Locarno Short Film Golden Leopard

Dana wants to show empathy. Penelope wants to explore empathy. Penelope's artistic experiment unfolds and Dana's feelings whirl wildly.

Hakan does not wish to return to Brazil, but doesn't know how to tell Lissy that they can no longer offer her a dream life outside of Cuba.

João is a delivery man who dreams of having a motorcycle. He was told that everything would be like a musical film.

A poetic meditation on familial loss and separation, and the love that endures against dispersion.

Spring 2017, in between the two rounds of the French presidential election. Pierre lives with 75-year-old Francine, who is disabled and wheelchair-bound. Politically and socially opposed, they are perplexed and disoriented as they witness the unfolding electoral spectacle.

A 70-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman share a candid and twisted relationship with a deadline.

A woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown is constantly waiting to find the body of her beloved, missing on Mont Blanc. A story about the passage of time and eternal love, told in a visually symbolic language.

Lado is nineteen when his father comes back home unexpectedly after a very long absence. The young man tries desperately to get some answers from his parent, but in vain. When his father leaves again, Lado goes back to his life of crime, together with his younger brother. He is left to answer the questions their father would not hear.

Abandoned Goods is a short essay film that tells the story of the journey of the Adamson Collection. Recently rediscovered after years of neglect, the collection is one of the major bodies of British 'asylum art'. It contains around 5,500 objects (paintings, drawings, ceramics, sculptures and works on stone, flint and bone) created between 1946-1981 by patients in Netherne psychiatric hospital in Surrey. Blending archive, reconstruction, 35mm rostrum photography, interviews and observational footage, the film explores the transformation of the objects in the Adamson Collection, from clinical material to revered art objects, examining the lives of the creators and the changing contexts in which the objects were produced and displayed. The result is a moving impression of the unseen history of UK postwar asylum life.

Raffael is a 13 years old boy who lives in the suburbs of Naples. From 12:00 to 3:30 p.m. and from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. he sells cigarettes in a street corner with his friend Adama.

Richard, an unemployed 55-year-old, arrives 3 minutes late for his appointment at a job centre. An advisor, stifled by the limits of the system she works in, has no choice but to penalise him for his tardiness. To avoid plunging further into destitution, Richard takes desperate measures.

Between rainy Germany and the dodgy roads of the Moroccan Rif-mountains, on a path usually used for drug-trafficking, a man tries to reach out for his fading love.

When two boys leave for a philosophical journey and only one is prepared for it, their worlds will part forever.