Wake

Nocebo(da)

A series of ten black and white shorts.

John of the Moon(fr)

Baby Cake(en)

A gay couple and a lesbian couple are trying to conceive a baby naturally.

Toyland(de)

On a winter morning, a mother goes to waken her son Heinrich; his bed is empty. She leaves her flat to find him. The neighbors' door, with a Star of David painted on it, is ajar, the furnishings in disarray, the family gone. She asks passersby, runs to the police then on to the rail yard. Flashbacks show that Heinrich and the neighbors' son Paul are six years old and best friends. Paul's family's deportation is expected soon; Heinrich's mother tells her son that they're going to Toyland. Heinrich wants to go with them, has a bag packed, and listens for their departure. His mother realizes he's joined them, and her resolve becomes more urgent. Will she arrive in time to save Heinrich?

Crossroads(en)

a man goes about his day thinking about his troubled relationship and resorts to drinking as a way to ease the pain made by students at Keele University

Sincerely, Ingénue(en)

A fashion concept film featuring six looks developed and designed by award-winning SCAD Fashion Designer Sarah Holman. Fears, anxieties, and mysteries manifest as ghosts withholding a future from a distraught Ingenue. She must fight these self-inflicted demons to gain the freedom she has all but forgotten.

I Don't Like Being Alone(pt)

At the height of the 2020 quarantine, Gustavo finds himself alone in São Paulo, far from his family and friends, with no one to share or exchange affection with. Until he received a strange notification: an old school friend started following him. Lost in his own loneliness, Gustavo invites him to eat pizza in his apartment. But upon meeting Augusto again, old feelings are reconsidered and Gustavo must discover how to deal with his past mistakes.

The Saint of Dry Creek(en)

Patrick Haggerty grew up the son of a dairy farmer in rural Dry Creek, Washington, during the 1950s. As a teenager, Pat began to understand he was gay—something he thought he was hiding well. But one day, after performing at a school assembly, Pat learned that his father could see him much more clearly than he realized.

Journey Around My Room(fr)

The camera slowly pans through a room as Smolders offers various observations and memories.

Carmen(de)

Silhouette film. Based on Bizet’s opera “Carmen”.

After Mother(en)

A son struggles with his father’s violent tendencies while his late mother attempts to help him.

Edith+Eddie(en)

Edith and Eddie, ages 96 and 95, are America's oldest interracial newlyweds. Their unusual and idyllic love story is threatened by a family feud that triggers a devastating abuse of the legal guardianship system.

The Function of Cinematographic Orgasm(tr)

Crash!(en)

Short film produced by the BBC about JG Ballard's Crash. “The film was a product of the most experimental, darkest phase of Ballard’s career. It was an era of psychological blowback from the sudden, shocking death of his wife in 1964, an era that had produced the cut-up ‘condensed novels’ of Atrocity plus a series of strange collages and ‘advertisers’ announcements. After Freud’s exploration within the psyche it is now the outer world of reality which must be quantified and eroticised. Later there were further literary experiments, concrete poems and ‘impressionistic’ film reviews, and an aborted multimedia theatrical play based around car crashes. After that came an actual gallery exhibition of crashed cars, replete with strippers and the drunken destruction of the ‘exhibits’ by an enraged audience.” (from: http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.blogspot.de/2013/01/short-film-adaptation-of-jg-ballards.html)

Sirenito(en)

Parental fears reach an early boil when five-year-old Saúl announces that he wants to dress up as a little Siren for the school's fancy dress party.

Why Does God Hate Me?(en)

A coming-of-age comedy about a 14-year-old boy whose best friend tries to 'cure' him of being gay.

Melodrama(pt)

Hoch der Lambeth Valk(xx)

A 1941 Ministry of Information propaganda film set to the tune of The Lambeth Walk, a popular song from the musical Me and My Girl.

Echo of the Past(es)

José Alberto seems condemned to wander through the countryside like a lost soul since the moment of his beloved's untimely death. Until one day, nature conspires to remind him of his torturous past. It takes strength to uncover the mystery that resides within him, and perhaps, to finally break free from living chained to melancholy.

Coming Back(en)

Great Britain voted to leave the EU. While euphoria and disappointment are mixed among the population, William decides to go to visit his parent discovering that love could be hidden in unexpected choices.