Underwater (2016)

Styx

Long-term partners Marc and Adrien live a seemingly perfect existence close to Lake Constance. Only whilst Marc is content to spend his days working for the local ferry service, Adrien yearns for the bright lights of Berlin and the clubs in which he hopes to realize his dream of becoming a musician. Yet life has a way of turning out not as you expect and here events culminate on a lengthy ferry crossing, one that sees Marc soon to spot Adrien onboard, complete with a one-way ticket and a car packed full of his belongings. Suffice to say that the stage is set for a traumatic farewell.

You Like That

Lost in a hypersexual digital world, Joshua dreams of the kind of love he’s only read about in classic literature.

Lacuna

As she struggles to finish her short film, a first-time filmmaker travels through her memory bank in search of inspiration.

The Summer Holidays

Blandine spends her holidays alone in a small campsite at the foot of the mountains. She is quickly overwhelmed by the noise, the crowd and the rain that she was trying to escape for a summer. At the edge of the lake, Blandine meets Helio, a young local journalist.

Merenguito

Merenguito, a little piñata boy, wakes up on a school table after being put together by a group of primary school children. Soon they discover his gift: dispensing candy at will. When the children become absorbed by their greed for candy, Merenguito finds comfort in his friendship with Bruno, a gentle child outcast from his peers due to his delicate health condition. Chaos soon erupts and Merenguito becomes a victim of merciless bullying that spirals him into a choice with terrible consequences.

The Difficulties Of Being Drunk Alone

A young man finds himself alone in his hotel room with a full bottle of vodka when his repressed memories begin to resurface and take control.

Sunshine Sparkling in My Eyes

Raphaël is seventeen years old and in love. It is the story of an awakening, the painful explosion of the adolescence.

Unicorn

A young German/Bolivian Mennonite risks his life to escape his strict religious community to find love and freedom in the city.

Wanks

Two friends decide to have a wank remembering old times.

Zack & Luc

A split-screen film telling two versions of the entire story of a relationship. Each memory becomes intertwined with all the others: the firsts, the lasts, the middles, each of the small nothing moments that add up to something in the end.

Jemima + Johnny

A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails.

Disappear Here

Back in Paris after a year spent abroad, Lenz wanders with melancholy from party to party, balancing on a line of cocaine, seeking for a mysterious young woman: Elena.

Thylacine

A young couple nearing their nine months anniversary hit a road block when one decides to have lunch with an admirer. The relationship is tested as they face their insecurities along the way.

The Name of the Prime Minister

A psychiatrist is taken to a secret government facility to interview a man convinced Tony Blair is still the Prime Minister.

In the Name of the Father

The short film depicts the life of a boy who is constantly sexually abused by his father. Leonardo Miggiorin brilliantly plays the role of this boy, who belongs to a poor and unstructured family.

An Ode to Solitude

Exploring the duality between friendship and loneliness, this intimate narrative short tells the story of David, a bright young boy struggling with a broken home life, as he tries to reconnect with his childhood best friends as they search for something to do in their small suburban town.

A Piacere

A violin student wrestles with her motivations for studying what she loves.

Document 56

In Cold War-era Romania, two Securitate officers intercept a letter from Richard Nixon to Nicolae Ceausescu. With 48 hours to prepare for the arrival of CIA operatives, the two agents race to determine the hidden agenda of the visit.

Connected

"Connected" is a about two lonesome people who find each other via a chance encounter on a subway train. They experience happiness in one another for a brief moment in their lives until circumstances out of their control rip them apart. However their paths may once again intersect down the line.

Passenger

In this anime-inspired film, a vengeful spirit tries to possess Cora's body, but over time they form a dysfunctional relationship.

Gameboy

Thijs, Tobias, Sjeng, and Tarik break into a house and steal a multitude of their school exams for profit. But in time, as their gain notoriety, the jig is up! But will all four go down, will there be consequences, and will that be all that happens to these rambunctious four young men?

Emma

Emma is a regular human faced with daily modern obstacles, yet underneath her smile a secret hides. (A story with no words.)

The Commitment

An interracial gay couple adopting a newborn baby meets the pregnant Asian birthmother and receives a surprise that threatens their relationship.

Balls

22-year old Teun has to move back home. His house-mates have organized a farewell dinner for him. What starts as a social gathering, emotions are running high soon.

Follow Me

Jasper (20), on the edge of adulthood , wanders around lost in the Port of Ghent. Fragments of a phone call betray a loss.

The Understudy

An ambitious understudy’s respect grows to obsession.

Otava

An adolescent girl tries to dream about memories of Mother while having to be physically present in the surrounding farm with grandmother.

O Meu Avô

Young Francisco is having a fun time spending the summer with his grandparents until grandpa loses his wallet. Seeing the predicament this is causing, Francisco decides to help his grandparents out.

Shannon Amen

Shannon Amen unearths the passionate and pained expressions of a young woman overwhelmed by guilt and anxiety as she struggles to reconcile her sexual identity with her religious faith. A loving elegy to a friend lost to suicide.

Meatoo

A naive actor auditions for a film which could launch his career. The things he's asked to do make him more and more uncomfortable, until a choice remark from the director makes him see red.

In the Eyes

A Sunday like any other among a Russian community in France. Victor, a discreet young man, has to overcome the elusiveness of the one he loves in secret.

Let Your Heart Be Light

A young woman spending christmas alone after a breakup is visited by her friend.

Tough

After her father unexpectedly hits her, a young girl decides to toughen up.

You and Me, Before and After

Now in their 30s, grumbling sisters Hannah and Rachel decide to get their first tattoos together. As they get inked, and unable to leave until it’s done, they bond in conversation over still-fresh wounds that they share.

The Draft

In a far away castle, a doctor has given life to a creature he stitched back together from corpses. However, it doesn’t seem to suffice him…

Le Syndrome des cœurs brisés – Takotsubo

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An Affair to Remember!

A wife reveals to her younger husband that she is having an affair.

(Un)alarmed

Derek, a young man indebted to his sleep and schoolwork fractures his perception of reality as his association of alarm and anxiety is numbed by the repetition of his stresses.

Another Affair to Remember!

Jean-Jacques Garbo is deeply dismayed by his wife's infidelity when he suddenly has inklings of another love affair.

Giitu

A woman returns home to her father and childhood home, after being gone for over 20 years. Her purpose for the visit is to deliver the message that her fathers former wife has passed away.

Daddy's Girl

Lo (14) is living alone with her father at his farm. Bored and frustrated she's fantasizing about sexy boys, spying on the hot seasonal workers. Rune (45) is a single parent too busy making ends meet to be paying attention to his child becoming a young woman. When he catches her masturbating in her bedroom, he goes out of his mind thinking she's a victim of male sexuality. Daddy's Girl is about fear of losing and fear of not getting.

Performance Anxiety

Two straight actors must rehearse for an impending gay love scene. How will they make out?

Mask of the Evil Apparition

A young woman lost in a nocturnal, dreamlike city, with her twin psychic brothers who try to help her find her way home as she is pursued by a shadowy cult known as The Mysterious Ones.