Thoughts

A lonely engineer is intercepted by a young thief, to whom he offers to give all his money with the condition that they share a dinner together. This leads to a conversation that will put their thoughts and faith in life to test.

and its preservation as personal and collective memory. My father documented the history of our family. He said that "we are what our memory allows us to remember" and tried to photograph everything, even in his last days, before he died from Covid in February 2021. This documentary is a small tribute to him, but this could be the story of any other people around the world.

Alexander Nikolaevich is very old. The war turned his whole life upside down. But he does not remember the war, and he does not remember insults, he remembers something completely different. He remembers gestures, hand movements, his hands. He forgave everyone. He is ready to shake hands with former enemies. Ready. But he can't. He has no hands. He lost them in the war.

Sakiran (11), left behind by his parents, slips out of the house and meets a friend who takes him to a PS2 rental. Yet the joy of playing can’t replace the warmth of the family he quietly longs for.

DOMARO

A family of four lives in a remote village: a man, a woman, a teenage girl and a little boy. One day, an unexpected guest, a miserable-looking, middle-aged man comes to the family. Everything changes with his arrival. It turns out that the unexpected guest, the woman, is Mehman, her first husband, who has been in Armenian captivity for a long time. An ex-husband wants his wife and house back. The woman's current husband, Abdul, does not want to give up...

Carlos Carreto, photographer, and María Fernández, painter, join forces to bring forth the exhibition “Océano Negro”. A brief journey not only through their work, but also within themselves. An excuse to talk about water in all its forms and provocations. Rain, clouds, reflections, distortion... everything is water to be shaped with the gaze.

A young soldier returns home from the Civil War carrying a terrible secret that threatens to estrange the only family he has left: his mother.

When astronomer Elle Towe heads home for the holidays, her journey crosses paths with a stranger who just might shake up her entire perception of the sky… and of love. Watch United’s own holiday rom-com short, Love in Plane Sight.

While the artist attends his highly anticipated exhibition, his mysterious past jeopardizes the auction.

A short behind the scenes documentary showing the creation of the short claymation film The Genie in a Ravioli Can (Le génie de la boîte de raviolis).

A pandemic and two different individuals under the same roof. The trigger for it all is a sneeze. Anna and Vicent are forced to coexist with the new reality, surpassing the limits of the absurd.

A female puppet appears locked in a room, lying on the floor and immobile. Through various experiences, strings begin to attach to her body, and her movements gradually become more fluid. Each string is associated with a scene related to an aspect of women's social issues, such as the body, equality, or gender.

Ava

Zoteno, a farmer, lost everything in the Mexican Revolution. The lands he works on are dying and despair takes hold of him. Seeking to change his fortune, he will be tempted by the devil in exchange for his soul.

This brief story takes place in the 1950s and it follows our main character Dominic, a 30 year old worker who all of a suden wakes up in a bathroom without any exit. Dominic is not capable to remember how he got to this place neither his own past. Nevertheless he knows he is not alone in this bathroom, Paul a famous writer is also trapped in this place. Dominic has to find out how he got to this place and how is he related to Paul.

16-year-old Ina is in love for the first time; her boyfriend is 17-year-old Christoph. Their role models in terms of relationships are the very emotional Helen and the self-confident Markus. Then Helen says that she is very likely pregnant, and Ina becomes concerned.

Das Luftschloss

Fifteen naturally mummified bodies were found during the excavations of 2011 in the old church of El Piquete, —a building that suffered almost total devastation as a consequence for being a refuge for civilians during the Spanish Civil War—, this discovery allowed the creation of the Museum of the Mummies of Quinto where this collection with unique characteristics in Spain is exhibited thanks to the research of historians, scientists, bio anthropologists and archaeologists.

A 20-minute trip through 30 years of classics and new faves.