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Claustro

Short film in competition at the 48Hours Film Project. Sci-Fi/Mystery genre. Directed by Simone Marsella, starring Ludovica Castrichella, Dario Grasso and Federico Imola.

Fate

Serial killers have plagued the American landscape for decades, committing gruesome atrocities, and providing some tough cases for criminal investigators to crack. Two detectives are on the trail of a bizarre murderer intent on slaughtering his victims, then using them as real-life puppets in a tale that he is trying to tell.

Red

64: Part 2

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.

Leopard Fight Club

Witness a remarkable coming-of-age story as we track a young leopard's journey from rookie to royalty in South Africa's lethal Big Five landscape. When we first meet Jack, he's clumsy, fearful, and weak, but he's a fast learner - and he'll need to be. He's destined for a showdown with the area's current leopard monarch, an alpha male with a real mean streak. We follow Jack as he hones his skills and builds up muscle for the ultimate catfight. It's a battle where only the winner will walk out alive.

The Elevator Down

Two strangers take the same elevator, unaware of each other's intent.

Rospiggar

A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik. Keeping it a secret, he travels to Stockholm to employ the young man as a hired hand. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Tooned Out!

A young man with the house to himself wants to watch cartoons but makes a perilous mistake. Now his whole life is a cartoon.

La metiche

The Gift

Tolya Sidorov is a simple worker of early retirement age from some remote place in Russia. Unexpectedly he discovers his artistic talent and becomes a sensation in the world of modern art. And all this because the creation of his masterpieces happens at a very intimate moment... The fame of the unusual artist spreads across the Internet, and even experts from Moscow come to visit an exhibition of Anatoly’s urinary painting. And like in the Russian fairy tale, the hero is miraculously showered with recognition and money. But Tolya prefers to stay incognito, trying to understand whether his work is real art. And the men from the factory would laugh at him if they found out.

Misión Estrella

A delivery boy from a grocery store gets the dream opportunity of participating in his favorite reality show.

Schizophasia

No acepto!!! 1980-1990: diez años de hardcore, punk, ira y caos

Documentary in Spanish language about the Spanish Hardcore / Punk scene during the 80's. No Acepto!!! is a 4 hours and 30 minutes documentary in Spanish that covers what were the main focus of the scene at that time: Barcelona, Madrid, Euskadi and Zaragoza together with an introduction and a conclusions chapter. Featuring interviews in Spanish, old and new live footage, pictures, posters, flyers, tickets of classic bands such as R.I.P., G.R.B., Bap!!, Subterranean Kids, Kortatu, M.C.D., L'odi Social, Ultimo Resorte, IV Reich, La Polla Records, Vulpess, Ruido de Rabia, H.H.H., MG15, Anti-Dogmatikss, Vómito, Anti-Régimen, Parásitos, Monstruación, Decibelios, T.D.K., La Broma de Ssatán, P.V.P., Eskoria-tza, Karkaxa, Tortura Sistemática, Bukaera, Andanada 7, Delincuencia Sonora and loads more.

Unbound Cache

Machinima film made within the constraint of the video game "Garry's Mod". Unbound cache explores themes of fragmented memories, lost connections and the impermanence of digital artifacts.

Harmony

Zane finds solace in their time at church, a peace that is not always reciprocated by others in the community. With a pastor they have known since childhood, they break down how they perceive their spirituality and gender to intersect, and hope that he has the heart to listen.

Ces jours où les remords vous font vraiment mal au cœur

Melvil Poupaud short in 5 chapters about different guys reading farewell letters.

Los hombres de Lupe Alvírez

Three bad dudes are each hot for Lupe. They kill a guy while committing some crimes together, and that guy's brother goes gunning for them. Eventually, he meets Lupe; she helps him track down the killers and a thing develops between them.

Namdev Bhau in Search of Silence

In this endearing black comedy, a 65-year-old who can't take noisy Mumbai anymore sets off on a thwarted quest for Himilayan silence.