A lonely middle-aged optometrist writes a letter to portray himself in a moment of confusion and nostalgia.
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Alejandro Herrera
Ana Karen Sahagún
Mauricio Ceñedo
Ruy Padilla
Jesús Hernández
Paloma Domínguez
Miguel Sepúlveda Herreros
Video letter directed by Anne-Marie Faux on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Côté Court Short Film Festival.
A psychological drama for the media-saturated age. In a world of viral videos, memes, and fake news, where cats ride skateboards and people get struck by lightning, one man erodes the boundary between online and real.
A nameless drifter navigates a barren landscape punctuated by satellite dishes, radio towers and droning airplanes. Stopping periodically in anonymous hotel rooms, she makes attempts to connect to an unidentified second party.
Leah, a lonely little girl going through a difficult time exchanges magical letters with Felicity, a friend from a happier world.
Roman remembers his moments with Andres. He has daydreams of their past together. Andres disappeared. Roman is desperate for an answer.
"On the edge of non-existence and hallucination, of a reality that, if I acknowledge it, annihilates me. There, abject and abjection are my safeguards." Julia Kristeva.
A young man roams the streets of Caracas.
After a romantic night, even the simple things like cooking breakfast can highlight impending difficulties.
Against a backdrop of magnificent landscapes and epic tableaus, banal conversations take place between characters who are comically oblivious to their surroundings.
A young woman meets a man in a seedy hotel for a mysterious assignation in this unsettling narrative.
The story of Amy and Jack, two children from Gateshead struggling to become friends against the odds.
Kaveh is an LGBT sculptor. He lives in Iran and lives in isolation because of his sexual orientation. He has a lover named Farhad. Their relationship is not very good. It is Kaveh who is not happy with this relationship, he lives in his workshop because of the repression of LGBTs in Iran. He is making a statue when he suddenly realizes that this statue is talking to him. The words of the statue are not clear and are more like chatter. He breaks up his relationship with Farhad like his previous relationships, because something more than sex requires a relationship. He enjoys being alone more, but now he realizes that Farhad has destroyed the only statue they made together. The whispering sound of the statue increases and every moment Kaveh's mental state is more disturbed, to the point that he works day and night to build that statue. The statue is completed as if the statue is the lost lover of Kaveh. By completing the statue of Kaveh, he becomes a statue.
Spring 2015. The warm spring sunlight and lush flowers resemble a youth full of vitality. The documentary director captured the youth's 'Mr. Doyoung (22)' on camera. On the highway bus returning to school from hometown, Doyoung accidentally meets his first love, Yonghwa, whom he does not want to see in 10 years. One by one, the memories she doesn't want to recall come back to life. She struggles not to let him know who she is, but it's not as easy as her heart. Will Doyoung be able to overcome this difficult situation well?
Omri and Amit are a gay couple in an open relationship who live together in Jaffa. On the day between Israeli memorial day and the evening of the Israeli independence day, they will confront their relationship status.
Tom, a young architect from Tel Aviv, accepts his partner Nimrod's offer of a threesome with Or. The meeting with Or changes the couple's relationship.
A hook-up between two young men - they make a connection, but it quickly becomes apparent they're looking for different things.
During a hike, Romy invents a game to silence Sacha, her chatty little sister, by asking her to pretend to be a mountain chamois. Romy has fun pushing her further and further into her role, but Sacha quickly gets too caught up in the game...
Luca, a careless high school student on the verge of failing, drifts through life in the outskirts of the neighborhood with indifference and apathy. As his last chance for redemption, he must take part in a theater course. The challenge lies in avoiding the mistakes of his past, while discovering what it truly means to grow and take responsibility.
When a brilliant nine-year-old working in a sweatshop gets a chance to attend school, she must make a difficult choice for her and her sister's future.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
“Snow gently falls on the blood-stained streets of a seedy out-of-time New York City. Steam envelopes the nightmare unfolding within its narrow alleys. Iron is the will of the one who would dare to resist… fight… survive.”
A family man torn between the love for his family, the boundaries of religion and the freedom to choose whom to love.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
Recently escaped from reformatory, Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humor and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings, until he meets Magda and Yunisleidy, survivors like himself. In one or the other's arms, he will try to escape the material and moral misery surrounding him, living love, passion, tenderness and uninhibited sex to the limit.
When young dad, Joe, discovers he's dying, drifter Charlie is given a unique opportunity to turn his life around. A story of family, identity and starting again.
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
Manuel's life is upended when Esmeralda, his lost love from 15 years ago, calls unexpectedly. Despite being set to marry another, he rediscovers Esmeralda, and they realize their love transcends time.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
