A Certain Light

Portrait de Rosa, à la française(fr)

Filmed on Super 8 in Paris, Portrait de Rosa, à la française portrays an intimate love story through quiet images and gentle emotion.

A Thunderbolt for Michelle(en)

A young woman is on the verge of committing suicide when things take an unexpected turn.

Selkie(en)

According to Scottish mythology Selkies are mythological beings capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. This film follows the story of such a creature who chooses the sea over her land dwelling sweetheart.

La bella addormentata nel bosco(it)

"What I tried to "tell" is Rosa's close and distorted relationship, common to many women who are used to living alone with themselves, with objects that have become animated and unreal and the relationship which is completely silent, but no less clear and explosive of Rosa with her feminine unconscious” (D. Maraini).

Mio padre amore mio(it)

Fede is a theater actress who, while putting on clown make-up for a show, thinks back to her relationship with her father: a relationship of tenderness, desire and hatred.

Giochi di latte(it)

Milk in its symbolic and ancestral dimension is the fulcrum of this short film. Primary source of female nourishment, abundance and life, milk flows, is drunk, steeps and nourishes. The woman-mother is its dispenser, the one who safeguards its vital power. The color of milk, however, also recalls male seminal fluid and the dimension of the sensual exchange between man and woman.

Trio(it)

Three women leave for a beach holiday. The joy, the carefreeness of days on the beach, lunches on the terrace, lazy afternoons punctuate this "holiday film" which slowly reveals and builds the sensual and playful intimacy of the relationship that binds the protagonists/directors.

Lo scialle azzurro(it)

A woman, director of advertising films, catches the eye of a mysterious young woman dressed in white during an evening of dancing on the terrace of a bar and is fascinated by her.

Maccaia(it)

Dead Funny(en)

A lonely mime takes desperate measures in order to find the audience he deserves.

HUNGER(it)

La signora Aetna, (Etna), is bored and boredom can be a dangerous thing for those around you when you are a volcanic goddess.

Island Home Country(en)

A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals deal with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race-based policies. The film’s consultative process, with ‘Respecting Cultures’ (Tasmanian Aboriginal Protocols), offers an evolving shift in Australian historical narratives from the frontier wars, to one of diverse peoples working through historical trauma in a process of decolonisation.

Dirty Sally(en)

Things get personal when reneage cop Dirty Sally investigates local drug kingpin, The Sugarman.

DARKMAN(en)

Seeing himself as a form unable to experience intimacy, he is given the chance when brought to the household of twin sisters.

At the Passage of Ziletia(tr)

Ahmet, a Turkish guy in his early twenties visit his grandfather's abandoned mansion located somewhere in the northern Anatolia. Thinking that he would return to where he spent his early childhood, only to find out that the place is now in ruins. When he goes to sleep. An unexpected angel will visit him to give her a blessing of the truth. He wakes up being not the guy he was before.

8º Super Off - Intervenção em Super 8(pt)

Dozens of film enthusiasts come together to intervene and recreate already filmed in s8

Fulano de Tal(pt)

Reflejos(es)

Two generations dialogue through the images they filmed of their children, a reflection of the emotional bond that arises from their involvement with what was shot.

A Night to Remember(en)

An awkward boy and a shy girl meet on a bench, what awaits is a night they will remember forever.

Kiss For Me(en)

Maya excitedly leans into the joy of her first queer relationship, but must confront the seemingly never-ending sexualisation of her identity