Moments Before Dying

Iwa Wanja - Kissed by fate, forgotten by all(bg)

"Iwa Wanja - Kissed by Fate, Forgotten by Everyone", is dedicated to the German film star with Bulgarian roots Ivanka Janakieva. The actress's life is full of twists, dramas and blows of fate, and her remarkable film career makes her the only Bulgarian woman with a name in European cinema from its silent period.

Tempo Rubato(en)

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

beer cans under my bed(en)

This short, started early on into sobriety, finished about nine months in, is a collage of diaries and notes, collected from within addiction and into recovery.

Focus | Short Film(en)

An average nobody explores the struggle of self-recognition through the lens of a photographer who has spent his life documenting everything.

American Teenagers(en)

A short documentary project that attempts to encapsulate what it looks and feels like to be an American Teenager in 2022.

Blow Up(en)

Haunted by 9/11 a young woman obsessively watches airplanes from her flat on the 25th floor of a housing estate in London's impoverished Tower Hamlets district.

Layering(en)

This short experimental diary film reveals my struggles with mental illness in my adolescence and queer adulthood while simultaneously reflecting upon my joyous childhood experiences. I investigate when and how my depression began and explain that my relationships with the people I love have supported me through my harder times. The film incorporates footage shot over May and June 2023 and archival home videos. Overall, I aim to resolve my "growing pains" through the medium of diary film and by reconnecting with my younger self.

Read It and Weep(en)

A young girl turns into an A-List celebrity over night when her private journal is accidently published and becomes a best-seller.

Our Death(fr)

Two teen boys living in an isolated house in the mountains contemplate their existence while maintaining a video diary of their daily lives.

The Silent Laugh(ar)

Charlie Chaplin, The Tramp. In this documentary, we will take a look at the life of actor and director Charlie Chaplin, and talk about his films and hidden symbolisms.

Ventana en Carrer de Badajoz(es)

Sara and Alberto spend their days at home. They look out the window and watch: spring is approaching and the sun is setting later and later. Alberto entertains himself by playing with the light, the shadows and the nooks and crannies they leave on the living room. Sara goes out on the balcony in the evenings and examines the neighborhood with her camera. When they are in bed, they talk about what worries them. About job expectations. About being creative and why keep trying, if someone else has done it before you. About living in confinement, but at the same time, realizing that things haven't changed as much as they seem.

A Barber's Kiss(en)

The year is 1940. Bethany is a beautiful hairdresser and owner of a barber shop in the city. On an ordinary day, the new clumsy customer Harry arrives. Their lives are changed just by the first eye contact. Immediately, love is in the air.

The Meeting of President Taft and President Díaz at El Paso, Texas(es)

The first meeting of a U.S. president and a Mexican president took place when William Howard Taft met Porfirio Díaz on 16 October 1909, in El Paso. The meeting was celebrated in both El Paso and Juárez with parades, elaborate receptions, lavish gifts and large crowds. Shot by the pioneers of Mexican Cinema the brothers Alva. This is a typical example of newsreel material prior to the Mexican revolution. By hemerographical references we know that this footage was presented to the then president of Mexico General Porfirio Díaz in the Castle of Chapultepec, then residence of the president.

Nana(fr)

Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.

Exhuming London After Midnight(en)

London After Midnight (1927), directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney, is the most sought-after lost film by fans of fantastic cinema. Has this mythical treasure finally been found in an old South American cinema?

Hungry Happy's Dream(en)

H. Oboe Rhodes, a "knight of the road," limps into a large city with the idea of appeasing his hunger. His first quest is the welcoming doors of a saloon in which a large free lunch is advertised.

For the Honour of Australia(en)

For the Honour of Australia is a 1916 film composed of footage from two 1915 Australian silent films, For Australia and How We Beat the Emden, plus the documentary How We Fought the Emden.

Komsomol Is My Motherland(ru)

Birth of a Nation(en)

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates the avant-garde as its own “nation of cinema,” a vital community existing outside the dominance of commercial film.

The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art(fr)

Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly cinematographic, long before the revolutionary invention of the Lumière brothers and the arrival of December 28, 1895, the historic day on which the first cinema performance took place.