Blessed Land (2019)

Mr. Pregnant

A short about going CowboyMode.

Xavier and Miguel

Xavier decides to shoot with his cell phone his weekend with his best friend Miguel to tell the world and his father, Nicolas, that he might be in love with him. Xavier and Miguel is the sequel of the short film Xavier (2015).

S.A.M.

After choosing to construct a meaningful connection via a S.A.M. service, Noelle may have finally found her perfect someone.

Rougarou

In rural Louisiana, 11-year-old Sabine's widower father misses Ash Wednesday Mass, so she pushes him to give up drinking for Lent. He breaks his vow, evoking the wrath of the ROUGAROU, a mythical bayou beast who punishes bad Catholics. Now Sabine has to step up to save him from the monster or risk losing her only living parent.

Totems

An excellent example of how sometimes dialogue is not necessary, Totems is a visual display of our inner animal disposition. A lumberjack is working in a forest when a tree falls down and his leg gets stuck. As he is trapped in a beautiful but cruel environment, the despair awakens his primal instincts.

2 Weeks

When 20-something-year-old Tanya begins to realize she’s asexual, the highly charged sexualized world she lives in as an actress and partner begins to fall apart and feels more and more like an unbearable nightmare.

Saudade

Aurora and Bernardo are experiencing moments of happiness, but their joy is interrupted by the onset of war.

Pas de Deux

Mireia has just come out of a toxic relationship that prevents her from enduring physical contact when she is offered the lead role of "Sleeping Beauty" at the ballet school where she attends, and has to dance with the Blue Prince.

O Menino das Estrelas

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Our Lady of Lourdes

Lourdes, a university student, is grateful to Bernard, the town drunk, when he comes to her aid in an uncomfortable situation. But when she offers to buy him a hot meal, she ends up getting involved in far more than she bargained for.

Hello, Again

Owen, after a sleepless night from his Mothers funeral the day before, decides to avoid his father and visit her grave. Through a misunderstanding he meets Maura, who's visiting her recently deceased Father's grave. Together they try to find a way to connect with the loved ones they've lost.

A Lien

On the day of their green card interview, a young couple confronts a dangerous immigration process.

Good Boy

Two high school friends, Caleb and Macon, are reunited after many years. During the tense reunion, Macon fights his tortured mind, wrestling with a dark secret that is the source of Caleb's greatest pain.

Thirst

Two friends go on a hike to the desert. In the desolate wilderness something hidden comes out in their friendship. From then on, the only way they manage to communicate is sexually and violently. While one of them wants more than the other is able to give, he expresses his frustration by making sure they get lost and have no water - anything to escape from awaiting reality.

Safe

A woman working as a cashier at an illegal gambling parlor pushes her luck by stealing money from gamblers as a way to pay off her own debts. When one gambler realizes he’s been cheated, he returns with murderous intent and the already dismal situation spirals out of control.

Sign

'SIGN' is a short film that tells, through vignettes, music, and sign language, the story of a relationship between Ben, a hearing man, and Aaron, who is deaf.

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Art is often an expression of rigorous focus. This story revolves around the internal pressures of the protagonist, and his attempt to escape his own mind and let out his imagination. An artist lives in a world they create, but sometimes fear can break us down.

Parasol

Life in a city is fast and draining. Feeling empty, a woman heads to a log cabin Parasol which her mother had left for her. Breathtaking lights, gentle breezes, and a warm fire. She pauses and catches the scent she had missed. They bring out her feelings about her mother.

On Your Mark

Set in the future: Two men learn that a mysterious winged girl has been taken prisoner, and then decide that they must free her at any cost.

JONES

Jones' inner demons threaten to take over her life unless she outruns the voices in her head and the ticking of time.

Private Photos

A sweet couple invite a third person over for the night, who brings a lustful energy to spice things up.

MER

A paralyzed girl finds difficulty living a normal life, so she participates in a ritual to metamorphize into a mermaid to replace her useless lower half.

Shakti

Federico, in his mid-20s, lives alone in Buenos Aires. The day his grandmother dies, he decides to part with his girlfriend. He fears hurting her. However, she is laid-back, feisty and not even close to feeling hurt. He begins obsessing over her unexpected reaction—but then he meets someone else.

