She Sought to Be(2024)

The Girl in the Book(en)

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

Here(en)

An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.

Not Without Hope(en)

A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.

Carne(es)

A woman who works in a meat packing plant is continuously preyed upon by lecherous men.

The Truth About Emanuel(en)

A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

The Last of England(en)

The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.

Tigertail(en)

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

The Young One(en)

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

Eleanor the Great(en)

94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

20,000 Species of Bees(es)

Lucía is an eight-year-old girl, who sometimes struggles as the world tries to catch up with the fact that she is trans. As the summer holidays pass, she explores her femininity alongside the women of her family who at the same time reflect on their own femininity.

Deseo(es)

Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.

The Corpse of Anna Fritz(es)

Anna Fritz is a beautiful and famous actress. Suddenly her body is found in a hotel and the news of her death goes around the planet. The young, shy caretaker Pau works at the hospital where they carried the body of Anna Fritz. He and his friends decide to take pictures of the body of Anna Fritz. They decide they could make love to her and nobody would know. They are in front of Anna Fritz ... and can do with it what they want.

All Day and a Night(en)

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

The Experiment(en)

20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.

I Believe in Unicorns(en)

Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

Goodbye June(en)

Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

The King of Havana(es)

Recently escaped from reformatory, Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humor and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings, until he meets Magda and Yunisleidy, survivors like himself. In one or the other's arms, he will try to escape the material and moral misery surrounding him, living love, passion, tenderness and uninhibited sex to the limit.

The Lords of Discipline(en)

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep an eye out for the inevitable racism. The racists come in the form of The Ten, a secret group of the elite students. They want Pearce to leave on his own free will, but are prepared to torture him to make it 'his free will'. Will is forced to help Pearce and he is prepared to risk his own career to do so.

The Outsiders(es)

A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and resort to petty thievery. After their adventure, the couple questions whether or not they are right for each other.

Rogue Agent(en)

Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.

Her Wings(tr)

In a remote Turkish village, a timid young man is haunted by his childhood and the mysterious death of his sister. Nightmares and unsettling visions draw him into an inevitable descent, as his reality begins to fracture. A poetic exploration of memory, loss and the psyche.

Mohammad Saadh(ta)

An Art and a Short Film in which the director records his childhood experiences and memories through the mischievous activities of a boy named Mohammad Saadh.

Convenience(en)

Mindy suspects that her ex is up to no good.

Interference(de)

On a bleak island where monolithic concrete buildings rise above the windswept horizon lies work-colony #191286. Piwonka is one of a handful of migrant workers who are forced to work here under harsh conditions. He has been estranged for two months from his beloved wife when a fatal incident at the main drilling-tower occurs. Piwonka has a recurring dream of his wife where it feels like she's trying to communicate with him, to warn him perhaps, or guide his way.

Wherever You Are(tl)

Two sisters Lilia and Trining decide to adopt and raise three children: Joven, Ito and Pilar. Now adults, adopted siblings Joven and Pilar end up falling in love with each other. Family drama ensues when more secrets are revealed and resistance is met.

LIMINAL(en)

LIMINAL tells the story of Vincent Marcum, a world-renowned quantum physicist who lost his wife and daughter in a tragic accident in 2001. Once a towering figure in the scientific community, Vincent has since withdrawn from the world, isolating himself in relentless pursuit of a singular goal, bending time itself. For decades, he has obsessively dedicated his life to achieving the impossible: time travel. Now, in the year 2053, at 86 years old, he finally succeeds. But in his research, he uncovers a disturbing truth: time does not curve as once theorized; it moves in a straight, unyielding line. This revelation carries terrifying implications... What happens when you travel back to the past and no one was there?

Casa de Lava(pt)

The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.

The Quietest Hour(nl)

Thomas, 70, looks back on the last evening he and his lost friend Mari spent together. An evening in which they drink wine, dine, listen to piano playing and dance with their girlfriends. As the hours pass before his eyes, Thomas contemplates the lost friendship, the person Mari was and the conversations of that night.

Prelude: Dog Star Man(en)

A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion of color and squiggles and happenstance. Next, images of small circles emerge then of the Sun. Images of our Earth appear, woods, a part of a body, a nude woman perhaps giving birth. Imagery evokes movement across time. Part of the Dog Star Man series of experimental films.

And Then I Knew 'Twas Wind(en)

A writer goes missing on a canoe trip with her boyfriend in an area of Oregon known for its fossil record dating back sixty million years.

Mensbeeld(nl)

mens·beeld (het; o; meervoud: mensbeelden) A "Mensbeeld" is a well-thought-out and coherent representation of what it means to be human. Human images are linked to (historically determined) philosophical, philosophical or religious convictions.

Pulvaaliraghu(ta)

The fan's self-sacrificing blades dance in the air, generating a refreshing breeze that wipes away the sweat of others and brings solace on a scorching day.

Requiem(en)

A grieving choreographer tries to connect with her deceased partner through ritual dance, pushing her body beyond its natural limit until it breaks.

The Redwood Diaries(en)

When torn pages from a cursed diary begin appearing at Redwood High, each predicting a brutal, symbolic death, new student Evie Quinn is drawn into a decades-old mystery that connects to her.

"Don't Scream Now"(en)

"We follow Detective Rodriguez on a case that will take him to new and abstract places and feelings"

“To Be, or Not To Be”(en)

A young man contemplating death descends into worlds both known and unknown, all while reciting Hamlet’s most famous soliloquy.

Elsa(de)

Dinosaur Farm(en)

A political assassination leads to division and chaos.

What Are Your Memories?(en)

An abstract exploration of memory and loss.

Static Moon(de)

When viewed from far away, life on Earth can seem meaningless. But when a star inhabits a dying girl, they experience the tragic beauty found at the moment when the light goes out.