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As her mind slowly fades to illness, a woman undergoes an experimental treatment that takes her back through her most emotionally charged memories. Fully aware of the risks, she chooses to relive the love she once shared with her late fiancé—one last time.
“FRAGILE” is a cinematic meditation on impermanence. Set within a pristine, minimalist dreamscape, the film weaves together the synchronized elegance of ballet, the gentle descent of a feather, and the silent flight of white doves to capture the transient beauty of passing moments.
Conceived as a poetic impression rather than a traditional narrative, the film invites the audience to pause and reflect on life’s delicate nature. Directed by Jacek Kadaj and produced entirely through advanced generative AI tools, “FRAGILE” stands as both an artistic exploration of vulnerability and a testament to the evolving capacity of artificial intelligence to evoke genuine human sensitivity, atmospheric depth, and visual cohesion.
Robert Schumann wrote a declaration of love for Clara in his early music and ‘Schumann: a love story’ is a 30 minute dance film about this declaration to one of his most famous works, Fantasiestücke Op.12.
The three dancers and the pianist tell the story of how Schumann’s two alter egos, Eusebius-the mild, and Florestan-the wild fight for Clara’s attention. Which of Schumann’s two passionate sides will she choose?
Due to the death of her son, Julieta (40) temporarily lives with her daughter Rocío (16) in the house of her parents Alberto (75) and Norma (74).
Julieta feels the need to return home, but she hasn’t got the courage to do so, yet.
The story observes Julieta’s ties with her teenage daughter and her parents. She tries to control her feelings, but her emotions and impulses dominate her. She tries to protect them, but ends up hurting them unintentionally. Flashes of tenderness are what allow us to believe that there is a possible future.
A man who was a reviewer in Taipei has been quietly watching the same woman for more than twenty years.
Not in real life, but through a screen.
She exists for him as images, fragments, and updates — an illusion sustained by social media.
One day, he unfollows her.
The gesture is small, almost invisible.
But does it mean he has finally let go?
He is not alone.
In this city, many lives unfold under the glow of cellphones, where distance collapses, but emotions remain unresolved.
Technology brings us closer, yet quietly erases the time and space we need to feel, to grieve, and to move on.
Five old high school friends reunite to commemorate the death of a dear friend, unaware that her killer is one of them.
‘Shades of Sadness’ is more than a documentary; it is a quiet, cinematic embrace of the one thing that connects us all: our vulnerability.
The film begins not with a camera, but with a question. Haunted by a lingering inner sorrow, the director turns his lens toward himself—not to find answers, but to find a way to breathe. This personal search soon evolves into a global archive of human emotion, as he collects fragments of grief from different corners of the world—crossing borders, cultures, and generations.
Through raw, unpolished interviews recorded in intimate settings, we meet people who have survived the unthinkable:
• A Lebanese man grieving a family he cannot reach.
• A wife who felt her husband’s warmth at the exact moment he slipped away.
• A daughter uncovering a dark family secret kept for eighteen years.
Each story is a fragile fragment of memory, longing, and survival. By blending deep silences with abstract visual metaphors, the film creates a sacred space where sorrow can be witnessed without judgment.
Shades of Sadness does not offer a cure for grief. Instead, it invites us to sit with it, reminding us that even in our deepest isolation, we are never truly alone in our sadness.
The story tells of a time when monkeys ruled the world.
The parallels to our present day are neither coincidental nor unintentional.
“Marvelous, a Musical Opera” is an opera-film built around the premiere performance of the stage work on April 5, 2025. Combining rehearsal footage with the live performance itself, the film extends the audience experience beyond traditional stage documentation, placing singers among the more than seventy original paintings by collaborator Vincent Myrand.
Based on L. Frank Baum’s sequel to “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” “The Marvelous Land of Oz,” the work follows Tip, an orphan farm boy in Oz, as strange visions begin to draw him toward hidden truths about himself. After fleeing his cruel guardian, the witch Mombi, he sets out along the Yellow Brick Road with companions brought to life by a magical powder. Along the way he meets the Scarecrow and the Tin Man, who help Tip find his way toward answers to the new mysteries in his life.
Through-composed in the operatic tradition, Marvelous combines large-scale musical forms, painted imagery, and cinematic techniques to reimagine Baum’s sequel as not only “Musical Opera,“ but as cinema.
Five powerboat-loving film-school slackers from LA shoot for a deadline in Costa Rica and stumble into a river poisoned by an illegal biogenetics laboratory. After their tepid thesis project fails, the team hatches a risky spring-break boondoggle to launch Golden-Fleece beach adventures.
KINKI – THE SECRETS OF THE DANCEFLOOR
Kinki: The story of Italy’s first LGBTQ+ club
Short Synopsis
In the 1980s, Bologna was the beating heart of European culture. In the shadow of the Two Towers, KINKI was born: Italy’s first gay club. A transgressive and visionary sanctuary of freedom, it served as a creative laboratory where house music found its home. The documentary explores how this community intertwined music and clubbing to forge an identity of resistance. It tracks KINKI’s meteoric rise, its societal impact, and the profound scar left by the AIDS crisis that forever changed a generation. It is a story of music, creativity, and a cultural revolution that still resonates today.
Pitch
KINKI was more than just a nightclub: it was an act of liberation. As Italy’s first LGBTQ+ club and a temple of house music, it transformed Bologna and influenced Europe through a mix of transgression, inclusion, and raw creativity. This documentary captures the unrepeatable energy of those years, revealing how clubbing became a powerful engine for social and cultural transformation.
Pearls of Memories is a poetic short film that explores how human memories are formed and preserved. Through a tactile artistic process, fragments of life-emotions, moments, and personal stories-are transformed into symbolic pearls. Each pearl represents a memory shaped by time, experience, and human connection. The film reflects on the fragile yet powerful nature of memory, suggesting that our lives are made of countless small moments that, together, form the necklace of our identity
