Homo Verum (2023)

Touch

When a single mom, facing eviction, is offered a night’s work, she unsuccessfully seeks a babysitter for her two small children. Desperate, she reaches out to the last person she wants to ask for a favour.

Late

Emil, a light-hearted 18-year-old, and his neurotic Mamá await a lunch guest. The guest is late. And the later it gets, the more anxious Mamá becomes.

Midnight Snack

A film producer meets an odd couple at a bar. Little does he know, he's about to become part of this couples main course.

Daughters

'Daughters' tells the story of the nine-year-old Nadine who meets her foster sister Romy for the first time. Nadine needs to get used to her new role as a big sister and all the changes that come with it.

They Don't Come in Peace

As two brothers watch a news cast about extra terrestrial beings, the older brother uses the opportunity to make an analogy about their world being invaded by unwelcome visitors.

Gone West

It's been one year since Xander was dealt a sudden and tragic loss - the loss of his friend Tobin. Now, he must confront the people from his life he has since pushed away.

Implosion

When Thomas looses his best friend, his mind refuses to accept the fact. He pulls away from reality and continues seeing him, burning his bridges one by one. He is dragged further and further into his own mind, and further away for reality, looking for the truth about his friend.

Space 2

A detour taken on the way home from work threatens a man's relationship.

To Err

237 years after mankind's extinction, an android longs for a past it can never experience.

Herculanum

Three "meetings." Two men. A rumbling volcano.

It Gets Better?

After drinking heavily and getting stuck in a YouTube hole of "It Gets Better" videos, a man reflects on his life and decides to tell his own story.

The Surf Report

A ghostly love story unfolds as two men look for answers where ocean meets sky and city meets wild in Rockaway Beach, NY.

S.A.M.

After choosing to construct a meaningful connection via a S.A.M. service, Noelle may have finally found her perfect someone.

Creation

A psychological, heart-wrenching love story that provides a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin. Torn between faith and science, he struggles to finish his legendary book "On the Origin of the Species," which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.

Vamoose

Raymond Dela Cruz leads a busy life, but after his world gets turned upside down, he can hardly focus on the things right in front of him...

TRAP by SEO IN GUK

Art is often an expression of rigorous focus. This story revolves around the internal pressures of the protagonist, and his attempt to escape his own mind and let out his imagination. An artist lives in a world they create, but sometimes fear can break us down.

Parasol

Life in a city is fast and draining. Feeling empty, a woman heads to a log cabin Parasol which her mother had left for her. Breathtaking lights, gentle breezes, and a warm fire. She pauses and catches the scent she had missed. They bring out her feelings about her mother.

Living Proof

Dr Dennis Slamon, an American oncologist, discovers a treatment that could possibly cure breast cancer without radiation or chemotherapy. He tries to look for ways to fund the medication.

The Boy Who Was Gay

A portrait for the condition of a gay teenager, rejected by family and relying on friends.

Clothes & Blow

An American voice-over artist in London finds himself questioning his life of hookups and emotional avoidance when he receives an unexpected visit from his mother.

MER

A paralyzed girl finds difficulty living a normal life, so she participates in a ritual to metamorphize into a mermaid to replace her useless lower half.

The Trap

Isolation and loneliness converge on an unexpected journey when intrigue and new come to town.

I, Adonis

Nicky's whole world revolves around fitness, with the goal of getting bigger and stronger. By constantly monitoring his food consumption and weight, he seems to have his body and entire life under control. But when hidden childhood memories emerge, Nicky starts losing control and his body obsession sets off to an unhealthy direction.

The Lie Game

A desperate computer scientist struggling to fund her anti-depression AI application faces her toughest challenge yet.

Nefta Football Club

In the south of Tunisia, two football fan brothers bump into a donkey lost in the middle of the desert on the border of Algeria. Strangely, the animal wears headphones over its ears.

The Guest

A lone, introvert man who lives with his mother gets a suprise visit from a guest and shares a secret with "THE GUEST".

Watermelon Juice

In the summer heat of Catalonia, Pol and Bàrbara are lying down on a bed. An invisible wall that words won't break is pulling them apart. Old wounds take time to heal...

Vouta

outa is a pigeon breed that flies all the way up to the clouds, then dives at 230 km/h and slows down just before reaching the ground. Christos is a teenager who lives in a disadvantaged neighborhood of Athens. He has to find a way to avoid conflict with his father who just got home from prison, just like the pigeons he loves avoid collision.

