She Paradise

A short scene of a mother and her little son playing ball games on a set of steps together.

In Ireland they say it takes just three alcoholics to keep a small bar running in a country town. But what if you’ve only got two?

Writes Ando, "Oh! My Mother was the first work I made using a newly bought 16mm camera I had purchased with the writer Shuji Terayama in Paris. This piece was selected for the Oberhausen International Film Festival. In 1969, there were, of course, no video cameras like ones we see now, and color TVs were only found at broadcast television studios. I had just been employed at the TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System), and I often snuck into the studios after hours to experiment with the equipment. Oh! My Mother was made using the feedback effect, which is produced by infinitely expanding the image by looping the video."

Bernie Clemmons is a pastor's wife with a rigid moral compass. When she is forced to deal with a secret that has been the cause of an on-going internal struggle, she must make a decision on whether today is the the day she will speak her mind and take a stand.

Two teens from opposite sides of the track come face to face one summer night. One of them committed murder- a question of race and class comes into play when you ask yourself who you think did it and why?

Post-war Germany 1945: Two rival gangs of uprooted boys fight each other in the ruins of Berlin, whose business is the black market out of necessity in order to survive. Their respective leaders are Gerhard and Dietrich. A pretty young circus artist named Corona comes to the destroyed city with a traveling circus. She immediately caught the boys' attention. When the latter notice that the circus director is abusing the girl, the two gangs join forces and plot an act of revenge against the tyrant. But with the hustle and bustle caused by this, Corona falls from the trapeze and is seriously injured. When the circus moves on, the boys organize a doctor for the sick artist who has been left behind. Their collectively concern for the blonde beauty makes them forget their enmity. This welds the troops closer together and sets the course for a common, meaningful future.

An exploration of the growing friendship between small-town girl Laura, who is persuaded onto a hiking trip by her friend Merit, and Joosep, a middle-aged guide.

A man and a woman have an awkward encounter at an indoor playground.

Lost in a hypersexual digital world, Joshua dreams of the kind of love he’s only read about in classic literature.

Meio-dia, Isabela

When four friends reunite for a night of fun in their hometown, a crisis forces them to confront the consequences of their lifestyles.

Cairn is a dark film on adolescence in which the main character Johan (11) faces a moral dilemma after having started playing a seemingly innocent prank. The story unfolds on a l level in the turbulent transition between childhood and adulthood.

A romantic drama about two couples shifting sexual dynamics over one night in a music bar.

A privileged six-year-old Pakistani girl embarks on a mission to save her beloved pet goat from being eaten on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Azha, only to learn the meaning of sacrifice.

The Wood's Killer is about group of 3 boys who live normal lives but one day in-counter a $5,000 reward for finding a mass murderer on the loose in the woods. But one thing that they don't stop to think about is that among them is the real killer.

Set by the shore of an Oslo fjord a tactical game of chess is played between a man and his anxiety. To combat his fears he must play the match to win, understanding his existential worries and uncovering a path to ultimate freedom from fear.

Silent short (with music and inter-titles) telling an old Indonesian folk tale of a princess who ends up married to a dog.

The story of a family told through objects found in junk shops and flea markets.

Four boys, friends and cousins, in between adolescence and adulthood, make the most of their holidays. Followers of Renoir, with pure simplicity and casualness, emancipated from the ponderousness of a script, these four boys involve us in the nonchalance of their idleness, and in their free-flowing futility. In the course of some idle-talk, of a carefree swim in the river of time, or the vacuity of a summer evening, the memory of communist past resurfaces.

A few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the Tamborim, a small drum.