Beamtown

Fearing Future(es)

Leo is going through a rough patch. His job as a college professor doesn’t provide him with enough money, and to make matters worse, his partner leaves him. He will look for palliatives during one Buenos Aires evening filled with excess in which the threat of self-destruction is always lurking.

154(it)

The prototype [TEST TYPE • 154] is a highly sophisticated artificial intelligence, which is capable of autonomously acquiring notions from its surroundings and - eventually - developing autonomy of thought. Given the nearly human nature of its learning capabilities, the laboratory that programmed it hires a kindergarten teacher, asking him to instruct the machine as if it were a newborn child. The learning process - which spans 7 days - becomes increasingly insidious in the long run, posing a peculiar yet crucial problem: can there be a form of autonomous thinking that excludes emotions?

Say My Name(en)

A violated girl is trapped in an underworld of shame. As a child, she was exploited by her father and his friends, and then thrown to the streets as a vulnerable teenager. Despite life going against Mel at every turn, she is determined to see the good in people and find hope before her past catches up with her.

Il Piantone(it)

An electoral campaign is underway in an imaginary country. Two leaders fight over the voters, who cry in exasperation. The first leader is fat and whiny, the second smiling and aloof. A man with a laptop computer and a teenager with a stony face and muscular body look on as the political battle unfolds. An aggressive woman removes herself from the melancholy scene. After the victory of democratic optimism, the two observers kill the leader, who dies with a smile on his lips. Civil war breaks out.

Hai Mangiato?(it)

A mother feeds her son to the point of possessing him.

hægtesse(de)

No End in Sight(en)

Trevor, an obsessive, alcoholic, drug-addicted writer, is disturbed from his rigorous routine when he loses the ending to his latest novel. Desperately, he tries to recover it...

plants with spikes or thorns(xx)

An experimental short film about sensory seeking behaviour in childhood. Filmed on VHS.

4.48 Psychosis(pt)

An adaptation of the play "4.48 Psychosis" written by Sarah Kane. The movie consists of scenes that work as a fragmenteded voyage through the mind of a person on a deeply depressive state. Everything is shown in a raw and experimental manner to bring the feelings and emotions in the most pure form to screen.

Heaven Above Rowen(en)

The mental unraveling of Rowen, a religious leader faced with questions of identity and meaning as a prophesied revelation approaches.

Maalbeek(fr)

Sabine is looking for a missing image: a day that has left its mark forever and that everyone remembers but her. But maybe this absence is what allows her to move on with her life?

Lembrar de Mim(pt)

Where's the girl? Can you hold her for me? I need her now.

Deserted by the Masses(en)

Social media corrupts the mind of a young University student--but can he escape the psychological torment of alienation?

Seven(en)

A dreamy lo-fi pseudo-intellectual experimental short contemplating the role of the number 7 historically as a symbol across cultures filtered through the lens of 8th graders

The Artist and His Canvas(en)

An experimental film revolving around how an artist perceives a man and a woman.

Denial(en)

Erin. He thinks he's in 4th period math. Oh he's wrong

We Go Past Future(en)

"We Go Past Future" is an experimental paper collage film by Anna Malina. The film reimagines a series of Soviet films from 1919 to 1953, blending them into a unique visual narrative.

Sol de Agosto(en)

What keeps us apart? What holds us together?

Deciso(es)

Plastic artist Leo invites young Dante to his art studio and proposes a peculiar game to leave all tension behind.

Dilution(en)

Dilution is an experimental short film that explores the transit between resistance and (di)ssolution, between holding and releasing and a path towards obsessive repetition. They are layers, exposed pores, matter that oscillates between remaining or disappearing. The sound is not a background, but a puncture: friction, tearing, water that drags what still persists. A sensorial testimony of what refuses to vanish completely.