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Historias Breves I: Dead King

A wife tries to leave her village to get away from her abusive husband.

Forest

Short film built from photographs, sped up like a traditional stop motion and is meant to be an evocation of the English Eerie and Folk Horror.

Kitchen

A simple depiction of the work in the kitchen of a restaurant. Eric M. Nilsson and cinematographer Åke Åstrand attempt to get as close as possible to reality, without any commentary.

The Distant Relative

The distant relative is a scheming woman who installs herself as the guardian of the two orphan girls and then tries to gain possession of their ranch. Cowboy friends of the orphan girls expose the schemer and her accomplice.

Schwestern

The happening of a ceremonial robing of the youngest daughter as a novice in a Swabian convent screws up the values of a modern family. As if life wasn't complicated enough anyway. And how are you supposed to be happy without new clothes?

Shurjosnan

Seeking Me

Luisa is beginning to forget, sometimes getting lost in the maze of her memories. At the bus station, she writes texts in an attempt to safeguard her memories, especially those involving the great love of her youth.

Home

A tormented woman believes a rare planetary alignment is actually a cosmic message from her distant interstellar home.

Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm

The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether their grandchild will be raised "hygiencially."

Almost There

A coming-of-(old)-age story about Peter Anton, an elderly "outsider" artist living in isolated and crippling conditions whose world changes when two filmmakers discover his work and storied past. Shot over eight years, ALMOST THERE documents Anton's first major exhibition and how the controversy it generates forces him to leave his childhood home. Each layer revealed reflects on the intersections of social norms, elder care, and artistic expression.

Sunny Side Up

Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.

Life According to Ohad

Ohad is an animal-rights activist. After years of being cut off from his family, he tries to heal the wounds and go home, but their decision to eat meat still stands in his way. Will the family manage to reconnect?

Sweet Taste of Imagination

An imaginative dreamer university named Garoos professor falls in love with a student who resembles her teacher in this manner. Love story is endangered when a business competitor sets Garoos up for unethical behavior.

The Fountain

A story of a Moscow's apartment building that is slowly falling apart, literally. First, the hot water has been cut off by an old man from Asia, who could not stand it being wasted. Then the roof is starting to collapse. Finally, the electricity has been cut off. All the tenants of the building, no matter how different they were, find themselves in the same situation.

Don't Get Angry

This short film offers a children's guide to anger management.

Mirror Mirror

In this comedic coming-of-age story, an adorkable 16-year-old and her loyal BFF rely on each other as they navigate the mechanics of self-pleasure and decide for themselves what it means to be a woman.

Sales images

"The problem is the filming of unstylized reality in such a way that the result does have a style." Part of the tradition of radical cinema the energetic collage of "Sales images" is organized sonic and visual chaos that - citing Magritte ("This is not a pipe") - addresses the issue of representation and illusion.