In a house, in Austria, a man lives apparently by himself. This is the idea he wishes to give to his neighbours, work colleagues and family. However, secretly he mantains a hostage in his basement ‚ a ten year old child, with whom he has a sexual relationship he wishes to make affectionate. A disturbing film that catches our attention immediately by the smart and subtle way in which it transfers into fiction one of the most controversial and current news that come to us about pedophilia. (Catarina Cabral)
Plants gain a technologic life, as elements and particles become colors and shapes fabricated to interact in a lively organic dance. This is a poetic configuration that presents a computerized nature and opens to an impressive and almost infinite number of stories that can be decoded. (Ágata Pinho)
Filmed in September 2005 in the new leisure centre on Main Street Ballymun. It follows a young man through the building where he works as he struggles to come to terms with his new role as a father. It is the mother of his child, who helps him to open his eyes and imagine a better future for him and his young family.
A young woman walks through a deserted Dublin market street at night. A quietly powerful meditation on what it means to belong to a new city and a new country.
Filmed in the Grand Hall of Manchester Town Hall in October 2005 with a cast of 14 performers all 20 years of age. Carefully positioned in a circle the young people participate in a strangely unorthodox therapy session confiding their fears and hopes in the face of their futures.
An ambitious 10 minute single take Revolution tracks over the activities at a special fund raising event to buy books for a library. All appears calm and well until dogs die, electricity cables cross, giant books topple, mouths start to bleed and things generally go awry.
Shot on a boat on the Tyne against the spectacular backdrop of the seven Tyne Bridges, “Twilight” is an intimate exploration of the ebb and flow of life involving five residents from Tyneside. The film was shot on the 18 May 2005.
David Miller has known his date of death since the age of nine. Shot using a mobile phone over the course of ten years from Lausanne to Ouagadougou, this is a fiction film about the value of human life in an age where everything is at a discount. Life is priceless; death, however, bargains.
It is a sunny afternoon in an enchanted corner of England. Strains of elegiac classical music fade up on the soundtrack, as a camera begins to gently move along a riverbank gradually revealing an elaborate tableau. The perfect English arcadia gives way to varying kinds of misfortune, disruption and violence.
Portrait of a local town hall on a suspiciously hectic day. Every room is booked for some key civic purpose. From sales pitches for retirement community homes, to a children’s disco, to a teenagers’ political rally, the camera takes a restless, sweeping point of view on what issues matter to the local residents.
A baby enters a bar and gets drunk, steals food from other people’s plates and breaks tables and chairs. In thirteen minutes, a full-speed motorcycle passes by us and by the end of it we have no idea what just happened. Las Palmas is Nyholm’s last, raving and politically incorrect animation. (Carlos Ramos)
First heartbeat, first slow dance, first kisses, first scares and one of the most important moments in a girl’s life, the moment you became a woman. Albertine -the alter ego of the director herself – is having a flashback during a train ride and goes back to being 11. On the train with her parents, she visits her grandmother in her country house for vacation celebrating her 67th birthday. The year is 1979, the year Apocalypse Now and The Tin Drum were out on cinemas. A more mature Delpy returns to a human and more common territory than her previous film The Countess. Playful and nostalgic, Skylab is a big family canvas given by the eyes of an exceptionally smart girl. (Nina Veligradi)
Claire is a 25-year-old French painter, who paints cities. João is a 27-year-old Portuguese director, who wants to make a film about London. They are brought together by this common interest and end up deciding to make a film together.
A film of artistic quotes that corrupts the system by misbehaving. The director begins with a quote from Bresson saying that a film should be built on white and changes it to yellow. We witness the preparation of a film and all the stages of the process. With this film, Godinho asserts his name in the national panorama. (Miguel Valverde)
Marion and Pierre have a boring couple life until they meet Rémi, an old friend of Marion’s. In spite of looking like a loser, he reveals himself to be a cultivated person and a sex-symbol. Will (in this falsely naive but truly cruel comedy using the Nouvelle Vague codes) Marion and Pierre seize the chance to get out of their mediocre life? (Karim Shimsal)
If To has a guaranteed place in festivals, it is rare to find this type of cinema in short films. A disquieting thriller about drug mafias, where Hiroshi, with his camera on top of the actors, creates a climate of suspicion between two dealers facing each other. And we know that something bad is about to happen. (Miguel Valverde)
This specially commissioned film for Made In Liverpool 06 is a highly poetic and meditative work tracing the connection between a city during a moment of great change and how this moment can be reflected in the emotional world of its citizens.
The police reconstruct the disappearance of a teenage girl in a park. Off-screen, we hear the personal reflections of a female police officer about the process of leaving childhood behind and entering the world of adulthood. Lyrical, virtuoso prelude to the first feature film by Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor.
