Barreira

LIMINAL(en)

A troubled man returns home for the last time.

Looking through a Glass Darkly(en)

An experimental media installation of three windows exploring fragments of liminality. Three unique re-constructions of experiential instances volumising the cataclysms of thresholds. Experience the absence of definition, the absence of boundaries set and the absence of rationale. A myth is not to be understood, a myth is passed on, like a game of Chinese whispers, it takes its course and ages with time, suiting the demography and tale, it warps and distorts

Before Noon(xx)

An unfinished short student film about dreaming

i am saved(en)

Feedback and religious radio noise

Meat Party(en)

A man and women have dinner, a steak, and his woman ( second steak) also does.

Por si vuelves...(es)

Rift(sv)

A girl disappears without a trace while playing hide and seek with her friend. The friend is asked to explain how it happened, but the adults around him find it hard to believe his story. With visual originality, the limits of existence are allowed to be stretched in a film that depicts the incomprehensible from a child’s perspective.

Enys Men(en)

A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.

The Things You Said On That Cloudy Day(en)

2bhk(hi)

2 flatmates unfold the layers of their relationship on a random Sunday afternoon after they encounter a power cut.

Lost Footage(en)

How would a found footage film look if the footage was never found? This conceptual art experiment questions the very nature of film and cinema while serving as an ironic tribute to the found footage horror pop culture. The found footage format provides the narrative justification for such a film to exist: the non-existence exists because the footage existed yet it was lost and never found.

Between You and You All(fr)

A chronicle of the lives of a couple and the gradual dissolution of their relationship.

Sirens 77 True Love(en)

Two gay men in Japan discuss the end of their respective relationships.

Les corps aqueux(fr)

An experimental film exploring gender identities excluded from the binary system. By constructing a theatrical space including fabricated sets and props, invented radio interviews, vignettes of archival footage, as well as overlays, the film explores the relationship between body and self. In this in-between space, uncertainty can finally have free rein.

WORKING DAYS(en)

Sebastian, an ambitious magazine creator wants to explore the world and document his experiences. During his maladaptive daydreams, reality comes crashing down on him.

Lost Way(ja)

Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.

Kshya Tra Ghya(hi)

A stream of mysterious rituals and symbols are encountered as a young boy journeys to school in the fantastical world of Kshya Tra Ghya.

The Last Cinema(en)

Cinema clerks Silva and Felix work the final night before their beloved cinema is demolished by private investors. An empty final screening allows them to reflect on the meaning of cinema in an age wherein art no longer occupies physical space.

Pensei em Você Anteontem(pt)

Theophany(en)

a young timid boy who is doubtful about faith and religion is beaten by curiosity and ends up wandering into a peculiar church and encountering a celestial yet godlike girl.