Matryoshka Doll(2018)

The Slow Game(it)

In an atmosphere between fiction and reality, a rugby game in the suburbs becomes the allegory of the daily struggle of an Italian family against the trials and tribulations of life.

It’s Okay to Eat Fish Cause They Don’t Have Any Feelings(sv)

Matilda is home alone with her older brother Peter when his girlfriend Elin comes over. Elin is everything Matilda ever wanted to be. She loves the way she dresses, how she moves, her whole presence. Maybe even more than Peter…

The Act(en)

In 1965 - the eve of decriminalization for acts of male homosexuality in the U.K. - Matthews, a young gay man at odds with the world, discovers love, sex, and a new family in the backstreets and underground bars of Soho.

Mouras(es)

‘Mouras’ is a dark tale of a mother’s love. (Screamfest)

The Sexual Monologues(sv)

A chain of people connected by desire. They are all looking for the one – talking about sex and chasing love. They know what they want, but will they ever get it?

State of Matter(en)

A troubled filmmaker struggles to watch his own film in a cinema inside his head, along with a made-up audience that negatively reacts to his film, State of Matter.

Broken(en)

A young soldier returns home from the Civil War carrying a terrible secret that threatens to estrange the only family he has left: his mother.

Mitosis(fa)

Kaveh is an LGBT sculptor. He lives in Iran and lives in isolation because of his sexual orientation. He has a lover named Farhad. Their relationship is not very good. It is Kaveh who is not happy with this relationship, he lives in his workshop because of the repression of LGBTs in Iran. He is making a statue when he suddenly realizes that this statue is talking to him. The words of the statue are not clear and are more like chatter. He breaks up his relationship with Farhad like his previous relationships, because something more than sex requires a relationship. He enjoys being alone more, but now he realizes that Farhad has destroyed the only statue they made together. The whispering sound of the statue increases and every moment Kaveh's mental state is more disturbed, to the point that he works day and night to build that statue. The statue is completed as if the statue is the lost lover of Kaveh. By completing the statue of Kaveh, he becomes a statue.

Corazón en el cenicero(es)

He(en)

A story told in four parts, "He" explores the swell of poetic love and the breathless aftermath of its heartache.

John and Michael(en)

A gentle tale of love told in halting words. A film about healing after profound loss. John and Michael pays homage to two men with Down's syndrome who shared an intimate and profoundly loving relationship that deeply affected the filmmaker. Animated with clay backlit on glass, the film shimmers like stained glass in motion. Narrator Brian Davis, also intellectually challenged, brings the men alive with great sensitivity. The audience shares in the various emotions that infuse their everyday living. John and Michael, by its artistry, rises above society's traditional ideas around disability, sexuality and death. When the heart is touched, differences melt. Love is what defines humanity.

Vergot(it)

Two brothers, an exuberant father and an invisible mother. A family of farmers from an Alpine valley where life is rude, as well as manners. The younger son, Gim, is discovering his homosexuality, but the world around him, especially his father, just can't accept that. So the elder son Alex is stuck in the middle, on one hand encouraging Gim to overcome all his fears, on the other trying to continue the tradition of the fathers. In such an exasperated context is hard to recognize the love hidden behind. Will they be able to keep on living together?

How the Two Fools Loved Each Other(sh)

A short film based on Dusko Radovic writings.

Boys on the Rooftop(es)

Sergio and Octavio discover each other in a game between seduction and desire during a night of celebration. At daybreak, each will have a piece of the other: their joint gay moments.

Benchwarmers(en)

A father and daughter meet for the first time in months, during a pandemic, still grieving from an earlier loss. This is a story of connection and disconnection, forming a "pod", and continuing to live.

Sweet Rabbit(nl)

Jeanet, an insecure middle-aged woman, discovers one day that rabbit ears are growing out of her head. Shocked and confused, she rushes to the doctor to get rid of her ailment. But the doctor turns out to be a poor listener. Jeanets relatives seem to have attention for her. Jeanet thinks she is on her own until she knocks on her husband's door.

Second Round(hu)

In a world where childbirth is state-regulated, a couple applies for a license to have a child. They pass the first round of the process, but have no idea what awaits them in the second round.

The Simple Path(en)

Follows the decision-making of Nevaeh, an elder care nurse who struggles emotionally when one of her long-term patients loses the ability to support the costs of her care.

Another Luna(en)

A gap in the relationship with her mother causes Luna to seek affection from a mysterious doll.

The Allusion of my Oblivion(es)

Leonor desperately search for her son Perico, without realizing that she is wrapped in her Alzheimer's disease.