UNDER THE WEATHER …elegy for an ordinary man There is no ‘best thing’ about having terminal cancer, but for forty-year-old Joe, being welcomed back into his childhood home, feeling the warmth and support of his sister and her husband and observing his young niece’s blossoming emotional maturity seem to give new meaning to a life he feels he had wasted. With unexpected humour, stark realism and quiet insight, UNDER THE WEATHER is an uplifting meditation on one man’s graceful surrender to the inevitable and the palpable impact his passing has on those he leaves behind.
Categorie: LBL 2023
EL SABATER D’ORDIS (THE COBBLER OF ORDIS)
Days have passed since Antoni Iglesias´ son, the cobbler of Ordis, disappeared. The recurrent visions of him crying for help will be the trigger for the cobbler to look for him.
This trip will turn, against all odds, and with the help of wine, a desperate adventure to flee his torturing sadness. It will also help him to fight not only his most inner fears but also the dark beings around him.
The rural atmosphere, sordid and mostly miserable from the plain areas of Empordà in the first quarter of the 20th century and the mistery and legends of the towns, the forests and the mountains, the siren songs coming from the water, the tramuntana wind blaring through the Albera in Figueres, they are the main characters and witnesses of a story full of epic mithology.
The movie was filmed near the areas and old towns of Ordis, Avinyonet, Castelló
d’Empúries, Figueres, Vilafant, Vilanant, Lliurona, Albanyà, Llers and also in cap de Creus and the Aiguamolls, amongst other places.
PLEURA (FRACTURE)
A sudden visit from the past, is disturbing the world of a couple. For a moment, they get trapped in a triangle and they have to cooperate, choose and be chosen.
ASTRAL JOURNEY INTO THE AFTERLIFE
This is an animated documentary based on the Observations of an Astral Traveler who has spent hundreds of hours in full waking consciousness during Out of Body states on the Astral Level of reality. Being an Artist he composed a graphic visual experience of what he saw.
PUNISHMENT (CASTIGO)
The life of a shepherd changes after the arrival of a spirit in his farm. The spirit has come to protect the animals he took advantage of during his whole life. The man will be punished for considering them like lifeless properties.
SIR
Sir is a souls healer with the power of driving out moral and physical illness. His curse: not being able to use his skills to save his sick wife. His daughter hates him, while his granddaughter follows him constantly and admires his thaumaturgical gifts. The little girl’s hope is to learn the art of Sir and to save her grandmother with the most innocence of medications: some soap bubbles. Sir è un curatore di anime col potere di scacciare il male fisico e morale. La sua maledizione: non riuscire a guarire la moglie malata. La figlia lo odia, mentre la nipotina Gaia ne ammira le doti taumaturgiche. La speranza della piccola è apprendere l’arte di Sir e salvare la nonna col più innocente dei medicamenti: delle bolle di sapone. Sir sub ita (19’) https://vimeo.com/712635571 Password: SIR
IL CUSTODE E IL FANTASMA
It is Claudio’s first day on the job as the new caretaker of a large cemetery. The former caretaker warns him that some ghosts roam at night. Shocked but at the same time curious, Claudio will confront these ghosts. His own and our ghosts.
THE PASSION
The Passion tells the story of a young man who accidentally kills the love of his life in a car crash, and seeks resolution and escape with her mother. This psychologically complex yet subtle story brings us into post-recession rural Ireland. A community has turned its back on who they believe is a perpetrator rather than a victim. Steven has done time for the incident, and can’t find a way to reconcile himself to his new life. He turns to his dead girlfriend’s mother for solace, and a strange relationship unfolds.
THE LANGUAGE OF FIRE
Near the village of Sant’Anna d’Alfaedo, among the mountains of Lessinia, a man initiated to the Buryatia — Mongolian shamanism conducts a ritual at every season’s change. In this place inhabited by humans since the Paleolithic era, the presence of the ones who passed is something that needs to be honored. When night falls, the fire becomes the medium between the living and the dead.
THE FREE HEARTS FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
“Short Reviewing the Story : in 1883 Nietzsche wrote the book “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” to use for teach the superman method. But the day he sees the “whipped horse in Turin”, he becomes disappointed, and at that moment he imagined the future of Human without emotion and realized that humans cannot become superhumans. Because without a “good heart” that helps to “balance” “truth” and “nature”, we cannot be superhuman it was the Prophet “Zarathustra” way . So it led Nietzsche to a mental breakdown and permanent illness and then death. But this was the beginning of the story because a distant future was waiting for mankind that Nietzsche imagined before he died …