Mara—the spirit of the night, the weaver of darkened dreams—pressed upon my chest as sleep held me captive. My memory. In the haze of a dream, I saw those I loved, their faces bathed in an otherworldly glow. The nightmare was not the shadows nor the fear they whispered, but the cruel certainty of waking—of losing them to the morning light
On her 21st birthday, a young woman receives a gift from her older brother — a childhood elephant trinket that stirs up memories of never being good enough. Fueled by resentment and insecurity, she makes a wish… and wakes up in a world where her brother never existed. This 8-minute psychological fantasy short explores the darker side of sibling love, identity, and regret.
On a brief but emotionally charged road trip, two sisters whose constant bickering threatens to derail their journey unexpectedly find their way back to the love that binds them.
A boy named Adam is seeking to understand love, but is unsure of what he should be feeling. Through this process of understanding, he ends up hurting himself and the people around him
Death is tired with his job & life. Unintentionally, he finds a child with no soul. Together they find the importance of life and Death comes to terms with himself.
Esteban and Virginia, a couple trapped between reality and illusion, embark on a journey that will change their lives. Esteban searches for a magic formula in an actress: the secret of shrewdness? Virginia faces an identity crisis. The seek for solutions tears the couple apart and leads them down divergent paths; Esteban pursues impossible answers while Virginia decides to travel to China in search of herself.
Lupo is bored, frustrated, and restless. Meri tries to help him, but everything falls apart when he meets Tancredi: he feels inadequate. He knows he isn’t “normal”: normality isn’t a path he can take.
Five years after a tragic accident took his wife’s life, Mark Cohen has shut himself off from the world. Concerned for his well-being, his family pushes him to find an outlet, leading him to late-night drives on empty roads. Just as he starts to feel at peace, a figure from his past that he’s too familiar with crosses his path, sending his grieving process spiraling into mass paranoia. As reality and his memories begin to blur together, Mark’s mourning shifts into a psychological nightmare.
“Echo Equinox” is an experimental Swedish queer sci-fi romance that explores love across time and space. The film follows Echo Equinox, an astronaut marooned at the edge of the universe as their love for their partner, Nova transcends space and time. We watch both lovers recollect their relationship in a surreal journey that blurs the lines between reality, memory, and imagination.
After a lesson about cosmic archaeologists and a water-fight in the schoolyard, Elly steals Faye’s soul and Faye gives Elly a rare birthday present. But then when the night falls, under a sky full of stars a song from the past will remind the girls that nothing really lasts forever.
Utilising the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen technique, this visually poetic non-narrative film revisits Diego Vélasquez’s 1652 portrait of Queen Mariana of Austria with genuine feeling.
Frustrated by the lack of flavour of a frozen pizza, Jona tries to find the perfect pizza recipe. During his research at the local library, he meets the librarian Katharina and falls in love. Will the two digital natives manage to open up to each other or will the relationship not work out?
After a quiet celebration at their college goes wrong because of the beginning of a zombie outbreak, a varied group of students must survive if they want to get out alive.
As they search the woods of Walton County, Florida, for an elusive black bear, a father weaves a tapestry of stories to share his deep passion for conservation with his smartphone-obsessed son.