Normandy, 1905. The picnic is over; the upper middle class
party prepare to go home. They are waiting for just one last
photograph, but someone is still missing from the group...
Aayesh is a lonely man. He works as a morgue security guard.
One day his daily routine is altered for 10 minutes, but
brings about a significant change.
A short film divided into two parallel stories. In Afternoon
River, Grace, a waitress in a Malaysian/Chinese restaurant
tries to go through her mundane everyday work while ignoring
the incessant ringing of her cell phone. In Evening Sky, the
tomboyish Lai Fun seeks justice...
One night, Mariana and Rodrigo, a young upper middle class
couple who’s about to get married, find 7 year-old Karina
on the beach. She ran away from her family and somehow
explains she’s living in an environment of family abuse.
The couple decides to...
The old man and the sea. The young man and his son. Mexican
director Pedro González-Rubio’s film is about both of
these relationships, but it is also about the harmony that
exists between those involved: between people and nature,
and father and son. Natan...
Daniel Schwartz is a comedian. Quite trash. He is on tour
all over France. It is a big success. But Daniel is tired
and lonely. Is there a woman ready to share his loneliness?
A woman or two?
Laura is 25 years old. She’s a journalist, she’s single
and lives in a small apartment in Mexico City. After a
series of short-lived affairs, Laura meets Arturo. After the
first time they make love, she is left deeply unsettled.
They embark on an...
An early, and relatively lesser known, masterpiece from
Kitano Takeshi. Doing his regular round of garbage pickup,
deaf-mute Shigeru one day finds an abandoned surf board. He
brings it home and fixes it, then goes to the beach and
starts practicing. Against all odds,...
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Family and friendship. Love
and warmth. Joy and sadness. Hope and despair.
Companionship. Loneliness. A birth. A death. Time passes…
In London a happily married, middle-aged couple is visited
by a number of unhappy and lonely friends who use them...
With Apartment #5C, Raphaël Nadjari continues in the vein
of his previous movie, I Am Josh Polonski's Brother. He
returns to his favourite themes (Judaism, family, repressed
desire), to his particular taste for improvisation, as well
as to his pet actor, Richard Edson, a...
“With Armadillo, I was curious to explore how the micro
level of war – where human interaction takes place –
affects one of the greatest conflicts of our time. In the
early research for the project, I was surprised that the
majority of those...
"Avanim" is the Hebrew word for "stones", which are an
important part of Jewish culture and religion. For example,
the Ten Commandments were inscribed on two stone tablets.
Stones are thrown at someone when they have been sentenced
to death. Yet another example: The...
The Azyl Awards have been staged annually at International
Film Festival Bratislava since 2005. During the six years of
its existence, the Azyl festival has showcased to the public
more than 300 films within two competition sections. This
year’s edition features 40 short films...
