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Where words are lost either in a moment overwhelmed by emotion or fear or in a past far too obscure to remember, images become a form of rehabilitation. Here is a poetic, perhaps slightly pathetic, pretext but which is […]

Anyone is a moth looking for a light, a light that can be knowledge or truth. But this light burns the insect’s wings – however, the moth will die happy knowing that it has seen the intensity of the […]

When you are in front of a short film called ‘Bahamas‘, more than likely, your imagination takes you on an exotic adventure, away from the routine and noises of everyday life. In fact, this is exactly the pretext that […]

Death is not always the end. It can also be the beginning of a new way to know a loved person. ‘Safelight’ is a short film that approaches such a subject in a beautiful praise brought to the memory […]

A corner of hell is for those who cannot forgive themselves. But ‘Selftherapy‘ is not a short film about the afterlife but about a palpable, intimate, domestic hell. Through this project, Mohammad Hossein Zalbak and Ben Cyran create a […]

Directed by the esteemed Kyoichi Komoto, ‘CODE-D: The House of the 8 Women’ is a science fiction feature taking place in the near future when the surviving population of Japan is divided into ranks and sent out to live […]

Family love is a wonderful thing. But what is the boundary between unconditional love and unhealthy love? ‘Heart of Rose Hip’ is a short film that gives us a possible catastrophic scenario of such a toxic relationship that dismantles […]

Elliptical, but not incomplete, temperate, but not monotonous, ‘Upstream’ is the result of a special artistic sensibility that depicts with candour a tender and authentic existential piece. Adriana Martins da Silva offers us a short film like a cinematic […]

Written by Reinaldo Moraes and directed by Beto Marquez, ‘Bigger than the World’ (or Maior Que O Mundo) sees Eriberto Leão play Kbeto, a struggling writer suffering with writer’s block who stumbles upon a great story in a dumpster […]

In addition to all those great films about the destinies of women crushed by the patriarchy of Islamic countries, some directors prefer to change the rules of the game, bringing before us some “atypical” protagonists. This doesn’t mean that […]