LOVF (2020)

In Orbit

The future, the space. Sonia is about to be transferred from her station to a newer one. Although everything seems to be going well, Sonia's mind is actually elsewhere, haunted by tragic events from the not too distant past.

Akashi

Kana, a young woman from Japan is pursuing her career in North America and has adapted to her new environment. However, her new lifestyle has made her emotionally distant and can't seem to sustain a long term relationship. Her mother calls informing Kana that grandma passed away. As Kana returns home to pay her respects, she begins to recall her most intimate conversation with grandma. In their talk, Grandma is proud of Kana for leaving Japan. Kana argues it's even harder to raise a family and sustain a marriage for a lifetime. Grandma tells Kana that their marriage was far from ideal, and to Kana's surprise, Grandma reveals a secret which changes Kana's attitudes on relationships. Memories and the funeral force Kana to look inside herself and examine her own life.

Tiny Death

Christian (12) and his best friend have been invited over to an older boy from school. There, he enters a mysterious world. It becomes an overwhelming experience - an essential step towards puberty.

The One You Never Forget

A 14 year old boy excitedly prepares for his first dance, but when his date arrives he's faced with a split-second decision.

Brown With Blue

A handyman and his webcam vixen girlfriend struggle with an addiction to cope with their past mistakes.

Pavane

For over 30 years, Cora has woken up every morning at 4am to go work at the factory and raise her daughter, Alex, gone to Paris, much to Cora’s regret, to try and become a filmmaker. As Cora is about to retire, she would very much like Alex to finally abandon this risky choice, but Alex is preparing her first film.

Echo

A reframing of the classic tale of Narcissus, the director draws on snippets of conversation with a trusted friend to muse on gender and identity. Just as shimmers are difficult to grasp as knowable entities, so does the concept of a gendered self feel unknowable except through reflection. Is it Narcissus that Echo truly longs for, or simply the Knowing he possesses when gazing upon himself?

Live

The film is inspired by the real events – the story of Kati Andreevoj and Daria Chultsova – the two journalists from TV Belsat, an independent station broadcasting from Poland and their arrest by the Belarusian police in Minsk.

Cream

The time has come for CREAM - the latest product that will fix your life. This is the story of Dr. Bellifer, a scientific genius, who after years of smashing particles together, reveals his revolutionary new product: a cream with the power to fix all of the world’s problems.

Stanbrook

Spain, March 1939. The war is dying down. At the Port of Alicante thousands of people are piling, waiting for the arrival of ships that will carry them to exile. Moored, the freighter Stanbrook is witnessing the desperation.

Bad Boy Buck

After a one-night stand with another man, a married farmer attempts to hide the affair from his family as the truth drives him to breaking point.

Grandpa Walrus

On the windy and cloudy beach, Granny is praying, Mum is shouting, the sisters don’t care, Lucas is alone. Grandpa was a weird guy, now he's dead.

A Drowning Man

Alone and far from home, The Kid makes his way through a strange city looking for the means to get through his day. Surrounded by predators he is forced to make compromises merely to survive, his life of exile grows one day longer.

The After

After losing a family member to a violent crime, a shattered rideshare driver picks up a passenger that forces him to confront his grief.

White Man

A white-collar South Korean man discovers a severed human finger and keeps it.

No Me Digas Wey

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Decimation

Set in 1942, DECIMATION tells the story of ten Russian soldiers accused of cowardice and their subsequent punishment.

Rebel

Alex, a six-year-old boy from Quebec, is oblivious to the thousands of refugees entering Canada illegally to avoid deportation. Yet when his father takes him along to a vigilante patrol in the woods to hunt out trespassing migrants, something inside him tells him to rebel.

The Physics of Sorrow

Tracks an unknown man’s life as he sifts through memories of his youth in Bulgaria through to his increasingly rootless and melancholic adulthood in Canada.

I'll End Up in Jail

A bored stay-at-home mom gets into trouble after speeding away from her small-town life.

It's Nothing

A recent graduate is urged by an impossibly perfect woman to start digging a hole in a nearby park, setting in motion a chain of events that threaten her emotional balance and carefully maintained routines.

Volcano

Hannah and Jess meet up at a tiki bar, seeing each other for the first time since Hannah's romantic Mexico trip. Hannah has a lot to say about it, except what really happened.

My New Life

Piotr and Alina are 30-year-olds in a big city, trying to make their dreams come true. Alina earns money in a casino so she can work as a director. Piotr works in an alternative radio station, co-organizing aid for the Belarusian opposition. The day of their engagement is supposed to be a joyful meeting of two families and two generations. However, a series of coincidences causes the family celebration to turn into a confrontation of attitudes and views. Do their families have more in common or more in common? Alina and Piotr must decide what is most important to them in life and what their "new way of life" should really look like.

Pepper

The painful awakening of a couple after an evening of fantasies ...

