Left alone while his parents attend a funeral, Pavel and his friends roam the village filming dares. What begins as play leads them to a bird’s nest and a challenge that goes too far. As the others run, Pavel stays behind, facing what’s left of their game.
Peter, a young multidisciplinary artist, faces his most ambitious project to date: sculpting an imposing wooden monolith. Excitement quickly gives way to a devouring anxiety that completely takes over his mind. His reality unravels as the walls of his studio close in on him like a vice... BRUTE is an experimental and fantastical short fiction film, both visceral and poetic in tone. The viewer will follow the protagonist as he slips from reality into the subconscious, entering an altered state where everyday fears, anxieties, and stress take the form of unsettling creatures.
Police inspector, loyal to the law, is confronted with his most personal trial: how much of himself he is willing to sacrifice to save his son from the consequences of a crime.
Set in a desolate world, Maria (70s) clings to the edges of her life, cocooned in denial and desperation. When an enigmatic, younger woman named Kat arrives, Maria is forced to confront her isolated existence. Maria’s sheep mysteriously dies, and her cryptic exchanges with Kat become increasingly unnerving, creating tangible friction between the two. The boundaries between reality and illusion begin to blur as Kat challenges Maria's deeply held beliefs, forcing her to confront the harsh reality she's been avoiding. Their dystopian environment becomes the stage for a psychological battle, where Maria must navigate this treacherous terrain of secrets, lies, and distorted bonds.
A boundary-blurring journey through the subconscious, this surrealist animation fuses two distinct artistic visions into a single fever dream. Matej Longauer’s hallucinatory time-lapse visions with Richard Dömös’s intimate, portrait-driven iconography drawn from the aesthetics of BDSM. The result is a hypnotic, confrontational exploration of desire and disintegration- psychosexual dreamscape.
The aging, freckled Zaka, living on the edge of a small village, is infamous and sought after for her near-poisonous herbal brews meant to help women push back against violent husbands. When the young Katia arrives at Zaka`s doorstep clutching her little boy, what begins as just another ordinary visit slowly turns into a tense and tender unfolding. As the three characters form an unlikely bond, their shared pain sparks a quiet but powerful and irreversible shift none of them expected.
At a remote train station, 30-year-old Drin lives a solitary, routine life, recording trains and finding connection with his online girlfriend. But when his job is suddenly replaced by a radar, Drin finds himself spiraling into an existential crisis. Lost and out of place, he’s forced to confront what he truly wants in life.
Thirteen-year-old Nino experiences her first menstruation on the day of her big swimming competition. Despite her wish to swim, Gia, her forty-year-old male trainer thinks she is not able to participate for the health reasons and excludes her from competing.
Two bored PAs guarding gear in the woods will soon suffer because of girls.
Zizou, a 13-year-old overweight boy, sets out to befriend the neighborhood's most popular kid. However, his relentless attempts leave him vulnerable to unexpected ridicule, stirring unresolved feelings.
A slick art dealer fumbles through the absurd world of conceptual art to impress a radical collector, risking his career on a piece of pure artifice—while a documentary crew captures every awkward moment.
Playful older woman likes to go rough with various men. Her son tries to spoil the fun.
Based on a true story from Portugal’s biggest case of institutionalized pedophilia, "Flying Carpet" follows Ricardo, a teenager seeking escape from a ruthless reality that traps him and those around him, keeping them from reaching for the stars.
In an isolated castle, students prepare for a life-changing examination. As anticipation builds to a fever pitch, a storm strikes. Trapped within crumbling walls, their academic sanctuary becomes a prison, and minds begin to break.
It's the last day of the month. Bowlers flock to the lanes of a bowling alley that has seen better days. Mira, the manager, decides to close early. She's awaiting the arrival of a special visitor.
As an aquatic malady threatens their forgotten coastal village, three young fishermen resort to illegal dynamite fishing.
Julius returns home to find his mother has replaced him with Albert, a lodger who now occupies his old room—and her affections. As Julius struggles to adapt, hidden tensions resurface, unveiling a dysfunctional family dynamic.
Koffi, a young Ivorian trumpeter, arrives in Montreal with nothing but the legacy of his father to guide him. Lost between the city's noise and the silence of his past, he must confront his roots to finally find his own voice.
Skander is 11 years old. Taken to the neighborhood pool by his little sister's babysitter, he enters the men's showers for the first time. Skander experiences his first erotic shock; he won't believe it.
On the south coast of England, a family’s morning is interrupted by a stranger. A man is in the garden. His jeans are wet and he looks lost. Is he in need of help or is he a threat? More importantly, what do they do now?
After two decades behind bars, Denis walks back into a world that has moved on without him. Seeking a moment of solitude, he returns to his childhood home, but he quickly realises there is a parasite living in it - a young ballerina. What unfolds is a tense, disturbing and life-changing encounter between two terrified souls with contrasting paths of fate, but united by their desire to survive. Who is the real intruder and what happens when past and present collide?
Based on a Sudanese short story by Ahmad Al Malik Tank centres on an inadequate man with a modest life. One day he acquires a tank and things change. His community treat him differently, more deferentially. And so, by increments, the man starts to behave differently too. His entitlement starts to show. As things begin to improve for him he starts to expect more from his life. A dangerous cycle is begun.
Alice, a sixteen-year-old motocross champion, is mysteriously brought back to life by a carnivorous plant after a violent trauma. But as she struggles to find her footing again, she discovers she now has extraordinary powers.
A scientific discovery rocks Connor and his family.
Over a spring Athenian afternoon, a teenage boy learns how to cry for the first time, as he and his girlfriend process his permanent departure from the city, and the end of their relationship and first-love.
The young Sasha tries to make her mark in a summer camp where challenges and dance shape daily life, while Steak, a passionate counselor and dancer, faces his own insecurities. A life-changing evening will force them to grow faster than they ever imagined.
Pedro is a teenager who sells drinks in the traffic jam on an expressway that takes thousands of people to the coast during summer. Driven by curiosity and desire, Pedro embarks on an adventure that transforms him profoundly.
On a beach in summer, 12-year-old Abel is ashamed of his father’s body, marked by cancer.
In the volatile moments after a car crash, before the authorities arrive, a hot-headed yet desperate tow truck driver fiercely protects his tow. But the situation quickly spirals out of his control.
A young girl thinks a man in the candy bar line looks like her dad.
In the midst of an existential crisis, Y. ostracizes himself to live the rest of his days in solitude, locked in an underground bunker with a system designed to euthanize him at a random time. Both dead and alive, his fragile peace is shattered by a series of apparitions - symbols of the very things that make us human in the first place.
A young man does everything he can to get his grandma’s old Opel Astra through the vehicle inspection — but what begins as a nostalgic cleanup turns into a farewell road trip to the scrapyard, accompanied by an unexpectedly compassionate inspector. shot on iPhone
Dora’s quiet longing to belong unravels into despair when her younger sister Nika is unexpectedly invited to join her boyfriend and his friends at Rijeka’s Carnival.
Little Anna dreams of growing up and becoming part of the adult world. But when her mother and father begin to argue, she doesn’t just grow up magically fast—she even ages prematurely…
Determined to win the upcoming bicycle race, eleven-year-old Kristi faces a life-altering encounter with a mysterious Monster living in the forest where the race takes part and nothing is ever the same again.
