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.
Categorie: Short 2023
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 PROWLER
In a remote house, in the middle of a forest, a lonely man faces a mysterious prowler who steals his belongings.
WALKING THROUGH THE BARDO
“Weisheng and the girl agreed to meet on the bridge. After waiting for a long time, the girl didn’t arrive. When the water rose, he hugged the bridge pillar and died” – (Warring States · Zhuang Zhou “Zhuangzi · Robber Zhi”) This short film tells that after the man died, his obsession with going to the appointment became a real person in the bardo world. In order to meet the woman he hid deep in his heart, they traveled through the bardo body stagnant in time to fulfill that a promise.
LA DECLAMATION
After crossing the line and eating from the forbidden fruit, Gringa feels that she is being monitored by someone else. Soon she will encounter herself with the happiness, love, hate and violence that exists in the small utopic island she lives in, portraying a character she is not, and under the gaze of someone else.
REVELATION OF JOHN
To live one’s last days in peace and fulfillment in the company of a loved one. Light and buzzing of cosmic orbs. Quiet, slowly trickling film rejects the consumer world, medicine, and eternal rushing and pays homage to peaceful old age with a touch of spirituality and intimacy.
CRIPPLED
Four years ago, while practicing wrestling, Ibrahim unintentionally made one of his students paralysed and was sent to prison. Now The student’s father bailed him out and he is out for a while. He went to his student’s house to ask for forgiveness to free himself. They offered him one condition only and that was to kill their crippled son to end the torturing situation. Ibrahim had to choose between saving his life or his student’s life.