Super-8 film by Alejandro Ballesta.
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Mr. Lobster visits a long-lost friend.
First in “Film Letter” series, which explores unspoken emotions through a combination of archival visuals and personal letters that has been never sent.
A Cine-Poem. A journey through Paris. A memory film. Three stories, dedicated to one pioneer of cinema.
Oliver, an elderly gardener with Alzheimer's, discovers a Super 8 film reel he recorded decades ago, during the early days of his relationship with Julia, his late wife. As he watches the images from the past, his memories blur with the present, and he finds himself torn between reality and the recollections of a love that still blooms in his mind. While searching for answers that never come, Oliver confronts the fleeting nature of life and the beauty of memories that withstand the passage of time.
When teenage siblings shelter in their grandmother’s abandoned house from an exterior contamination, Opaline slips into her interior self. Shot in gritty black-and-white Super 8, the film takes us into a grungy spiral of dreams and paranoia.
West Germany, Christmas Eve, 1971. 7-year-old Kimîa captures her family’s celebration through the lens of her Super 8 camera. But the mood changes when her mother, Hanna, discovers her husband’s plans.
Set in an alternate, post-apocalyptic 1976, a filmmaker follows a worn and disillusioned photographer who, despite the circumstances, continues to make pictures.
A traumatized cheer captain races to stop a masked killer and the new tourist attraction aimed to exploit her tragedy from a year earlier.
A painter with artist's block is sent on a disorienting journey after a mysterious painting appears in his home.
This is the story of Roger, a former pork butcher, who worked for 40 years in the beautiful town of Beaune in Burgundy. Since he retired, he has started a new life as a filmmaker: Roger films only on Super 8. Insects, birds, everything he can find in the countryside are his favorite subjects. His short films have won prizes all over the world, some of them have been shown during the Cannes Film Festival. Josette, his wife and number one fan, happens to work for him from time to time.
This film is a secret and also an offering. When we add our initials we are the closest thing to love, to teaching and to a certain greatness. We met in the worst year of our lives and somehow you chose to save me and I to adore you.
A journey into memories we didn't experience. An abstract documentary about memories that still remain within us, fragmented and sometimes expressed in colors, sounds, and sensations.
Rosagante is an erotic poetry collection written by Lola Navaja. From its pages springs this short film: images that breathe to the rhythm of its verses, bodies that speak the language of their desire.
In the Darkness is a Super 8 short film that, based on a cinematic diary, delves into the rumors circulating in a small Argentinian town. The images accompany the way in which the gossip is uttered, transformed through word of mouth, and, in its repetition, shapes collective perception.
A study of light on nature, a lyrical film in the first person that records in an abstract and impressionistic way where the vision is altered to the pulse of a time that accelerates and stops.
A tribute to the great comic book superhero, in the style of a silent film. The Man of Steel, driven by the overwhelming need to do good, thwarts a criminal act without receiving any recognition. On the contrary, and quite unexpectedly, he is attacked by the victim of the robbery.
A portrait of experimental filmmaker Marie Louise Alemann in two alternating characters
"I am the man who walks down the street. At first there is no one. The protagonist smokes, goes to a bar, takes a bus, walks down the street, wanders around and little by little more people appear. And then more and more people, until he ends up on Florida Street, merging into the crowd."
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Cato, a hip-hop artist whose career is about to take off, runs into trouble with the law and a violently organized network of Argentine soccer hooligans.
14-year-old basketball phenom Terron Forte has to navigate the under-the-table world of amateur athletics when he is recruited to an elite NCAA prep school.
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
MMA legend Patton James, now a commercial fisherman, is pulled back into the cage when his brother is in danger. Reuniting with his old coach Sammy, he commits to one final fight in one championship against the brutal champion Xavier Grau.
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.
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.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
West Philadelphia basketball star Sergio Taylor deals with the pressures of fame while his brother and sister have their own issues with ambition.
A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and becomes overbearing and possessive.
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
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.
Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
A commentary on Spanish society dressed as a thriller about the misadventures of a gang of young petty criminals after the real estate crash.
A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
