Programme
These films screened at the fifteenth edition of the festival, 23-27 March 2022.
Short Films
Bemol
A featherless nightingale sings in the forest, and its lullaby calms the animals of the forest. One day the nightingale catches a cold and can't sing anymore.
Bestia
Based on true events, Bestia explores the life of a secret police agent during the military dictatorship in Chile.
Boobs
A surrealist journey through a woman's love-hate relationship with her breasts, her body and her femininity.
Born in Damascus
After ten years apart, a Scottish filmmaker tries to reconnect with her Syrian cousin, their paths separated by war.
Boy (winter)
Exploring masculinity and stages of (identifying) male physical and psychological development in Britain.
CASTOROCENE
After humans have destroyed the world (again), an unnamed beast swims up from a forgotten swamp and rebuilds the world from zilch.
Chimney Man
A hunt through dusty cupboards and crooked corridors with magical pianos and ghosts in the bathtub.
Coins
A neurotic waitress with a phobia of coins fights to control her darkest fears, as her reality falls apart.
Constrain
We are all prisoners of a nationality, a social condition, a skin colour, to which the police and state repression force us to resign ourselves.
Creepy Pasta Salad
It’s Halloween. A ghost, a goth girl and a call centre worker are just trying to get through the day. Oh, and it’s the apocalypse.
Curupira and the machine of the destiny
Curupira and the machine of the destiny is the encounter between Curupira, a queer devil who protects the forests of Brazil, and an incarnated ghost.
Dad's Sneakers
An immersive insight into the last hours of 13-year-old Sasha’s life in a boarding school for children deprived of parental care.