Dreamed to sea (2023)

Hipocampo

Formally eclectic, the first few seconds of the film seem to introduce us to a typical sensory documentary, but soon the flow of the narrative evolves into a much more complex portrait of the port of Paita, by concatenating recordings made by the author himself, videos generated by an AI, Google Maps views and archival images.

Something Awful

A surrealist poetic short film following a struggling filmmaker as he is tormented by his ambitions and anxieties, granted only to leave through a process of self-actualisation.

Toska

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Opulence

Amidst the realm of her parents' upscale nightclub, a young woman embarks on a surreal odyssey to confront her identity, only to find herself inescapably mirroring her father.

In Retrospect

A junior psychologist provides consultation sessions to three of her patients, but their experiences trigger her to question her position in this world.

Days I Didn't Forget

The story of a men and his memories around his new apartament.

Party Animals

Nicole and Matt move into a new flat, but are quickly disturbed by their party going neighbours which causes them to evaluate their relationship when they notice their differences.

Contos Analógicos do Centro da Cidade

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A Haunting of Past Ink

A person receives old entries from their diary, unsure of who is sending them. They eventually arrive at a moment of transcendence.

The Deadly Love

Lukman, a man who recently died tries to find his girlfriend in the afterlife.

Pillbox

Pillbox tells the story of a couple who are forced to part when the man heads overseas to war. The opening sequence boasts the simple black-and-white aesthetic of early cinema – complete with title cards – but after a barrage of harrowing newsreel footage, the wounded soldier finds himself in a psychedelic fantasyland where he parties with a bejeweled king and his subjects. But after insulting the king, the soldier is blinded, banished and forced to wander through a surreal landscape as he searches for redemption and tries to find his way home.

Eviction

A former boxer must find a way to pay his debts before facing eviction.

Fotofinish 2

Documentary filmed on the occasion of the “2003, Odyssey in Space Zero” operation inside the Spazio Zero Theater in Rome. The document, filmed between 21 October and 30 November 2003, recounts the representation of Fotofinish not as a single and continuous work, but as the evolution over time of the moods and movements of the actors who, replica after replica, have developed an awareness of the space and arrived at the joy of staging.

Processing...

A man attempts to operate a mysterious device, but with each attempt comes a new set of problems.

Sticky Fingers

A microscopic view into American youth in suburbia through the eyes of Robert, a young man who becomes fixated on his own identity after moving back to his small Texas town.

Denial

Erin. He thinks he's in 4th period math. Oh he's wrong

Pepijn

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Landscape dynamics

An investigation about human intervention in nature, from the subjective point of view of the camera, the environment and its transformation are observed.

Hildegard

A visual and auditory inferno

Allure

An introverted girl struggles to form connections through a strange social media site.

O Concerto de Ontem

Protagonist is faced with an internalized feeling that emerges in a moment in memory

Tides

Filmed at Masonboro Island, an undeveloped barrier island in southeastern North Carolina, “Tides” contemplates the liminal space between the modern technological world and that more ecological dimension we label as “nature” or “the environment.”

You're Bleeding

Two kids' friendship is tested in a game of cards as a mysterious figure watches them from outside.

Porcelain Horse

Paco Chavez's life is careless and charming. It's a life of illicit drugs and a forbidden love affair he carries with Lucia, his former high school sweetheart, now married to another man. One night, Paco and his younger brother Luis, enter their parent's home to steal a porcelain horse to pawn in order to score more drugs. Their father catches them and a fight ensues. The consequences of that fight will haunt both brothers forever.

Paradise

An Indian tourist couple arrive in the hill country of crisis ridden Sri Lanka to celebrate their 5th wedding anniversary. But, when things take an unexpected turn, conflicts deepen revealing cracks in their relationship.

Escargots

An adaptation of a children's poem called Chanson des escargots qui vont à l'enterrement by Jacques Prévert, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Filmed in Paris, France and Los Angeles, California.

Rosalinda 2020

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Ophelia

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The Grass Dwellers

Juan Méndez Bernal leaves his house on the 9th of april of 1936 to fight in the imminent Spanish Civil War. 83 years later, his body is still one of the Grass Dwellers. The only thing that he leaves from those years on the front is a collection of 28 letters in his own writing.

A Watchman's Night

A story of a doctor who's in a mentally complicated situation and the events of this story leave him with no hope in life and slowly deteriorate his mental stability even further

Backnang Express

A young woman suffering from a break-up with her girlfriend wanders through the city nightlife questioning if she can start over or not.

Sand Castle

Faced with obstacles big and small, some out of her control, a young girl builds a sand castle.

Mud Stoves

Vishal, a young man, falls in love with Pooja and marries her. However, his marital bliss turns into a nightmare due to the constant tussle between his wife and mother.

Nexum

Questions how we as individuals are psychologically relying on our inhabit spaces and how we as society are influencing and being influenced by our surroundings.

Seance of the Past

A person spends most of their life mourning the things they have lost, unable to move on. They frequent a silent but helpful medium and embark on a spiritual journey where they linger among their past lives.

Pacho's visual archive

After the death of my only brother I found rolls of undeveloped film. This documentary is a reenactment of those stills and an exploration of the aspects of my brother's life that I didn't know.

Exotica

In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.

Acoustic Ocean

Acoustic Ocean is an artistic exploration of the sonic ecology of marine life in the North Atlantic. Located on the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway, the video centers on the performance of a marine-biologist diver who is using a life-size model of a submersible equipped with all sorts of hydrophones and recording devices. In this science-fictional quest, her task is to sense the submarine space for acoustic and bioluminescent forms of expression.

El Desconsuelo

Mother and daughter, separated and alone, mourn the death of their respective husband and father. After this, they begin to hear mysterious noises and enter a progressive spiral of terror and paranoia. The different ways of facing loss, anxiety, pain and lack of communication.

Seize The Day

Seize the Day is about a man, Ray Stevenson (James S. Cacciatore) who had dreams of changing the world, but through some poor decisions he made in his life he has lost everything. Frustrated and dying of cancer he blames one man for his misfortune, his business partner Jon Peterman (Jay E. Salsberg). To get revenge he storms his former office building and takes him hostage. At the same time throughout the city high power businessmen are getting knocked off one by one. And its up to a Cal (David J. Plescia) a rookie Detective and his veteran partner Burke (Jay Storey), to solve these murders and how they tie into the recent hostage situation.