Smoking Kills

Sabina has travelled from Romania to Holmsund in northern Sweden to find a job with her brothers. Elin has just finished school and is enjoying the first day of the summer holidays. That evening they meet, and it's a meeting that lasts forever.

Omnibus film with 11 short films directed by students of the HfG Ulm

Janosch, an interpreter, is called to help during a police deployment at the Port of Hamburg. A young African woman has barricaded herself in a container ship and threatens to commit suicide. In order to get her out, Janosch promises to help her, an offer which bears unexpected consequences.

MUTE is an animated short about a world populated by people born without mouths.

Pies y corazones

A kid and his teacher learn an important lesson: a grammatical mistake can create big trouble, but even a correction done the wrong way can cause senseless fears.

A single mother struggles with the day-to-day challenges of raising her daughter, holding down a job, and grieving her husband’s death.

After being discovered trying to escape, a woman must survive the night with her abusive girlfriend.

A blackbird takes care of all forgotten things. One 17′ long story in just one drawing. An animated film where the animation is imagined. An experimental film for all audiences.

A wide-eyed young postman and a gangster in trouble with the mafia find their lives become inexplicably intertwined when a heady affair attracts danger at every turn.

Once upon the time on a small island named Taiwan, a neighborhood magistrate receives a secret message from space. 'The apocalypse is near...' the magistrate warns his people, however nobody seems to take his words seriously...

Bodney Brooks, a twelve year old master of computer controlled puppetry, decides to arrange a surprise birthday party for his Gran in an attempt to get back into his family’s good books. But, as ever in Bodney’s world, things don’t quite go to plan.

After a boat accident where he puts his son Flavio’s life at risk, fisherman Capudemazza decides to never go fishing again. Ten years later a discovery about his son awakens a feeling in him that had been buried.

An 8-minute satire on politics featuring the first French presidential election campaign broadcasts from 1965 and The Shadoks.

Talvez o Vento Saiba seu Nome

A young witch tries to find 'the oasis' and has captured a young man who knows it's exact location. But before he tells her where she can find this mystical place she first has to convince him that magic is in fact very real.

A staged cinematic parable, it presents in symbolic images a painful diagnosis of Poles' sense of identity in the 1970s.

The year is 2020. A 10-year-old girl is amusing herself to the best of her ability during online classes. She terribly misses the outside world. One day her dad gets her a microscope hoping it would distract her from the gloomy reality of isolation. The gift irritates her at the start until it reveals tiny mysterious creatures that live in the drops of rain water. These mysterious creatures are tardigrades. Slowly, by watching these creatures, the girl begins to associate herself with them.

Camille is about to take a bath when a child appears and questions the identity she has built up until now. After having a talk with whom she should have become, she fully embraces the doubts and issues that come with the construction of one’s unique identity.

Olivia, a young woman living abroad, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of reconnecting with her past. But the violence she witnessed as a child has not abated, and the journey rekindles memories that are impossible to reconcile with.