John Manley's Awakening

During an ordinary summer, Alba lives day by day trying to find the way to her future: a job, a purpose.

Laura and Gaby have been a couple for sixteen years and each of them has gone through the thirties crisis in their own way. They love each other madly, but do not express their desires and concerns to avoid confrontation.

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A couple is stuck in an escape room, and a failing relationship, with no way out.

Julien is 10 years old. He pretends to go to school but then hides out under a bridge, his backpack filled with clothes. A few kilometers away, 15-year-old Joséphine does the same and waits for the bus.

When juvenile inmate Malcolm is offered a chance at parole, he is torn between his chance for freedom and protecting the one he loves.

Greta Garbo and Vladimir Lenin meet at PUB department store in Stockholm in 1917. They both have lost a dream, and they start a conversation that remains all day while they are walking through the city.

A conversation between two strangers: one is ashore and the other is on the sea. The conversation’s depth coincides with the height of the railing. Their interdependence is apparent and described in different speeds. The filmmaker’s thoughts become apparent. The ship’s departure accelerates the conversation. Finally, the ship sets sail.

Daniel's father died yesterday. He seems to be totally fine. Luckily his friends can teach him to be miserable.

The deep friendship between young theater actresses Maria and her Jewish friend Lea gradually starts to break as Marias husband Hans goes from being a young adventurer to a high ranking SS officer. But on that day of the Jewish deportations in Munich, Maria comes to a momentous decision which proves what friendship really means to her. She takes on Leas child Charlotte to save her from being deported to the concentration camp, thereby risking her own life and ultimately loosing Hans. Marias story shows that in the end friendship can triumph over terror and death. The film is inspired by the childhood of Charlotte Knobloch, Vice President of the World Jewish Congress and supports our project.

Hanna, 32, is on her way home one late evening when she runs in to an acquaintance, Andreas, 20, who invites her to a party close by. The party consists of five twenty year old boys. At first, Hanna feels uncomfortable, but she’s adjusting. Soon she feels like she’s one of them.

The story of a mothers love for an unborn child and how the time has come to leave the memories safely behind and move on.

A man in a suit and gloves is carrying a briefcase. He stops and sits on a bench in the street. He watches the briefcase until he decides to open it. The object inside will change the situation.

A fragment in the life of a woman with sensory disturbances. The discontinuity in the perception of the temporal flow threatens the affirmation of our own existence.

Raúl is seriously ill with COVID-19 in the hospital. His sisters wait at home for a call that will give them news about his state of health.

Julián, a 10-year-old boy, is going through a stage of change in which he cannot find peace with his surroundings. In a dream stage, a beetle becomes recurrent in his dreams.

A girl takes photos during a student march and then wanders the streets while trying unsuccessfully to communicate with her parents who live in another city. Her mother is very ill and despite the pain she feels from being separated, the girl must cope with the day to day.

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Ji-young, a new employee of a small company, is devoted to her work, but ironically enough, she is given the task of evading taxes, thanks to that loyalty. Working late with Hee-jin, a co-worker who has dealt with tax evasion for many years, she feels a discreet hostility between Hee-jin and herself. While she moves toward the injustice of her company and society, a fire breaks out in the company building.