Beatriz is overwhelmed by grief after a profound loss. In therapy, she struggles to give shape to her pain, suspended between silence and the need to be understood. As the therapeutic space becomes both a refuge and a confrontation, fragile moments of human connection slowly open a path toward acceptance.
Categorie: Short 2026
FROM THE OFFICE
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.
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.