The Hunger 2017
The Hunger 2017
Gutten er sulten (original title)
21min | Short, Drama | 14 June 2017 (Norway)
Storyline:
A sixteen year old boy with an intense desire for recognition seeks out a vicious criminal to prove his boundless grit. An expressive suburban gothic tale which enters the mindset of a teenager and explores the phenomenon of sensation seeking at a young age.
The Boy Below 2003
The Boy Below 2003
Dykkerdrengen (original title)
30min | Short, Drama | 28 January 2003 (Denmark)
Storyline:
The ten-year-old Anders, who is obsessed with diving, lives in an apartment with his alcoholic father, who himself has a past as a scuba diver. Although they are under the strict supervision of the social authorities due to their father’s abuse, Anders is 100% loyal. For it is envisaged that if the father stays away from the bottle, they can travel to the south together and have a diving holiday. Anders buys in, cooks and keeps the façade facing the outsiders, but when they reach down to the heat and the cheap booze, the situation becomes unmanageable for Anders.
Y Adán y 1971
Y Adán y 1971
28min | Short, Fantasy | 1971 (Chile)
Storyline:
From the depths of the sea is born Adam, a young man who searches the world for the place to which he belongs. Walking along the beach, he meets another child like him and they become friends. As an adult, the child becomes a man who tries to find the woman, his counterpart. Harassed by the beings of the world, he sees it through dreams and this helps him to recover from his evil.
Glasgow 2011
Glasgow 2011
30min | Short, Drama, Family | July 2011 (Armenia)
Storyline:
Damian, a teenage boy raised by a single mother, believes that his father is a famous footballer playing for the Celtic Glasgow F.C. His dream is to visit him. In his everyday life he has difficulty finding a common language with his mother who is trying to make a new life for herself with a younger man. It is easier for him to get on with his pregnant friend, Monika, who is his senior by a few years. When the time comes, Damian will have to choose between his dreams and common sense, a consequence of his subconscious need to correct somebody else’s mistakes.
My Brother Is A Mermaid 2019
My Brother Is A Mermaid 2019
20min | Short, Drama | 20 October 2019 (UK)
Storyline:
My Brother is a Mermaid is magical realism about the experiences of a non-binary teenager, as seen through the eyes of their 7 year old brother. Set in a desolate seaside town, the film fuses social realism with fairytale, as it examines how a child’s innocence and unconditional love can be a powerful and disruptive force for good.
Gusts of Wild Life 2019
Gusts of Wild Life 2019
Ráfagas de vida salvaje (original title)
24min | Short | 1 April 2019 (Spain)
Storyline:
It is said he has someone locked up. People have seen him looking over from the other side of the fence. That kid will disappear any day.
The song of the dead children 2008
The song of the dead children 2008
La canción de los niños muertos (original title)
38min | Short | 4 October 2008 (Mexico)
Storyline:
Five children are isolated with their father on a lonely beach after the death of their mother. As the days go by, the children start torturing their father.
The End 2018
The End 2018
22min | Short, Drama | 19 January 2018 (Belgium)
Storyline:
Javier is an obsessed artist who is grieving the end of a romance. His sorrow comes as a combination of memories, instinct and denial, and the mourning’s harsh feelings will compromise his sense of reality. Surrounded by doubt, and subjected to several addictions, Javier fights to find peace – until his lattermost move take him to a surrealistic emotional purgatory. The absurdity in which Javier finds himself might be a way out of the pain, and his redemption to love and all endings. But first he needs to confront his demons and to take one last chance into the pleasures of the flesh.
Serodiscordantes 2019
Serodiscordantes 2019
27min | Short, Fantasy | 9 February 2019 (Germany)
Storyline:
A virus is always an unwanted guest. Yet, if it arrives, you better make room for it. Consumed by the guilt, Miguel was doing his best to keep Evaristo safe and apart of the tension, but he knew he couldn’t hide it any longer when dark thoughts started taking on his dreams. Seeking the mystic help of a pendulum, both lovers enter a dangerous game of questions that will reveal the most undesirable intimacy. In the time of a day, they’ll go together through the fear of the illness, the subtle loss of the innocence, and the unparalleled complicity that arises from deep truth.
