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1976 (2022)
When Democracy is lost you fight
Living in the belly of the beast leaves a bad taste in the mouth and the longer you are there the more sick you feel, till one day you puke it all up and nothing is the same anymore, noone is the same anymore because you are not the same anymore.
Elias is a grandmother, beautiful intelligent and has spent a life in Chile's upper class society. When Pinochet kidnaps the nation in 1976 and her people profit and prosper, her eyes are opened and she helps Padre Sanchez hide a democracy protestor. As she takes more and more risks, the fear rises and her disgust at the world she is trapped in engulfs her.
Reality (2023)
What is Reality
Take the money and keep their secrets, shattered ideals but it pays the bills, want to escape but keep the career....but don't reveal the lies or they come for Reality.
Reality winner works for the FBI, a career girl, single and focused, but one fine day she returns home and they are waiting for her, two agents looking at her in a bad way. She knows the drill and plays the game, has it happened before, is it just routine, or is this the end for Reality, the tension is suffocating and the pressure relentless, more agents arrive and then more and the innevitable....seems innevitable, for poor reality.
War Pony (2022)
Courage is found within
How much has really changed in our world, how much has really changed for the first people of North America, the ones who it was taken from 3 centuries ago.
2 Oglaka Lakota Indians, one a boy and the other a boy-man, struggle to find their way in a world of poverty and barely hidden oppression. They languidly dismiss what they see as their failed culture, and seek the easy path of the white man's criminal world, that hangs like a veil all around them. Events lift the veil and show them that their path, even in this world, is blocked and so they must return to their own culture for clarity & freedom.
Dream Scenario (2023)
Be Careful what you dream of
Technology is not by default good, it is neither good nor bad, it is only used and exploited in good or bad ways by human beings, there is no good ways left, only bad.
Paul is a tenured professor with a beautiful family, but Paul is weak and unhappy, the world he finds himself in as a middle aged man tells him every day that he has failed, that world of social media and celebrity and fame. Suddenly Paul appears in everyone's dreams, millions of people around the world, but he's just there, not doing much, no purpose, like a celebrity. He is suddenly thrust forward and foolishly, pathetically and hilariously grasps that nettle of fame....it incinerates his life.
As bestas (2022)
Fear feeds the beast inside
Money only leads to the heart of darkness, unless there is light to show the way, light from those in control, those who we serve, but do not serve us as they should, those who should support and cherish the essence of our lives and not seek personal gain.
French couple Olga and Antoine choose a country life in the hills of Galicia, making, growing and living their way, only to find that the brutal hand of big business and tourism is reaching for their throats, through the blind fury of the local farmers who have been pushed to selling point, pushed to survival and hatred and explode into violence.
Joyland (2022)
A beautiful search for joy
When you fall to this earth you cannot say where you land, you must adapt and forge a path, guided by those who welcome you and give you love.
Haider is a young man, the youngest son, fighting for his soul and his happiness in the claustrophobic world of still traditional Pakistan. Lost in a world where he does not fit, he finds salvation in the musical theatre and the people there, he finds love with Biba and he finds peace in a world where he can be who he simply must be, but how long can he hide this truth, how long until this portal bursts into the lives of his family and transforms them all.
Le otto montagne (2022)
The Inner Mountain
To find yourself you must free yourself from the ghosts of your life, from your past. You must forgive, you must accept the actions and intentions of those around you and most of all your own, only then can you ascend the mountain.
Pietro & Bruno meet as children on the mountain side in Northern Italy, they bond, they climb the peaks with Pietro's father and they become like brothers. They leave and return to each other in the mountsins as they spend half a lifetime struggling to find their way in a world that does not love them, and a past that has hurt them, searching for their mountain peak.