Ya no duermo

Miguel and his uncle Kechus want to make a film about the vampire world.

Doc's Kingdom

An angry young man goes to Europe to find his father, a '60s radical turned doctor in exile.

Not Sophie's Choice

When a husband and wife attempt to break some sad and life-changing news to their ten-year-old daughter Sophie, their disclosures are far from what anyone could expect.

A DAY IN THE LIFE

A disheartened boy visits a restaurant for the heartbroken, where a conversation with the owner helps him begin to find hope and healing.

Ultraviolet

In the late 21st century, a subculture of humans have emerged who have been modified genetically by a vampire-like disease, giving them enhanced speed, incredible stamina and acute intelligence. As they are set apart from "normal" and "healthy" humans, the world is pushed to the brink of worldwide civil war aimed at the destruction of the "diseased" population. In the middle of this crossed-fire is - an infected woman - Ultraviolet, who finds herself protecting a nine-year-old boy who has been marked for death by the human government as he is believed to be a threat to humans.

Kids on Fire

A prepubescent boy slowly learns of his special role in the impending apocalypse during a religious camp. As he participates in the camp activities, he gets confused between constantly emerging fantasies and his divine calling.

How to Die Young in Manila

An introverted teenage boy lies to his parents that he'd sleep over at his friends'. However, he made an appointment with a random guy found on a dating app. The street is filled with dead hustlers, but nobody seems to notice these strange occurrences.

Crazyhouse

After the suicide of his best friend, a teenage boy is forced to deal with his guilt and sexuality.

Green

In Alonso Ruizpalacios’ bracing and stylish film, security guards in an armoured van try to manage the stress that comes from being close to a pile of cash in Mexico City. The team’s stability is imperilled when one member nears his boiling point.

Dragonfly

A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.

Hope

Hope is a short film featuring Pedro Pascal for Style Magazine Italy.

Little Grey Bubbles

Devastated by her best friend Marlon's death, Kim travels from NYC to Canada to attend his funeral. There she meets his family and friends for the first time and awkwardness ensues as she tries to explain how she never met him in person because their friendship had been exclusively online.

July 96

July 1996, the beach, the sea, the sun. Sophie, 10, spends her summer vacations with her mother and her cousin Laurence. But Laurence has grown up and her mother's thoughts are elsewhere. While the whole country is still looking for two missing little girls, Sophie discovers that this will be her last summer as a child.

The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant

A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day finds himself making life-and-death decisions.

Kryo

A man who cheats death through the help of cryonics has to learn the hard way that death is a undeniable part of life.

Winchester

San Jose, California, 1906. Isolated in her labyrinthine mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes that she is being haunted by the souls of those killed by the guns manufactured by her company.

Justo

A young woman proposes to the passengers of a full bus a change in seats. On the trip they will discover that, regardless of the result, it is always good to review the established order.

Harbinger

A Los Angeles detective discovers the unbelievable while searching for a missing child and in the aftermath his life begins to unravel.

Free Fall

Out of the haunting shadows of the sexual underground in Medellin, sixteen-year-old Jhony is excited and hopeful for this upcoming date with the boy he loves.

Enter

During a night of drinking, M. arrives by chance in an apartment where an orgy takes place. Embarrassed, he locks himself in the bathroom where he will find a sleeping guy he knows pretty well.

Two Minutes

In this terribly poignant tale of memory, loss and love, Juliette, a young woman paying a visit to her Alzheimer's suffering father, unexpectedly triggers a brief but touching moment of lucidity between them. A moment she hopes she will never forget, but knows in her heart he has already forgotten.

Younger

The two best friends Bente en Saar are secretly going camping for one night on a small island, down the polder. After a night of dancing, singing and enjoying their selfmade hotdogs by the bonfire while drinking Saar's mother's wine, something happens that might change their friendship forever.

Transit

Stuck in a lonely and unforgiving city, a Bus Canvasser waits for an opportunity to migrate to create a better future for his family. Migrating means making sacrifices, but sometimes the reasons to stay outweigh the reasons to leave.

Lúbtha

A short film inspired by true events and follows the story of a teenager dealing with his sexuality whilst having to grow up in early 90s Northern Ireland. As physical and mental abuse become a daily struggle, Fintan retreats into a world of anger and silence. With no solution on the horizon, he yearns to escape from the small town he’s been trapped in all his life, bringing nothing but his younger brother. As he comes closer to planning his journey to freedom, one night he is shown the reality of acceptance and love.