Mille scudi

South of Italy, XIX century. A couple of brigands are chased in the woods. The man has a bounty on his head and is terrified by everything, while the woman takes care of her newborn. They will be safe beyond the river, where they are going to abandon their son to some gang members in order to run faster. But the woman secretly hides the desire to keep the baby...

Click

A rock singer, escaping from her abusive boyfriend, forms an unlikely friendship with a struggling photographer with scars of his own.

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Sketch Fragments

Alex in the Fields

Adrian, a young ex-alcoholic trying to start a new life, is living on an addiction treatment farm. When Alex shows up out of nowhere and the two outsiders get closer, he risks to lose everything.

Piano Lesson

A pianist, who has already lost his real audience, is searching for his fans via performing music in a world controlled by Artificial Intelligence. However, his only audience is a deaf and dumb cyborg girl, who is raised by data and has no actual experience with real humans. Can they identify each other’s feeling by the signals of music? As AI rises, how can the last generation of Homo sapiens and posthuman face their fate of desolation?

Sketches

A story of a hopeless romantic, who's only means of communication are voiced through a sketchbook.

Amen

Begoña, Pelayo and María are saying a last goodbye to their mother. Confusion arises when they discover she wanted to be buried in a very special outfit.

Close

When 30-somethings Sam and Jamie lock themselves out in the communal stairwell they're forced to consider that maybe they aren't as close as they thought.

Stofje

Son of a Dancer

Majed discovers that his recently deceased mother used to be a belly dancer. Life is full of unknowns and this is just now becoming clear to him. Torn between his relationship with his now-silent father, and Hanine, the woman who will help him overcome his grief, Majed takes a trip down memory lane into the mysterious past of his mother.

Puppet Me

The daughter of a famous ventriloquist decides to put on one last show.

The Award Ceremony

On what should be the most prestigious day of her 8 years on earth, Princess Mahakwe is humiliated in front of the whole school.

Brotherhood: An Egotistic Journey of a Blind Mind

Brotherhood An Egotistic Journey of a Blind Mind is about "Two friends drawn apart by the most common human emotion...Love" Two best friends, Marcus and Vincent are your ideal hoodlums. On a daily routine they drink alcohol, play basketball and idolize women. Stuck in a rut the two are introduced to a young go-getter named Ariana. Through getting to know her a wedge is thrown into Marcus and Vincent's relationship and it might never be repaired. Ego gets in the way and it blinds them.

Girls Night Out

Seung-Jin and Ji-Seon are high school students who sneak out at night and play. They are friends but what they want is different. Seung-Jin is ashamed of having a father who is too old and Ji-Seon is bored with her daily routine and her family. Seung-Jin wants to be a photographer, so she carries around a camera and one day…

Tour to McWay

After 15 years of separation, two brothers confront their absent relationship as well as the recent passing of their mother.

Wonderkid

Wonderkid follows the inner turmoil of an unnamed football prodigy as he comes to terms with his own identity, struggling to reconcile his sexuality with his issues with alcohol and OCD.

Dead Horses

In an isolated and unknown place during a war, a child is forced to flee. Along the way, he sees horse corpses everywhere. Only dead horses. Why? Why have the horses decided to kill themselves?

Un(H)armed

A case of mistaken identity leads to a heated confrontation between a young Black man and two law enforcement officers.

Vinterdag 1914

A solitary railway station in northern Sweden on a bitter cold winter day 1914. Based on a short story from 1944.

The Little Matchgirl

An animated short based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale about a poor young girl with a burning desire to find comfort and happiness in her life. Desperate to keep warm, the girl lights the matches she sells, and envisions a very different life for herself in the fiery flames filled with images of loving relatives, bountiful food, and a place to call home.

Girl in the Box

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.

The Nest

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.

Hands of Stone

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

Die My Love

After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace struggles with loneliness, creative frustration, and unresolved emotional wounds. What begins as an attempt at renewal gradually turns into an intense psychological descent, placing strain on their relationship and exposing the fragile balance between love, identity, and motherhood.

The Young One

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.

Hungry Hearts

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.

The Safety of Objects

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

Mexicali

A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.

Hardball

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.

Gigi & Nate

A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.

Heatwave

A woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls for her boss's wife. She must soon defend herself as she becomes entangled in a web of malice.

Holy Lands

When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.

Won't Back Down

Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.

Rogue Agent

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.

Reservoir Dogs

Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.

Palm Trees and Power Lines

A disconnected teenage girl enters a relationship with a man twice her age. She sees him as the solution to all her problems, but his intentions are not what they seem.

The Son of a Thousand Men

In a small village, a lonely fisherman yearning for a son is drawn to an ethereal light that links him to others and their long-buried secrets.

The River

Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.

Bastard Out of Carolina

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.