Paradise(2025)

Une brèche écarlate(fr)

Through thread and textile, an Asian seamstress tries to escape from the factory.

Go Forget Me(en)

Robert Estragon has worked his way to the top of the food chain as a doctor in the city, but it has driven him to self-imposed delusion. Here, we listen as he sits and projects himself onto the mad world he observes. It all comes to a head when Willie Krapp, a young colleague, invades this world, hoping to teach Robert that it was wrong to let his own daughter die in the operating room.

Nadveren(da)

Absorción(es)

The emotional decline of a person after being the host of an energetic parasite.

Amelia 2.0(en)

After his wife Amelia suffers an aneurysm that leaves her bedridden and slowly dying, police officer Carter Summerland searches for a way to revive her. He's approached by Wesley Enterprises pioneering a new program to extend life through robotics, they get caught in a public debate over human’s relationship with technology and her right to exist.

o jardineiro - ou os equinócios de uma memória latente(pt)

Oliver, an elderly gardener with Alzheimer's, discovers a Super 8 film reel he recorded decades ago, during the early days of his relationship with Julia, his late wife. As he watches the images from the past, his memories blur with the present, and he finds himself torn between reality and the recollections of a love that still blooms in his mind. While searching for answers that never come, Oliver confronts the fleeting nature of life and the beauty of memories that withstand the passage of time.

Blonde Starlet Acid Trip(en)

A famous Blonde Starlet drops acid and turns into midnight.

A Sad, Sad Ghost Picking at the Hairs of Their Knuckles(en)

A wandering young woman explores the crevices of her apartment, of her corporeal creases, as well as the shadows made up of those things. Through her journey, she comes into contact with fellow vagrancies: a nondescript man of around similar age; a young girl with similar, even familiar, eyes; streets that can only exist during those brief moments of glazing stares. The rain comes and goes, but the A/C never turns off.

I went away and forgot you. A while ago I remembered. I remembered I'd forgotten you. I was dreaming.(en)

What appears at first glance to be a patterned floor of traditional Islamic tiles is in fact an intricate installation of hand dyed sand. In a light-filled room in an abandoned house, the artist steps into frame to sweep it away, breaking the illusion and destroying the image of traditional heritage.

Haruhara-san's Recorder(ja)

Sachi quits her job at a museum, starts working part-time at a café, and moves into an apartment recommended by a regular customer. Although she has started a new life, Sachi is still haunted by the memory of her partner whom she will never see again.

Hegemony of Reality with Silent Fantasy(id)

In a quiet class, there are 12 students who do not do the assignment from Rama (teacher). Seeing that, Rama feels that he has lost his honor, so he gets angry and vents his anger by just keeping quiet. This situation makes them enter a world of isolation. Faced with a terrifying mute entity, which tries to control their minds and bodies. That's when the students' wild thoughts start to get out of control, with strange fantasies that they create in the midst of tension and silence. While Rama tries to control them. One by one they do everything they can to get out. But in the end, they are nothing in front of Rama.

Distant People(en)

A couple's evening together is disrupted by a trip to the convenience store.

Bew Boodadoo(en)

Ariadne, a theatre actress, is seemingly trapped inside a room. Once she lets go, the room starts shifting.

Tempo Rubato(en)

The night before her eighteenth birthday recital, an overworked and undertalented pianist is abducted by three ghouls.

Guisado on Sunset(en)

Missed connection regret at that one late-night spot—the kind you keep playing back in your head but not quite ever remembering right, until it starts to look like something else.

Reflection(en)

As she keeps watching old home movies isolated in her hotel room, the screen becomes a mirror from which she tries to see herself. Levels of subjectivity, narrative, and reality entwine into a surrealist fever dream of scopophilic cinéma pur. The final layer of meaning is all of us watching the film on the screen-mirror in the theatre.

FASCISM(s): A Film in Six Parts(en)

Six sequences about Fascism and its segments throughout history.

Psychedelia(en)

Arda Wuyts experiments with editing and color.

Introspection(en)

Stephen, a blackbird, comes upon an abandoned mirror in a garden. Upon gazing his reflection for the very first time, Stephen begins to search within. Should Stephen return to his flock, or set out on an adventure to try and find his own way in life?