The Place

Seventeen-year-old Blake struggles to care for his dying grandfather, the founder of a fading Florida roadside attraction. Plagued by religious guilt, responsibility for his younger brother, and a desperate need to prove he isn’t destined to follow in his father’s violent footsteps, Blake hides his grandfather on the property after a freak accident. As the search for them intensifies, Blake becomes increasingly consumed by guilt and paranoia, convinced he must preserve his grandfather’s life at all costs. But buried family trauma, cosmic forces, and a mysterious tunnel beneath the orange groves begin to unravel Blake’s grip on reality.

Sabina has travelled from Romania to Holmsund in northern Sweden to find a job with her brothers. Elin has just finished school and is enjoying the first day of the summer holidays. That evening they meet, and it's a meeting that lasts forever.

Omnibus film with 11 short films directed by students of the HfG Ulm

Janosch, an interpreter, is called to help during a police deployment at the Port of Hamburg. A young African woman has barricaded herself in a container ship and threatens to commit suicide. In order to get her out, Janosch promises to help her, an offer which bears unexpected consequences.

A late-night call to a train station's Lost & Found sends a woman spiralling through memory, regret, and the fragile hope of reconnection.

Sara, A positive girl who can't speak(dumb) and A lonely boy without hope in life accidentally meets and talks through a diary.

Pies y corazones

A single mother struggles with the day-to-day challenges of raising her daughter, holding down a job, and grieving her husband’s death.

After being discovered trying to escape, a woman must survive the night with her abusive girlfriend.

A wide-eyed young postman and a gangster in trouble with the mafia find their lives become inexplicably intertwined when a heady affair attracts danger at every turn.

For the love of keys and chaos. A story of obsession, creativity, and chaos, The Typewriter brings you into the mind of Sam, a man consumed by his typewriter.

After a boat accident where he puts his son Flavio’s life at risk, fisherman Capudemazza decides to never go fishing again. Ten years later a discovery about his son awakens a feeling in him that had been buried.

Denton, an anthropologist of note, meets by accident a new neighbor, an attractive girl, whose father insists upon her marriage to a man whom he favors because of his wealth. Denton and the girl are mutually attracted and to Denton comes a vague but haunting belief that they have met before. Worn out by overstudy, he becomes seriously ill with rain fever and the mind pictures he has of his fair neighbor fade into a vision of a prehistoric existence, where he wanders as a stone age savage, meets and loves the girl of his heart, who also lives in that strange world. There also is the conflict between wealth and poverty, the father's choice opposed to the daughter's. The prehistoric Denton finally wins out after struggling with a savage rival and wild beasts as well. Just so the modern Denton finally conquers over his modem rival.

Mr. Burns, a student of Theosophy, has a dream in the hammock. He sees himself, his wife and her admirer, in a previous existence.

Eureka

An asthma patient gets an attack after a long period and is stuck in a life-and-death situation

Talvez o Vento Saiba seu Nome

A staged cinematic parable, it presents in symbolic images a painful diagnosis of Poles' sense of identity in the 1970s.

Olivia, a young woman living abroad, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of reconnecting with her past. But the violence she witnessed as a child has not abated, and the journey rekindles memories that are impossible to reconcile with.

A blossoming writer learns that his artistic hero isn't all he thought he was in this satirical exploration of how one separates the art from the artist.