Ta-naw(2023)

Naqsh(ar)

The Haunting of Helen's Bridge(en)

Mary is the heir apparent to a substantial estate. She has not only inherited this affliction but also a family curse that speaks of an evil spirit haunting Helen's bridge.

Chan Is Missing(en)

Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the many problems experienced by Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society.

Riddles of My Homecoming(tl)

Alfad, a Lumad whose soul returns to his homeland to settle unfinished businesses and to finally rest. It is based on the Lumad’s belief that when a person dies his soul goes back to his homeland.

Amo-te de Morte(pt)

After starting a secret relationship, Anabela decides to reveal to Carla that she plans to flee Lisbon, keeping her romance away from her father. Opposed to the idea, Carla discourages her, suggesting she should rethink. Anabela, feeling helpless, surrenders to her own thoughts, making decisions without support.

The Divinity of a City(en)

David Bono is a hitman hired to target Orshanabi Nazzar, a high-ranking priest-bureaucrat in a temple corporation in the fictional city of Babylonia (Brussels-based). The corporation has invented a way to avoid death by recording people's lives. While gathering information and preparing for the job, David meets Ellie, with whom they slept together. However, Ellie is a member of a cult called Children of Ishtar, and David's job would interrupt their life-recording ceremony. Facing an obsessive dilemma, David tries to find a way to do his mission without killing Ellie. First, he tries to convince Ellie not to attend the ceremony, and then he hires a local crook to kidnap her while he does the job. After the successful job, Ellie frees herself from the kidnapper, discovers the truth, and leaves for Akkadia. Meanwhile, David calls to receive the rest of his payment but gets ambushed by the contractor.

Delirium(en)

An ordinary funeral procession moves along its path from church to cemetery. Observing, you slip from reality into a place where time has lost its linearity, looping through the odd images thrown off by a distorted reality. Images of non-existence, of varying reflections of death issuing from both past and future, concrete yet abstract, horrible yet desirable. A family asks a young psychiatrist to be their guest for a while to untangle the circumstances of their father's illness. He's developed a suicidal fixation for ropes and knots among other things. While deeply involved in analyzing the patient's delirium, the doctor begins to lose track of what is taking place. The task of "how to help" is twisted into "who am I? Doctor or patient? Chance guest, member of this suffering family, or a catholic priest who has dreamed this all up?" In order to get a handle on it all, it's best to start from the beginning, but why do things keep shifting, changing?

Lesbionage(en)

In this romantic thriller, blackmail, kidnapping, and fraud combine to give two lesbian private detectives (and lovers) their toughest case. Will their relationship survive? Produced by women for women.

Fake Friend(en)

One year after a disastrous graduation party, Oscar is invited to estranged friend Chris's home to catch up. But as soon as he arrives with girlfriend Emma, things seem off. Can the two mend their long-festering wounds? Or is their friendship dead... forever?

The Film Lost To Time(en)

A film buff's obsession with an elusive, possibly nonexistent film spirals into a dangerous descent, blurring the line between reality and madness.

Blue Noise(xx)

Images of the night, a landscape of noise

Higher Knowledge(en)

Three graduate students work tirelessly to solve their professor's final equation, before they meet his grisly fate.

Vingança Mascarada(pt)

The Rock in the Sea(en)

A Monk living in 9th century Ireland must contend with grief, despair, isolation and his own identity, on a far-off desolate rock.

Before Noon(xx)

An unfinished short student film about dreaming

The House by the Cemetery(it)

After a doctor kills his mistress and himself while researching the mysterious previous owner of his Boston home, his colleague, Dr. Norman Boyle, takes over his studies and moves his family into the Boston mansion. Soon after, Boyle's young son Bob becomes plagued by visions of a young girl, who warns him of the danger within the house.

I was not murdered.(en)

After two men find the corpse of a woman in their back garden tensions rise as they debate about what exactly they should do next.

Birdshot(tl)

A farm girl mistakenly shoots and kills an endangered Philippine Eagle. When authorities begin a manhunt to track down the eagle’s killer, they stumble upon an even more horrific discovery.

Echoes of Innocence(en)

A contemporary high school girl hears voices and sees visions like Joan of Arc. She is torn between her commitment to a long-lost first love and her growing feelings for another.

The Grove(en)

A soldier’s homecoming takes a dark turn when he forgets to take an experimental medication, triggering a deadly descent into animalistic madness. What was supposed to be a relaxing lake house getaway with friends becomes a fight for survival, testing the limits of love and sanity.