A re-telling of the pre-telling of a story of the end.
Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father, a pilot, is on a tour of duty abroad with the French military. At school, Damien is bullied by Thomas, who lives in the farming community up in the mountains. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them while his mother is ill in hospital. Damien must learn to live with the boy who terrorized him.
Experimental short film based on M.C. Escher's paintings.
A young man is hired as the new room service waiter at the Bay View Hotel, but he soon comes into conflict with the sinister night clerk.
Maria and Radu are a couple in love planning their wedding. But there is a secret between them that will change their lives forever. (Screamfest)
Silvi is in her late forties. Her husband has just left her. Until this point, she was fairly content with her life, but now everything is in ruins. A friend advises her to make a fresh start. But how is that supposed to work? Especially if you see yourself as a team player and there’s no team in sight you would want to join. Driven by a sense of longing, helplessness and curiosity, Silvi tries to make new friends and, in her own, touchingly earnest but also naïve and charmingly uninhibited way, starts to take control of her life. Anonymous sex, cosy romanticism and bondage games catapult her from one emotional disaster to the next. But, thankfully, Silvi is indestructible.
Some teenagers are ambitiously setting up a famous Jon Fosse-play. They hire a well known actor to be their mentor, unaware that he's going through a life crisis. Their new mentor chooses Vegard, promising footballer and local douchebag, to play the leading role.
Two rival martial artists meet up after years apart.
Things become shrouded when The Loner discovers a dead body outside his home. His mind becomes a prison of contradiction, falsification and fear when a series of dreams push him to realize the truth.
After agonizing for weeks, Valéria finally comes to terms with being in love with another woman and confesses her love for her best friend, Laurence. Short film from the series "L'@mour est à réinventer: dix histoires d'amour au temps du SIDA" ("Love Reinvented: Ten Love Stories in the Age of AIDS").
Sometimes the story preceding the making of a film is just as important as the work itself. Zach Breder, a young man living with a serious heart defect, had always wanted to shoot a movie and, with the aid of the Georgia Chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, he managed to do just that. This adventure story about a boy named Chris who, with the help of his friends, solves the mystery of his eccentric uncle, began as a “mere” dream and ultimately became a professional film which now celebrates its international premiere at the Karlovy Vary IFF.
Remi throws himself on the ground, listens to birds and falls asleep in hedges. Gabriel opens his stomach to the tip of a knife. They meet.
After a flood, some fish got stuck in old trees. In danger of drying-out, they scream sharply. Woken up by the noise, the inhabitants of a nearby cave don't feel happy about the unintended gathering.
Melanie's been having a tough day today. It's a nasty day. Piotr been having tough days for several months. It's a nasty year. Later that evening both cross paths at a bus stop.
A popular high school hunk Johnny takes a late-night dip with cute loner Ben. Fifteen years later, these two men — who haven’t seen each other since a late-night tryst in high school — bump into each other unexpectedly.
In a posh, swanky restaurant, a neurotic man's meal is interrupted by an unexpected little guest.
Written, shot and edited in just 48 hours, this film had to be in the Detective/cop genre; it had to include the line of dialogue "Look at what you just did, you..." as well as a character named Mr or Mrs Anderson, President; and had to include the mandatory prop of a set of BBQ tongs! The film was shot on location at the Pearl's Centre, Singapore.
A foreign girl arrives to her new apartment. Her three roommates welcome her rather distantly, for no reason at all, and she can smell that there is something going on...Literally. Everyday when she walks out of her room, she notices a strong smell of insecticide that nobody is willing to explain.
Peter takes his British friend Adam on a personal but political tour around Budapest. In an underground club, Adam makes a move at Peter — who now has to come clear with his own feelings.
When a new "love drug" is released, two seemingly compatible people decide if dating is worth the risk to find true love or if all their problems can be solved in one little pill.