In the genre 'Fish out of water,' short film 'HEMELSBREED' was made for the 48 Hour Film Project - Leeuwarden.
Social & External
The people behind it
Liza Koifman
Daughter
Gustavo Ruben Valenzuela
Father
A summer trip with his friend Motor takes an unexpected turn when Gentle’s motorcycle breaks down, revealing feelings neither expected.
THE VISIT is an intimate stop-motion short film about a young girl’s growing-up years and her relationship with her incarcerated father.
Darling, he came to see me again today. I end every session more shook than the last. Because, unlike all my other patients, he shows no discomfort whatsoever with his sexual freakishness. On the contrary. I maintain my diagnosis: acute melancholia and flight from reality. He goes so deep in his delusion sometimes that he imagines he's some kind of prophet. As if he was part of a cult.
A drug-addicted alcoholic shaves his head, yells at his housemate, gets fired, and ODs. It's a comedy.
A chance encounter between strangers, a foreigner and a local, results in the possibility of an unlikely friendship.
A mother takes her three children on a road trip but finds that home cannot easily be left behind.
Wonderkid follows the inner turmoil of an unnamed football prodigy as he comes to terms with his own identity, struggling to reconcile his sexuality with his issues with alcohol and OCD.
A man becomes engrossed in an audiobook while walking home on a summer night.
A small town paper delivery boy sees the world in a different light when he peeks through his neighbor's window.
Brynja is having the time of her life in a foreign country when all of a sudden her world is turned upside down. She finds herself standing at a crossroad; fight or flight. On her way, she meets women from all over the world that have found themselves in the same situation.
A night ride, a few beers with an old friend, memories of better times. One seemingly ordinary drive reveals the dark truths of men’s past and a sinister web of strange events.
Through his struggle with gender identity, a young boy stands up for himself and embarks on a difficult journey of self - discovery and contentment
A solitary railway station in northern Sweden on a bitter cold winter day 1914. Based on a short story from 1944.
A distant boy and a disturbed girl discover a blue tongue nest, but not all is as it appears.
Yoon-hye likes Da-joo more than just as a friend but denies her feelings for the sake of their friendship. After some events following Da-joo being introduced to a boy, Yoon-hye is not able to hide her emotions anymore.
Karin and Peter have been married for almost 15 years. From the outside, they seem happy, but behind the closed doors of the house there is a repression. Then the dog Orion steps into their lives ...
In the school cafeteria, 10-year-old Victor buried his face in his plate. Are his parents really abusing him? The legal system is in motion. An investigation is underway. Together with social services, we delve into the private life of this perfect couple to try to understand what really happened to this "beloved" child.
1954 - Panic erupts when the citizens of Bellingham, Washington notice strange cracks in their car windshields. What is causing this mysterious phenomenon?
Two forms of alien intelligence analyze the contradictory behavior of their human test subjects.
Brad seeks approval while vacationing in Iceland.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.
Bruce Conner's landmark experimental film consisting entirely of found footage edited to a new score.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
A disconnected teenage girl enters a relationship with a man twice her age. She sees him as the solution to all her problems, but his intentions are not what they seem.
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.
Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
The human resistance works to convert a sentinel to their side. Part of the Animatrix collection of animated shorts set in the Matrix universe.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new destination.
When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
A man trying to get home to his dog becomes stuck in a time loop that forces him to relive a deadly run-in with a cop.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