Seven Years in May

One night seven years ago, Rafael came home after work and discovered that people he did not know had come looking for him. He immediately fled, without looking back. From that moment on, his life changed, as if that night had never ended. One evening, around an improvised fire near a factory, he decides to confide his journey to a stranger. Rafael’s intimate account meets the collective testimony of an entire nation oppressed by poverty, police repression and institutional corruption.

Cold Coffee

Every morning, Pedro carefully prepares coffee for Tiago, but even with all his extraordinary efforts, he is unable to prevent the drink from getting cold.

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.

Tattoo

The young Iranian woman had not been expecting this kind of examination. She only wanted to renew her driver’s license, but when the officials noticed a scar on her wrist and her tattoo, they began looking at her with suspicion. Suddenly she is trapped, forced to answer personal questions and exposed to insinuations. The camera captures the growing uneasiness with clinical precision.

A Walk in Winter

When Conrad returns to his hometown to identify his mother's body, he is forced to confront the painful memories of his childhood.

Kryo

A man who cheats death through the help of cryonics has to learn the hard way that death is a undeniable part of life.

Ponyboi

An intersex runaway searches for love and a way out of his working class neighborhood in New Jersey.

Too Rough

After a night of intoxication in Glasgow, a hungover and hysterical Nick wakes up next to his boyfriend Charlie and must conceal him from his own homophobic and dysfunctional family.

Huff

Non-judgmental vignette following a day in the life of one young man living inside a poor, small-town filled with broken dreams and addiction.

Crazyhouse

After the suicide of his best friend, a teenage boy is forced to deal with his guilt and sexuality.

Green

In Alonso Ruizpalacios’ bracing and stylish film, security guards in an armoured van try to manage the stress that comes from being close to a pile of cash in Mexico City. The team’s stability is imperilled when one member nears his boiling point.

TINA

A 23-year-old revisits the family car he grew up with to experience the thrill of childhood again...

The Jump

An astronaut braves a pioneering solo mission into deep space, leaving behind her loving husband. Through disjointed communications, she discovers her life on Earth has changed forever.

Hinterborough

A small Australian island town burned to a cinder one night. Why? In this short you will learn about the history of the autonomous municipality of Hinterborough. A broadcaster breaks down the reasons the preventable disaster that ravaged the island took hold.

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.

Good Citizen

In a time where actions are measured, are evaluated, and influenced the social status, a couple is faced with a forbidden and crucial dilemma.

Through a Boy's Eyes

When a boy becomes a young man, the way he sees the world can change not just his perceptions of those around him, but how others see him. As burgeoning desires come to the surface, there is the choice of either embracing and acting upon them, or burying them. Includes: On the Roof [En la azotea] (2015); The Son [El hijo] (2012); Inside [Dentro] (2013); Tomboy [Même pas mort] (2007); Paradigma (2016).

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.

Let Liv

A young alcoholic woman agrees to attend an AA meeting with her partner. When she unexpectedly runs into her estranged mother, she's forced to confront demons from her past.

Studies on Hysteria

Short film about a young man discovering pants in a nudist world. A parable of the societal intolerance to anything different.

Uproar

In a picturesque hamlet overlooking the sea near Rome, two young men divide their time between petty thefts and football matches. Their crimes have the lightheartedness and exuberance of childhood games, until an unexpected proposal marks a change in their lives, and that of the history of Italy, with the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Laps

When a talented young swimmer who is being bullied by some older boys on his team, he learns the value of sharing his experience with trusted adults and understanding his bullies to stop the difficult situation.

Younger

The two best friends Bente en Saar are secretly going camping for one night on a small island, down the polder. After a night of dancing, singing and enjoying their selfmade hotdogs by the bonfire while drinking Saar's mother's wine, something happens that might change their friendship forever.

Little Grey Bubbles

Devastated by her best friend Marlon's death, Kim travels from NYC to Canada to attend his funeral. There she meets his family and friends for the first time and awkwardness ensues as she tries to explain how she never met him in person because their friendship had been exclusively online.