VESTIGIUM (2021)

THEATER. Afterword

The film was shot as the final part of the play "Drink the sea, Xanthos" theatre-Studio "NEO" (St. Petersburg 1987-1989). As a result, the performance was changed and the film gained independence. He became an allegory of acting.

Explorers

Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books. Surprisingly, his affinity for all things fantastical yields a real result – when he has a vivid dream about technology, his prodigy best friend Wolfgang manages to create a working spacecraft. Joined by their buddy Darren, the boys take off into outer space and encounter some very odd extraterrestrial life.

Same Difference

Twin brothers Leon and Noel share their parents, their school and their bunk bed. But when Leon becomes interested in Abi and Abi becomes interested in Noel, a love triangle threatens to tear the twins apart - until Noel makes a declaration of his own.

La Jaula

The discussion between two brothers, Elías and Gabriel, will trigger a dilemma that will force one of them to make a decision.

Precious

Upon learning that a planned school trip was postponed due to financial constraints, high-school student Alem – an orphan who lives with his grandmother – decides to take matters into his own hands and secure the money for the trip in whatever way possible. Alem’s manliness and credibility are put to test when his criminal role model Paze suggests robbing a supermarket.

Last Call

Anikó Kárpáti is 61, and this is her last day in Budapest. She hopes for a better life with her daughter's family abroad, but first she must close everything that still connects her to Hungary. Anikó begins a mad dash through the city, but at the end of this frantic day she must face what is ahead of her – and the things she will leave behind.

Sparrow

Sparrow is the beautiful story of a small boy who is teased because he thinks he can fly. When a family myth about his war veteran grandfather comes to light, he discovers the strength to stand up to the bullies in a very unusual way.

Summer

It is summer and it is hot. Ice cream drips from its cone, a father photographs his child. Then a man suddenly arrests his focus. Inspired by a picture from photographer Juan Medina, taken on the beach of Gran Tarajal in Spain in 2006, director Ronny Trocker animates a situation that happened today as it did yesterday, with the difference that today, no one moves. Time is frozen. A black man lies exhausted on the shore. It seems that no one has noticed his arrival.

Five Minutes a Day

Working in a small security kiosk, two men take advantage of the shift change to get to know each other and forge a touching bond.

Fifty Pence

Darren, a keen gambler, finds himself having to escort an unknown woman on the other side of Paris for a Mafioso. Struggling with the implications of his involvement in the affair, Darren is forced to reconsider his values.

La défense du drapeau

As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.

Freestyle Swimmer

Young Max discovers that grandfather Gustav cannot swim and decides to teach him. But Gustav thinks that it may be too late for him...

Grenadine

How do three brothers change when their parents inexplicably disappear?

Walls

A teenage boy named David is afraid of being transparent. When David's best friend, Johnathan, notices his abuse at home, David must overcome his fear of rejection in order to embrace his friend's support.

The Room

Mariana must sacrifice her dog Frida after violently beating it for having destroyed her recently deceased son's toys. The pet's death helps Mariana accept and overcome the loss of her son.

Absence

Carlos, a man haunted by his past, plunges into an existential crisis that leads him to day-to-day apathy due to the loss of a child, an act that condemns a declining marriage and continuous desolation.

The Kiln

At her young age, Juana has two great responsibilities: preventing her older sister from fleeing the house and passing on the secret of making bricks to her younger sister.

Cristeros and Federals

In 1929, during the Cristiada, Ranulfo, captain of the Cristero army, kept a federal prisoner, whom he tortured and threatened. At another time, Eugenio, captain of the federal army, rebukes and mocks the faith of a group of Cristeros peasants who are weak but not defenseless.

Instrucciones para un suicidio

A man in a suit and gloves is carrying a briefcase. He stops and sits on a bench in the street. He watches the briefcase until he decides to open it. The object inside will change the situation.

Moist

A fragment in the life of a woman with sensory disturbances. The discontinuity in the perception of the temporal flow threatens the affirmation of our own existence.

Anoche soñé con un fantasma

Raúl is seriously ill with COVID-19 in the hospital. His sisters wait at home for a call that will give them news about his state of health.

Julián (Transmutación)

Julián, a 10-year-old boy, is going through a stage of change in which he cannot find peace with his surroundings. In a dream stage, a beetle becomes recurrent in his dreams.

Todo lo que nos falta

A girl takes photos during a student march and then wanders the streets while trying unsuccessfully to communicate with her parents who live in another city. Her mother is very ill and despite the pain she feels from being separated, the girl must cope with the day to day.

Judit

An intimate and bucolic portrait of a young girl and her role within her family that reconstructs the biblical myth of Judith and Holofernes.

Firecrackers

Lou and Chantal are gonna blow up. One day. Somehow. But girls don't get out of Coberge, Ontario by playing nice. All they've ever wanted, was to feel what it's like to be free.

Time & Again

Eleanor and Isabelle meet again, sixty years after their relationship break up...

Uproar

Antoine, twenty-five, does not want to be alone this evening. He leaves in the middle of the night to find a remedy for his loneliness.

Noah

In a story that plays out entirely on a teenager's computer screen, Noah follows its eponymous protagonist as his relationship takes a rapid turn for the worse in this fascinating study of behavior (and romance) in the digital age.

Elder Sign

If you suffer from an overwhelming sense of dread brought on by the realization of your own insignificance in the universe, then you need Elder Sign.

96 Ways to Say I Love You

The main narrative follows youngsters Al and Olive and their respective journeys towards saying those three words for the first time. However, the story is interspersed with inputs from different couples in evidently very different relationships.

A Man from Nowhere

Rafa is a guy who dreams a lot and sleeps very little. He’s no longer a teenager and he’s one step ahead to become an adult, this would become more difficult than he ever thought. Love, drugs and uncertain future, are the thing that go with him through his journey to find out who he is as a person.

Gabriel

Gabriel, a 32-year-old Spanish man lives in Germany with his boyfriend Lars, far away from his conservative family. Time and again he remembers his childhood in daydreams.

Escape Into the Wild

On a warm and clear summer day in the 50s, a proud and graceful city boy meets two mischievous, free country kids. It opens up a window on a whole new world; his journey under the sun will bring him closer to nature and the harbingers of love.

Lucy's Tale

Lucy begins to realize she is not like the other teens in school.

Voyager

A shooting star falls down over the Arctic island of Svalbard and The Global Seed Vault gets an unexpected visitor.

Summer days are longer

A married couple who are in an argument will discover that only silence will keep them together.

Hold Your Breath

Marguerite and Coline fall in love at their local swimming pool, where they kiss for the first time. The stopwatch starts and there already is not much time left. Hold your breath depicts five pictures, five memories, five phases of their story.

LIFE

Elina's boyfriend left her for her best friend. The girl takes a bottle of wine and decides to remember the last best moments of her life.