Curtas - 2019

A family's plan to stage an intervention unravels.

Suburban soccer moms find themselves constantly competing against each other in their personal lives as their kids settle their differences on the field.

On a tiny island topped with steep cliffs, stands up front of the sea one single house. Despite the huge developments in modern aviation, an inventor is obsessed with achieving his dearest dream: to fly using nothing but his arms. For him, only a pure, light, innocent soul is capable of such a feat. 11-year-old Joseph seems to be the perfect candidate.

Kate has been absent from high school for a week due to a broken foot. Upon returning, she learns her clique of girlfriends have devised a new secret plan based around the codename "Lick the Star".

During a professional conference in Prague, two interpreters in the Hungarian booth realize that only one person is listening to them. They vie for her attention.

A troubled and solitary woman who suffers from an acute light sensitivity summons the strength to escape her persistent trials; however, the fateful morning which is only hours away, still seems so distant and pale. Can she take the step?

A modern couple can't connect over Lindsey's new short hair.

Lui likes playing with the routine, with sex, with the gender. As a circus teacher, he is discovering the beauties of a light and fun love, but he gets disappointed when realizes that, deeply, the person he loves cannot understand that he is simply a free person to live and love the way he wants.

Tayra and I grew up on a beach in the north east of Brazil. We were inseparable. The sea breeze brings me back happy memories.

In coastal Colombia, a mother teaches her daughter how to swim so that she may go to the mangroves and harvest the piangua shellfish with the other women in the village.

A story about life, death, and kimchi. Ken, a Japanese man meeting his Korean girlfriend's family for the first time, makes an unlikely connection with her grandfather when he asks to take his photo and gets him to smile by saying, "Kimchiiiiii."

Samira, an Afghan village girl, is on her first date in London.

A chance encounter, a juicy yellow lemon and an unfortunate twist of fate will reveal that the symbiotic relationship between people is inextricable.

Calgary, 1909. An Englishman moves to the Canadian frontier, but is singularly unsuited to it. His letters home are much sunnier than the reality. Intertitles compare his fate to that of a comet.

On the windy and cloudy beach, Granny is praying, Mum is shouting, the sisters don't care, Lucas is alone. Grandpa was a weird guy, now he's dead.

A teenager's perspective of the world around her begins to shift as she is confronted with its capacity for injustice.

Set in a near-future, post-war America, Divine Children tells the story of Buzz, a teenage boy with a passion for Britney Spears who dreams of becoming an international popstar. When a tough gang of older kids dare Buzz to walk across an active minefield, Buzz agrees. If he makes it, he believes it will ensure his survival in the new world.

Having enabled a loss that now torments her, a woman enters an adult store in search of redemption. Adapted from a short story by Christos Tsiolkas.

Schizophrenic tramp performs outrageous acts in the streets of Salvador, and in the end tries to fulfill his ultimate dream: to fly over the city, as a superhero would.