Wereldvreemd (1997)

By the Pool

During the heat wave, swimmers flock to a municipal pool. Rain or shine, as the days pass the place takes on a life of its own, and the lifeguards, while immature at times, shoulder considerable responsibilities.

10 Seconds of Carla

During a party, Gaby begins to suspect that spreading rumours of a football team gang-bang may well involve her best friend, Carla.

Apocalypse Runner

The world every movie has gone, the man who translates everything into movies shows up.

A Gold Star Kid

One day, 9-years-old Matt is on the way to a restaurant and finds a 20 euro bill on the pavement. At the restaurant, Matt sees a soldier which reminds him of his late father who was a soldier. Matt decides to pay it forward in memory of his father.

Sauna

An anxious and ungainly teenage boy struggles against bullies, puberty, and his fears of mortality when his parents send him to a summer water polo camp.

Friend Box

A girl needs a friend. A special box could materialize it for her.

Red

Jesse is a chat-addict teen. One day, an unknown gay friend proposes him a blind date on a public spot, but Jesse, unaware of how his friend physically looks, demands the use of a ‘red’ t-shirt in order to recognize him. What Jesse never thought was that, that day, one of his biggest fears would come true.

The Beginning of the Monster

A story about a boy named Ahura and his mysterious past, which when his friends enter, that buried past comes back and creates terrible events.

The Pigeon

Meet Jonathan Noel, a man with an obsessive need for order, whose life is upended by the sudden appearance of a pigeon on his front porch. His routine is thrown into disarray when the unwelcomed intruder is introduced into his meticulously controlled world.

Indoors

During summertime, Nahuel moves to his friends to spend vacation time together. Between drinks, weed and foolish games, sexual tension starts to raise, but none of them dares to take the first step.

Excursion

Following a TV News which announce the landing of aliens in Romania, Eugen (9) steals a camera from the shop where his father works as a guard and starts filming his everyday life and then disappears. When he is found, the little boy's footage is misinterpreted by the media.

The Box

An old man ends up taming the mouse he wanted to get rid of.

The Nightingale

Franti, an organ grinder of the poor districts of New York, has a daughter, Isola, who sings to his street piano's accompaniment.

Hambre

A child is tormented by a hungry well that demands food but, unable to quell its hunger, is forced to find another way to satisfy it.

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?

Open House

While robbing a house, Julio asks Ricardo to pretend to be the house's owners. Both of them take advantage of the solitude of their surroundings to express what they truly feel for each other.

Manchester Acatitla

Miranda, the Manchester Acatitla forward, returns home after a victorious match. On her way back, she faces dangers off the court.

Arañas

The limit of tension in a family reaches its peak when the father discovers a spiders nest.

Anxiety & Desire

Two friends explore the meaning of anxiety.

Explorer

Deep in the suburbs, a troubled and obsessive man waits for signs of alien life from the skies. Instead, he finds new meaning in the empty rooms of his family home—and travels into his own inner space.

Paper Airplane

While falling in love with a reclusive homeless musician, a drug-addicted Chinese school girl regains her appetite for life and makes peace with herself.

Johnny

Johnny is an alcoholic, Johnny is fatalistic, Johnny is tormented, Johnny isn’t able to behave, Johnny is impetuous, Johnny is moody, Johnny believes in nothing, Johnny is footloose, Johnny isn’t brave. But Aurélien doesn’t care because first and foremost Johnny is radiant.

Pastel

Elisabeth catches her son James kissing a young man. As she now faces a life struggle, Elisabeth decides to fight for what she believes in and cure her only son from his presumed homosexuality. While James in subject to conversion therapy, Elisabeth begins to realize that appearances can be deceiving.

Yardbird

A young girl who lives in a remote wrecking yard takes on the local bullies when they travel out to torment her father.

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.

Qu'est-ce que c'est?

An experimental docu-fiction short from hours of collected material shot by the director. Different scenes, from drunk parties with friends to shots of the Dutch landscape during a train ride, are cut together to see if a narrative story can be constructed from nothing but randomly shot footage.

Kindil

During a beach excursion, Nfissa, a young mother, is lynched to death by a group of young men, while swimming offshore. Nobody seems to witness her disappearing. Anxiety and fear grow among the family, especially as, on the same beach, bathers suddenly die.

Macabre

K just crashed his Mercedes-Benz into a tree, moments after trying to avoid running down a small wild animal that ran across his path. He is on a backwater road in the countryside and it’s a very dark night. His evening has only just begun...

By His Will

Elisha, a young religious teen dealing with his attraction to men, is torn between two worlds — the religious world from which he comes and the secular world that attracts and seduces him. He goes through a shaky journey that has him facing a decision that will shape his life.

Our Best Selves

A young couple go to an isolated cabin to deal their marital problems.

SNAP!

The film deals with loss of innocence and the danger of exposed secrets.

Um Clássico, Dois em Casa, Nenhum Jogo Fora

Love, sex and death get mixed in a homosexual love story between two desperate boys in a big city.

The Mountain

A couple goes mountain hiking together with friends, unaware of the drama that will unfold.