O Efeito Isaías

Las Meninas

This film is about what the routine of everyday life can do to the human mind and psyche. It also reflects on the importance of the choices we make and how limited these choices are in the first place. The plot evolves around a family of four. They live in the suburbs, in a strange villa that appears, through a complex game of mirrors, to be more like a piece of installation art than a real house. The main character, who hardly appears on screen, is the son, a man in his thirties. Suffering from asthma and eczema since childhood, he uses his condition to manipulate his parents and his sister. Thus the existence of the terrorized family turns into an endless ritual of attempting to satisfy his whims, and always on the alert for yet another one of his “health crises”. Las Meninas resembles the scattered pieces of a puzzle. It is up to the viewer to assemble them in order to form his very own picture – something that makes the film itself personal and unique.

Chrysalis

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After hearing the news of a murder, Daniela flees her apartment, only to find herself trapped in a staircase loop. To escape, she must confront the guilt of her past.

The I Inside

When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the last two years from his memory. He learns that his brother was killed, he has married a woman he doesn't remember and he's haunted by strange visions of the woman he loved.

Resurgence

Timecrimes

A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.

Tic, Tac

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Skip

Tonight, Paul pops the question to Amanda. Everything is perfect; then suddenly - chaos. Now the couple find themselves stuck between two worlds.

Mrigjal

Young ambitious man gets trapped in loop of his own greed

The Attendant

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Korridor

A white-collar worker goes to investigate a strange noise in the building and keeps finding himself where he started.

Cycle

After years of playing second fiddle to a rival performer, a woman confronts her rival. Hoping to reason with her enemy, things grow heated and someone commits an act that may cost them their future. That is until there is a knock at the front door.

Cookie Logic

A young scientist studies the mechanics of time travel by having a conversation with a group of her future selves.

121 Funny Ways to Almost Park a Car - Number 11

There are many funny ways to park a car. This is number eleven.

1230

In his repetitive and empty daily life, Tomi lives carefree, until when his daily cycle is disturbed, Tomi is reminded of the original cause of the repetition he is experiencing that opens up his past mistake.

Freesia

A short film created by medical students about a medical student suffering from major depression living through almost same days in a never-ending loop

You Should Have Left

In an effort to repair their relationship, a couple books a vacation in the countryside for themselves and their daughter. What starts as a perfect retreat begins to fall apart as one loses their grip on reality, and a sinister force tries to tear them apart.

Caracola

Sofía, raised amid violence and abandonment, infiltrates a clandestine brothel to find her mother after years of searching. As she follows the clues and uncovers the worst, she is dragged into an emotional loop that forces her to confront her past and the possibility of repeating it… or breaking it.

Poughkeepsie Crispies

He really likes Poughkeepsie Crispies. Maybe too much. A darkly funny, minimalist loop of repetition, ritual, and barely-hinged performance.