Toyland

On a winter morning, a mother goes to waken her son Heinrich; his bed is empty. She leaves her flat to find him. The neighbors' door, with a Star of David painted on it, is ajar, the furnishings in disarray, the family gone. She asks passersby, runs to the police then on to the rail yard. Flashbacks show that Heinrich and the neighbors' son Paul are six years old and best friends. Paul's family's deportation is expected soon; Heinrich's mother tells her son that they're going to Toyland. Heinrich wants to go with them, has a bag packed, and listens for their departure. His mother realizes he's joined them, and her resolve becomes more urgent. Will she arrive in time to save Heinrich?

And So We Put Goldfish in the Pool.

One summer day, 400 goldfish were found in the swimming pool of a secondary school. This is a story about the four 15-year-old girls who put them there.

Jumper

Story of a bourgeois European family whose lives are invaded by an enigmatic visitor. Set within a 20th century modern villa in Spain, his presence creates an unnerving effect.

A Family Affair

A woman makes a powerful connection with a surprising stranger on her 30th birthday.

To Kill the Mother

In Madrid, Spain, during a rainy day, Dorita, an elegant and magnetic mature woman, meets Noa, an attractive young man.

Cocoon

A medium leads a lost soul to the after life. However, she doesn't seem to know that she's dead...

Toto Forever

A wide-eyed young postman and a gangster in trouble with the mafia find their lives become inexplicably intertwined when a heady affair attracts danger at every turn.

Chipper

After receiving a mysterious letter, a wayward son returns to his childhood home to wrestle with a dark family secret.

Robot & Scarecrow

A love story between a robot and a scarecrow who meet and fall for each other at a summer music festival.

To Thine Own Self Be True

An experimental study of nature through three stories and how we have destroyed it.

Didn't Think I'd See You Here

Rory thinks there's a ghost haunting his shower and decides to investigate its origin. But when he goes to a party and meets a romantic interest, his spectral mystery begins to unravel.

UNLOCKED

Filmed by Joss Whedon in support of Planned Parenthood. UNLOCKED highlights the vital role Planned Parenthood health centers play in the lives of millions of women in communities nationwide. The video follows three different women through critical moments in their lives—and brings to the forefront what the world would look like if attempts to shut down Planned Parenthood succeed.

Guilty

A man walks up in the bed of a woman.

On Air

Jeong-ah and Sol are the members of the broadcasting department at highschool. But there are rumors that there are lesbians at school. Jeong-ah who is a lesbian gets scared because of the sight of the uneasy society.

Basorexia

A young artist is caught in between the world of fantasy and reality. There he finds a girl that he can't understand, explain, or identify.

Shower Boys

“Are you a man or a mouse?” asks the bandy trainer? Viggo answers with doubt but the team chant “MEN!”. After training, Viggo and Noel go home to Noel’s house and have a sauna. The friends start to compete on who is most manly, a tough competition where no-one really wants to be tough.

Hollywood Lucifer

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Paradigm

Innocence, sex and lust converge to tell the story of Guille, a teenager who seeks himself through others.

Alfa

Alfa, a famous porn actor, must deal with his fears, insecurities and memories when he begins work on a new film without Yerry, his former partner in life and porn. On his first day of shooting without him, Alfa tries to act as in the past but can things be like before? Javier Ferreiro's short film reflects on the difficult decision of letting someone go to move forward. ALFA is framed in the context of gay porn cinema in Cuba where pornography is banned but, little by little, it's growing up an underground industry impulsed by foreign tourism.

In a Heartbeat

A closeted boy runs the risk of being outed by his own heart after it pops out of his chest to chase down the boy of his dreams.

Tomboy

Chloé is ten years old. She plays soccer, never cries and doesn't like other girls. One day, Marie, a sweet blond girl, participates for the first time to the games of Chloé and her boy friends. Marie's feminity puts in danger Chloe's self confidence and the whole band...

Mario, Kike and David

Mario and Kike hook up on a dating app. What initially was never meant to be more than a sex date will turn into something else, in spite of their different ways of viewing their bisexuality and how they both cope with it in their respective social circles.

The Atomic Adventure

Algeria desert, 1961. France just detonated an atomic bomb. A patrol of seven soldiers is sent to ground zero to take samples and measure the current radioactivity. The more they advance, the more they perceive that they are entering a dangerous uncharted territory: the future…

Pamplemousse

Cléo and Oscar are a couple that seems perfect in every way. During an evening with friends, the lovers end up committing an irreparable crime. They will have to maintain their appearances to face the consequences of their actions.

Deep Down

Deep Down redraws a descent into hell of a stripper called America, lost in the very depths of the U.S, taken away by a devastating love-story.

We Die Alone

A chance encounter dangerously intertwines the lives of three people with differing perspectives on love.

Panda Syndrome

A young boy, Bjørn, discovers on his 17th birthday that his problems with the girls might not be self-inflicted.