The Abyss

A soldier awakens on a warship littered with corpses, her memories fragmented. She embarks on a dangerous journey, battling adversaries and struggling to survive.

Kurose Reiji is a 17-year-old high school boy whose family members are full of problems. Due to this circumstance, Reiji has no particular dream and wants to get a job instead of going to college to make his mother's life easier. Just as Reiji was spending his days vaguely, he had a fateful encounter with an idol called Aoe Nagi, who proposed to Reiji that they commit suicide together. Will Reiji be able to find the light in his life after all the problems occurring one after another around him?

A gay couple meet through a dating app. One of them notices inconsistencies in the things his boyfriend says and begins to investigate his life.

Multiforo Alicia is a space that constantly seeks to trigger rebellion, questioning, resistance, reflection and finally generate a self-managed organization for the inhabitants of Mexico City. It is the place where the others not within the market culture mainstream, fit in. This documentary tells us what it is and what´s the purpose of the existence of these kind of spaces.

An eccentric millionaire brings together four men who, under different circumstances, wanted to commit suicide. The proposal made to them is the following: they will travel to an islet that, according to legend, emerged from the sea when Atlantis sank and that houses a fabulous treasure buried by the Incas. But that territory is populated by the worst band of pirates and evildoers the world has ever known.

This documentary presents an awakening inspired by the life of the Benedictine monk Henri Le Saux. After living in a monastery in Brittany for 20 years, he left for South India with the objective of bringing the best of Christian monastic life with him. To achieve his goal, he believed it important to first open himself to the spiritual heart of India. In doing so he encountered Ramana Maharshi, one of the great sages of his time, at the foot of the sacred mountain Arunachala. The impact of this meeting on him was so powerful that Le Saux’s initial plan was turned upside down. In the presence of this mystical mountain, and its Sage, Le Saux began a spiritual adventure that would lead to his own rebirth.

A documentary about The Abyss Festival, in Gothenburg, Sweden, March 2019. The film features the following bands; Tormentor, Sodom, Primordial, Grim Reaper, Malokarpatan, Primordial, Black Viper, Root, Quartz, Antichrist, Chevalier, Iron Angel, Satan, Demon, Rapid, Divlje Jagode, Alien Force, Aura Noir.

A coming-of-age tale of two boys trying to survive amidst rampant corruption and gang violence.

A young woman comes home to Dublin for Christmas after ten months away. When her family resumes their old hostility, Sandra's only alternative is to return to desperate circumstances in London.

This film evokes Valencia illegal gaming back in the seventies. A young peasant -Ferran- plays cards not much to make a living but as a distraction of his daily routine. Ferran meets a larger-than-life character -el chino- who happens to play cards for a living. This other guy is depicted as a Toni Manero look alike but his charisma an arrogance lead the innocent Ferran to join him in his schemes to make money to end up betting all on the next card table. At some point the action moves to Madrid and Ferran steps down losing track of El chino who takes on more dangerous games making a living out of Russian Roulette until the round gets loaded. Based on real events this is no Hollywood epic but it captures the desperation of the characters very effectively.

Returning from the World Cup to his country, the winner of the diving competitions Afsal Deman learns that a military coup has taken place in his homeland. Having never been involved in politics before, the hero, having decided to fight the dictatorship, becomes a journalist. The film takes place in a small Asian country in the late 70s.

Triggered by the unveiling of a family secret, Aline Motta went on an ancestral quest, traveling to rural areas in Brazil, Portugal, and Sierra Leone, and creating a counter-narrative to what is usually told about the way Brazilian families were formed. A discussion about racism, representation, belonging and identity.

In 1995, retired captain Vadim returns from Romania with his fiancee Yulia to his homeland and falls into the hands of bandits controlling the town. Already on the roads of the motherland, which got out of socialism and got stuck in a mafia swamp, they witness a robbery by a gang in a police uniform of a bus with "shuttles".

Felicity E. Palma’s Medusa and The Abyss meditates on female rite and ritual, using prisms, water and 16mm film to obscure notions of landscape, monument, history and myth in touristic Sicily. Such an exposing portrait questions the ways in which cultural identities are commanded and cultivated by people, nations and policy.

A short horror film about a young woman who finds herself trapped and tormented by an entity from the great cosmos. She is forced to understand the miracles of childbirth.

Documentary about the work of 6 criminal profilers around the world.