The Hope Rooms

A meeting with a holocaust survivor teaches a self-consumed and preoccupied young man that life can change in a moment.

A vampire living in a morgue encounters a drowned girl whose fate may be entwined with his own.

A short film inspired by true events and follows the story of a teenager dealing with his sexuality whilst having to grow up in early 90s Northern Ireland. As physical and mental abuse become a daily struggle, Fintan retreats into a world of anger and silence. With no solution on the horizon, he yearns to escape from the small town he’s been trapped in all his life, bringing nothing but his younger brother. As he comes closer to planning his journey to freedom, one night he is shown the reality of acceptance and love.

SEEBESTATTUNG (Burial at Sea) is the story about the development of a forbidden love between the teenage siblings Larissa and Fabian. After the death of their father, the two are left with an inseparable mixture of love, guilt, and loss. The film is to show the emotional turmoil of naive teenagers and, in a erotic-romantic way, sheds light on one of the last taboos in our society: incest.

Minnesota 1880: The trust of three Norwegian sisters is tested when a stranger appears on their prairie. When the eldest invites him in to heal her dying sister, she doesn’t realize that a supernatural force is crossing her threshold.

Can Apollo speak? An opportunity to make friends arise after receiving his first invite to a party.

Spooky stuff is afoot in a French school. All of a sudden, 10-year-old Daniel finds himself alone with Marthe – their encounter is both tender and troubling, and it seems to take place in a sort of vacuum. In Marine Atlan’s dream-like feature film debut, children dance tango timelessly, recite poems and do the drill for an imaginary terrorist attack.

Lalo is a little boy who lives in an orphanage and dreams of singing in the choir of the church. His companions make fun of him and beat him, so he is unjustly punished afterwards. Very soon, everyone will discover in him an extraordinary change of direction in his life.

Two college boys were so closed to each other that they had to escaped from their relation after graduating from college. They met again in a wedding banquette ten years after that, sitting next to each other again, as in the past. Jae drove drunken Him to Him's far away home. The trip was long enough for them to review their relationship, but not good enough to repair it? Maybe the best distance for them to love each other is from wedding banquette to home.

Filmmaker Andy Blubaugh documents a year spent looking for love in the personal ads.

Single mother Kathi receives day release from prison and finds her three-year-old son, who is living with her unstable mother, in bad circumstances. She is forced to find a way to enable a better future for him, while time is against her, she has to be back in prison at six pm.

Tucked away in a forgotten and isolated motel, a 'lad' meets a returning soldier coping with post-traumatic stress disorder. The brief encounter is a soft collision of two characters both lost and trying to find themselves within each other.

The movie depicts the story of goalkeepers Lovisa and Elin which are fighting for the last place in the starting line-up on the U23 Swedish football national team. Since Mette, the new national team’s goalkeeping trainer, has headhunted the girls, they are both fighting to be the best in the country and earn their spot. They are spending more and more time on the field together with Mette which gives both Elin and Lovisa a whole new understanding of their sport. With Mette’s coaching they of course become better and better, but at what price?

One day, 9-years-old Matt is on the way to a restaurant and finds a 20 euro bill on the pavement. At the restaurant, Matt sees a soldier which reminds him of his late father who was a soldier. Matt decides to pay it forward in memory of his father.

An anxious and ungainly teenage boy struggles against bullies, puberty, and his fears of mortality when his parents send him to a summer water polo camp.

A story about a curious boy who uses his imagination to explore the great outdoors and his home.

Promising pianist Kryštof and porn actor Filip take on the complicated issue of prejudice, both in society at large and within the LGBTI community.

A twelve-year-old boy is forced to leave the female refuge where he lives with his mother. On his way to school he encounters a strange man and tries to find a connection

Short film about a young man discovering pants in a nudist world. A parable of the societal intolerance to anything different.

Non-judgmental vignette following a day in the life of one young man living inside a poor, small-town filled with broken dreams and addiction.