Wake Up (2016)

Visions of Europe

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Brotherly

Based on a true story of two brothers in 1970's Ohio. It tells of their abandonment by their alcoholic parents and how the brothers turned to each other for support.

Arrullo de Tierra

José and Marychuy have spent their days playing among the nature that surrounds them. However, unknown diseases affect the children living in her community to death. Marychuy falls ill surprisingly, but her soul will not move away from her best friend.

Muse

"Musa" is a gothic romance short film that explores the complex relationship between the obsessed artist and his muse. When an artist in full decline, Matruzzi (Humberto Zurita) takes up the relationship with Eva (Ana Isabel Esqueira) just before his last show , every thing is OK…. Until a monster peeks out.

The Stench

In a housing unit, an old man's money has disappeared. All the neighbors are suspects.

Escaping the Fragile Planet

A boy-meets-boy tale, a few hours before the world ends.

A Message from Fallujah

Daniel Crane is an American civilian engineer working to rebuild war torn Iraq who is kidnapped on his last day in Fallujah. Beaten and alone he is hostage caught up in the drama of war.

Waking Fear

Waking fear tells the story of a man suffering from reoccurring nightmares of death and mystery. But what is reality and what is just a dream? The line slowly fade between the two in this psychological thriller.

The Magic Diner

A girl finds herself in a diner with a machine that gives her answers to any question she asks.

Restart

Janek is a young medical intern who struggles with financial problems and doubts about his future. Although he has been working so hard, the day before his promotion he makes a risky decision that may change his life forever.

Before Noon

An unfinished short student film about dreaming

Love, Death & Cars

In Los Angeles, Max and Haley go to a reading and book signing of Kyle, a friend of Max's from New York. Through flashbacks and conversations, we learn that they were more than casual friends, and Kyle's reappearance throws Haley and Max's relationship into question. Central to the two men's history was a Grand Canyon trip some years before. Max may need to travel that road again with renewed honesty if he's to sort out his life's conflicts and contradictions.

Yulia & Juliet

In a juvenile delinquent center two girls find comfort in love for each other. Once one of them gets released, they don't know how to deal with this and both seek for a solution, with tragic consequences - A contemporary love story based on the motives of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Adoration

Based on the real life story of Sagawa, a Japanese student who killed, dismembered and ate a young Dutch girl in Paris.

Louise

Louise, ballerina at the Garnier Opera in 1895, rushes home after a show but is stopped by a friend asking for money. Louise knows what to do in order to repay her.

Hotel Paradijs

Every day Paul crosses a canal that separates the Amsterdam city center from the north side, where his lover Christiaan lives and waits for him. A dear routine for both - until one day Paul meets Claire, who starts seducing him into her very own universe, the Hotel Paradijs. Claire makes Paul the audience of her own play: a play where the roles are reversed and into which Paul is undeniably drawn.

Headlong

On the occasion of a dance competition a young ballet dancer is in a foreign place. Alone in his hotel room loneliness overpowers him, until he meets a stranger on the run.

The Pledge

Three criminals pledge to free the soul of their friend from his gibbeted corpse in this short film based on 'The Highwayman' by Lord Dunsany.

Black Cat in a Dark Room

After years of helping euthanize the terminally ill, a "hospice" worker begins to question the ethics of her job.

Oxygen

On a faraway planet, home to Bobtors, an astronaut-doctor suffers from a lack of oxygen. To survive she has to pay the highest price as both a human and as a medic.

August

Tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina, a boy decides to run.

Before Bedtime

Before bedtime is the worst time of the day for Duco, a 12-year-old boy. Only one way seems to remain to permanently put an end to this.

More Than Two Days

In two days, two brothers go through a predicament that may change their lives for ever.

Golden

A tale of being different and growing up.

Life Support

A seeker finds himself distressed by his dependencies and is constantly searching for a way to survive without his life support.

Rabbit Hole

A teenager takes a bike ride that spirals into a rabbit hole of memories. An experiment of sound and visuals that delve into the psychology of growing up with a dysfunctional home life.

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.

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.

Mishimasaiko

Mishima lives in the shadows surrounded by worms in his underground lair. Early one morning, he discovers a rose in the sun in which the beautiful Saiko awakens. Mishima will do everything he can to satisfy her needs. But worms are not supposed to live in the sun...

Leaving

A little girl gets to know the meaning of death when her grandfather suffers through the late stages of Alzheimer's disease.

Big Words From A Small Man

our short stories interlaced to create a surreal world of absurdity, in which characters try to find connections in the mundane.

Permeable

A mother struggles to save her son from a polluted world.

Prohibido

A pulsating ride, sexually charged with emotion, men discovering their taste for other men, awkward situations that force the characters to get in touch with that taste.