Horizon (2017)

Arconada

Jon wants to be Arconada, the mythical goalkeeper of Real Sociedad, but is the substitute goalkeeper of the school soccer team.

La Jetée

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.

Ioana

Young Romanian Adrian works as a hustler in Zurich's underground in order to get his sister Ioana out of Romania and to Zurich, where they can both have a better future.

Lightning Bugs in a Jar

When a mother and son with a caustic history reunite to pack-up their old house, sparks fly as long-buried secrets are revealed, and it might fall upon the shoulders of the son's boyfriend to help heal old wounds.

Dirty

Marco cuts class to spend the afternoon with his boyfriend, Graham. Things do not go as planned.

Little Chief

The lives of a Native woman and a troubled young boy intersect over the course of a school day on a reservation in Oklahoma.

Pillars

After seeing a boy she likes before church, Amber sneaks out to the Sunday school bathroom during the service and is given her first kiss.

T

A film crew follows three grieving participants of Miami’s annual T Ball, where folks assemble to model R.I.P. t-shirts and innovative costumes designed in honor of their dead.

The Moirologist

An egocentric professional mourner reaps the consequences of his ambition.

Three Deaths

Three strangers confront death in a modern interpretation of a Tolstoy short story.

Benevolent Ba

A devout woman's lust for virtue thrusts her family into a sacrificial slaughter of biblical proportions.

Regret

Following the death of his father, a man must survive the manifestations of his inner demons over the course of a dreary night.

So What If the Goats Die

Abdellah, a young shepherd living in the mountains, is forced to brave the snow blocking him in order to get food and save this cattle. Once he gets to the village, he faces a supernatural phenomenon.

Kernel

When the world has been pushed past breaking point, an aging neurobotanist collects and preserves what little of value remains.

The Boy Who Couldn't Swim

Two teen boys meet each other in Copenhagen and team up to find one of the boys' mother. Instead they end up finding themselves - and each other.

8 Minutes

With the end of the world fast approaching, an aging magician realizes one last feat of magic is required of him.

THANK YOU

A young college student Olivia is forced to face a tragic event that has happened in her life. Her close friend Noah works to help her overcome these feelings so she can once again come out of her shell.

Tender Age

Sixteen-year-old Diane exists exclusively through her mother's gaze. But this intensely close bond between Diane and her mother, Sophie, is becoming increasingly problematic for the teenager. At high school, she would like to be loved like she is at home and expresses it in an awkward way like when she exchanges a favor for a look, in the toilets. A loudmouth, provocative, and seeking attention, Diane tries to stand apart from her mother and wishes, during a weekend, to live like an adult.

Traces of Grief

Shell-shocked Barbara must face up to the loss of a dear companion after a tragic accident. Her best friend Klara and husband Torsten devise a plan to thaw Barbara's heart, after she reminisces about the incident, the funeral, and happier times. Will she agree to the suggestions of her nearest and dearest? Can grief turn into hope?

Soup

A couple's relationship develops in a combination of photomontage and animation.

Our Best Selves

A young couple go to an isolated cabin to deal their marital problems.

The Clearing

In this short film written and directed by Alexis Bisticas, the audience sees through the eyes of a man in the woods, following the distant sound of a saxophone. In a single take, the fluid steadicam shot takes the viewer on a surreal and poetic journey, as the walker comes across everything from family picnics to men in bondage suits.

Pardes

Tom is a teenager who lives with his single mom in a small southern Kibbutz, and deals with his (and other’s) sexuality.

Eden

In this short story, João and Pedro live in this garden. What João wants the most is for Pedro to be happy and the only way he found to make that happen is to support him in his escape with Sara. On the other hand, Pedro learned how to love João and does not want to leave the garden. But one of them ate the forbidden fruit.

In the Box

A character is inside a cubical room; there is a hole in the roof, which is too high to reach. But pushing on the walls distorts the room in various ways, always appearing to bring the hole closer while still leaving it tantalizingly inaccessible.

Putito

Putito is a production with no specific genre, where reality and fiction blend through a testimony written by José Carlos Henríquez - a feminist activist and male prostitute who plays himself in the project. Available in a censored and uncensored version.

The Trap

Maggie's friends have planned a surprise birthday party (despite it being a month away). During the party, Maggie realizes there's more to it then that.

Underwater

A susceptible teenager, in trying to escape the tumult of his home, drowns himself in alcohol, drugs, and parties. Based on a true story.

Purple Dictatorship

Yeda, the green-faced woman, sells homemade bread to support the house where she lives with her sick husband. Through the context of green-faced people, we know the reality of those who live on the fringes of a purple-faced society.

Sitara: Let Girls Dream

Pari, a 14-year-old girl, dreams of becoming a pilot while growing up in a society that doesn’t allow her to dream.

My Girl

Since the rooster died, Jasper's only surviving hen has been depressed. Forced to come down from his mountain where he lives far from everything, the septuagenarian sets out in search of company for his beloved gallinaceous bird.

Insomnia

A young man, alone in his room, is visited by a mysterious voice, who forces him to reveal the murder he committed.

Homing In

After a long day at work, Cal drives home to his suburban neighborhood and realizes that he accidentally went inside the wrong house. Inspired by true events of Levittown, NY; American's first suburb.

Sew Torn

A seamstress, her thread, and a deal gone bad - the short film that inspired the feature.

To Err

237 years after mankind's extinction, an android longs for a past it can never experience.

Late

Emil, a light-hearted 18-year-old, and his neurotic Mamá await a lunch guest. The guest is late. And the later it gets, the more anxious Mamá becomes.

Slope

Living in a village full of slopes can drive you mad. Those who have climbed them in the old-fashioned way are fully aware of that. What they don’t know is that their souls might have stuck around.

No Law, No Heaven

A man's life in three vignettes as he grapples with identity amidst tradition in Hong Kong's notorious Kowloon Walled City.

The Egg Trick

Do you know the joke about the broken egg?

(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.

Descent

One last desperate chance of redemption.

The Food on the Table

Now the subjects of a despotic chief, far from having any favor to expect from him, as both themselves and all they have are his property, or at least are considered by him as such, are obliged to receive as a favor what he relinquishes to them of their own property. He does them justice when he strips them. He treats them with mercy when he suffers them to live. In a beautiful house, during a beautiful day, next to a library with no books, a table is set for the last supper of its inhabitants.

Gold Plated

Inès, 16 years old, is determined to find a job when she meets Martin, a boy from the nice neighborhoods of Brussels. Feeling something between shame and fascination, she becomes brutally aware of social injustice.

Crossfade

Two lifelong friends and aspiring musicians begin to spiral downwards as one of them decides to move away to pursue a new career.

Boomerang

Black public figure Jim Taylor is pursued by the police. He dies from a bullet in the head. In a private clinic, he is transplanted with the brain of Sheriff Maclain, who died in a car accident. While remaining black, he begins to think like a racist Maclain.

Nadador

Lucas discovers that his new student is an old schoolmate, the boy who put him through the worst time of his life. The time for revenge has arrived.

David Rose

Ten year old Stella Stewart's world changes when a strange young man enters her life with heartbreaking consequences.