Trying Memory (2024)

Life is Sour

A short film about a whiskey sour.

Beyond

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

Shadows

In Manila, a solitary man from a far-away province lives in poverty. The only thing he has is a camera, and he stays at churches hoping people will hire him to take their photographs. During one day, he has three encounters that change his life: the first, with a smooth-talking young man who's standing by the church door who berates him for wasting his life in church, the second with a boy who offers to take his picture, and the third with a Mercedes-driving man who's been stuck in traffic and has no patience left. Is there any deliverance from the soullessness of the city?

Another Empty Space

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

Covid-20

When an airborne virus infects the entire population on Earth, one secret organization discovers an extraordinary man, whose immune system can help them preserve the human kind.

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.

Sad Beauty

In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. When she falls ill due to a bacterial infection, nature appears to send her a message in her hallucinations.

Minhas Vozes Minhas

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The Dadshuttle

A father and his gay son use the opportunity of a car ride to have a sometimes uncomfortable conversation.

Lemons Are Not Sour

A young girl’s world transforms when her mother decides to remarry, setting off a profound journey of self-discovery, sacrifice, and the intricate interplay of love and familial bonds.

Pylon

A field. A gang. A gun. A frightened boy. His brave sister. Their determined mother. And a towering steel obelisk overseeing it all. 'Pylon' is about fractious family relationships, the horrors siblings subject each other to and the indelible marks they leave.

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.

Clara's Youth

Clara believes that her son, a talented plastic surgeon, could restore her lost youth. The new treatment causes strange side effects to Clara's body.

Alma Mater

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Our Broken Heart

A story about a broken heart.

Two Ghosts

'Two Ghosts,' seeks to address the transformation of individuals from naive happiness into melancholic joy. It follows a creature on an Orpheus-type journey to find a disappeared companion. Its finale is a mournful dance in homage to the lost beloved.

La valigia

Secluded from the rest of the world in a bare and anonymous room, an old man recalls the most important moments of his life thanks to the memories contained in a mysterious suitcase.

Influenza

The film starts with a man named Cho Hyuk-rae who has perched dangerously on top of the Han River Bridge. It is a sad picture of a man who has been caught unwittingly on a security camera. The camera continues to reveal the downward spiral of Cho and those of us who surround him. The 'real' images shown through the camera keep on becoming more 'corrupted' as the time goes by.

Of Love and Snow

A date night at the cinema becomes a surreal journey for a young couple as they float around between unexpected romantic encounters.

Traces

A young woman, captured on CCTV on a night out, describes her readiness for whatever fate has in store for her.

Gusts of Wild Life

It is said he has someone locked up. People have seen him looking over from the other side of the fence. That kid will disappear any day.

Deceit

Nacho gets involved in organized crime, a war of drug cartels is looming. Nacho must decide if he goes ahead or looks for a way out.

Bridge of Mischiveous Children

Jhony passes the summer with his older brother, who wastes his time along his friends, obsessed with alcohol, pornography and the different women he takes into his mother's bedroom. One day, a girl named Misha arrives at the neighborhood, fracturing their monotony. Nobody knows anything about her, except that they call her Misha because of her green eyes, like those of cats.

The First

A teenage boy explores his sexuality to the brink of exhaustion.

Gatecrasher

How far would you go to achieve your dreams? That's the question that Mark Jenkins is constantly asking himself. A young, gay actor fresh out of LAMDA, Mark's got the looks, the ability, and the charisma to go all the way. His agent can get him the auditions, but the parts are just never quite right. That's because in Mark's mind, there's only one man who can help him: James Francis -an older established writer as well as a renowned gay icon. However, what begins as an ambitious idea soon turns into obsession, with Mark slowly gatecrashing the life of his idol.

A Menina que Nunca Viu o Mar

Iara, a girl who is about to come of age, dreams of seeing the ocean, but lives in Rio Grande do Norte's countryside with her mother, a woman who's dreams were swallowed by the waves and who fears of losing her daughter.

Pê

Pê, a man with terminal cancer, wanders through his city, Lisbon. Throughout the day, he is confronted with a reality unaware of his suffering while he prepares his imminent death by writing a farewell letter to his daughter. When emptying her father’s house, the daughter discovers the letter. It is the beginning of a new encounter.

Judit

An intimate and bucolic portrait of a young girl and her role within her family that reconstructs the biblical myth of Judith and Holofernes.

The Quiet

In the midst of a deadly outbreak, a man returns home in search of family.

The Color of Blood

Alexio, a tough guy with something to prove, is finally given a real job: to hunt down and kill the notorious mob enforcer "Black Eddie". Along the way, he's challenged by others who have witnessed Black Eddie's reign of terror first hand. The legend is becoming real...

Ortolan

On the night of their mother’s wake, three estranged sisters divide their childhood home over a pot of magic mushroom tea while a family secret boils to the surface. A story about the tenuousness of memory, buried trauma, food... and psychedelics.

Our Death

Two teen boys living in an isolated house in the mountains contemplate their existence while maintaining a video diary of their daily lives.

Common Wall

Neighbours in a new house sometimes don't even suspect who might be living behind the wall. They're kind friends out in the street, but each of them fiercely hates the one living behind the thin wall. When will all be revealed and who will win - hatred or friendship?

Staccato

Sean is a young labourer newly appointed to tend the grounds of Falgirth, a stately manor in 19th C Ireland. But a secret romance results in a possessive, power-play and a betrayal that can never be forgiven.

Angel of Mercy

This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross.

Intercourse

A couple wakes up in bed together; they start making out and he wants to take things further, but she’s not in the mood. A passing joke about paying for her to change her mind turns serious and afterwards, they have a hard time coming to terms with how this has changed their relationship.

The Heart

A lonely man grieves the death of his mother after an argument about groceries and an odd request in her will.

A Film in the Theatre

Eusebio José Fernández López Reboredo Bergamín is a teenager in the 1960s whose dream is to be a movie director, but General Francisco Franco prohibited in 1964 all types of art. A coincidental encounter with another artist, named Antonio Mínguez, will change his life.

Autumn Mists

An early impressionist short featuring a woman who dreams of, and escapes into, an autumn forest.

Caroline

In the middle of a Texas summer, plans for a babysitter fall through and six-year-old Caroline is left in charge of her two younger siblings.

El Viaje

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