The last, unfortunate, day in the life of a minor bureaucrat. Attacked by a strange, gooey blob, he is slowly eaten alive as the bureaucracy spins out of control around him. Shot in 16mm in black and white, this film features an inspired score by Dario Forzato, a not-so-lovable blob and cast of quirky characters. It is a loving gesture towards those who inspired it, Franz Kafka, Terry Gilliam and David Lynch.
Categorie: LBL 2026
EVIDENCE OF THE AFTERLIFE
Two international evidential mediums share their journey and mission to bring the truth of life after death to the world.
EH
In a deserted Italian village, 94-year-old Vittorio reaches the cemetery with a white flower. Suddenly young again, he meets a radiant woman. For one night only, as the graveyard turns into a feast, he faces his last chance to embrace love and life.
DISTRESS CALL
Two Italian operators are working for “Watch The Med Alarm Phone” receive an emergency phone call from the central Mediterranean Sea. For about eleven minutes the operators remain in contact with a man in danger and struggle to save the lives of one hundred migrants sinking on a rubber boat. The situation on board gets worse: the migrants fall into the water, the boat sinks and the communication is interrupted. The destiny of the people on board remains a mystery. Maybe a ship will arrive to save them, maybe someone will die, maybe everyone will die.
AVERNO
A hot summer afternoon on the shores of Lake Avernus. What was once the gate to the underworld is now a squatter’s cottage. A group of children dive into dangerous waters. A young woman crosses a mysterious threshold. The eternal return is not the return of the identical.
ARUNDEL’S LIGHTHOUSE
Arundel’s Lighthouse is a poetic parable set in a French city by the sea. When a mysterious woman concerned with mortality shows up at a psychiatrist’s door, the two go on a long journey through time that unravels the hidden tethers they have to each other and the world.
APNEA
“Apnea”” tells the story of Teo, a 25-year-old living in Milan who confides in an Artificial Intelligence as he struggles to come out. The AI is his confidante, guiding him through difficult times, but it raises the question: can AI positively impact such a deeply human issue? The story explores the conflict between a repressed identity and the desire for freedom.
ANNU
In a remote Druze village, six-year-old Annu shares an unbreakable bond with her grandmother, Sana. One afternoon, while playing in an apple orchard, Annu suddenly collapses. When she wakes, she speaks of children only she can see.
Doctors diagnose epilepsy, but Sana believes something deeper calls through her granddaughter—she is certain Annu carries the soul of her own estranged sister, Mona, who was killed just across the border in the Syrian war. In Druze faith, reincarnation is not just belief but a lifeline between generations—a promise that love never truly disappears.
Terrified by Sana’s influence, Annu’s parents reject this idea and separate them, determined to find a medical cure and silence the visions. But Sana refuses to let science erase what her heart knows to be true.
Alone but resolute, she crosses a fractured border in search of the lost children Annu describes—believing that only by finding them can her granddaughter’s soul be made whole again.
Torn between medicine and mystery, memory and loss, “”Annu”” is a journey through the thin veil between this life and the last—where the past lingers and a grandmother’s devotion becomes the only guide home. For Annu, for Sana, and for the forgotten waiting to be found, love and the soul remembers the way home.
THE NEW YEARS
This story is about a separated family by the division of Korea after the Korean War.
Every New Year’s Day, a man tries to send a kite for his daughter, but it never works.
GHOST OF JOHN AMV
An animated music video to music by Danielle Ate The Sandwich