Das Verschwinden vor dem Inneren Auge

Jo; or The Act of Riding a Bike is Zefier's third film.

After so many generational repetitions and beneath so many layers is a territory to be negotiated beyond each person’s skin, inside: the cavity that echoes the intimate and singular identity of everyone. The voice that populate this film bring us to various spaces in Matera, from tourist agglomerations to the town’s internal spaces (grottes, caves, cisterns, lanes, rooms) and the body’s own unassailable space: pleasure and desire for other bodies that no one can cancel.

In Hong Kong, a young woman haunted by visions of her future self meets a stranger who changes the course of her night -- and possibly her life.

After a spell cast by Grandma Faraway, the oldest son of a small family encounters the ghost of his late Grandma Maria still living in her old house, and they chat as they used to.

Mahanati depicts the life and career of one of Telugu cinema's greatest and most iconic starlets, the first Indian female super star, Savitri.

Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons of his own making. Forced to confront the darkest moment in his life, he mines fractured and repressed memories for a way out. A woman is at the center of all the writer’s afterlife encounters. She is the subject of his life’s greatest regret, and she materializes everywhere in this Otherworld. The writer cannot detach any thoughts of his life from her.

Augusto M. Torres makes a tour of images in honor of the CIRCUS THEATER of Orihuela.

Laci is almost ready for his great escape - standing in his way are his watchful parents, a depressed grandmother, and a cat who still has a lot to forgive.

Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

DOMARO

Made with virtually no budget during COVID-19 quarantine in 2020, IRANIAN LIVES MATTER abstractly recounts the true story of what occurred in Iran during the November 2019 protests, sparked by a surprise hike in gasoline prices, which quickly spread across the entire nation and was subsequently crushed by the dictator's iron fist, resulting in the death of approximately 1500 protesters, as reported by Reuters. IRANIAN LIVES MATTER is an experimental documentary, an audio-visual endurance test that audibly takes its audience through the chaos in the streets of Iran as the brutal regime cracks down on Iranian protesters, while visually showing the hands of the dictatorship as it crosses out 1500 lives one by one to further emphasize the scale of the massacre and show to a world desensitized to news of mass killings in the Middle East what the term "1500 dead" truly means.

Stasis

An experimental short on technology and organic life

Sequel to Moon Men, Summit of Saturn follows Adrian and Sumner as they live in isolation in the city, unable to figure out themselves creatively. Reality soon starts to dissolve around them as they descend into cosmic madness and they must find their separate ways out.

Mello, Judd, & Tooth Floss is a slice of life short about two friends who sit in their car by the ocean on their lunch break as they make up stories about passersby.

A triple exposure on EXR 50D 16mm film: two layers shot in summer, and the third captured on the cusp of winter. A collection of statues fading in and out of consciousness, around the Weissensee lake in northeast Berlin, where the filmmaker lives.

Born in 1981, Roman was a brilliant young man, promised a bright future but he died crushed by a car in 2015. His friend Eugenia could not accept this disappearance and decided to create an “intelligent” chabot. Feeding it all his texts, the software learned to speak like him thanks to an artificial intelligence.

In 1999, 11-year-old Nisha Platzer lost her older brother, Josh, to suicide. Twenty years later, her search for a specialized medical treatment leads her to the door of someone who was once exceptionally close to Josh. And so it is that she finally has the chance to truly know her brother through his chosen family. Captured over five years in which synchronicities continually manifested, Platzer’s documentation of these encounters gently asserts that both grieving and healing are meant to be communal experiences.

A young artist learns one winter's evening that the paintings she has submitted have been rejected from an open exhibition. Disappointed, the artist decided on the way home to put an end to her suffering by creating one last work.

Inspired by Lois Patiño's short movies project called "Paisaje-Duración" (Duration-Landscape) and Hiroshi Sugimoto's photo series "Seascapes", "Duração-Diferença" (Duration-Difference) reveals the difference through duration, through time; this short experimental movie seeks to capture, as Patiño and Sugimoto achived, the immanence as the entrance for something more - or something in between.