Una vida predestinada (2024)

Back Again

Alex returns to his village with Jordi, after a while, in order to celebrate San Juan night. However, due to a summer storm, they have to shelter in an old abandoned house where both played when they were children. In there, some conflicts of the past will turn up.

The Pig from Turkey

Musse is a mannerly local doctor trying to live by the rules, but the challenges from his environment threaten his ability to control situations and he becomes the person he despises.

Break any spell

In this powerful story, a teenage girl escapes reality through live action role-playing when her mother is suffering an illness, which will soon reach a breaking point. It was written by siblings Lisi Purr and Anton Jøsef. They were inspired by their mother’s stories from when she was a support worker.

Pinocchio

Pinocchio, an animated wooden puppet tries to escape from his father, Gepetto in a creepy and dark toy factory.

The Box

An old man ends up taming the mouse he wanted to get rid of.

Antoine and Colette

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

ME

A musical odyssey about trauma and the retreat of humanity into itself.

Little Man

David and Eliab, two apprentice jockeys, get to know each other through admiration, rivalry and jealousy.

The Assistant

Isabelle is a physiotherapist. After work, she is involved in a completely different activity.

Suppietij

The extremities of a middle-class being ramble on, reflecting poetically on the wretchedness of moderation.

De Civitate Rei

Costante dies and leaves his wife Torella his computer discovery. Torella entrusts the disk to her husband’s friend Gervasio, a lazy man scorned by his family. Twenty years later, Torella tries to get back the disk but Gervasio, who has become rich thanks to the discovery, agrees to go to court over it and comes away the winner. He therefore summons divine misfortune: he loses his third son, suffocated by wealth; kills his wife in a blind rage; and is executed by his first-born son who, after a violent panic attack and reckoning with his conscience, chooses life.

Fiorenzo

A man is sick and he doesn’t show himself. Three people don’t go to visit him and they show themselves.

My Dad Works the Night Shift

Felix, fourteen, starts a relationship with an older boy, hoping to get caught by his conservative father so he can confront him.

Desiderium

A man haunted by his past has to go back through his memories to find an element. But things don't work out as planned.

Janek/Bastard

Krzysztof, an introverted 10 year old, faces his father's decision to hide a Jewish boy from a nearby village in the family's house. As the new boy prompts the father's attention, Krzysztof develops a flammable jealousy towards the other boy which reaches a dangerous peak and leads him to an irreversible act.

If I Die in America

According to Muslim practice, burial ought to occur within 24 hours of death — so after Manny’s immigrant husband, Sameer, passes away in an accident, he is confronted by a representative of Sameer’s family urging him to sign the paperwork needed to ship the body back to Kuwait. Manny initially refuses, clinging to his rights as Sameer's husband, while knowing that with every passing hour, Sameer's family grows more infuriated. After an emotional climax, spurred on by the family’s homophobic claim that Manny and Sameer’s marriage was merely a green-card arrangement, Manny comes to realize that his objections won't change the fact that his husband died — try as he might, he cannot delay grief.

Hambre

A child is tormented by a hungry well that demands food but, unable to quell its hunger, is forced to find another way to satisfy it.

Flooding Memories

Haunted by flooding memories of their parents' verbal abuse, an insecure person decides to stop reflecting and start living the life they never knew they could have.

Refugee Poetry

The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after fleeing from IS war and genocide. As he remembers the abomination, he writes a poem with the title “You drive me mad” in Kurmanji Kurdish. In his home country, Yazidic Kurds are forbidden to work in his profession. Then he eats his apple and wanders through Europe’s middle with more hope.

Um Clássico, Dois em Casa, Nenhum Jogo Fora

Love, sex and death get mixed in a homosexual love story between two desperate boys in a big city.

Like Us

A lonely woman who takes care of her paralyzed husband saves an alien who cannot experience emotions.

Indoors

During summertime, Nahuel moves to his friends to spend vacation time together. Between drinks, weed and foolish games, sexual tension starts to raise, but none of them dares to take the first step.

Sauna

An anxious and ungainly teenage boy struggles against bullies, puberty, and his fears of mortality when his parents send him to a summer water polo camp.

(Some) Mortal Tales

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Another Empty Space

In the winter of Berlin, two former lovers meet for the first time since the breakup.

Beauty Boxed

Young take of a girl breaking chains out of her early child marriage to pursue a dream of becoming a makeup artist.

The Vampire Lives Next Door to Us

A vampire living in a morgue encounters a drowned girl whose fate may be entwined with his own.

What Happens In Cap Vermell

What Happens In Cap Vermell is a story of love and heartbreak, of human relationships, of chance encounters and exceptional characters. A succession of moments linked together that all occur in one place, Cap Vermell, a heavenly, incomparable backdrop where anything can happen.