Decompensation (2022)

A Fistful Of Pebbles

A Fistful of Pebbles won the 3rd prize in the SEA Tropfest Film Festival 2015. The story is about a mysterious man who finds himself in the muddy monsoon in a village terrorized by a local gangster. When he’s unwittingly drawn into the village’s problem and the beautiful daughter of the village Chief is about to be taken, the hero takes matters into his own hands… with a fistful of pebbles.

Ya no hay comida en la mesa

After years of a happy marriage and producing a family, the husband of a catholic woman gets sick. This takes her into a whirl of rancor and hate that drives her to the destruction of her marriage, her family and the things that she loved most.

Yardbird

A young girl who lives in a remote wrecking yard takes on the local bullies when they travel out to torment her father.

Cake and Sand

Tim and Julian are deeply in love, but the gay couple can't have sex with each other. When you can't sexually satisfy the person you love is this enough reason to quit a long relationship? On a weekend trip to the sea, the boys want to spend some time together away from the pulsating city of Berlin where they live. The trip ends with two cakes in the sand. What if two people love each other but can't live with each other?

The Cage

Parents squabbling over a sick bird that was brought in by their son Alex.

Barking Island

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, 1910. There are too many stray dogs on the streets, so the government decides to deport thousands of them on a desert island, off the coast of the city.

Mohammad Saadh

An Art and a Short Film in which the director records his childhood experiences and memories through the mischievous activities of a boy named Mohammad Saadh.

A Child of Light

1983. Lucas is 12 years old. He must keep company, during the holidays, with Erwan (15 years) whose parents left alone on a trip. Erwan transfers his bitterness at being neglected to Lucas. He treats him like a dog, forcing him to eat only bread and cheese, and to live without clothes, "like a dog".

Roya

An Afghan man and his wife attempt to cross the border to reach Europe illegally. After many difficulties and dangers, it is time to give birth despite the complicated situation in which they find themselves. Surrounded by policemen, they will have to be very quiet.

The Beginning of Winter

When a young boy decides to hitchhike to get to a nearby village, he has no idea of the driver's true intentions.

Things We Don't Talk About

After surviving a car accident, thirteen-year-old Edvin isolates himself from friends and family. When his father forces him to go to rehabilitation, he can no longer avoid dealing with his trauma.

To Garbo and Lenin

Greta Garbo and Vladimir Lenin meet at PUB department store in Stockholm in 1917. They both have lost a dream, and they start a conversation that remains all day while they are walking through the city.

Abnormal Behavior

A mental health doctor goes off on a journey to Thailand with his girlfriend. They live with her friends. She enjoys the vacation and he works at his dissertation in psychiatry. People around seem to him no less sick than in the nuthouse, until he falls in strange circumstances...

Deliverance

Two monks on a mission choose very different paths

Job Interview

When Lisa applies for a job everything seems to be turning out pretty well. Until the boss, Marie, starts asking strange questions and the job interview turns out to be a little different than expected.

III

By a hot summer day on the lakeshore, three siblings face death for the first time through their contact with nature.

Smog

Thick, deadly smog blankets the globe, reducing visibility to less than a few metres. In a secluded farmhouse, a woman and her overbearing husband attempt to find resources and survive using a series of walking trails crafted from ropes and stakes. One night, the woman is alerted to the presence of someone or something else deep in the smog. Desperate to escape the farmhouse, the woman attempts to meet the unknown and risk everything to leave her loveless and abusive relationship behind.

Raids

Based on the treatment of Pacific Island families during the New Zealand Dawn Raids of the 1970’s, this short is an intimate look into a police raid, as told through the eyes of a young girl Losa and her father Lupematasila.

Line of Fire

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Sideral

In Natal, on the Brazilian north coast, the country is preparing to launch its first manned space rocket into space. A couple lives with their two children near the space centre, she is a cleaner and he is a mechanic, but she dreams of other horizons.

The Right Words

Kenza 15 years old and her little brother Mahdi 13 years old regularly humiliate one another on social media in cruel ways. Today, as they travel by bus, Kenza puts her naive and romantic little brother to the test: to profess his love for Jada; a girl that Mahdi loves but that does not know him. Placed under pressure by his sister, Mahdi ends up confessing.

American Nazareth

The short film (conveyed in a parable-like story structure) follows a man devoted to himself and the blessings of his attributed god. He struggles to survive a primitive life and is forced to take action to ensure his own prosperity.

The Möbius Trip

A road trip pushes a dysfunctional family to the brink after their journey descends into a claustrophobic hallucinatory nightmare.

EMPÍREO

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Green Light

A male escort has an odd encounter with a mysterious John that he picks up.