Around the Pink House

Pedicab

July 2016 •Tagalog

A tragic-comic portrait of a dysfunctional family and the disquieting blind faith they invoke as they dream of going home.

Play the Devil

June 2016 •English

Set against the backdrop of Trinidad and Tobago’s mystical Carnival, a gifted and struggling young man becomes the object of intrigue for an older, well-meaning businessman until their worlds collide.

Martha und Karl

January 2012 •German

Apeiron

September 2013 •Swedish

Umbra is a scientist who wants to prove his theory that human beings are ruled by chance and devoid of any purpose, and as a consequence some become evil and cruel.

Bloomers

November 2013 •English

When Stella realises she's the only girl in her class who doesn't have her period, she sets out to fast-track her way to womanhood through somewhat unconventional methods.

The Enchanted Desna

December 1964 •Russian

Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the world shown through the impressions of the six-year-old Sashko. The second is the recollections and reasoning of Sashko, now an elderly colonel who liberates his native village during the war.

Marsella

July 2014 •Spanish

A biological mother, Sara, and a foster mother, Virginia, share a girl. Sara lost custody due to problems with alcohol and drugs. Five years later, the girl is returned to her.

MUTE

October 2013 •English

MUTE is an animated short about a world populated by people born without a mouth. When a gory accident leads to the discovery they are able to create their own mouth by cutting themselves, this releases an enthusiastic chain reaction among the population…

Europa

December 1931 •Polish

Europa is a 12-minute anti-fascist film made in 1931 in Warsaw, Poland by surrealists Stefan and Franciszka Themerson. The film is based on Anatol Stern's 1925 futurist poem Europa. It uses collages and photograms, and articulates the sense of horror and moral decline its makers were witnessing. The film, while long thought to have been lost, is considered an avant-garde masterpiece.

The Killing Field

May 2014 •English

A task force is sent to a small country town to investigate a shocking crime.

High Society

August 2014 •French

Class barriers threaten the budding romance of two young lovers striving to realize their artistic ambitions.

Anatomy of a Love Seen

July 2014 •English

A film within a film that explores love in all its painful and messy glory. Six months ago Zoe and Mal fell for each other while filming a love scene, which led to an intense, whirlwind affair, followed by a devastating breakup. Soon after their split, things get complicated when the two have to meet on set once more to re-shoot that fateful sequence.

Unsichtbarer Angreifer

October 2023 •German

The Turguts are a modern, tech-savvy family: Emma, her husband Amir and their son Malik live in a state-of-the-art smart home. Emma relies on smart technologies not only in the house, but also in her work as a psychotherapist. In order to be able to help more and more people, she is helping to develop an AI-based therapy app. However, as the first practical phase begins, initially minor but soon serious incidents occur with the networked and omnipresent technology.

Once A Princess

August 2014 •Tagalog

A high school princess is cursed by the geek whose affections she toyed with.

Diary for My Father and My Mother

January 1990 •Hungarian

This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist intelligentsia, she sees her friends and family react differently. Her lover, a married factory manager, supports the patriots and later assists fellow workers in staging a strike. Meanwhile her sister and others express anger at being forced from their homes during the revolution and continue to express a hatred for the rebels afterwards. But in the end they realize that for all people, real life is not possible after the revolt and its brutal suppression by the Soviets and their collaborators.

Gradiva: Esquisse I

August 1978 •French

The movie shows a smattering of images from the story of Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva. The subject is sublimated desire.

Fear of Water

May 2015 •English

Two teenage girls with parallel lives but coming from different socio-economic backgrounds meet one summer to discover friendship and a sexual awakening.

Eden

November 2014 •English

Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.

Aire libre

May 2014 •Spanish

A couple of thirty-somethings struggling with life, marriage, work, a kid and a new bought house outside the city.

The Farewell Party

September 2014 •Hebrew

A group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend. When rumors of the machine begin to spread, more and more people ask for their help, and the friends are faced with an emotional dilemma