Five Frames and one fine evening we went to tell a story (2022)

A Way Out

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Go on, laugh

A mentally unstable teen transforms himself into a clown to deal with and mask his own disturbing, nihilistic worldview and deteriorating mental health. the further the film continues, the more prominent his descent into madness becomes.

Three Venus

Love and admiration in 16mm. The fusion a beauty that exists throughout three generations; my three Venus.

Longing of the idle plants

A film about using nature as a way to deal, cope and escape depression, a sense of melancholy and loss clouds over the film.

Harbinger

A Los Angeles detective discovers the unbelievable while searching for a missing child and in the aftermath his life begins to unravel.

Piece of Paradise

Alex returns to a lifeless home that she ran away from at a young age. Once home, she begins filming a video about her past life but begins to question why she is putting her misery on display instead of doing what makes her happy.

MENTIS EXCESSUS

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Thlípsi

A man who is paranoid and deluded by his own conspiracies that someone out there is after him must come to terms with the root of his suffering.

Spectres

Three ancient heroes encounter the spectres of their dead loved ones and struggle to let them go.

Normality

Normality is a human state of good intentions, empathy, caring and wanting to do the best for those we love and the world at large.

The death of the minotavr

The death of the minotavr talks about the concept of the heroine's journey. Suffering, horror and exhaustion lead the protagonist to a process of transformation, abyss and expiation, because only murdering to minotaur and everything he represents is possible to return to life. From the female gaze, it shows the depth of the emotional wounds caused by domestic violence; the same one that the surrealist Dora Maar lived and that ask why, as a society, instead of killing the minotaur, we blindly continue to send him women only to be devoured and ask them why they simply did not fight, why they did not try get out of the labyrinth.

Atali'i O Le Crezent (Sons of the Crezent)

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Nourishment of the oblivion

Andrea and the simbionte travel to Toledo; when they arrive, they find a lonely bus station, which slowly turns off the lights for them. In the silence that surrounds them, Andrea watches the moment pass and with it her certainty about her future dream with the simbionte, feeling that everything she experiences is actually a memory.

I'm At Home

The host of a children's television show aimed for creativity starts experiencing burnout after needing to force that creativity every day.

The Quiet Silence

Bustoni, a performing arts worker who lives with his mother who are dying, has a question that distract his life. What will happen to a woman after death?

Once More Unto the Breach

July, 1941. After the beginning of the German invasion, an Italian soldier, a veteran of the colonial wars, is sent to the Soviet front. As he remembers the fairy tales his Russian mother used to tell him, the train he is travelling in crosses Europe on its way to the vast Ukrainian plains, where the enemy and a cruel winter await him… (Based on the experiences of several Italian soldiers.)

Amor de Plástico

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Anamnesis

A reclusive former star of British cinema reflects on the loss of her child and her past life in the spotlight.

Puparia

Something is about to change drastically, and the only thing to do is to witness it.

bonny

Memories cascade and fade as Bonny remembers the one she loved and the life they lived on the run...

Verrückt

Procedurally-generated frames slowly expand in density to visually explore the mind of a psychopathic, narcissistic teenager, up until the demise of the subject.

Hotaru

Nova, immersed in metaphors that cross her unconscious, is guided by fate, door to door.

Solitary Eyes

An isolated filmmaker struggles to connect with others in the absence of cameras. When he becomes creatively stuck, the world around him begins to dissolve.

Journey to Somewhere

A young woman, who has inherited her grandparents' huge house, a fascinating place full of amazing objects, feels overwhelmed by the weight of memories and her new responsibilities. Fortunately, the former inhabitants of the house soon come to her aid. (An account of the life and work of Fernando Fernán Gómez [1921-2007] and his wife Emma Cohen [1946-2016], two singular artists and fundamental figures of contemporary Spanish culture.)

Alta Morte

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500 Years Later

A short city symphony evocation of present day Mexico City five hundred years after the invasion of the Spanish and the fall of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan.

Fornacis

Anya, a mourning woman, drives to the unknown in her vintage car, a 1961 Facel Vega. Her only traveling companion is a mysterious urn. Consumed by sadness and loneliness, Anya falls into a confused world, where the memories of her lover, Frida, and her fantasies are blended. In the middle of the night, Anya decides to make a stop at the FORNACIS, a godforsaken dive bar, to get some rest. In this atypical cellar, she meets Wolf. The two lost souls get along immediately, the night belongs to them for only few hours...

Reflection

Jonathan, the doc's director, standing in front of a mirror recalls an event from his childhood, reflecting on the image he has of himself. To do this, he immerses himself in his past. All of this happens extremely fast, like the duration of a thought and the format of a micro short.

My Neighbor Wants Me Dead

The Tenant continuously fails to escape his deadly apartment under five minute time limit as his blood-thirsty neighbor threatens to break in and exterminate him.

Midríase

Is the eye the window of the soul? - Mydriasis is a movie that reflects about the early discoveries of queerness and its impact on the self perception of a person.