Lands of Silence (2015)

Sun in My Mouth

A young man confesses his sexual past to an unseen phone sex operator. He reflects on his sexual identity as we follow him on a solitary excursion to a beach.

First Date

An ex-con will stop at nothing to keep a date with the underage boy he met online.

Spokane

Two guys bail on a wedding, head to a strip club, and end up in a hotel room...

Interiors

"It’s remarkably contagious thinking about how much I’m willing to belong to the ones I love," says Tennis frontwoman Alaina Moore in this beautiful short-film, 'Interiors', which features music from the band’s 'Yours Conditionally’ album, and was created in collaboration with Vinyl Me, Please.

I, Adonis

Nicky's whole world revolves around fitness, with the goal of getting bigger and stronger. By constantly monitoring his food consumption and weight, he seems to have his body and entire life under control. But when hidden childhood memories emerge, Nicky starts losing control and his body obsession sets off to an unhealthy direction.

Bears Discover Fire

'Bears Discover Fire' is the strange tale of a lonely man, his aging mother, his curious nephew, and a family of bears that have discovered how to use fire.

Late Bloomer

Late Bloomer is the pastoral romance of an eternal recurrence. Director's talent to plea for love without any dialogue would touch the hearts of audiences. The old man's day out which at first seemed like the ordinary visit of his family's graves turns out to be the poem about the everlasting love. Actor Yoo Soon-cheol wrote this poem with his old and stoop-shouldered body.

Thirst

Izaro and Clara, two teenagers of 17, work as supervisors at the summer camps. On a hot day, Clara kisses her friend passionately. Izaro, full of desire but stunned, is barely able to handle what has happened, but she is ready to follow Clara wherever she wants to take her.

Brothers

From childhood to adulthood, brothers Bilal and Nassim support each other no matter what.

Song of the Swan

A vivid dream exploration of Moira Shearer's heart and mind, just before and after she agreed to star in Powell and Pressburger's beloved cinema classic "The Red Shoes", a decision that would change her life forever. Celebrating the original film but also shining a light on the uncanny parallels between Moira Shearer and her tragic alter ego Victoria Page. Revealing a complex and defiant young woman who ultimately chose life over fame.

Crack of Dawn

The farmhouse of a rural family is declared unfit for habitation. While part of the family fights to save the space their ancestors built, the younger ones imagine where they could go.

Margarita y el lobo

Lorenzo is a handsome, intelligent, charming, elegant and liberal man. All he asks for is total devotion. And Margarita, foolishly, falls in love with him…

Melon Rainbow

A pink neon lamp and a laptop screen illuminate the semi-naked blonde girl on the bed. Her name is Melon Rainbow and she’s working. During the day she has a different job, cleaning for people she has next to no contact with. A blind boy changes that. Melon Rainbow tries to help him and herself.

The Slow Game

In an atmosphere between fiction and reality, a rugby game in the suburbs becomes the allegory of the daily struggle of an Italian family against the trials and tribulations of life.

The Day Before the End

In the year 2050, the Philippines braces for the coming of the fiercest storm ever to hit the country. And as the wind and waters start to rage, poets are being murdered.

Éclair

Ohrid, 4th of may 1980. Marko, son of the cook in the Marshal's villa, get's a chance to try the food that has been cooked in front of his eyes all his life.

The Wilding

When juvenile inmate Malcolm is offered a chance at parole, he is torn between his chance for freedom and protecting the one he loves.

Pulpe Amère

One night, a man enters his maid's room and tries to rape her while a radio soap opera describes the thoughts of a man caught up in a great amorous passion.

List

While waiting at a seaside town with her mother for a relative, a young woman creates a list of things she wants to do during her time there.

Room 8

Thrown to rot in a narrow and gloomy cell of a hideous Soviet prison, a weary new inmate struggles to come to terms with the new reality. Within the grey cage, an unwelcoming fellow convict cautions the newcomer not to touch the intriguingly mysterious red wooden box which rests on the lower bunk, moreover, not even think of opening it. Why is there so much secrecy about the contents of the box? Could there be hiding the means to his escape?

