Genres: narrative
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Greenhorn
While at a dinner party with friends in the city, 20-something masculine presenting Logan receives a phone call that her estranged Father has been in a car accident. With encouragement from her Mother, Logan decides to travel back to her rural hometown to care for him. Logan spends the first few days clearing out the house, reconnecting with her childhood, and preparing for her Father’s return from the hospital. While organizing some of his things, she comes across an old Western movie and her Father’s old Western wear from his glory days as a ranch hand. Letting her curiosity get…
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Wild About Ari
“Wild About Ari” concerns Sophie, a young Greek woman, who rejects her family through an academic appreciation of Aristotle, while Tom, a young white romantic, pursues his desire to become black. The Toronto Festival of Festival programmers described the film as a “bent, witty drama… that answers all the big questions” on ethnic identity and cultural appropriation. “Scripted with the style and directed with precision”… “Wild about Ari” hopes to win audiences with its fresh insight, humour and eccentric characters. NOW Magazine cites: “Demas’ deft dialogue, which tweaks cultural stereotypes, makes this movie a treat.”
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I’ve Heard a Siren Calling
A Great Lake Surfer has recently began her transition as a Trans Woman. She now is having hesitations with putting her wetsuit back on, but something is calling her back. In the isolation of her cabin in a small fishing town, she seeks to find the courage to face her fears.
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A Thousand Little Trees of Blood
Stella and Guilio are on one of their many, stressful dates, when a small catalyst creates a huge issue.
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your father was born 100 years old, and so was the Nakba
A Palestinian grandmother returns to her hometown Haifa through Google Streetview, today, the only way she can see Palestine.
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Invincible Spring
An artist’s lost innocence comes calling. Modified memories of Clara – James’ lost love as a child – are clashed with scenes from his current infatuation with an unfaithful businesswoman. 16mm film, digital video, and CGI are used to illustrate Jame’s fluctuating states of mind, while variations of Ravel’s “Pavane pour une infante défunte” serve as a pulsing connection among them.
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Mishaps in Spacetime
Doubt creeps in as Cosmo, a space traveller, addresses his gender identity. In need of clarity and change, he wants to risk crossing the Butterfly Nebula. His spaceship, on the other hand, has a personality of her own. Cosmo will need to negotiate change with a certain loss of control. Screened at the 2025 IndieLisboa International Film Festival and 2025 XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin.
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WAR TIMES
An exploration of two souls inhabiting bodies from 1940’s Hungary, and the beginning of the digital age. Adoring and loathing one another until full acknowledgment that it should always be this way.
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Her Violet Garden
Through painful and nostalgic recollections, a young refugee woman tries to come to terms with the losses of war, her shattered life, and the alienation between her and her mother. “…It is with subtlety and a touch of magic that Irena Joannides manages to delve into this woman’s inner world, unfolding in front of the viewer’s eyes her protagonist’s nostalgia, her most intimate thoughts and desires, which recount lost persons and places.” – Ricardo Lopes, Cine-Epiloge
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Karaoke
The home has changed. The palm oil trees have grown in endless symmetry. The landscape rusts and the nostalgia turns. KARAOKE is a homecoming story. BETIK returns to his village to help his mother with the karaoke a few years after the death of his father. During the day, he has also taken a job with his uncle making karaoke videos. KARAOKE is a story that takes you back home yet reminds you to go back where you came from. KARAOKE is a debut feature film about home and deception in a karaoke club within a palm oil plantation in…
