Night cinema
While everyone's finishing their day, the screen awakens, sending viewers into the night with unexpected dreams.
In a programme that fuels and recharges, you will find refreshing comedies, short horror stories and a lot of madness.
While everyone's finishing their day, the screen awakens, sending viewers into the night with unexpected dreams.
In a programme that fuels and recharges, you will find refreshing comedies, short horror stories and a lot of madness.
Baltic premiere
Night falls down on empty business premises – and lights go up. A minimalistic musical.
Baltic premiere
With security camera footage obtained via a CCTV data request, this short distorts reality to embody a missed connection between a lovelorn surveillance system and a passenger.
Baltic premiere
Compassion casts you out. In this cyclical fever dream, a woman struggles to win over the crowd.
Ken has an idea for a bench.
Baltic premiere
Please note that the film you are about to see is taken from real material of film history, namely the disclaimers and warnings that frame the existence of many films. However, any collusion between art and industry, any conflict of interest between freedom of creation and the law, or any hint of moralism on the life of images, would be purely incidental and unintentional.
Baltic premiere
When an entire house collapses on him, Alex realizes he’s close to death. Will he use his final moments to reconnect with loved ones? Or will he go all-in on pitching his brilliant short film idea to old friend Bruno?
Baltic premiere
A sprawling story of love and loss, as reflected on a single face.
Tiny pieces that, when cobbled together, hint at a much larger picture.
The larger picture being a woman’s life.
Observed through the decades.
Centuries, even.
You know.
A comedy.
Baltic premiere
Scrumpy grapples with the impending arrival of his birthday, an annual milestone that casts a shadow over his spirits, as he navigates a whimsical yet tumultuous journey to reconcile his disdain for this cherished day of celebration.
Baltic premiere
A male pigeon courts a female in this awkwardly familiar dance of attraction, seduction and... disillusionment.
Baltic premiere
An office restroom turns into a battle of wills between an intern and an executive.
Baltic premiere
Fatigue expressed in an endless sea of content.
Baltic premiere
The sun sets and the eyes are closing. Rocking from one green leaf to the next, the little monkey glides gently to sleep. But what happens next? Suddenly the world of dreams gets darker, more colorful and wild. Mysterious plants, creatures and shapes line the trajectory through the night. A cinematic lullaby.
Baltic premiere
A face is born out of chaos. It struggles to exist. It struggles to find its purpose. It struggles to sit on a chair. In fact, it struggles with many things. But thank God, it’s trying.
International premiere
A noir-ish tale centred around a packet of menthol Vogue cigarettes, moving between Sri Lanka and the UK. Intrigued by the allure of this woman’s identity, our narrator finds herself enticed into an addiction. This short film explores the allure of aesthetic distractions.
Baltic premiere
A semi-autobiographical story about borders and integration told through the metaphor of a plant. After realising her plant isn’t growing as it should, Olive leaves her home and goes on a quest to find new grounds to let her plant re-root. Soon after she embarks on the journey, she comes to realise she has to do a lot more before she can reach her goal, or at least that’s what she thinks...
Baltic premiere
Based on concert RV 439 “La Notte” by A. Vivaldi. Carnival in Venice: Pulcinella attempts to slip into a VIP party, without too much success. Amidst lavish masks, food triumphs, dancing and sensual women, his dream of the rich and famous turns into a nightmare, revealing to him the priceless value of his simple but authentic life.
Baltic premiere
An Old West musical tale with 1940's flair about a mighty little train facing harrowing disaster.
Baltic premiere
A violent stop motion cabaret for the cynical and depraved. Guilt, alcoholic apathy and the inevitable, looming apocalypse threaten to push a young man to the brink.
Baltic premiere
A journey through the energy, rhythm and culture of life in Brixton, a district of South London with an African-Caribbean soul.
Baltic premiere
The short-film depicts the moment when two strangers’ lives entangle for a brief second when their eyes meet.
When Jonas visits his father after a long time, he's shocked to find him in a confused state. Has his father's mental state badly deteriorated or is something more sinister going on?
Kipu is a luxury chauffeur in a dark city, where the streets are full of cars and black cats. After he accidentally runs over the entire family of a little cat called Suruaika, Kipu adopts her and does all he can to keep her safe. As Kipu’s love for Suruaika grows, so does her body, and the streets become more and more crowded with black cats, new victims for countless little tragedies.
The Great Kazakh Steppe, XVII century. Times when myths often turned out to be true. A girl named Inkar is forced to flee after an unsuccessful magical ritual. Now the evil spirits wants to possess Inkar's body and her hereditary gift. On the way she meets two fugitive brothers, with the help of whom she hopes to cross the Great Sea. But will the heroes survive this road?
After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painful, blunt and funny dissection of the film and his life.
Nice, South of France, 1978. On Christmas Eve, Annie receives a phone call from her daughter that left her years earlier to join a cult. With the help of the police, Annie has only a few minutes to find out where she is and save her from a mass suicide...