The Shadow of Nazareth

An extrabiblical tale of Barabbas and Judith Iscariot, the presumed sister of Judas, starring Constance Crawley and Arthur Maude.

Six: Return of the Voice

Over a year after the events that unfolded to Theo and Lila in the first Six. The voice has returned. In this sequel with more suspense, drama, and emotion you wont expect what happens.

Being My Mom

Autobiographically based short about the relationship between a mother and her daughter in a deserted, sun drenched Rome.

The Night Train

Oskar is on the night train heading home after an interview in Stockholm. With a long night ahead of him, he makes eye contact with Ahmad. For the first time, he meets the gaze of someone who feels the same desire as he does.

Between You and Milagros

At fifteen, Milagros' world still revolves around her mother's affection. This summer an unexpected encounter with death will make her question their relationship, her privilege and her own existence.

Reach

A tiny robot is given the gift of life with only one limitation, the length of his power cable.

To be or Not to be

A wealthy man, who is financially depend on his wife, hits the car to kill himself. Car owners and friends bring the man home. After the man wakes up, he asks them to kill him and even offers money. Describing the gap and difference between rich and poor, the short film surprises everyone with unexpected final.

Lipstick

A highschool kid is bullied for putting lipstick on himself in a bathroom. As he dries his clothes in the laundry, he meets a mysterious girl.

The Morning After

The morning after a drunken night out, Harry's world is turned upside down when he awakens to discover a naked man, Thom, in his bed. Stunned and confused, he tries to make sense of his repressed desires. In an attempt to re-assert his heterosexuality he revisits an old lover, Lucy, but finds little comfort from the encounter. Harry is left to make a decision: to follow his set path and return to his doting girlfriend Jess, or attempt to understand his own wants and desires...

In the Dark

Sometimes eroticism lays hidden in that moment suspended within the space that separates two bodies which cannot touch each other.

Locust Lane

A college student named Max recounts his childhood memories from the late 1990s, in which he becomes best friends with a boy named Arthur. As Max and Arthur gather both true and fictitious information about Arthur's neighborhood, they begin to dream up fantastical stories and fictional biographies about the eccentric people who live on Arthur's street, a mysterious place called Locust Lane.

Oasis

2020, in global confinement in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, in CDMX women decide to give birth in their own home. The film is an intimate witness of life, which, despite everything, prevails.

Friend

A lonely, grief stricken man finds a new lease on life after an unusual 'friend' is mysteriously delivered to his door. A unique relationship forms, until tragedy reveals that this 'friend' was just one of many.

Bitter Orange

Despite her short skirt and bobbed hair, Myrtle’s no flapper—she’s a career girl with her eye on the prize. But over the course of an evening in the company of Jack, a bootlegger, she’s forced to ask herself what she really wants: a legitimate career, or success at any cost.

The Eraser

Visions of characters by the seaside from one's memory are erased by the filmmaker's hand.

Palmipedarium

Simon knows ducks quite well. They make noise, fly, swim, some even roll. Sometimes, it's a bit confusing and Simon gets lost.

Heliconia

The feline and weary body of a young girl is surrounded by Christian symbols. Crosses, Sulpician images, miniature altars lose their religious meaning to become merely decorative items. Mixed with plastic toys and photographs, they compose secular still lives. A church service is observed surreptitiously through a ground-floor window, like some strange custom, only to be interrupted by the sound of a moped backfiring, inviting the girl to take flight. This religious setting, often filmed in countershot to the beautiful faces of three teenagers, then gives way to wide shots of the luxuriant nature they are bathed in. Their nimble, young bodies find a perfect refuge in the comfortable branches of a mango tree. But at this age, the thirst for thrills cannot be restricted to a familiar setting. The trio hits the road. Without bothering with narrative dross, Heliconia offers a sensual road-trip and gorgeous tableaux vivants that do justice to film as a medium.

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.

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 Unseen River

Stories told along the river: a woman reunites with her ex-lover at a hydroelectric plant; meanwhile, a young man travels downstream to a temple in search of a cure for his insomnia.