FRI 18 SEPT
The Muse ART GALLERY
269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR




International Films 2


6 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.



DI QUESTE PROSPETTIVE
Flavio Sciolè
5 mins 12 Italy
Perspectives.

THE SHOW MAN
S R BALAJEE
Drama/Comedy. 8 mins 12 India
STRANDED EN ROUTE TO A FILM FESTIVAL, CYNICAL JUNIOR AND
THE INSCRUTABLE SENIOR ENCOUNTER THE STRANGER SPINNING
A DRAMATIC TALE OF WOE. WHILE JUNIOR SEES AN OBVIOUS CON,
SENIOR SEES THE VEIL AND ITS BEAUTY.

Shabnura
Milan Zulic
experimental. 5 mins U. Switzerland
lift the veil
that obscures
the heart
and there
you will find
what you are
looking for.
Kabir (15th century)

Death Closes the Eyes
Afshin Soufian
15 mins 12A Iran
Maryam, a 55-year-old painter, is forced to leave Iran after the harsh crackdown on the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. Years later, she returns to her childhood home and faces memories of her younger self and those difficult days.

Suddenly Exist
Samin Rad
Drama 21 mins 12A. Iran
A young teacher notices recurring injuries on his young student and, by pursuing the matter, becomes involved in the boy’s life and grows close to him. After a car accident, he loses his memory. What he hears about himself after regaining consciousness reveals an unpredictable truth.

Afrat
Siavash Vaziri
Drama 7 mins. 12A Iran
Two rites of passage. One celebrated. One silenced.

High Copy
Mohammad Rahmati
Drama, Sci-Fi 20 mins. 12 Iran
After a night out, Zohreh discovers her friend has found a shocking way to escape her controlling husband: a lifelike android duplicate. Tempted by the same freedom, Zohreh decides to buy one for herself, but a shocking revelation awaits her at home.

CET ÉTÉ-LÀ
Yassine Hayani
Drama. 17 mins. 12A Belgium
On a summer evening, Mehdi rides through the streets of Brussels as a delivery driver.
An unexpected encounter makes him change his course. He lets go of his route and allows himself to be carried by the moment, heading into the unknown.

The journey
Fabiola Campos
Drama. 10 mins. 12. Mexico
Carmela, a peasant girl, receives a call from her daughter, who is trapped in a dangerous situation while trying to cross illegally the border. Separated by an insurmountable distance, Carmela struggles to find a way to help her.

Hazama
Victor Moreno
11 mins 12A Sweden/Japan
A young woman in Japan returns to her homeland in the remote woods of Sweden after a traumatic event. There, a life-threatening winter accident puts her in hazama — the Japanese concept of the in-between space — forcing her to confront the ultimate choice between life and death.

Masken - en fotoroman
Ulf Remus Nilsson
drama/sci-fi/apocalyptic 27 mins 15. Sweden.
Masken is a dark, apocalyptic still-life story with a narrative voice, about a man locked up in an institution. He has lost his memory and does not know who he is or why he’s there. Inside the institution there is also a doctor who uses increasingly drastic methods to try to restore his memory. Things take a dramatic and unexpected turn when the doctor finally succeeds, and the man finds his way back to his past.

La Première Image
Olia Verriopoulou
comedy, drama. 25 mins. 12 Greece.
Athens, April of 1967.
During the first days of the military dictatorship, Loukas is suffocating in his family's apartment, which he is not allowed to leave. He then invents a new game that connects him to the outside world: answering the telephone. But the house's phone line gets mixed up with that of the Studio cinema…

L'Acquario (The Aquarium)
Gianluca Zonta
Love and AI - Comedy. 14 mins 12. Italy
The Aquarium is a romantic comedy that explores, in a humorous and paradoxical way, the consequences of excessive reliance on artificial intelligence.

BACKSTAGE 
Fabrizio Giovanrardi
Drama. 15 mins 12A Italy
Marta lives in a theatre where she’s the custodian. She dreams of being an actress, but she doesn’t believe in herself. The sweet encounter with a struggling actress will help her to overcome her fears and follow her dreams.

The Office Farewell. (Adieu bureau.)
Mehdi Pierret
Fiction 18 mins 12A Belgium
To free themselves from the pressure and humiliation they endure at work every day, three colleagues plan to blow up their office.
That night, with the building packed with dynamite and their plan ready to be carried out,
something unexpected happens and throws their entire scheme into disarray.

Five Twelve
Seth Gabrielsson
Drama 15 mins 15. Australia
Bill is the eldest of two brothers, but he’s smaller than his younger brother by exactly one inch. Described as odd, impulsive, though undeniably sweet, Bill’s struggles go fairly undetected in his sleepy Australian town. However, within him is a torrent of grief that latches onto a singular desire—being exactly one inch taller—as a way out.

Treasure
Basir Ahmed
Drama. 19 mins 15 Pakistan
A Deaf waste collector in Karachi stumbles upon a shocking discovery at a landfill, leading to a dangerous clash with a ruthless gangster – only to uncover a treasure that changes his life forever.

Inspiración (Inspiration)
Diego Mezarina
Horror 17 mins 18 A Peru
A couple of murders, in the heat of an unhealthy competition . Fiction is just an excuse … Nothing is as it seems. Allow yourself to contemplate the disturbing ending.




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