Short films

A school note is just the excuse for Semele to visit her long absent father.

A young woman is going to Paris by bus, but when she steps out of her house she discovers that her garden and the whole village is flooded with water. With a boat and a bike she succeeds to reach a dry spot in the village. There a young man in a car offers her a lift. They drive around in circles, trying to find a way out of the area, but all ways are blocked by the water. Concurrently with the ever rising water the emotions within the two young people also start rising. At last they find their way out of the flooded area. When they reach Paris and the young woman looks up at the Eiffel Tower, she knows that she is going to spend the night with this man.

The idea of reworking a historical propaganda movie was to find out whether or not the messages and values of those who 'controlled' public opinion in the past still have the same effect today - when you would expect people to be more aware of the role of the mass media. During my research I came across the movies produced by Walt Disney Studios for the U.S government around the time of WW2. Further research revealed the contradiction between the ideological position Disney publicly held (wholesome family values, Americana) and the more-covert business/political tactics he used (more reminiscent of what used to be called the 'military-industrial complex.') I undertook a trip to Disneyland Paris to experience this 'world' Disney had created (originally modelled on Fascist principles for social engineering) and found many parallels to the 1930s hidden beneath the surface. Either the public are still unaware (or simply don't want to think about) the level of control such organisations have over their lives. If you think about it, the same family may buy and re-buy Disney product for generations. The search for further parallels led me to Disney's modern contemporaries in the Alt.Right. I wanted to know the extent to which their social ideals match his (and also by implication those of the current dominant ideology - Trump.) I found some shocking things about the business sponsorship of political parties who themselves sponsor racism. At the end, my 'character' (unable any further to fight the relentless pressure of capitalism) undergoes a kind of brainwashing into a 'good Nazi.' Has history really taught us anything?

A young German boy is indoctrinated into conforming with the Nazi social mindset.

Simon knows ducks quite well. They make noise, fly, swim, some even roll. Sometimes, it's a bit confusing and Simon gets lost.

Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely ninety-one centimeters from himself.

Max buys a rundown hotel by the sea, a final attempt to make a new life. Frank, his son and proud soldier comes to visit, secretly hoping to share Max's dream but finds his father in a more decrepit state than the hotel.

Jake spends most of his time playing video games indoors until his mother decides to give him a present.

A girl wants to go to a ball, admission one Liberty Bond, but rather than go herself, she loans the bond to a girlfriend. A soldier and a sailor find out and take her to the ball with them.

A little pig, who keeps his town safe from a cloud of pollution with his windmill dam, is ignored by a thankless public and bullied at school. When a new kid arrives, things begin to change.

When Pia plays a mysterious vinyl record single, she suddenly knows how to travel through time.

A man whose life has smiled, decides to leave everything. He abandoned his house, his car and offered astonished passers-by his possessions and his freedom of action. By freeing himself from all constraints, he hopes to become a philosopher.

A prologue of one heart-breaking history of love and the prologue of the travel told in The Darjeeling Limited (2007).

Athens, today. Seventeen-year-old, Aria working at the local kebab place, is waiting for a driving lesson with her father.

Minas participates in the "Talent of the Year", a TV show. A crew documents his everyday life and interviews his closest people until the big day. But Minas must win to fulfil his dream. What is his talent? He is a cowboy in Athens.

Greece is now full of ruins. Everyone is trying to survive at any cost after the disaster. Everyone but Kostas, who, along with his friend Tassos, is looking for Vicky, trying to understand the cause of their separation. The only thing that keeps Kostas in his senses is his love for Vicky. And when Greeks are in love, survival comes second. He will be killed rather by his sorrow - than hunger and other people.

A well meaning math teacher finds herself trumped by a post-fact America.

Constantin Dita's quiet consternation once again inhabits Porumbiou's second short and is once more joined by the more carefree antics of Ion Sapadaru. It is not just old world meeting new as the young teacher's vain attempts to merely purchase a computer lead to unnecessary delays, political favors, bureaucratic conundrums, criminal activity and unexpected camaraderie. As as in his feature films to come, Porumboiu fills the screen with so much life and so many stories-while his characters still wait for something to happen.

Three best friends are spending their last weekend together, since the two of them are leaving to study abroad. Sooner or later, they realize that goodbyes are hard.

Lou, a teenage tomboy in a small Californian town, idolizes her single father. When he has a date over one night and she is cast out of the house, Lou wanders to the outer reaches of town and into a new era of teenage identity.

Achilles works at his father's grocery store. Today, a day just like any other, he has the evil eye.

A group of Filipino domestic workers in Cyprus prepare for a beauty pageant organized by their community, while the case of a serial killer targeting foreign female workers comes to the surface.

Two siblings, one spell, wounded landscapes and an inevitable departure. "Vancouver" is a short chronicle of a disappearing act in the times of the new Depression.

Bahar is a 12-year-old unaccompanied refugee who lives in a guest house for underage refugees.