"Quarantines" is a collective film made at the time of the first confinement of 2020. Ten international directors, ten perspectives that intersect in the same period, with their authentic and more atypical universes than each other. A work that unites in isolation and expresses the impalpable. This film is a challenge, a bet: that of creation which persists despite everything within the constraints of the health crisis.
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
Viva la risa
Lila, a character in a children's story book, suddenly falls out of her paper world and becomes trapped in a world where she doesn’t belong and discovers that only Ramón—the now–grown owner of the book who no longer believes in fantasy—can save her. With the help of her new friend Manuela, Lila tries to convince him of her situation, and together they embark on a risky journey to the Desert of Lost Memories to recover her lost book.
Progress is not always a panacea, and sometimes, if the principles that unite man with nature are not respected, it can become dangerous. The internationally renowned scientist, Don Fernando Salazar, returns to his hometown with his daughter to launch his most ambitious project: the construction of a hydroelectric power plant. This will cause a series of tensions among the inhabitants of the small village, especially between an old charcoal burner and the scientist. The small village nestled in the Pyrenees will experience a series of extraordinary events following the intervention of a mysterious and magical character, Olentzero, who, together with the charcoal burner's grandson, will star in an adventure they will never forget.
When mysterious creatures invade a Greek seaside port, a misfit band of musicians, tourists, bodybuilders, and grannies unite to save the city in this quirky action-comedy.
Informed by an underlying sense of anxiety and anguish, Michael Robinson’s Polycephaly in D nestles fragments of narrative within a collage of sound, image, and text that oscillates between the elegant and the discordant.
A short romance about two adolescents named Persephone and Mara, who decide to escape from the world around them by locking themselves away in an old projector room at the Cinematheque.
The Fox Demon Love
It's Christmas Eve and Fletcher lays sticks driecting Santa to the rabbits' new burrow. But when it snows, he wonders how will Santa find them?
On Jim's first day of school he worries, "Will I have a friend?" As the "new boy", it seems as if all the friends are already taken. Find out the answer to his question in this universal story about growing up.
Clara is given a nutcracker in the form of a toy soldier for Christmas. That night she sees the nutcracker in battle with the terrible Seven-headed Mouse King. The nutcracker turns into a young Prince and takes Clara to the Kingdom of Sweets.
A band on a trip to nowhere, while music keeps the dream alive and revives memories.
With the help of a spunky, lonely-in-love psychic, a deceased wife tries to get her grieving husband to move on. In the process, sparks begin to fly.
Shenxiu has felt a deep sadness since her mother left. A storm plunges her into a dreamlike world of swirling colour. Led by the Hyjinx, and joined by inventive underwater chef Nanhe, she embarks on a quest to find solace in the Eye of the Deep Sea.
After he was demoted and sent to the mortal world, Erlang Shen needs to open his third eye in order to subdue the thousand-year dragon that violated heaven’s law and broke through the dragon gate. This is the only way he can return to heaven.
Based on the classic Broadway operetta by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough, this live television special became an annual Christmas tradition with rotating cast members.
Set in the dark depths of a strange and mysterious power supply complex, ELLIOT tells the tale of a conflicted humanoid (Elliot) struggling to maintain his reality and understand his true identity. Elliot is thrust into a disconcerting downward spiral of despair in which he is forced to recognize the perils of his own cognition and constructed ideals in a crumbling universe where the lines between fantasy, simulation, and reality are blurred, and the fibers of Elliot’s fragile existence are ruptured.