Palácios de Pena 2011

Palácios de Pena 2011

Palácios de Pena 2011
59min | Drama, Fantasy | 8 January 2012 (USA)

Storyline:

Haunted by their own directionless lives, two pre-adolescent girls reunite while visiting their ailing grandmother. In the midst of her fantasies of a medieval past – one consumed by fear and desire – the two girls are transformed and confront a legacy of oppression.

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Standing Up 2013

Standing Up 2013

Standing Up 2013
PG | 1h 33min | Drama | 16 August 2013 (USA)

Storyline:

Based on one of the most beloved Young Adult novels of all time: Two kids are stripped naked and left together on an island in a lake – victims of a vicious summer camp prank; But rather than have to return to camp and face the humiliation, they decide to take off, on the run together. What follows is a three day odyssey of discovery and self-discovery.

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Animals 2012

Animals 2012

Animals 2012
Not Rated | 1h 34min | Drama, Fantasy | 26 October 2012 (Spain)

Storyline:

Pol is a teenager with a seemingly calm life. He lives with his brother, and is still in high school. However, Pol has a secret: Deerhoof, a cuddly teddy bear who thinks, moves around, and with whom he shares his best moments. Life goes on as normal until the arrival of Ikari, an enigmatic student who seems to be hiding something. Pol is fascinated by his new classmate and attracted to the dark side he harbors. An inexplicable death and a series of strange events will transform the meek student’s routine into a fantastic adventure, which will take over their lives.

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Romeos 2011

Romeos 2011

Romeos 2011
Not Rated | 1h 34min | Drama, Romance | 8 December 2011 (Germany)

Storyline:

Twenty year old Lukas (Rick Okon) is a female to male (FTM) Transsexual man, taking the steps through his gender reassignment treatment. His friendship with Ine (Liv Lisa Fries), who is lesbian, is making the changes and assimilation easier. Lukas sees his romantic world open up for him as Ine introduces him to gay life in Cologne. As he becomes more and more interested in a local gay boy (Max Befort), things are getting more and more complicated. Should Lukas tell this boy who he really is?

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Kocicí princ 1979

Kocicí princ 1979

Kocicí princ 1979
1h 19min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | September 1979 (Czechoslovakia)

Storyline:

The castle custodian Král is moving to a new place of work with his wife, son Radek and a five – years old daughter Terezka. Radek takes his cat Líza with him. A fully loaded truck moves through the country which is in spring blossoms, gradually changing into a snow-covered land. Children’s imagination creates from real experiences magic stories – a fairy-tale grandpa takes them to a new castle, the children fear a black-horse rider who – as the grandpa and the cleaning lady assert she hates cats.

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Islands 2017

Islands 2017

Islands (2017)
Les îles (original title)
23min | Short, Drama, Fantasy | 15 August 2018 (France)

Storyline:

A melancholy reflection on the power of desire, suspended between the dream and urgency of the flesh, in which attraction is also horror. A mysterious and retro-technical nightmare at Leos Carax, where the fiction is reality and only those who love can get out of it.

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Paradigma 2016

Paradigma 2016

Paradigma 2016
18min | Short | 16 October 2016 (Spain)

Plot:

Paradigm by Valentino R. Sandoli is a Spanish short fiction film present in the LGBT section of the seventh edition of Piélagos en Corto – International Fiction Short Film Festival taking place in Cantabria, Spain, from May 2 to 7.
Guille (Kuba Tarasiewicz) has been secretly in love with his best friend for months. However, aware of the prejudices of society, Guille does not reveal his feelings. In a spiral of new experiences that condition his true desires, Guille begins a life to which, until then, it had been strange in the hope of one day to be able to assume the real feelings.

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