The Falcon and the Co-Eds

Los días del pasado

A woman arrives in town to work as a teacher. It is the time of the 'maquis', the anti-Franco guerrilla that fights with little hope in some regions of Spain just after the end of the civil war. She has a love affair with one of the guerrillas, but their relationship will have an impossible future because of the past.

Juan Pistolas

Immortal Enemy

In this Thai rendition of the traditional vampire tale, Narudom comes across a strange being in the vacant, eerie castle given to him by his family. Intrigued by the object's power, Narudom sets out to discover more about it, only to have a sadistic vampire named Mekin rise from the dead and wreak havoc on his life and his new home.

Spin

The concept of Spin, the inherent turning momentum of electrons, stands for the passing of time and for time itself. The unceasing transformation of the world is translated into film via the gliding movement of the camera. Bright light and blurring portray the environment of the film’s elderly subject, my mother, as pure atmosphere. Her few calm gestures in the face of diminishing time and energy convey a personal presence undisturbed by specific goals. She sits and breathes quietly. When walking she travels across space. The turning away of a tree full of apples evokes regret, as does a sharp light that narrows and dissolves. In the final image my mother seems to taste a bitterness that eludes comprehension.

Snowball Fight

Early short of a snowball fight in late 19th century Milan, Italy

Copsi

A young couple have problems in their marriage.

Rate Me

A portrait of teen escort, 'Coco'.

Miguel Bosé Festival de Viña del Mar

Nullarbor

An animated road-movie set across the vast and barren landscape of Australia's Nullarbor Plain.

Horror Heaven

Jörg Buttgereit himself plays a TV horror show presenter, introducing the audience to a variety of "Horror classics”. These are of course all short Super 8 films and he shows here his versatility as a filmmaker. The short pieces are all made in 1984 and range from a spoof on the Mummy to a Frankenstein parody, to an amazingly well-crafted stop-motion animated Godzilla-like monster pic called GAZORRA (starring Daktari Lorenz from NEKROMANTIK) to a down and dirty girl-fights-off-violent-rapist segment named CANNIBAL GIRL. Hilarious horror comedy!

Ouverture

Short film about the creation of one single life.

Valley of the Eagles

A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and a local girl team up with the scientist to help recover the device.

Suzanne, Suzanne

This poignant documentary profiles a young black woman's struggle to confront the legacy of a physically abusive father and her headlong flight into drug abuse. Suzanne, after years of physical and psychological abuse, is compelled to understand her father's violence and her mother's passive complicity, who suffered at her husband's hands as well, as the keys to her own self-destruction. After years of silence, Suzanne and her mother are finally able to share their painful experiences with each other in an intensely moving moment of truth.

Rapid Vengeance

Displeased by the contents of a CD, one man sets off on a quest to track down and confront the sender. But while he might think of himself as some blockbuster action hero, he begins to realise he's not exactly cut out for the role.