SERIE 109

Locusts Beyond a Phantasia(en)

After a sight-restoring surgery leaves him seeing surreal distortions, a photographer must rely on his camera to discern reality from illusion as he ventures outside for the first time.

Merry-Go-Round(xx)

Somnambulistic circus Ribera&Velazquez welcomes everyone to the show, where shadows, that escaped the platonic cave, turn the carousel in the foggy catacombs.

Rubin's Incorporia(en)

Rubin chats with two friends.

La nuit littéraire(fr)

Marta, a young girl, finds herself locked in a library at night. The books begin to come to life and the real and the unreal merge.

Sunset Auctions(es)

A soccer fan tries to help her friend become part of the Soccer Jersey Collectors Association.

Las Meninas(uk)

This film is about what the routine of everyday life can do to the human mind and psyche. It also reflects on the importance of the choices we make and how limited these choices are in the first place. The plot evolves around a family of four. They live in the suburbs, in a strange villa that appears, through a complex game of mirrors, to be more like a piece of installation art than a real house. The main character, who hardly appears on screen, is the son, a man in his thirties. Suffering from asthma and eczema since childhood, he uses his condition to manipulate his parents and his sister. Thus the existence of the terrorized family turns into an endless ritual of attempting to satisfy his whims, and always on the alert for yet another one of his “health crises”. Las Meninas resembles the scattered pieces of a puzzle. It is up to the viewer to assemble them in order to form his very own picture – something that makes the film itself personal and unique.

Anger(en)

A fleshy nightmare barrages the viewer with an onslaught of abstract gore and nonsensical terror.

Re/cycle(en)

With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense that only 'found' elements were used, and that it defies interpretation based on ordinary cause-and-effect time sequence.

INCUBO(it)

Moving Room(en)

Karma, an international high school student from Sikkim struggles to fit in and hold onto his cultural identity when he is stuck at home with his host sibling, Alex.

Noche de Apuestas - La Película(es)

My Neighbor Wants Me Dead(en)

The Tenant continuously fails to escape his deadly apartment under five minute time limit as his blood-thirsty neighbor threatens to break in and exterminate him.

Alter Ego Film Project(en)

5 short films, from 5 directors and 4 different countries on the theme of the Alter-Ego. The "Alter Ego Film Project" is inspired by the spirit of Maya Deren and her way of making films. Between double personality, secret identity, doppelgänger and impossible love we have discovered several unconventional stories halfway between narrative and experimental.

HOLGER(da)

Described as 'a fairytale with its roots in the worlds of dadaism and surrealism'.

Magic Conch Shell(en)

Estranged lovers reconnect through the power of the Magic Conch Shell.

Olympus Reborn - Dream(en)

Experimental shots with some continuity with a gritty raw surrealist style

METANOIA(es)

Obsessed with dreams, he embarks on a long, long dream that banishes his deepest darkness from his soul, reaching a life-changing conclusion.

.wszechświat(pl)

Dadaland(en)

Dadaland is a satirical exploration of current media and how its consumers connect to it. Inside a Dada-inspired psychedelic world, we meet a plethora of strange characters who want nothing more than to escape their own reality.

ITA I Tipici Anormali(it)

Alfredo, a bank manager and meticulous researcher of eccentric wigs, after his divorce from Dorotea, the forgetful stingy lawyer and former Scout leader, is finally free to decide on his own holiday. The unexpected arrival of Dorotea and their godchildren Eugenia, the hypochondriac germaphobic vloggher, and Michelangelo, the clumsy, visionary creator with a multiple personality, spoil his plans. Together they embark on the journey to San Polo D'Enza; where Anastasia Genoveffa Annunziata, Michelangelo and Eugenia's cousin, who is close to the altar, lives.