DANUBE, PRÉLUDE POUR 3 VISAGES ET 2 FRÈRES
Director SEBAN JEAN
France
To paint a portrait is to paint life, a fragile life that contains in its splendor the mechanics of its fall. To paint a portrait is to paint somebody dying. To paint a portrait is also to knowing that the painting telling this life will exist after the disappearance of it, knowing that this depiction, tiny witness of a life, will later take the place of life. Designed in a lightning haughtiness, the portrait will often be contemplated only in its anecdotic living. Countdown, the merciful portrait, the film that won’t condemn the one to death during its own life, could be the one that will not cease slowing down, from which each layer of colors will question the previous one, a painting that will auto destruct itself as far as it paints and look at itself, in order to not jeopardize the life it suggests to paint. A man had to do a film, a portrait on men in canoes But already he is afraid of leaving, of drowning. He had before all, to slow down the year, slow down the year in order to not choose between the stars of the river and the sparkling china of the sink.
4242
Director Sara Eustaquio
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Portugal
Cristi has just moved to an unknow country, far away from family and friends.
At first, she is happy for the challenge. But soon she begins to question her place in this new world that seems to be a lost town, made of absences, distances, silence and indifference.
'4242' is the story of a young female immigrant, a story of a teenager's anguish who is trying to redefine her identity after being forced to leave home.
LA MONTAÑA QUE LLORA
Director SANTIAGO ENRIQUE SANCHEZ
Argentina
Guillermina is a young colla from the northwest of Argentina. She cant mourn and wants to be free. In the wake of her husband decides to leave the room. She climbs a mountain following a flying condor in the sky. She begins to remember her youth with her drunk husband and also the day he met the one only person who could understand her. Memory and present merge in a small hut. When loneliness is so deep sometimes spirits are the only company.
Aimee
Director Oscar Pichardo Isaak
Mexico
‘Aimee’ is a psychological thriller about a man who seeks to kill a woman he has loved in the past. It portrays the psychotic love that he feels for a voice he hears, from its departure until their first encounter. Our protagonist will look back at his life, remembering all of the women he has l
Lotus Eyes
Director Joshua Land
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United States
Lotus Eyes follows the story of Simon, a 16-year-old living in a post-oil-crash world, helping his mother hold onto a failing family business. After he finds his shop and home vandalized beyond repair, he leaves his town to find a commune belonging to a distant uncle. He soon finds himself lost and alone in a desolate and unforgiving American landscape where starvation seems imminent until two mysterious strangers offer hope for survival.
PREMIERS SOINS
Durector JEAN-MARC PICHE
Canada
An old couple from the countryside discover an injured man in front of their door. What are they going to do with him?
ARTIFICIAL
Director DAVID P. SAÑUDO
Spain
Xabier (Gorka Otxoa) goes for a job interview. What he doesn't know is that he has already been selected.
CORPSA offers to pay him 90,000 if he agrees to be cloned. But more than just a lot of money depends on his
decision. Still, Xabier isn't sure. What if runs into someone identical to himself one day? Who can reassure
him he won't be replaced?
OUR PERFECT WORLD
DIRECTORS HR MARIANA
United States
Alice and Jack, two lovers who are isolated, of their own will from society seeking to build a perfect home, end up being victims of their intolerance, and the house that turns against them. The house, like a parable of society or the environment resists being indifferent to them. Over time, it transforms its suffering of being invisible into punishment and ends up becoming an extension of its inhabitants. The lovers and the house are different sides of intolerance, and the symptoms that characterize it: desire for perfection, fear, violence, anger, resentment, hatred and revenge.
HUIDAS ( Escapes )
Director MECEDES GASPAR SALVO
Spain
China in his flight he finds travelers who her help or they guide it but also moment lives terrible of that it recovers in a residence for battered women. There it knows Caddy Adzuba (the famous journalist of the Republic of the Congo) and discovers the unimaginable pain of other women who him will make mature and face the life otherwise.
PECHORIN
Director ROMAN KHRUSHCH
Russia
Based on the Russian classic Mikhail Lermontov novel ?The Hero of Our Time?. All events shown as they are reflected in the mind of the dying hero as a series of irrevocable mistakes and interpreted anew: it is either reconsideration or repentance. Recollections make main hero torment himself over his own past pretenses that seem ridicules now agonize and despair over his perfect indifference to everything except himself see the horrible aspect of killing his friend a greenhorn and a show-off. The final action of an intelligent and outstanding man is judging oneself without mercy.
BACK TO THE WALL
Director GERARD STRATTON
United Kingdom
DU Dance (NI’s) inter-generational dance project Alternative Energies seeks to address the growing communication gap between different generations of people and, through a creative process, to encourage the sharing and exchange of ideas, skills and knowledge. Back to the Wall brings together men and boys, aged 7 - 80 years in a physical exploration of contentious, contested and divided urban environments using dance and movement. Devised by internationally renowned Berlin-based choreographer, Royston Maldoom, himself 70 years old. The film is shot in various locations in Northern Ireland by Triple Vision Productions with original music composed & performed by Ruby Colley.
RETENIDA
Director JUANJO PALOMEQUE
Spain
A thug keeps an eye on a girl in a warehouse all night. He has to kill her unless he receives an another order
before dawn. Suddenly, somebody arrives to the place...
MY SWEET NURSE
Director PEDRO MURAD
Brazil
The fable mixes magical realism and horror showing the daily life of a nurse and her only patient in an old and hidden hospital in a remote time. Years go by fast while the two characters remain as if they were frozen in hanged minutes fighting an invisible duel.
In the shadow
Director Fabrice MATHIEU
France
A shadow is telling its life story with his "Wearer", a flesh and bone double, who one day it decides to get rid of...
SU BIRIKINTISI
Director SERDAR YILMAZ
Turkey
A man in the flea market (Mihran Tomasyan) walks while checking walls covered with old posters and counters full of stuff with prying eyes. Due to the incarnating object that he sees on one of the counters just carries him away into another reality.
AL NIENTE -- A DISSOLUTION
Director ADREIS ECHZEHN
Germany/Austria/Italy
Opciones Festival
The short film "AL NIENTE – a dissolution" is situated in remote natural and cultural areas. Empty house. Dark river. Secluded child. It is a triple-blind production (double screen videos and soundtrack made separately) about silence becoming audible when lost in space. Then coming out.
EL CONTACTO
Directors FRANCISCO JAVIER MONTORO MORALES
Spain
The feelings and emotions experienced by two deaf people when they are touched.
GO GO MONOCRAT
Director ADREIS ECHZEHN
Austria
Opciones Festival
GO GO MONOCRAT
short film about art as a counterpart (with song).
