What Stays
On a beach, a man shares a peaceful moment with his father, somewhere between memory and imagination.
Winter Ceremony
A long-divorced Chinese couple reunites in Texas for their daughter’s college graduation. The mother stays in the daughter’s small apartment, while the father returns each night to a hotel room of his own. The daughter drifts between her parents and her own thoughts. At times, they appear to be a family. After years of absence, what remains between them goes unspoken, as the father keeps his distance, lingering nearby.
Aqueducts
Aqueducts transport water. Images transmit the memory. Images of aqueducts are useless.
Chapitre Trois
Picnic
Absences
After a blackout, a woman struggles to escape the presence of her past.
Exit
Presence and absence, exit is an entrance
While The Night Falls
An intimate portrait of the lives of Delvys and Carlos, siblings who live alone with their elderly mother in a rural part of a small Cuban town. The film portrays a family engulfed in their inner worlds. Between the sacrifices they make out of love for those who are present, and their longing for things that are absent, they struggle to find meaning as they reflect, contemplate, and carry the weight of existence, trying together, to move forward.
Madame Favre's
In a nursing home, a young man visits his grandmother. As she constantly repeats that she wants to go home, his grandson visits her now empty apartment, seeking to capture memories of a fading past.
Damme Blanche
Eu, Minha Mãe e Wallace
The story of a photograph: A single mother, an absent father and a child.
Reticências...
Mon Ami Paul
Le chant des oiseaux
Rubatosis or Liberosis
In a tale of grief and rebirth, a young woman, paralyzed by the overwhelming weight of emotions, confronts the heart-wrenching choice between numbing her pain forever or embracing the agony to rediscover the beauty of feeling alive.
Absence
The protagonist grapples with the void left by an important person, discovering that the pain does not fade away, but transforms into something she must learn to live with. Suspended between dream and reality, she feels the weight of an absence that, though invisible, is intense and palpable.
CASE 0 : TOMORROW
In an abandoned, timeless government archive, an unprecedented case is opened: the trial of "The Future" on charges of existential fraud against humanity through a perpetual, unfulfilled promise—only for investigators to discover that the accused might have never existed at all.
Essence
Absence of Color.
Told through a series of memories, poems, photos, and hallucinations, "Absence of Color" is an exploration of a young man's psyche, in a world where 99.9% of the population suffers from Monochromacy.
BENEATH THE LEAF OF ABSENCE
A sister struggling with loneliness after the sudden absence of her brother