Official selection

The film was shot around the place of O Fieiro, a small village of no more than twelve houses and nine inhabitants, among them Rosa. A ninety-year-old woman who dedicates her last years to watching the rain through the window. Her father was a canteiro, a house builder, before the reservoir changed everything. Rosa remembers how her father lifted the stones and the people transported them from one place to another. It is shown as an abstract visual poem where the rain and the stones are the protagonists of the story Rosa tells us.

Desperate for connection, David digs up his brother’s corpse. With their trusty red wagon, they ascend a treacherous mountain in pursuit of their childhood dream.

A woman made from wood, Embla, is willed into existence by her maker and lover, Baldur. Their relationship takes a turn when Embla mars her perfection by burning her finger. Carved from wood by the artist Baldur, Embla awakens into a world of passion and wonder, his muse and his lover. But when her curiosity mars her perfection, burning her finger, his adoration cools, replaced by distance and moody withdrawal. Desperate to recapture their once-ferocious bond, Embla seduces him, only to discover his secret: a new prototype, a better version of herself, taking shape in his forbidden woodshed. In a final, fiery confrontation, Embla must face the terror of being discarded, the mythic clash between creator and creation erupting into a fable of desire, control, and resilience.

It's the last day of the month. Bowlers flock to the lanes of a bowling alley that has seen better days. Mira, the manager, decides to close early. She's awaiting the arrival of a special visitor.

A little girl who grew up surrounded by family and friends suddenly falls into a space that only she can enter. Before she realizes it, the time spent alone stirs up an indescribable feeling deep within her heart. But in the empty darkness, what can she possibly hold onto? And where should she go ?

A flickering diary of time, memory, and erosion, «Things Many Eyes Have Seen» unfolds over a month on an island. Hand-processed in salty seawater, its 16mm images dissolve and transform. The landscape flashes by in broken frames of light and shadow, as if the world itself was stuttering between memory and motion. A meditation on seeing and being seen, the film lingers like a fading dream, where observer and landscape blur into one.