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Baka Búkas, Bukás Na(en)

Two old men, Jorge and James, hang out every day in a local coffee shop. As typical pensioned senior citizens, they laze around and talk to each other tirelessly inside the coffee shop with a habit of gossiping about the customers who enter, especially the young ones. One day, two young men enter the shop, which brings them to reminisce about their bittersweet past.

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.

Pasamontaña Quemado(es)

House Viewing(en)

Welcome Home.

Deborah(it)

Created by Antonio Rezza using an auto-timer and edited in the video camera, it describes selfishness and one-sided relationships. The only person who listens to everyone else’s problems ends up sopressing himself before the eyes of his confidantes/ executioners.

PARASU(en)

the emotional rollercoaster journey of a wood cutter when nature is paying back.

Nura(de)

Nura is determined to live her life to the full, despite a future without her eyesight.

Vietnam Story(en)

A cinematic impression of Vietnam, told through the eyes of Vietnamese immigrants.

De Civitate Rei(it)

Costante dies and leaves his wife Torella his computer discovery. Torella entrusts the disk to her husband’s friend Gervasio, a lazy man scorned by his family. Twenty years later, Torella tries to get back the disk but Gervasio, who has become rich thanks to the discovery, agrees to go to court over it and comes away the winner. He therefore summons divine misfortune: he loses his third son, suffocated by wealth; kills his wife in a blind rage; and is executed by his first-born son who, after a violent panic attack and reckoning with his conscience, chooses life.

Fiorenzo(it)

A man is sick and he doesn’t show himself. Three people don’t go to visit him and they show themselves.

Between You and You All(fr)

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

Larva(it)

A man killing himself because he’s unpopular. Analisys of the suicide of a man who had never been born or seen.

¿Por qué la gallina cruzó el camino?(es)

Nadveren(da)

Lip Balm(en)

A vent in the form of an experimental short film, Lip Balm is about finding ways to cope with what can feel like the lowest moments of one's life.

The Train Conductor And The Cross Dresser(en)

The lives of both a train conductor and a cross dresser become mixed within one another.

Pensei em Você Anteontem(pt)

Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes(pt)

First film by Julio Bressane shot in exile, "Memoirs" is a film about a man who repeatedly kills the same type of woman in same places, the same way. Filmed on the streets of London.

Rosewater(en)

A solitary man struggles to cultivate beauty in a desolate urban world. Lonely and dislocated, he drifts in and out of a dream state envisioning the promise of regeneration. ROSEWATER tells a story of hope sustained through perseverance, ritual and, ultimately, revelation.

The Ongoing Conversation(en)

An Editor recounts the diaries of a failed film production as they attempt to construct a new narrative from the remaining footage.