Angels Of Our Past (2018)

Neptune's Feast

A group of Swedish tourists are on the way to a Russian village to witness the so called 'Festivity of Neptunus', in which the inhabitants take a dive in a hole in the ice. This tradition, however, does not exist at all. The inhabitants try to make a good impression by starting the 'tradition' to please the tourists.

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...

Sana y salva

Sorority and friendship accompany the mourning of a mexican woman who lives in Estonia.

Ánima

Javier, an old book seller, remembers his youth by the side of Rosa, his wife, who is no longer with him. Love and nostalgia do not take long to appear.

Monumental

Feminist videodance in which a living statue does not receive consensual interventions and decides to express herself by painting her body.

Carne

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.

Siemiany

Andrzej and Michal are two young teenagers who come together every summer in Siemiany, a small tourist village on the countryside. Their friendship has grown into years of great memories. However the boredom of the countryside and the feeling of unity amongst the boys take their friendship to a new level of sexually loaded intimacy.

Dungarees

Transgender Blake and cisgender Cane hang out, play video games and grapple with their insecurities. This is their love story.

Plus. Minus.

Told in reverse chronological order, an aspiring drag queen creates a world out of desolated motel rooms with the guy he met online.

Cuarto oscuro

After a mysterious tarot reading from a client, Mina, who works in a photographic development studio, decides to fulfill her fantasy.

Two Belles in Love

She smells her fragrance, she sees her talent... The ancient love story of Cui Jianyun and Cao Yuhua. The plight of these two women is told as they fall in love due to the admiration for each other's stunning beauty and literary craft. Adapted from the Kunqu opera & story by Li Yu, "Fragrant Companion/Lianxiang Companion", this short film includes a parallel between the play and "reality." The ending has been altered from the original play.

The Phone Call

Heather is a shy lady who works in a helpline call centre. When she receives a phone call from a mystery man, she has no idea that the encounter will change her life forever.

The Difference Between Pipi & Pūpū

When estranged son, Tai, is called home to Aotearoa to his father Putty's deathbed, he is forced to confront a painful past after years of avoiding it. Once inseparable, Tai and Putty would spend hours together fishing and joking around. However, after a family secret is revealed, their relationship falls apart.

Breaking Pencils

Sep learns how to navigate high-school life.

Adjustment

Shahrokh, a nine-year-old effeminate boy who is humiliated and pushed away by his family and friends, makes up his mind to adjust himself to his new identity and comes out to the people of the village.

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.

Submerged

Burned out by the urban gay dating scene, Horace decides to have a real date with a one-night stand. However, he realizes that he has to confront his fear before he can pursue a meaningful relationship.

Kid Fish

Hugo, a shy teenager, has a sexual relationship with Ernesto, a cynical young guy. For Hugo it's more than sex, but Ernesto is involved with a girl. Jealous, Hugo decides to take his revenge.

Purity

A cam girl and her blender salesman brother navigate life in the San Fernando Valley.

Writhing

Part work of ethereal realism, part dance film, this contemporary-set short follows a young man facing the probability of an HIV+ diagnosis.

Plum

A kid runs off to the desert to clear his head after the death of his older brother. In an attempt to find clarity, he begins to feel the weight of his grief, the suffocation of sitting with himself, and the boiling heat of the sun. All while having only a stuffed bunny to keep him company.

Lola Still Dances

Lola wants to escape her situation at all costs, even if it is only through her imagination, where she is a beautiful ballet dancer.

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.

The Fox Spirit Repays a Debt

A wife and a concubine seek freedom. In a game of seduction, together they join forces to defeat their oppressors.

List

While waiting at a seaside town with her mother for a relative, a young woman creates a list of things she wants to do during her time there.

Singularity

A boy tries to make sense of life and death through fractured memories and conversations with his father.

The Last Two Lovers at the End of the World

On New Year’s Eve of 2029, a six-mile wide asteroid is headed for Earth and set to wipe out humanity and the repressive society that now plagues Los Angeles. One young couple aims to survive this catastrophic event together while simultaneously transforming their civilization into the utopia they desire.

Dog Eat Dog

Silje wants to leave her boyfriend, but when she finds him in a half-hearted attempt to hang himself she has to reconsider, in fear of acting reckless.

Beach Boy

Ben-David chases after his elusive first kiss, but he may have to break his mother's trust to get it.

The Boy Who Chose the Earth

The boy has something to do in his life, he trains himself and makes plans. Then there is a knock on the door and something pulls away and he literally stays in the rain. Lightning and thunder patter the water, devouring everything. Incredulous, the boy looks up to heaven - is this his destiny?

En el lugar indicado

Two friends, Karina and Raúl, are enjoying their regular walk through the woods, but suddenly they hear gunshots around them and find themselves in grave danger while trying to escape the danger. Soon, both of them will notice that the whole situation is more complicated than expected.

The Pledge

Three criminals pledge to free the soul of their friend from his gibbeted corpse in this short film based on 'The Highwayman' by Lord Dunsany.

Hunt

14-year-old Asgaut struggles to adjust to life in the small village where he and his mother have settled. After one day receiving unexpected help from the farmer Kjell, Asgaut starts working as a farm hand during the lambing season. The lonely Kjell appreciates having Asgaut on the farm, while Asgaut longs for care and security. A close friendship evolves, but is challenged when the people of the village jump to conclusions about their relationship.