"Official Selection at Cannes' Cinéfondation (2012)"
On a boat at night, the secret journey of a man returning home.
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Leonida
Soldier
Waitress
Bear Man
A short filmed on super 8, based on Stephen King's short story of the same name.
A quirky high school girl has to learn that you can't fit friendship into a checkbox.
In a war-ravaged Syrian neighborhood, a musician struggles to rebuild his piano after it is destroyed by terrorists.
Quiet 10-year-old Zsofi has just changed schools. Feeling out of place at first, she is quickly admitted to the school’s famous choir and befriends her popular classmate Liza. Soon, they have to stand up united against their choir master, who isn’t quite the friendly and inspirational teacher they first thought she was.
Viorel is 12 years old boy and he lives with his grandfather near the Danube river. He helps his grandfather to fix the figurines of an old merry-go-round. Mirko is the son of the local police officer on the Serbian shore of the Danube. The two kids have a remote controlled small boat which they use to send each other various objects. When Viorel finds a gun in his grandfather's attic their lives will change.
A conflicted woman discovers she is pregnant and must confront unresolved issues shadowing her relationship.
Like every weekend, nineteen-year-old student Rachel is babysitter to the two-year-old baby Hugo. When Hugo's single father has gone out for the night, Christine takes advantage of it to invite her good friend Christine.
An argument between two families in a thrift store erupts into a full-scale brawl.
Gold Medal Olympic runner, Travis Downes is forced to confront his actions after steroid allegations surface and his agent sets up a press conference for the next day. As he is locked in a hotel room his actions become more clear and he is forced to make a choice that will forever impact his future.
An engaged couple discover the lies that their relationship has been built on may compromise International Security Services.
After 25 years, a former hired gun visits his old colleague, now a small-town sheriff. Their past relationship is explored, as is how they reflect on it in the present.
Watching the love of his life dying out of a terminal and painful illness, Mike slowly grows to make a decision to end her suffering.
It's 1986, tormented teenager Henry is struggling with his sexuality and abusive home life. Henry sits in his closet contemplating suicide. In a flash of light he is transported to 2016 where he meets teenager Ben — now occupying his room 30 years later.
Mike, a sulky teenager, has to do a boring job: to take his little brother Jack to the hairdresser. Waiting for him in the car, Mike starts to get worried when Jack takes too long to return.
A black-humored short story of a suicide attempt that ends abruptly (ain’t that always the way!). Short black and white animation on 8mm.
The love uncertainties of a young homosexual in search of himself.
Karim, 30, drives every night. One day at dawn, he drives his last client - a foreign artist, the same age than him. Karim feels irresistibly attracted towards this young man. What he feels will start questioning who he thought he was.
Determined to win an ice cream competition with a flavor inspired by her late Tia Abuela’s Puerto Rican treats, a teen girl turns to her trailer park neighbors to help figure out the winning recipe.
A princess and a hunter. An iconographic journey immersed in Lusitanian fantasy.
When a brilliant nine-year-old working in a sweatshop gets a chance to attend school, she must make a difficult choice for her and her sister's future.
When young dad, Joe, discovers he's dying, drifter Charlie is given a unique opportunity to turn his life around. A story of family, identity and starting again.
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister asking him to look after his nine-year old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.
While throwing a "Christmas Around the World" party at her family's inn, an event planner discovers Christmas magic with a charming father-son duo whose presence brings about tension and joy.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Krissy Kringle receives a delivery intended for Santa Claus. A magical book that shows if a person has been naughty or nice. She uses the book's power to find out about those around her, which leads to some very unusual and unintended results. Krissy realizes that everyone has some good and some not so good in them.
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any of Aria's needs. While her two older sisters are pampered, Aria is treated with cold indifference. Yet she yearns to love and to be loved. At school, Aria excels academically but is considered a misfit by everyone. She is misunderstood. Aria finds comfort in her cat - Dac and in her best friend - Angelica. Thrown out of both parents' homes, abandoned by all, even her best friend, Aria finally reaches the limit of what she can bear. She makes an unexpected decision in her life.
Bruno Salvati is a director of little success, fresh from the separation from his wife Anna with whom he had two children, the twenty-year-old Adele and the seventeen-year-old Tito. Following a sudden illness, Bruno is diagnosed with a disease that requires the intervention of a donor. All his family relationships are called into question, including that with his father Umberto, the custodian of a secret that will force Bruno to embark on a journey in search of someone who can help him.
A burned-out paramedic tries to survive his last 24 hours on the job while training a new recruit.
Ex-fighter Raymundo forms an unlikely bond with a disgruntled man whose life and relationship with his daughter are unraveling. The men join forces to win a fight that could very well save Raymundo, his wife and their child.
Follows Callie and Joseph one year after they fell in love, now running a dairy farm and winery, but their romance is threatened when business and family obligations call Joseph back to the city.
A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.
Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This comedy follows the efforts of a family to erect the roof on a house overnight so that a newlywed couple can have their own home.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
A 9 year old boy experiences God's power in a supernatural way.
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
Rome, summer 1943. Four children play war while the bombs of real war explode around them. Italo is the rich son of the Federal, Cosimo has his father in confinement and an atavistic hunger, Vanda is an orphan and a believer, Riccardo comes from a wealthy Jewish family. They are different but they don't know it and between them "the greatest friendship in the world" is born, impervious to the divisions of history that bloodies Europe. But on October 16 the Jewish boy is taken away by the Germans together with over a thousand people from the Ghetto. Thanks to Italo's father Federale, the three friends believe they know where he is and, to honor the "spit pact", decide to leave in secret to convince the Germans to free their friend. Yet another imaginative mission becomes reality, the three children travel alone in an Italy exhausted by war, among disbanded soldiers, deserters, occupying German troops, exhausted and hungry populations.
Fiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to set up a shoe factory that will never open. The con requires a native Albanian, so they designate Spiro, an impoverished and confused former political prisoner as chairman of the board. When Fiore returns to Italy to get government funds for the project, Spiro unexpectedly disappears and Gino sets out on a journey to find him. The search leads him to discover Spiro's tragic personal history and witness Albanian poverty firsthand.