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Daniel Calvopiña
Liam
Maritza Mármol
Interés Romántico
A young man narrates two conflicting accounts of his life, changing the details and incidents in both, as he slowly approaches madness.
An important conversation delays the inevitable.
A man's life is turned upside down when he received cryptic messages from someone who stranded in space.
A girl is trying to catch her kite.
In a strange place where daily broadcasts require everyone to “keep the silence”, the long-isolated residents of Edifice 129, trapped in their apartments and by distant memories, creep forwards, day by day. / Edifice 129 is a particular collaborative project, created by filmmakers across three countries. In the midst of the COVID-19 lock-downs, Linda Gasser — director of the Arc Film Festival in Mainz, Germany — invited filmmakers to join her Creatives Across Borders initiative. The aim was to meet via Zoom, support each other, and talk film, but talking film soon turned into developing a film. Meeting regularly, sometimes weekly, four writer/directors and a digital 3D artist created short films designed to work both as standalone projects and, when inter-cut, as one cohesive story, despite being filmed in Germany, the UK and Malta, and with the filmmakers never having met in person until after the films were finished.
After her mother’s death, Sarah lives isolated with her aunt. One night, she confesses experiencing the feeling of a presence, something malicious and relentless.
Caio is a deeply religious young man, living in the shadow of his brother, Alberto. While Alberto challenges norms and embraces life, Caio feels trapped by his beliefs. In a moment of desperation, Caio murders Alberto and stages his death as a suicide, convincing himself that he acted in God’s name.
Harold May, an excellent Jewish-American tap dancer, on tour in Europe with his company, receives an offer from a German that is difficult to pass up: a large sum to put on a show in Berlin. The German does not know that Harold is of Jewish origins; the year is 1937 and, once they arrive in Germany, the company discovers that he will have to perform in the presence of Adolf Hitler.
After the death of her mother, a young girl finds her strength and reconnects to her world.
In this unique interpretation on Bram Stoker's "Dracula", a new Dracula is born into a world he doesn't understand and is forced to navigate his sudden lust for blood. A powerful ruthless vampire, at night he stalks his prey looking for a new victim to feast on but during the day he stands in his lair haunted by his vicious attacks. He stares into the reflection-less mirror and wonders.... am i the monster?
A man obsessed with motivational and right wing culture war videos goes on a hollow road trip of discovery.
In an attempt to stay connected with the living a lonely ghost follows a lone human woman. While living through her he meets another ghost capable of seeing and understanding him.
Stacy aka Ashley Sweet, an actress in porn movies, has an abusive boyfriend who is dangerously jealous.
Following a shocking on-air disturbance, a curious Stage Manager begins to suspect that something is deeply off about the talk show she works for, and its eccentric host.
He is under the control of a secret organization. He's part of a big conspiracy.
Haunted by a strange pain in her side whose cause she cannot explain, a young woman examines her body and the possible causes of her increasingly severe illness. Only a friend, a doctor and a florist helped her.
The once passionate Ellis finds himself crestfallen when his struggles as a jaded writer worsen and Emma, the woman he loves deeply, no longer feels the same way about him. As Emma moves on without him, Ellis must learn to live a life void of that connection and come to terms with the love he was left with.
A talented professional dancer meets a charming photographer who seems to be her perfect match. Believing he is the man she’s destined to marry, she gives up her dreams and becomes his devoted housewife. But as their relationship deepens, she realizes she’s lost her rhythm to his control, forced to dance to a tune that’s no longer her own.
17-year-old Ainara is a student at a Catholic secondary school, and is about to take her final year exams and choose her future university course. To everyone’s surprise, this brilliant young girl announces to her family that she wants to take part in an induction period at a convent in order to embrace the religious life. Nobody was expecting this. While her father seems to be won over by his daughter’s aspirations, for Maite, Ainara’s aunt, this unexpected vocation is the manifestation of a deeper problem.
West Philadelphia basketball star Sergio Taylor deals with the pressures of fame while his brother and sister have their own issues with ambition.
A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and becomes overbearing and possessive.
Self-assured, mysterious, and captivating Linda agrees to work at an affluent home in Buenos Aires. Her charm sparks strong sexual attraction among all members of the family, exposing how fragile their externally happy veneer really is.
After the death of her abusive husband, Matilde finds her new best friend in Miguel, her young, insecure, and disoriented neighbor.
Catalina is a young, beautiful girl living in extreme poverty with her brother Bayron and her mother Hilda. She becomes obsessed with getting breast implants to get social status and money. She leaves her boyfriend Albeira and becomes a prostitute for drug dealers. In this way she will enjoy all the luxuries that she lacks. Meanwhile, her ex-boyfriend Albeira and her mother Hilda begin a relationship behind her back.
A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.
In the Bolivian altiplano, Virginio and Sisa, an elderly Quechua couple who have lived a quiet life for years, face an impossible dilemma during an unusually long drought: resist or be defeated by the hostile environment and the relentless passage of time.
Cato, a hip-hop artist whose career is about to take off, runs into trouble with the law and a violently organized network of Argentine soccer hooligans.
A man is released from prison after 15 years. He reunites with his high school girlfriend, now a single mother of three. What follows is a lyrical take on love, regret and second chances.
At age 13, a street kid known as "El Polaquito" makes his living mostly by singing tangos on Buenos Aires commuter trains. He falls in love with a 16 year old prostitute, also working for the Mafia controlling child exploitation in one of Argentina's busiest train stations. He tries to rescue her from this cruel life with no future. But to do so, he must confront the ruthless adult gang leaders, as well as the young kids who protect them, believing that this Mafia is truly their only option.
A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.
Ana and her two best friends, Maria and Paula, navigate life in their oppressive countryside village. Whilst their families struggle in the poppy fields harvesting opium, the girls try to grow alongside the creeping terror of their cartel oppressors.
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.
Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for 2 years to achieve his dream of buying two coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in God as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with "Old Dan" and "Little Ann."
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
A young drug dealer falls in love while facing disruption among the men in his gang, and being offered a career as a Reggaetón singer.
