unexpected places.
Rory thinks there's a ghost haunting his shower and decides to investigate its origin. But when he goes to a party and meets a romantic interest, his spectral mystery begins to unravel.
While struggling with a broken marriage and the threat of eviction, a man tries to sell his engagement ring and in doing so he experiences that the lines between memories, dreams and reality are very thin.
A recent widower joins his daughter on the search for a witch he believes is a manifestation of her grief.
A young Roma girl named Fati finds out about her grandmother’s illness—anemia due to iron-deficiency. Disappointed because of her lack of money to buy the necessary medicine, she sees a notice in a discarded newspaper: ‘Ecological Action: wagons for old iron arrive in train station for recycling’. She comes up with a creative plan and goes to see Andrej, the local mafia boss who often visits Grandmother Fatima for fortunetelling. The superstitious boss orders his bodyguards to rob the train and deliver the iron to the old lady. Amazed by the ironic story, the police officers release Perhan and help to obtain the necessary medication for Fatima.
When Jeff discovers that the bowling alley he manages is being sold, he must do everything he can to save the place he's come to call home. This is the original / short.
CYCLES is a playful, sweetheart choreography, circling through the madness of grief.
Los Montes de la Ermita, region of Bierzo Alto, in the province of León, Spain. Six women assist Joaquín —the only and last inhabitant of the remote village, located on the slopes of the mythical and mysterious Catoute Peak—, who is in danger of death due to an unfortunate accident.
An experimental study of nature through three stories and how we have destroyed it.
As graduation draws closer, a college student finds herself torn between a stable job and her passion and field of study: being a clown.