Second Skin

SHORT SYNOPSIS

What would you do, if you are approached in a racist or sexist manner? A woman finds a way to protect herself without using words nor fists.

9 su 10 (Italy), by Andrea Baroni (15')

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She’s French, and he’s Italian. She’s a vegetarian and fond of Ayahuasca, he loves meat and has his feet on the ground: a couple in their thirties who has decided to live in Rome. During a springtime evening , they enter a supermarket which is about to close, and see a little girl dressed upas princess who starts to play with them. That vision is the right excuse to start the most important conversation of these latest months. While arguing on the choice of the products, she admits she’s ready for a child, but he’s not. Suddenly, members of the staff become advisors, and the two positions interchange, she confesses a secret and the little girl reveals their illusions. Illusions that belong toan entire generation.

Two Summers in Tangier

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Sarah and James are teenagers. They meet during one summer in Tangier and experience their first love feelings. They meet again the following summer, but some things have changed.

The Cocaine Famine

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The Cocaine Famine is an Irish black comedy about cocaine and the futility of nationalism. Set in an isolated shed in rural Ireland, three characters play out an absurd scene in real time. The result is a short film full of playful humour and hard-hitting historical facts.

The Tree of Souls

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The Tree of the Lost Souls is a story of tenderness and fantasy that really make us reflect on our lives and the parts of ourselves that we have lost. It is the story of Lili, an introverted 11 year old girl who uses her imagination as a refuge from the world around her; a world that has been falling apart due to the disappearance of her father, her mother's indifference towards her, betrayed friendship, and disappointment in love. But everything changes when she cries herself to sleep under a strange tree, under the watchful eye of Mr. Crow. Through this tree, Lili's soul travels to a timeless world that is populated by lost souls, even as her body lays slumbering on the roots of the tree.

Relicious

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An intellectual dress style man is shopping at the supermarket. After he bought the essential goods, he moves toward the refrigerated section to choose the yogurt to buy. The man realizes with amazement that each one of the yogurt cups has stamped on it the name of a religion instead of the yogurt brand...

Lekaime

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Lekaime is a project born in the studios of Xanti Rodriguez, a short lm set in the 40s after Hitler's visit Franco in Hendaye. Title of fantastic terror surrounded by occultism, black magic and touching the controversy of the theft of neonates by a part of a small ecclesiastical collective.

Zero Gravity

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When two boys parents start splitting up, the older tells the younger a story to make him understand.

Dog's Birthday

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Thomas lives with his girlfriend Nicole. She asks him to organize a birthday for their dog. Thomas begins to search for a birthday present for the dog. He goes to an exclusive shop with pet’s accessories. He succeeds in getting a cake for a dog. During comes back home he gets attacked by a group of dogs. The birthday cake falls and the dogs eat it. He returns home and tells Nicole about the adventures. It comes up that the meaning of all incidents might be differ from what he had assumed. Along the story line there are certain actions taking place in a pub. Thomas spends his days there to avoid being at home with Nicole. He writes down in his notebook, as the adventures happening around him start to remind him of those that had taken placed when he searched for a gift for his dog.

Six Home

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Many girls are playing and ...

Unlike Today

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An elderly couple fights for dignity while balancing on the edge of the existence of their former lives. Both resist saying goodbye to the reality they once knew to accept a new life, now dominated by illness and nursing.

Under Mom's Skirt

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A young woman goes with her mother for a routine medical check-up, that turns out to be full of surprises.