Shadow (2024)

Gabriel

At the end of World War II, a wounded German soldier, disguised as a Canadian, ends up in the midst of a hiding Jewish family.

Sunset Cemetery

Joseph isn't particularly happy, even though he's good at hiding it. The day his brother dies, he becomes certain he'll miss out on his life. So that it doesn't slip away from him, one night he gives in to his desire.

Cor Petit

Gael, a young aspiring actor, will do everything possible to star in the next play by theater director Luca Rossi. During the rehearsals, a series of strange events will begin to occur while Luca's suspicions about Gael increase.

Biscut

Biscut is a powerful film on the state of politics in Uttar Pradesh and offers a gritty and hard-hitting take on the treatment of the backward classes and their never-ending exploitation in the caste-dominated political landscape of Uttar Pradesh.

One More Night

A seasoned bouncer is forced to deal with severe consequences after letting two minors slip into the nightclub, he's employed to guard.

Stay

Being young and in love. a short story about Miscommunication. we follow Charlie and Molly from 18 to 21 years of age, after a long time apart Molly is back from University and bumps into Charlie. they spend the night reconnecting with each other.

Placer

Seven friends gather, like every year, in a mountain cottage in the mountains. This year is different, it will be their last year as twenty-somethings before turning thirty. Everyone seems to have matured but the discovery of a porn movie will make them discover how sexual fantasies can change everything.

Massacre

Two sisters, aged ten and twelve, are about to leave their beloved island, which has become too expensive for their family. Their sadness turns into rage towards those forcing them to leave: the tourists. This last summer will be dark, deadly, as toxic as the seaweed swarming over the beaches.

nothing, except everything.

A graduating high schooler navigates a world of seemingly inevitable chaos by finding order in the number 7.

Cowboys

Martin is a finished actor, both professionally and personally. He is divorced, has no friends and a son he has not talked to for more than a year. But one fine day he will get a working offer his agent will not let him pass: to be companion of a 5 years old boy in a costume contest at the Amusement Park.

Her Bath.

A young girl finds her ideal type in a small bathhouse which runs by her mother. She is strongly attracted to something and awaits her. It is not possible to know whether the women's scent, which she has not yet had, is yearning for her.

Adam in aeternum

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The Boy with a Camera for a Face

The Boy with a Camera for a Face is satirical fairy tale about a boy born with a camera instead of a head, whose every moment is transformed by the fact he is recording it. Accompanied by a voice over narration read by Steven Berkoff, the film tells an epic story in fifteen minutes about the way we live today.

Gold Plated

Inès, 16 years old, is determined to find a job when she meets Martin, a boy from the nice neighborhoods of Brussels. Feeling something between shame and fascination, she becomes brutally aware of social injustice.

Phosphorescence

A bereaved woman utilizes near-future tech, in an attempt to recall the comfort of a mundane memory with a recently lost loved one.

Altered Innocence Vol. 1

A vibrant anthology of LGBTQ+ short films and music videos that delve into the complexities of youth, identity, and desire. This diverse collection showcases a range of cinematic voices—both emerging and established—exploring the exhilaration, vulnerability, and confusion of coming-of-age through stories that celebrate queer love, self-discovery, and the breaking of societal boundaries. Blending narrative shorts, experimental visuals, and music-driven pieces, the anthology offers an evocative, multifaceted portrait of innocence transformed.

Amy

A pair of ex-lovers spend a spontaneous afternoon together that could either lead to rekindled love or further heartbreak.

Weighting

A re-telling of the pre-telling of a story of the end.

The Gift

To celebrate his eleventh birthday, a young boy selects his gift - little knowing that his choice will change the world.

Guiltless

Twenty-one-year-old Juan gets some terrible news from his doctor: he has aggressive lung cancer. His whole life turns upside down as the disease evolves.

Oasis

Ophelia goes to El Oasis, a tavern where men pick up men, looking for her husband. Her suspicions confirmed, she faints and a transgender prostitute unexpectedly helps her.

Nature

Water, earth, air, fire – and two children at the height of summer.

