Soy tóxico

A splendid post-mega-disaster wasteland zombie film based on a comic book which, in turn, was inspired by an earlier attempt to film the same story. 

Following the success of their feature debut Jennifer’s Shadow (2004), Parés & De la Vega worked for a US company on a post-mega-disaster wasteland zombie film that was never made: but the screenplay was turned into a (still unfinished) comic – which they then adapted for this low-budget horror delight!

Out of Tune

Comedy about the white-collar criminal Markus Føns, who does all he can to work his way up in the prison hierarchy.

Once a crook, always a crook. When multimillionaire Markus Føns is suspected of large-scale investment fraud and put on remand, he quickly tries to take things in hand. In the isolation wing for sex offenders, the experienced manipulator takes on the conductor of the prison choir.

Nona. If They Soak Me, I’ll Burn Them

A hybrid fiction featuring the director’s intriguing grandmother as an anarchist warrior in a Chilean town ravaged by forest fires.

The Chilean coastal town where Nona (66) lives is beset by forest fires. Many lose their homes, yet Nona’s remains proudly unscathed. This hybrid story about an eccentric, anarchic grandmother also and especially portrays a generation scarred for life by recent Chilean history.

Walking in Darkness

A man’s quest for his runaway son, presented in a stylish narrative in which confusion slowly makes way for realisation.

A drunk in the back seat of a taxi, looking for his young runaway son. This is the start of Walking in Darkness, a stylish frame story with flashbacks to an unruly wedding and missing lovers, and with fragmentary editing that deliberately sets out to confuse. Right up to the oppressive, liberating conclusion.

Last Night I Saw You Smiling

Kavich Neang documents the final days of the White Building in Phnom Penh, an architectural landmark he had lived in since birth.

Filmmaker Kavich Neang grew up in the White Building, a famous apartment complex in Phnom Penh. Now demolition forces the inhabitants, including his parents, to leave. It was also evacuated under the Khmer Rouge, someone remarks. These are days filled with worries, emotions and memories. A sad love song expresses their feelings.

Koko-di Koko-da

Two lovers who have grown apart because of sorrow find themselves in an endless nightmare during a camping trip.

A clearing in the forest forms the arena in which two unhappy lovers are at the mercy of the whims of a sadistic trio. Their trials are repeated time and again, like a nightmare from which they cannot awake. How can they escape their cruel, crazy fate? Second feature by director of The Giant.

Hail Satan?

The Satanic Temple is one of the most controversial religious movements in America. A dive into the world of some surprisingly charming Satanists.

'In God We Trust' is written on every dollar bill. But are the United States not secular? The Satanic Temple, founded in 2012 in Massachusetts, gives us a clear and contrary message, campaigns and causes quite a stir. This documentary takes a look at the world of some surprisingly charming Satanists.

Garten

Time seems frozen in this hypnotic black-and-white film. Four people who have lived hard lives muse on their pasts and futures.

Stunning black-and-white images glide effortlessly past musings, quarrels and dreams in this hypnotic film about four mentally scarred characters examining their pasts and futures. Are they actors on a film set or are we watching real people? It all becomes clear only after the final credits have rolled.

God Only Knows

When Thomas has a nervous breakdown right before Easter, this puts his relationship with his sisters on edge.

When Thomas has a nervous breakdown right before Easter, his older sister Doris rushes to his aid. Younger sister Hannah doesn’t think this is what he needs. Sharp, heart-warming, painful, funny moments unfold in the subsequent days, filling in the background to and details of their difficult, but close, family bonds.

Hombres de piel dura

The end of an Argentinian love affair between a farmer’s son and a preacher. For one it means freedom, for the other punishment.

After their affair ends, Ariel continues to explore his sexuality, while the priest Omar wrestles with his erotic urges in ecclesiastical circles. Argentine filmmaker José Celestino Campusano interweaves their stories to provide an unsentimental picture of power, abuse and (homo)sexuality within richer and poorer circles in Argentina.

Ma nudité ne sert à rien

In today's Paris, novelist/actress/screenwriter/director Marina de Van (In My Skin, 2002) struggles with relationships, her own image and nudity in this era of dating apps and online partnering. A raw and emotional self-portrait in which the artist bares her body and soul without any fear of limits.

In today's Paris, novelist/actress/screenwriter/director Marina de Van (In My Skin, 2002) struggles with relationships, her own image and nudity in this era of dating apps and online partnering. A raw and emotional self-portrait in which the artist bares her body and soul without any fear of limits.

Love Me Not

A titillating, stylised film version of the story of John the Baptist and Salomé, against the background of a contemporary war.

Oscar Wilde’s dramatic interpretation of the Biblical story of John the Baptist, filmed against the background of a contemporary war. Salomé, daughter of the corrupt commander and his adulterous wife, is obsessed by this prophet and prisoner of war. A stimulating mix of mythology and modernity, dream and reality, humour and cynicism.

Take Me Somewhere Nice

Refreshing, dryly comedic, strangely shot road movie about Bosnian-Dutch girl’s exploration of her country of origin.

Alma travels to Bosnia to bid farewell to a father she hardly knows. This starts a journey with an unknown destination in which the outwardly indifferent teen discovers herself and her country of origin. A dryly funny road movie that captures the freshness and alienation of adolescence.

The Garden Apartment

Artist and photographer UMMMI soaks the frame with melancholia as her characters drive into the night with no destination in sight.

Artist and photographer Ishihara Umi, also know as UMMMI, soaks the frame with melancholia as her characters drive into the night with no destination in sight for her effortlessly cool debut feature that explores the limbo state of becoming an adult.

A volta ao mundo quando tinhas 30 anos

Loving, captivating portrait of the director’s father based on the latter’s 1970 round-the-world journey.

Using photographs from an old, forgotten metal box, Aya Koretzky reconstructs the trip around the world her father undertook in 1970. This creates a loving, charming portrait that provides a new perspective on the taciturn elderly man we see gardening.

About Him or How He Did Not Fear the Bear

A film in search of the motives behind and the response to the nightly killer-spree by a Russian lone wolf, slaughtering an entire Armenian family.

On 12 January 2015, a Russian soldier forces his way into the home of an Armenian family in the city of Gyumri. He kills all seven members of the family. After being arrested, the soldier remains stubbornly silent. The reconstruction of this gruesome event and the aftermath can also be seen as a metaphor for a political and ethical quest.

Lost Holiday

In this road movie Margaret Rockland prefers drink, drugs and an absurd kidnapping to Christmas depression.

Margaret Rockland combats a depressing Christmas reunion with a booze and snorting bonanza lasting days. En route, she becomes involved in a bizarre kidnapping affair. What follows is a road movie through the vacant suburbs of Washington DC and a past that won’t let Margaret out of its clutches.