Ascendent(2019)

The Year of the Radio(es)

Mexico in the 90s. Alex, a 7 year-old boy and his little siblings are left in the care of senile Aunt Lola while their mother works as a host on a radio station. Alex misses his mother and along with his siblings, they listen to his mother’s show every night, building strange imaginary worlds through the stories they hear, the news, the radio soap operas and the religious influence of his great-aunt.

The Writer(en)

A writer finds an ancient evil book and suffers the consequences for it.

The Bridge Partner(en)

A timid housewife is jolted into a fight for her survival or sanity when she thinks she hears her new partner at a weekly bridge game whisper a shocking threat.

From Life(en)

An amateur artist sketching in a churchyard has a series of encounters with a young woman, who we might come to believe is a ghost. In fact, the truth is stranger than that.

The Zodiac(en)

The history of the infamous serial killer known as the ‘zodiac’ in the late 1960s. It takes you through his kill rampage and to the case that still to this day has not been cracked.

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O Poético Fim das Mulheres que Amei(pt)

Brenda and Billy and the Pothos Plant(en)

Two estranged siblings, a botanist and a magician, come together to try and raise their mother’s body from the dead.

O Conto de Tereza(en)

Seeking power, a witch invades and manipulates realities by controlling other versions of herself.

Caterpillar(ja)

A half-hour experimental film that shows Fukui moving towards cyberpunk imagery in a manner similar to Tsukamoto, featuring industrial locations, a malfunctioning cyborg/android and a hulking metallic ‘caterpillar’ that stalks characters.

To the day I die (songs of the sea)(en)

A fever dream of the faces of love. Six circles of love. A kind of death and rebirth experienced within each circle. Each song in the short film evokes a realm of what love can feel like to a human being, the metamorphosis through the experience of Love. Faced with the person that was at every metamorphosis, there is a certain death, and certain transformation. We watch her move without words towards salvation.

O Que Eles Não Veem(pt)

Rorrim(en)

A young woman suffering from recurrent memory blackouts finds herself in different parts of her house without remembering what happened or what she was doing. She decides to install cameras and record herself, only to discover a dark truth.

Vestige(en)

A young boy who has lost his father. An old man seeking a connection with his grandson. A supernatural discovery that might provide them both with the answers they crave.

Breakthrough(en)

Toby is keen to impress his mentor and admits disturbed new patient Judith on the professor's behalf. Lowry conducts the initial interview unaware that Judith's arrival is no accident but part of a carefully orchestrated plan to bring the two of them together.

Symphony No. 42(en)

The film applies an unconventional narrative. It presents a subjective world through 47 scenes. The small events, interlaced by associations, express the irrational coherence of our surroundings. The surreal situations are based on the interactions of humans and nature.

Monster Tale(de)

Eight-year-old Jonathan grows beyond himself on an excursion into a dark forest as he overcomes his fear of the dark and is forced to take away the fear of death from his father, who becomes seriously injured on the trip.

Beacon(en)

While packing up his deceased grandfather's house, a man stumbles upon a mysterious artifact that awakens the hearts of evil men.

Stranger(no)

An old farmer struggles to take care of his rundown farm alone, when a stranger appears and uninvited begins to help him.

Boca do Inferno(pt)

A shy Portuguese poet and an exuberant English occultist meet up in Lisbon in 1930. When the last one disappears, an English detective begins a thorough investigation: was it a suicide, as reported. Or a homicide? This is the real story of the brief meeting between Fernando Pessoa, Aleister Crowley, and Hanni Larissa Jaeger.