One cup of coffee after another, trying to keep up in this system that is built on constant pressure of staying fit, happy and social.
We can’t break and won’t stop. Everything in our might to succeed just to throw ourselves into the meatgrinder.
STARRING
Filterkoffie Annemijn Lankester
Expectations Corin Anderson
Face to Face Carrick O’Reilly, Romane Reitzman, Sharon Vreeburg, Mia Poulsen
M E M O Brian Gray
Meat Grinder Olga Volodina
Dagon Paolo Gaudio
Potlems Alberto Allegri Rodríguez
FILTERKOFFIE
Annemijn Lankester
Nervous job applicant Marijn is offered a magical coffee by HR Manager Rianne, making it impossible for him to lie and causing the interview to take some surprising turns.
EXPECTATIONS
Corin Anderson
In the minutes before a match, a table tennis player is overwhelmed by the pressure of competition, struggling to find composure and remember what drives him to play.
FACE TO FACE
Carrick O’Reilly, Romane Reitzman, Sharon Vreeburg, Mia Poulsen
Trapped in her bathroom before work, a woman occupies herself with increasingly playful tasks. Amid unexpected solitude, she confronts her reflection, sees herself clearly for the first time, and begins accepting her flaws. When reality returns, she discovers the door was never truly keeping her from leaving.
M E M O
Brian Gray
A hybrid analog/digital experimental film created through 16mm optical printing, direct-to-film intervention, and found-footage assemblage. Digitized from a live audiovisual performance with modular synthesizer accompaniment, each projection transforms the material through new interactions, making every screening a singular iteration while preserving traces of previous forms.
MEAT GRINDER
Olga Volodina
This stop-motion explores the tragic fate of a generation taken hostage by a perverse system rife with double standards and manipulative propaganda. The system feeds its inhabitants, preparing them for slaughter, where war grinds everyone without distinction, transforming them into fuel for the relentless war machine.
DAGON
Paolo Gaudio
In 1919 San Francisco, a man is standing on the ledge of a building ready to jump. Desperately, he relives in his memories the absurd and shocking episode that led him to the brink of suicide: the encounter with the monstrous and mythological Great Old One, DAGON.
POTLEMS
Alberto Allegri Rodríguez
A porcelain child comes to life in an ever-smiling family. Everything seems perfect until his fatal flaw comes to light: a frown.