Capturing the Ghost (2024)

Sugar

19-year-old Fiadh spends a night in Berlin's nightlife - oscillating between her sugar daddy Marcel and her boyfriend Micha.

Our Lady of Lourdes

Lourdes, a university student, is grateful to Bernard, the town drunk, when he comes to her aid in an uncomfortable situation. But when she offers to buy him a hot meal, she ends up getting involved in far more than she bargained for.

Hello, Again

Owen, after a sleepless night from his Mothers funeral the day before, decides to avoid his father and visit her grave. Through a misunderstanding he meets Maura, who's visiting her recently deceased Father's grave. Together they try to find a way to connect with the loved ones they've lost.

Wind(s)stärke

A story about a man named Max Wind, who celebrates a men‘s evening with his friends under the deck of a ship and leaves his pregnant girlfriend Nele at home. A storm is rising and the atmosphere below deck is tense. As Nele goes into shock from a lightning bolt hitting her house the situations start to escalate.

Candela

An insoluble quest.

Neon Lights

In 2053, amidst a devastating pandemic, an old gravedigger from Elementar Corporation insists on burying his wife with just a shovel, rejecting the corporation's new burial technology, the "Cube Of Miracles." Conflict arises when a young gravedigger armed with the "Cube of Miracles" challenges the old gravedigger's traditional methods at the cemetery. The film explores the clash between tradition and innovation, delving into broader themes of man versus machine in a society grappling with AI and automation.

Actos impuros

Oscar works in a public bath, where he murders several people.

Filip

Seven-year-old Filip admires his older brother Sebastian most of all. They fool around, watch movies and play football together. One evening Filip happens to see something unexpected between Sebastian and his best friend and Filip doesn't know how to handle it.

The Christmas Gift

A son's letter to Santa for Christmas turns his father's evening into a thriller he did not ask for.

El barril de amontillado

An Italian city, 1860. During the carnival, Fortunato de Bettini mocks his friend Montresor who, humiliated, plans an elaborate and cruel revenge.

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).

Studies on Hysteria

Short film about a young man discovering pants in a nudist world. A parable of the societal intolerance to anything different.

Implant

In a world where the technology exists to hack into peoples’ memories, a traditional housewife colludes with her close friend to expose her husband, who she suspects is unfaithful. A film about love, betrayal and technology.

Another Empty Space

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

Beyond

A multi-era tale about a man's struggle with immortality.

The Little King

The little king is called Mathieu. He is thirteen years old and has recently been living with his grandfather in an isolated farmhouse in the mountains. His mother left him there, in this lost house, far from everything, with no explanation, no time to hold on to, no hope of seeing each other again for a long time.

The Grandpa's Song

An old peasant faces the dispossession of his land, inheriting the final lesson of life to his only granddaughter.

Too Rough

After a night of intoxication in Glasgow, a hungover and hysterical Nick wakes up next to his boyfriend Charlie and must conceal him from his own homophobic and dysfunctional family.

Memórias

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Only Human

Promising pianist Kryštof and porn actor Filip take on the complicated issue of prejudice, both in society at large and within the LGBTI community.

Kidschool

A young man's search for understanding leads to abduction and tragedy.

Hotel Chevalier

In a Paris hotel room, Jack Whitman lies on a bed. His phone rings; it's a woman on her way to see him, a surprise. She arrives and the complications of their relationship emerge in bits and pieces. Will they make love? Is their relationship over? (A prequel to The Darjeeling Limited, 2007.)

In Seventh Heaven

Sofiane lives in a high-rise block at the edges of Paris. A violent young man, he tries to be like his gang of friends. However, Sofiane is attracted to guys. Through his contradictions, he embodies the confusion of today's idle young people who have lost their bearings and live withdrawn into themselves.

Everything We Are

A twelve-year-old boy is forced to leave the female refuge where he lives with his mother. On his way to school he encounters a strange man and tries to find a connection

Brother

Erik is a young skateboarder who keeps an eye on his sister’s boyfriend. Erik does everything to attract the boy’s attention…

Crazyhouse

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

The Male Gaze: First Kiss

The Male Gaze is a new series of releases from New Queer Visions that showcases short LGBTQ films from across the world. The first instalment, First Kiss, brings together five shorts that are based around men experiencing romantic and/or sexual interaction with other men for the first time. It takes in films from Sweden, Indonesia, USA, Australia and France giving a rounded look at how similar experiences are depicted across the world. The films are: Naked [Naken] (2013); Pria (2017); Walk With Me (2018), One Night Only (2018); Michel's Mouse [Tapette] (2016).

Visions of Europe

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

Tomorrow

New Year's Eve 1999 finds college-bound Clark and Trevor concerned about the future of their friendship, and a request for Clark to be Trevor's wingman ensures things will never be the same again.

A Never Ending Movie

A woman goes to her safe place, the movies. She reflects on the ritual of understanding humanity in the darkness only to complete the unspoken agreement between the movies and the audience.

Redoma

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Jordskred

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Family Plan

Nine years ago, high school girl Jeongmin suggested a bizarre plan to her same-sex lover, Yoonseong, that they have a child who looks like both of them. Jeongmin’s wedding, scheduled in a few days, is just the start of that scheme.

Thursday Night Sorbet

Four sets of passengers and their romantic antics make the night shift of a rideshare driver one to remember.

See You

When 14 year old Nete's twin brother Noah is killed in an accident, her world collapses. Months later, her parents decide to move to Copenhagen to start anew. Nete, still deeply troubled by her brother's death, begins in a new school - but the day she starts, a new boy, Jonas, also arrives. To everyone else, he is just the new boy - but Nete is in deep shock at what she sees.

A Normal Guy

Daniel got lucky tonight: this time he is not going home alone again. But is that enough to pull him out of his reality?