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The short film (conveyed in a parable-like story structure) follows a man devoted to himself and the blessings of his attributed god. He struggles to survive a primitive life and is forced to take action to ensure his own prosperity.
Sabina Cervoni, member of Exit, provides assistance to whoever chooses to take its own life legally.
Hold It!
Thirteen year old Julija and her mother flee their abusive household to find refuge on an idyllic Croatian island where Julija grew up. Emotionally scarred, Julija is desperate to reconnect with her best friend, Ana. But Ana is in love with a boy and Julija is no longer a priority.
On the importance of invisible "cogs", or screws, in the work of an enterprise.
A man loses his wife. A woman finds her husband. A mother sees her children.
A free adaptation of the story of Cain and Abel, from the Book of Genesis.
Thumbelina is born in a calyx. A bumblebee opens the flower and the little one goes on a journey of discovery. She has to hide from a nubile frog in a nut and lands on a water lily leaf. A fish bites through the stem of the leaf. Thumbelina swims down the stream until she is called to dance by a cockchafer. The dance fails and the beetle pushes her off the leaf into the depths. She falls into a spider's web and onto a dandelion. She sails away with an umbrella of seeds and lands on her calyx again. The autumn storm breaks the flower. Thumbelina finds shelter with a field mouse. There she cares for a sick swallow. The mouse wants to marry Thumbelina off to the mole, but the little girl manages to escape with the help of the swallow. They both fly off to the sunny south.
A short documentary where director Dave Jackson digs into his catboy past and life after Cat Sick Blues.
In an era marked by the reign of fluid relationships, through apps and blind dates, Alejo seeks to fill his sentimental void by constantly changing sex partners.
A three way relationship expands and contracts.
An actress answers a call from an unknown number and the conversation takes a strange turn as the man on the other end preys on her deepest vulnerabilities.
A dangerous fugitive on the run seeks shelter after he's wounded by military law enforcement. At the same time, an adventurous young girl breaks out of her bedroom to turn off the Parental Block on her favorite VR game and their two worlds collide.
A teenage girl with a dangerously inquisitive mind, is told of a hometown legend. Her curiosity leads her to the site of the legend: a mysterious shed isolated deep in the woods. A shed that may or may not be the home of the Jersey Devil.
A short study for the optical printer, based on found footage of fire, on coloured light from the printer and chemical manipulations of the film emulsion. The film, consisting of 11 sections, changes from a traditionally centered image towards images that cover lengths of the filmstrip and originate from the material itself.
Joost Rekveld's first film is an hommage to the way daylight changes colour during the course of the day and links this to how film is a medium that captures and radiates light. Until 2013, this was the only film for which Rekveld also composed the soundtrack.
Der Upgrader
Vorstellungsgespräche
His Oriental predator is at first clothed in black, her 'victim' in white; slowly the costumes change, the victim acquiring a veil of mourning, until finally - as if to underline the ambiguity and interchangeability of their respective roles - the colours are reversed altogether. Still more interesting is the way in which, as the game becomes more ambiguous, Dwoskin adds fresh layers of make-up to his characters' faces, until they become almost caricature masks of their original selves.