Qaid (2024)

The Gruesome Grizzly Death of Dean Taaffee

Its New Years Eve, cause for celebration? NO ! CAUSE FOR MURDER !!?

A World for Raúl

When thirteen-year-old Raúl is asked to entertain the local landowner's son, a game of power and pride starts between the two boys.

La Vie sur Mars

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Life on the Horn

For over a decade, toxic waste has been dumped illegally on the coastline of Somalia. The earthquake and tsunami in 2004 damaged the toxic containers and spilled waste, which caused the spread of diseases. Many people left their villages but some stayed and lived with the consequences.

Summer's Tail

A small village in an island. Juyeon whose mom left her only cares about her best friend-Kyunghee. One day, a transfer student-Soyoung moves to her village and everything begins to be changed.

The Mirror/Mirror The

A socially awkward teen gets caught between a changing friendship and a life-altering discovery.

Piety

As a poisonous dust cloud is heading towards their house, a mother and father will have to choose between sacrificing one of their three children or taking the risk of losing them all.

The Boyfriend Game

In the privacy of the Australian bush, two best friends play “The Boyfriend Game” where they each invent their ideal imaginary males. Unfortunately, one of the girls seems to want the other girl’s fantasy more than her own.

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.

Good Night, Sunshine

A human being sometimes needs to share and have his complaints heard, and feelings of shared fate can make humans empathize with each other.

Labuta

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What the Brides Do

The couple, Mariam (Marta Hazas) and Ale (Juan Caballero), are going to try an old sexual fantasy to solve their sexual problems: making a threesome with a stranger. An unknown person, Él (Sergio Mur) is the key piece of an erotic triangle where nothing goes as planned. Erotic drama, a story where feelings and sex mingle to form a web of emotions where not everything is what it seems.

El último canto del pájaro cú

Minutes before his death in the general ward of a city hospital, Ulises, a terminal patient in his fifties, reconstructs the fragments of his life. Lauro, a young and smiling nearby patient accompanies him on his final agony, reliving all Ulises' missed opportunities.

Florence

Florence, a young vulnerable and exhausted stripper from Amsterdam melts down and deals with duality within her consciousness that ultimately defeats her chance at a happy ending.

Café Paraíso

Gallo rehearses his heroic resignation, with which he hopes to regain his youth, his dignity and even a love.

But Milk Is Important

A man with social anxiety gets followed by a naive and clumsy creature. Terrified the man tries to escape, unaware that the creature is actually a helper with slightly unconventional methods.

I Never Left You Alone

Claudia revisits the house where she spent summers.

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.

Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming

"Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming" is a Proof of Concept for a possible Sequel from the television series "Battlestar Galactica".

The Nest

Elías (12) is the youngest son of Luisa (45) and José (46). One afternoon, after witnessing a homophobic attack at school, Elías tells his parent that he is also gay. But his cry for help gets unanswered, which will make him wonder: How can I feel safe? Where’s my nest?

David

David needs help. So does David. A severely depressed man reaches out for an emergency therapy session. He’s not the only one who needs help.

LIGHT

Bruno is a depressive and lonely guy who cannot sleep, in the meantime, he became a PVV volunteer, to help people with some kind of problem, in one of the calls, he falls in love by a woman and sees a new light in your life.

ME

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

The Great Escapades of Restriction

5 Scenes displaying the varying effects of restriction. One talks senselessly under the pretense of being understood. One discovers the monsters under the bed. One finds his voice. One can't escape an ever-shrinking room. One hears voices of his own creation.

Love Me Like You Hate Me

Official music video for "Love Me Like You Hate Me" by Rainsford.

Private Beach

A moralist and surrealist fable in which a group of aristocrats have sole access to a private beach in the midst of Paris, where they enact strange games and stylized gestures.

Agora

Melvin, a flora-enthusiast, has Agoraphobia. He finds solace only in his house plants, but when he receives an enticing flier about the flower of the month, he is forced to venture outside in hopes of snagging the ultimate plant.

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.

(Un)alarmed

Derek, a young man indebted to his sleep and schoolwork fractures his perception of reality as his association of alarm and anxiety is numbed by the repetition of his stresses.

No Ill Will

Elinborg accidentally runs into her friend Marita at the supermarket. The conversation is civil yet slightly awkward, as Elinborg has forgotten Marita's birthday. However, something else is nagging Marita, who decides to corner her friend and ask if Elinborg has blocked her on Facebook.

Caldeira

Inès has lived all her life in the shadow of her sister, a brilliant volcanologist. As a challenge, she decides to join a scientific expedition that plans to climb a volcano.

Monangambeee

Filmmaker-griot coming from the theater, it was with a camera, while the war in Vietnam occupied everyone's minds, that Sarah Maldoror gave visibility to the African wars of decolonization: Angola, Guinea Bissau, French Guinea, Cape Verde... Her short film Monangambée addresses the torture by the Portuguese army of a sympathizer of the Angolan resistance. At the end of editing, Sarah Maldoror approached the members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago during a Parisian concert and offered to add sound to her film. The next day they watched the film, were convinced and recorded their first soundtrack for free as evidence of African-American solidarity. Shot in Algiers, Monangambée is a film about torture and, more broadly, about the incomprehension between the colonized and the colonizers. It is based on a novel by the Angolan writer Luandino Vieira, then imprisoned by the Portuguese colonial power.

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.