Pepper

Today is a big day, it's Pepper's estranged son's birthday. He disowned her 20 years ago for becoming a drag queen. A chance meeting with Charlie, an eight-year-old boy, reminds her the importance of family and doing the right thing.

Polly

When Jacob's ex-girlfriend Polly comes to visit, the pair can barely contain their excitement. Since their teenage days when they were an item, Jacob has long since been out of the closet and in a happy relationship with boyfriend Nicholas, so both he and Polly have a lot of catching up to do. Sure enough, Polly's visit extends into a long stay as the trio relish each other's company. However, all good things must, eventually, come to an end.

The Trap

Maggie's friends have planned a surprise birthday party (despite it being a month away). During the party, Maggie realizes there's more to it then that.

Noah

In a story that plays out entirely on a teenager's computer screen, Noah follows its eponymous protagonist as his relationship takes a rapid turn for the worse in this fascinating study of behavior (and romance) in the digital age.

Ten Minutes

A desperate man makes a call to customer service looking for an answer.

Wake Up

A woman is forced to rediscover her humanity in an increasingly digital world.

Swing

A few weeks after Wei Long and Daniel have broken up, Daniel asks Wei Long to meet him once more.

Under the Skin

The blue depths of the swimming pool is her home. Keesje is a passionate synchronised swimmer, and the big competition is just around the corner. However, when a fight erupts between the girls during the final rehearsal, everything changes.

Broken Bird

Birdie, growing up as the daughter of a Black American and a white woman, is Jewish, has unruly hair and must deal with the different identity offers that surround her. Highlighting the challenges of lived intersectionality, empowering and original.

Triumph of the Actor

Ercan is fed up with clichés of migrant roles. Instead of playing a terrorist on television, the Turkish actor is trying to get a role as Hitler in a new movie.

The Captain

A hungover plane captain wakes up to discover he's done a very bad thing.

The Last Time I Saw Richard

Jonah is proud to be the loner at the teenage mental health clinic, taking pleasure in making the other patients uncomfortable. But when he is forced to share a room with the newly admitted Richard, the boys become locked in a battle of wills.

Lobster Dinner

Left home alone one evening, a 12-year-old boy steals some live lobsters from his parents fridge. He brings these, as a gift, to the single mother of his best friend, only to claim in his house a place that goes beyond that of a dinner seat.

Dummy

Using a faceless doll criminal reenacts a brutal crime. But surprisingly he is not the one being judged. There seems to be an odd one out in the investigative group. The film premiered in the Berlinale Short competition programme.

Filipiñana

A film about a girl drawn to a golf course.

Genius Loci

One night, Reine, a young loner, sees among the urban chaos a moving oneness that seems alive, like some sort of guide.

Union County

Cody is a recovering opiate addict in rural Ohio, 45 days clean and enlisted in a strictly enforced drug court programme by the county government. Local sober-living facilities are full, so Cody is living in his car on the outskirts of town and working at the nearby lumber mill to save money and keep busy. But his past doesn't want to forget him.

Small things of unquantifiable value

A police officer records an unusual deposition from a young woman: all her dreams have been stolen.

The Amber Amulet

The Masked Avenger can make things happen. Though at 10 he is considered young for a justice fighter he has already proved himself highly effective in the pursuit of peace. He has discovered powers that are locked inside gems and minerals and uses them to keep Franklin Street safe. But something is wrong in the house at the end of the street. There is a woman in trouble. When The Masked Avenger leaves a 'happiness questionnaire' in her letterbox a series of events are set in motion that no one could predict. This is the story of a superhero, a beagle, an amber amulet and the potential that is locked inside all of us.

The Mistake

Martin is a curious boy, but because of his personality, he often has misunderstandings with his parents, siblings, and teachers.

Keep It for Yourself

Sophie comes to New York from France with the intention of joining a man she met a few months before. She finds herself alone in the apartment of the guy, who left town because he was scared stiff at the idea of seeing her. Originally commissioned as one third of an omnibus feature showcasing the Figaro, a Japan-only retro throwback car.