A Day Cut Short

Untukmu Agamamu Untukkulah Agamaku

A girl listened to a conversation of her friend Ronald, a Catholic, regarding fasting in the holy month of Ramadan. Ronald became the talk of the school after she told other students about Ronald's conversation.

Apollo

15-year-old Angus considers the sacrifice he needs to make for the approval of his older brother's friends.

Janjaal

A fisherman survives a deadly boat incident with a mysterious golden pocket watch that grants wishes, but at a steep cost. As a police officer seeks to revive his son, he discovers the dark power of the watch, leading to devastating consequences.

Searching Nafta

Shooting on 16mm film in Mozambique, director Ico Costa explores the textures of human behaviour as he follows young men who wonder what lies beyond their immediate surroundings. In the fragments of conversations captured in the Maputo market, a recording studio and on coconut trees, we find daily routines and tedium lead to chit-chat on desire, money and hope. In the interplay between performance and document, poetry emerges from fleeting everyday moments.

Summer Dream

Summer dream or like nightmare? Somewhere, we're all on our way ...

When I Become Silent

Kyoko is an aspiring writer whose artistic vision is yet to be formed. When her girlfriend Rie asks her to move in with her, Kyoko begins to wonder about their uncertain future as a lesbian couple in Tokyo.

Jo

A young woman in the Old West sets off on a journey of revenge after her sister is murdered.

The Great Vincent

Retract

The unemployed performance artist Gritt struggles to make sense, as she moves below the successful surface of Oslo.

Exile

"Exile" is a religious parable on death and dying, contrasting the burning of an old ship with images of a woman dying in a dark interior, and a suggestion of redemption in the images of city covered by snow.

MENTIS EXCESSUS

A woman reflects under the parapet.

Vito-Man

Vito is a sweet little boy with Down syndrome, and this short documentary puts his energetic, jolly personality on full display as he interacts with his loving family. By showing Vito’s dignity and inherent value, Vito-Man tackles the difficult conversation that is the eradication of people with Down syndrome, proving that an extra chromosome should not be a death sentence.

Never an Absolution

Dijo is an eleven-year-old orphaned refugee from the country of Congo. One day a police officer arrives at his school. He is investigating a murder. Dijo is identified as witness to the crime.

Chico, o Leve

An unemployed couple, Chico and Maria, wander around the countryside. They settle in a simple house, Chico falls ill and, after recovering, seems possessed by a "strange force".

The Astronaut

A short film recounting the travels of a lonely astronaut confronted by the unknown. Unfolding as a mystery, it becomes a carefully subtle, autobiographical examination of the feeling of loneliness and the existential issue of not understanding life on earth and ones place among it.

The Supporter

The Supporter is a short film that provides an insight into Swedish supporter culture. Through its main character Axel we are drawn into a world of dependency, affirmation and violence. Hooliganism is an ever-present phenomenon, reported on daily in the media. We see how a more organized criminality blends in with families with children and ordinary fans. And all the time we ask the question: 'how close is this violence to ourselves?'

ME

A musical odyssey about generational trauma and the retreat of humanity into itself.

La Dérailleuse

(Practically) Gay

After Alex's boyfriend breaks up with him at a wedding, another couple invites him in for a nightcap in their Airbnb's hot tub. When he starts to open up to him about his romantic troubles, they console him in more ways than one. Alex reckons with the feelings for women he's previously ignored out of a belief that living authentically as an out, bisexual male was impractical.

Broken Being: Prequel

A man goes on a journey finding the literal Paradise in hope of resurrecting his late wife, only to face with a horrifying truth about the reality he's living in.