fragments from song lyrics of different artists have given life to this story about love, loss and desperation.
Poetic, delicate, engaging. "Portrait de Rosa, à la française" gently draws you into this passionate love story, with a love text that fits well with the images of Rosa's smiling face. A narrative that recalls the “nouvelle vague” interpreted with today's eyes.
A college student struggling with writer's block, is all of a sudden captivated by his grandfather's old home movies, shot on Super 8mm.
A young woman is on the verge of committing suicide when things take an unexpected turn.
Fede is a theater actress who, while putting on clown make-up for a show, thinks back to her relationship with her father: a relationship of tenderness, desire and hatred.
Seeing himself as a form unable to experience intimacy, he is given the chance when brought to the household of twin sisters.
Maccaia
Speak To Me Of What I Know is a short experimental film shot on a Super8. The idea of lack of communication is expressed through an intimate relationship, more specifically the men of the film. The themes of miscommunication develop throughout the film in many ways, even the slightest details are there with the explicit goal of adding to the main message. Pay attention to as much as you can, and build your idea of what it's all about. It remains up to interpretation.
Ahmet, a Turkish guy in his early twenties visit his grandfather's abandoned mansion located somewhere in the northern Anatolia. Thinking that he would return to where he spent his early childhood, only to find out that the place is now in ruins. When he goes to sleep. An unexpected angel will visit him to give her a blessing of the truth. He wakes up being not the guy he was before.
A man and a woman talk on the phone and express their feelings and desires for each other for the first time. We watch as they listen to the other's admissions.
Maya excitedly leans into the joy of her first queer relationship, but must confront the seemingly never-ending sexualisation of her identity
A portal, a sorceress, a fictional device to portray existence as a moment encapsulated inside an instantaneous photograph to present fragmented biographical elements —family disintegration, rootlessness, scars, two loyal companions, the promises of a new land—subverting the notion of a home-movie and transform it into a pilgrimage tool of self-discovery, mirroring the fragile nature of memories.
The process of depersonalization maintains a dialogue with the objectification of the body, a sort of thingified flesh, clothed in animosity. In an epiphanic act, the sutures reveal themselves as the reflection of this gaze upon its own spilled fluids and transcend into an internal soup. It is the stream of consciousness in its purest form. It is the raw and the bare. It is the visceral nature of facts. It is the merging of worlds. It is the flesh in turmoil.
Two generations dialogue through the images they filmed of their children, a reflection of the emotional bond that arises from their involvement with what was shot.
"What I tried to "tell" is Rosa's close and distorted relationship, common to many women who are used to living alone with themselves, with objects that have become animated and unreal and the relationship which is completely silent, but no less clear and explosive of Rosa with her feminine unconscious” (D. Maraini).
Fulano de Tal
Three women leave for a beach holiday. The joy, the carefreeness of days on the beach, lunches on the terrace, lazy afternoons punctuate this "holiday film" which slowly reveals and builds the sensual and playful intimacy of the relationship that binds the protagonists/directors.
According to Scottish mythology Selkies are mythological beings capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. This film follows the story of such a creature who chooses the sea over her land dwelling sweetheart.
La signora Aetna, (Etna), is bored and boredom can be a dangerous thing for those around you when you are a volcanic goddess.
A man is confronted by parallel versions of himself as he contemplates his life choices.