Mania (2024)

Victoria

A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.

A Record of Sweet Murder

A murderer in the middle of a killing spree enlists a reporter to interview him as he prepares to finish sacrificing his victims to his god.

Medusa Deluxe

Talented and cutthroat hairstylists at a competition find one of their own murdered before judging can begin. Winding through neon-lit halls, competitors unspool long-simmering resentments and lies as they search for the killer among them.

Fish & Cat

A group of students travel to a remote region to participate in a kite-flying event. Next to their camp by the lakeside, they find a restaurant with cooks that treat the students with suspicion. Bizarre events lead to a complicated situation, from which the students cannot escape.

Watch the Sunset

In a single afternoon a man comes to grips with the power of his past when his estranged family becomes tangled in its web. Shot in a continuous take.

(GONE WRONG)

A livestreamer gets more than he bargained for during a 'walking into random homes' prank he stages.

Table Top Shots

One day, two friends decide to meet up at a public table. Neither realised what events would proceed. A single-take drama.

Valencia - Chapter II: Asturias

The Second entry in The Valencia Saga. On Christmas eve, while he waits for his mother to come home, a young man discover some secrets involving the place, that makes him feeling uneasy of being alone.

The Happiest Man in the World

An intimate portrait of one of the most loved footballers; Ronaldinho. This documentary looks at his childhood in Brazil, his breakthrough to professional football and his journey to Europe including the ground-breaking years with Barcelona. We hear from his family, teammates and peers in a truly heart-warming story of one of the games greats.

Skip Liberty: Shooting in Vietnam

Skip Liberty enlisted in the Army in 1968. During his tour in Vietnam he shot 3,100 feet of Super 8 film, over 3 hours worth. Upon returning to the states the film was placed in storage, Skip had never seen the footage he shot. Until now.

The Wedding Party

Filmed in one continuous 119-minute shot, THE WEDDING PARTY tells the story of a groomsman who must navigate a slew of disasters and maintain order at his best friend's wedding reception.

Joey Earns Rewards Using the McDonald's Mobile App & Megh and Clev Discuss Their Future Together

Captured in a single aerial shot, Cleveen’s proposal to Meghan at a McDonald's drive-thru is interrupted by an eager customer offering help with their order.

IRON - O Homem da Máscara de Ferro

A loose stage adaptation of the classic by Alexandre Dumas, told as an interactive electropop musical experience, breaking the boundaries between stage and audience.

Minutes

In this comedy series, shot in single takes, six young people each experience pivotal moments in their lives that don't quite go as planned and lead to various breaking points as a result.

Portrait de Rosa, à la française

Poetic, delicate, engaging. "Portrait de Rosa, à la française" gently draws you into this passionate love story, with a love text that fits well with the images of Rosa's smiling face. A narrative that recalls the “nouvelle vague” interpreted with today's eyes.

Archive of Life

This documentary short-film follows the story of The White Bus Cinema based in Southend-on-Sea. They keep the process of projecting real celluloid film alive by showing films from their archive of over 3,000 films, ranging from Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm prints. The film argues why it's important to continue the shooting and projection process of film in our current age of digital shooting and projection in modern Hollywood, amidst the chaos of studios removing films from their streaming services.

o jardineiro - ou os equinócios de uma memória latente

Oliver, an elderly gardener with Alzheimer's, discovers a Super 8 film reel he recorded decades ago, during the early days of his relationship with Julia, his late wife. As he watches the images from the past, his memories blur with the present, and he finds himself torn between reality and the recollections of a love that still blooms in his mind. While searching for answers that never come, Oliver confronts the fleeting nature of life and the beauty of memories that withstand the passage of time.

Exorcist

A SOV remake of The Exorcist, made by children.

Island Home Country

A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals deal with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race-based policies. The film’s consultative process, with ‘Respecting Cultures’ (Tasmanian Aboriginal Protocols), offers an evolving shift in Australian historical narratives from the frontier wars, to one of diverse peoples working through historical trauma in a process of decolonisation.

Fog on the Mountain

Fog surrounds the peak of a mountain as summer wildflowers bloom.

Selkie

According to Scottish mythology Selkies are mythological beings capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. This film follows the story of such a creature who chooses the sea over her land dwelling sweetheart.

The Last Solution

Within the confines of a massive wall, a group of children plays as if there were no tomorrow

the flowers and sorrow he gave me

Inspired by moments of the Brazilian writer Gabriel Yared’s life and mixing storytelling and poetic declamations by the author himself, the film presents us the love overgrowing between two young man, Alex and Luís, their comfortable couple routine, and explores which limits that love can support when, like dry flowers, it faces the hard and cold earth of deceptions and expectation breaches, with the city of Macapá, in ther Northern Brazilian State of Amapá, as background.

Lohengrin

A short experimental film shot on Super 8, inspired by the music of Richard Wagner.

Pussy Power

It is the year 2020 and women have lost the right to their bodies completely. In this tale of sweet revenge, a cult of courageous women go to extremes to take back what is rightfully theirs.

50ft Or So...

A Cine-Poem. A journey through Paris. A memory film. Three stories, dedicated to one pioneer of cinema.

Papo de Anjo

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Sorrir

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Fuel

A badboy meets his dream car...

Buscando Tesoro (Seeking Treasure)

A super 8 film. A woman in search of precious items left behind by someone special. Una mujer en busca de objetos preciosos dejados por alguien especial.

Dead Funny

A lonely mime takes desperate measures in order to find the audience he deserves.

The Butcher Filmmaker

This is the story of Roger, a former pork butcher, who worked for 40 years in the beautiful town of Beaune in Burgundy. Since he retired, he has started a new life as a filmmaker: Roger films only on Super 8. Insects, birds, everything he can find in the countryside are his favorite subjects. His short films have won prizes all over the world, some of them have been shown during the Cannes Film Festival. Josette, his wife and number one fan, happens to work for him from time to time.

The White Stripes: Under Blackpool Lights

Concert footage of The White Stripes recorded in January of 2004, featuring tracks from the band's four studio albums as well as live favorites like the Dolly Parton cover "Jolene"

Winter's End

A short film shot on Super 8 which captures the last days of winter.

Flesh in Turmoil

The process of depersonalization maintains a dialogue with the objectification of the body, a sort of thingified flesh, clothed in animosity. In an epiphanic act, the sutures reveal themselves as the reflection of this gaze upon its own spilled fluids and transcend into an internal soup. It is the stream of consciousness in its purest form. It is the raw and the bare. It is the visceral nature of facts. It is the merging of worlds. It is the flesh in turmoil.

Up And Down

At the end of the brazilian military dictatorship, a bored elevator operator gets her dull work day shaken by the pursuit of marxist revolutionaries by two army generals.

Reflejos

Two generations dialogue through the images they filmed of their children, a reflection of the emotional bond that arises from their involvement with what was shot.