Gala (2024)
EMBRACING GIRLHOOD.
Genre : Drama, Romance
Runtime : 10M
Director : Gio Kazdikian
Synopsis
A portrayal of girlhood through the eyes of an average teenage girl.
Prior to fighting for her country, Kirnay, a withdrawn boxer must fight the battle for her freedom.
Little Ruben believes that Lilith, the beautiful lady in their town, is an "aswang". His world will turn upside down because of Lilith's suspicious interest in his family.
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
A 90 second short film drawing on the theme of 'escape' - 18 year old Louisa has known nothing but the same streets her whole life. As she finally hits her breaking point of suffocation living in this town, she takes it upon herself to pack up and go, leaving nothing behind but a letter to her mom.
Florence Albertine is a 26-year old widow. Her husband, Charles, a soldier in the United States Confederate Army, left home ambitious and determined to resist invasion from the North and was killed in action by a Union cannon strike. Victor, their 7-year old son, understands why his father isn't coming home and cares for his mother through her own attempts to do the same.
Kevin and Sam meet for a hookup but what if they stay together a little bit longer?
Inka becomes an outcast to her small home town when she comes into conflict with the local priest. She is convinced she is right, but is being right worth the lonely fight?
Martin has a feeling of emptiness inside and decides to visit a medium. He hopes to get in touch with his dead father...
A story about racism, discrimination, and prejudice: in a dystopic future governed by only women, there is a fight between blondies and brunettes. In this society, the blondies are discriminated against because of the color of their hair.
A young deaf women confronts desperate crooks who are using one of her remote resort cabins for a hideout. Originally aired as episode 16 on the American TV series Screen Directors Playhouse.
An Emergency Services Operator in a Fire Control Room has just started a long night shift when she picks up a call from a desperate young mother. An hour previously, Gemma had fallen asleep in front of the television and has now woken to find the room full of smoke. Her three year old son is trapped in his bedroom upstairs. Flames have started to creep down the stairs that Gemma must use in order to reach him. The operator’s guidance is all that Gemma can rely on in order to survive.
A couple's fairytale romance mirrors the classic story of The Little Mermaid, with similar tragic results.
Sometimes the most beautiful men harbor the ugliest secrets.
Two guys are naked in bed, having sex. One man gets up, uses the bathroom, gets dressed, says, "Goodbye, see ya 'round," and leaves. The other man knows he will never see the guy again. He looks at the clock and then reaches underneath the bed for a pill bottle. It's time for him to take his HIV medicine.
The Boy with a Camera for a Face is satirical fairy tale about a boy born with a camera instead of a head, whose every moment is transformed by the fact he is recording it. Accompanied by a voice over narration read by Steven Berkoff, the film tells an epic story in fifteen minutes about the way we live today.
After ending a very close relationship, Manuel falls into melancholy and begins to rethink his way of loving. Within his thoughts are the social problems that surround him. He realizes that with these comes a rethinking of what love is. An idea that we have been carrying for a long time: the idea that to love is to possess.