Origini (2017)

Reconstruction

Reconstruction tells about a certain night in 1982, reconstructed in 2020 by the people who lived it through together. The film combines dance, drama and documentary, but most of all is a story of a friendship of a boy and a girl, and how jolly situations can turn sour and how, even though close, friends do not share same experiences – and that can have an effect on their friendship.

Breaking the Silence

Francesca, tormented by her past, breaks the silence to talk about surviving the horrors of the comfort stations of Imperial Japan.

Aline

Alban lives in a ski resort with his mother. Each night, the teenager slips away to meet up with Julien – this boy who curiously has the same name as the hero of the novel Alban is devouring.

Cherry-Red

Anna and Marie are two women who could possibly love each other. Marie wants to be open to this new overwhelming feeling, even if she has to throw away all that she has ever held to be right. Anna on the other hand, enjoys the attention from this gentle soft girl Marie, who seems to love her, not in spite of but also because of her sharp edges. It could all be so easy if it weren't for Zoe, the woman who has been at Anna's side for years.

According to Mateo

Mateo and his boyfriend, Marc, arrive home after a night out with Luke, a guy they've just met. After an argument, Mateo leaves the flat and bumps into Jon, a drug dealer they have called. Mateo convinces Jon to take him to his house where he discovers he can't feel anything if it's not through pain.

Petit ami

Jasper, a 20 something playboy with little empathy, has a date in a rather obscure motel Petit Ami with Vincent, a mysterious older man. For Jasper just another day on the job, until he discovers Vincent's secret.

Lost Queens

18-year-old Rodrigo is arrested by the police in a televised raid on the club where he works as a drag queen.

1987

In 1987, Ricardo is 17 years old. This summer, Ricardo has a busy schedule: loose his virginity, find a way to get into bars, have a car, spend time with his friends. In order to rapidly make money, Ricardo decides to use his italian inheritance and take a shortcut in the medium of crime. But things will go wrong...

Grandpa Walrus

On the windy and cloudy beach, Granny is praying, Mum is shouting, the sisters don’t care, Lucas is alone. Grandpa was a weird guy, now he's dead.

A Drowning Man

Alone and far from home, The Kid makes his way through a strange city looking for the means to get through his day. Surrounded by predators he is forced to make compromises merely to survive, his life of exile grows one day longer.

Daddy

After the death of his wife, an 80-year-old man checks into the Plaza Hotel to celebrate their first anniversary apart, hiring a male escort to take her place.

Nahjum

A prehistoric family's desperate search for a mythical source of life turns to tragedy when the egos and obsessions of its male members rise to the surface.

The Idyll

A modern adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story about a man and a woman sharing an unexpected encounter on a train as it travels through a beautiful and surreal landscape.

Headlock

An introverted high school wrestler struggles for acceptance after his secret sexual identity is exposed.

Pikoo

A day in the life of a six-year-old child in Calcutta, who lives shut up in the family home, insulated from the city by a park. The father is away at work. The grandfather is alone in his room, ill and confined to his bed. The mother receives her lover.

Candyman

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

Anime

Two hardy orphans survive upon the remains of a humanity that has left them behind.

Doretha's Blues

Doretha goes out for her evening drink at her local watering hole when a news story dredges up old memories.

Visions of Europe

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Hell

In the course of one afternoon, Raphael's paradise turns into a spiral of guilt and paranoia.

The Younger

Chen Hao-Zhi lives alone with his Grandmother who has Alzheimers and has suffered from a stroke. In order to pay the bills and his grandmother's medical expenses, he goes to work in a gay massage parlor. At first, it was just work...but Hao-Zhi soon finds that he is attracted to some of his clientele, and gets pulled into a world where he loses control of things he thought he could handle.

Courtship at the Office

An employee is surprised at the flattering attention he's getting from his boss. Will this ruin the relationship?

The Physics of Sorrow

Tracks an unknown man’s life as he sifts through memories of his youth in Bulgaria through to his increasingly rootless and melancholic adulthood in Canada.

Hello, Stranger

Arthur is a single dad, struggling with the care for his seven-year-old son Max and the combination of his secret life as a drag queen.

Naked

A message from Javier's boyfriend changes his family situation and causes them to reconsider their relationships.

Roberto the Canary

The death of Roberto, the canary, forces a family to come to terms with their own grief.

Lukas & the Aspies

'Lukas & the Aspies' is a story about 12-year old Lukas. In many ways, Lukas is a normal kid: He plays in a band, hangs out with his friends and fights with his little brother. But Lukas' has also Asperger syndrome - and hence his own set of unique problems.

The Frozen Sea

Eight year old Marco finds out, that his parents are keeping something from him and take them to a test.

By the Gun

A rising Boston gangster (Ben Barnes) endangers those around him when he starts to make moves without the knowledge of his boss (Harvey Keitel).

Infinito

Silence is absolute and time dilates as we lose ourselves in an unpredictable space among non-existent places.

Goodbye Blue Sky

Long after the end of the world, five strangers sharing an abandoned desert motel are forced to decide between love and survival.

Elisa

'Elisa' portrays the claustrophobic and extremely painful relationship between nine year old Elisa and her mother.

Chasin'

Two men connect more than just sexually, when a Scruff hook-up has them meeting in a park in the middle of a hot summer's night.

The Horseman on the Roof

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.

We Love Moses

When Ella was twelve, she had her first fight. And when she was twelve, she discovered sex. Now eighteen, Ella reflects on how her obsession with her older brother Michael's best friend Moses left her with a secret she still carries.

Jamie

After chatting to a guy online, Jamie makes the bold step to meet up with him in person.

Now You Know

An uninhibited 10 year old girl discovers harsh new boundaries at her strict Catholic school.

The World In Your Window

Eight-year-old Jesse lives in a twilight world of sadness and silence, squeezed into a tiny caravan with his grief stricken father. They're in limbo, existing more than living. The child intuitively understands that looking forward is harder than looking back, and that's where life happens. But they are stuck, until an accidental friendship with a V8 driving transsexual unlocks the means for Jesse to liberate his father and himself.

Code_Switch

After tragedy strikes, a meek Ruby Oliver enters a broken VR game for a last chance to see the dead. Little does she know that this game treats all girls as a virus as she fights to save herself.

I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain

A young woman explores her sexual autonomy through a series of discomfiting encounters.

I'll End Up in Jail

A bored stay-at-home mom gets into trouble after speeding away from her small-town life.

It's Nothing

A recent graduate is urged by an impossibly perfect woman to start digging a hole in a nearby park, setting in motion a chain of events that threaten her emotional balance and carefully maintained routines.

Volcano

Hannah and Jess meet up at a tiki bar, seeing each other for the first time since Hannah's romantic Mexico trip. Hannah has a lot to say about it, except what really happened.

Noi Soli

A son loves his mother, because her hands were the first to welcome him. At her funeral, he steals the hearse and drives away. During the journey, the boy reminds the last weekend they spent together. Agnese takes care but doesn’t love, she’s lost in her thoughts and doesn’t let anyone get closer, not even Giulio. Two days to understand each other, two days to love each other, and to leave in the end.

Give Up the Ghost

Salam's dream of becoming a mother shatters when she finds out that she is unable to have children with her husband.

Delphine

Delphine is an ode to childhood, but also an examination of the wounds it can cause.

Darling

Naive Shani helps his transgender friend and crush audition for the lead in an erotic dance show.

GUO4

A confrontation between two swimmers in a locker room.

The Heart

A lonely man grieves the death of his mother after an argument about groceries and an odd request in her will.