According to Scottish mythology Selkies are mythological beings capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. This film follows the story of such a creature who chooses the sea over her land dwelling sweetheart.
A lonely mime takes desperate measures in order to find the audience he deserves.
"What I tried to "tell" is Rosa's close and distorted relationship, common to many women who are used to living alone with themselves, with objects that have become animated and unreal and the relationship which is completely silent, but no less clear and explosive of Rosa with her feminine unconscious” (D. Maraini).
Seeing himself as a form unable to experience intimacy, he is given the chance when brought to the household of twin sisters.
An experimental portrayal of being adrift in a daydream.
Poetic, delicate, engaging. "Portrait de Rosa, à la française" gently draws you into this passionate love story, with a love text that fits well with the images of Rosa's smiling face. A narrative that recalls the “nouvelle vague” interpreted with today's eyes.
Speak To Me Of What I Know is a short experimental film shot on a Super8. The idea of lack of communication is expressed through an intimate relationship, more specifically the men of the film. The themes of miscommunication develop throughout the film in many ways, even the slightest details are there with the explicit goal of adding to the main message. Pay attention to as much as you can, and build your idea of what it's all about. It remains up to interpretation.
Ahmet, a Turkish guy in his early twenties visit his grandfather's abandoned mansion located somewhere in the northern Anatolia. Thinking that he would return to where he spent his early childhood, only to find out that the place is now in ruins. When he goes to sleep. An unexpected angel will visit him to give her a blessing of the truth. He wakes up being not the guy he was before.
Fede is a theater actress who, while putting on clown make-up for a show, thinks back to her relationship with her father: a relationship of tenderness, desire and hatred.
A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals deal with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race-based policies. The film’s consultative process, with ‘Respecting Cultures’ (Tasmanian Aboriginal Protocols), offers an evolving shift in Australian historical narratives from the frontier wars, to one of diverse peoples working through historical trauma in a process of decolonisation.
Two generations dialogue through the images they filmed of their children, a reflection of the emotional bond that arises from their involvement with what was shot.
A woman, director of advertising films, catches the eye of a mysterious young woman dressed in white during an evening of dancing on the terrace of a bar and is fascinated by her.
Milk in its symbolic and ancestral dimension is the fulcrum of this short film. Primary source of female nourishment, abundance and life, milk flows, is drunk, steeps and nourishes. The woman-mother is its dispenser, the one who safeguards its vital power. The color of milk, however, also recalls male seminal fluid and the dimension of the sensual exchange between man and woman.
Three women leave for a beach holiday. The joy, the carefreeness of days on the beach, lunches on the terrace, lazy afternoons punctuate this "holiday film" which slowly reveals and builds the sensual and playful intimacy of the relationship that binds the protagonists/directors.
A man and a woman talk on the phone and express their feelings and desires for each other for the first time. We watch as they listen to the other's admissions.
A super 8 film. A woman in search of precious items left behind by someone special. Una mujer en busca de objetos preciosos dejados por alguien especial.
A young woman is on the verge of committing suicide when things take an unexpected turn.
Dozens of film enthusiasts come together to intervene and recreate already filmed in s8