Waves 2

A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals deal with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race-based policies. The film’s consultative process, with ‘Respecting Cultures’ (Tasmanian Aboriginal Protocols), offers an evolving shift in Australian historical narratives from the frontier wars, to one of diverse peoples working through historical trauma in a process of decolonisation.

Two generations dialogue through the images they filmed of their children, a reflection of the emotional bond that arises from their involvement with what was shot.

A portal, a sorceress, a fictional device to portray existence as a moment encapsulated inside an instantaneous photograph to present fragmented biographical elements —family disintegration, rootlessness, scars, two loyal companions, the promises of a new land—subverting the notion of a home-movie and transform it into a pilgrimage tool of self-discovery, mirroring the fragile nature of memories.

Maccaia

Fulano de Tal

Seeing himself as a form unable to experience intimacy, he is given the chance when brought to the household of twin sisters.

It is the year 2020 and women have lost the right to their bodies completely. In this tale of sweet revenge, a cult of courageous women go to extremes to take back what is rightfully theirs.

According to Scottish mythology Selkies are mythological beings capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. This film follows the story of such a creature who chooses the sea over her land dwelling sweetheart.

Dozens of film enthusiasts come together to intervene and recreate already filmed in s8

Poetic, delicate, engaging. "Portrait de Rosa, à la française" gently draws you into this passionate love story, with a love text that fits well with the images of Rosa's smiling face. A narrative that recalls the “nouvelle vague” interpreted with today's eyes.

fragments from song lyrics of different artists have given life to this story about love, loss and desperation.

"What I tried to "tell" is Rosa's close and distorted relationship, common to many women who are used to living alone with themselves, with objects that have become animated and unreal and the relationship which is completely silent, but no less clear and explosive of Rosa with her feminine unconscious” (D. Maraini).

Fede is a theater actress who, while putting on clown make-up for a show, thinks back to her relationship with her father: a relationship of tenderness, desire and hatred.

Ahmet, a Turkish guy in his early twenties visit his grandfather's abandoned mansion located somewhere in the northern Anatolia. Thinking that he would return to where he spent his early childhood, only to find out that the place is now in ruins. When he goes to sleep. An unexpected angel will visit him to give her a blessing of the truth. He wakes up being not the guy he was before.

A lonely mime takes desperate measures in order to find the audience he deserves.

A single misstep—crushing a cicada beneath his foot—plunges a young man into unsettling paranoia.

An experimental portrayal of being adrift in a daydream.

A man is confronted by parallel versions of himself as he contemplates his life choices.

A college student struggling with writer's block, is all of a sudden captivated by his grandfather's old home movies, shot on Super 8mm.

A sleep paralyzed woman confronts her demons.