COMPETITION

...until after...

A woman couldn't carry the grief after losing her loved one. With no support from the outside world, she attempts to deal with the loss herself. To do that, she embarks on a journey to gather elements needed to rejoin with her lover.

Directors:

Marcin Makara

Key Cast:

Lucyna Kujawa

Writers:

Marcin Makara

Producers:

Ewa Tomaszewicz-Makara

Other Credits:

Director of Photography: Jerzy Wojciech Paprocki; Editor: Kajetan Jakubowski; Sound Supervisor: Zuzanna Kołakowska; Director of Music: Tomasz Podolecki; Composer: Marcin Sęk; Designer: Lucyna Kujawa; Supporting Cast: Andrzej Żywicki, Piotr Boroń, Bartosz Makara, Marcin Makara, Krzysztof Ciećwierz; Creative Consultants: PhD Joanna Sarbiewska, PhD Piotr Kurpiewski, PhD Agnieszka Podolecka; Screenwriter Consultant: Anna Makara; Assistant Director: Bartosz Makara

Project Type:

-

Genres:

Drama, Philosophical

Duration:

0:18:06

Country of Origin:

Poland

Completion Date:

2023-11-02

Language:

Polish

"The Myth of Death" 

This film aims to remove the mystique and above all fear surrounding death.

Backed by The Blavatsky Trust it presents a historical panorama of dying, death and rebirth featuring a diverse traditions down the ages and across the globe. It examines contemporary attitudes to death and dying and challenges the materialistic view that death spells annihilation, oblivion and extinction of consciousness. It presents the alternative view – that consciousness survives death of the physical body.

THE MYTH OF DEATH, produced and presented by film-maker Tim Wyatt (and based on his book Everyone’s Book Of The Dead), also highlights rapidly changing attitudes about death with around 30-35 per cent of people in Europe and the US now believing in rebirth.

Directors:

Timothy Wyatt

Key Cast:

Timothy John Wyatt

Writers:

Timothy John Wyatt

Producers:

Timothy John Wyatt

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:44:24

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

2024-05-25

Language:

English

Alchemy in Hyde Park

Alchemy in Hyde Park is an esoteric drama about four Chicagoans (Mira, Rumi, Franco, and Louise) who help one another grow through friendship. The events of the film unfold over seven days, wherein we see how the main characters are negotiating their relationship with one another and with themselves, being in the middle of life’s challenges and the necessary inner work of healing from past traumas. The film’s fifth persona is the neighborhood of Hyde Park itself, where all of the action takes place.

Directors:

Robert Beshara

Key Cast:

Maria Constanza Garrido Sierralta, Kymberly Harris, Kevin Baylor, Paul Durica

Writers:

Robert Beshara

Producers:

Robert Beshara

Other Credits:

Cinematography: Anthony J Lenzo; Soundtrack: Justin Blackburn; Choreography: Adam Rose; Make Up & SFX: Melissa Heintzelman; Color Correction: Dalia Ali

Project Type:

Feature, Other

Genres:

Drama, esoteric, surreal, experimental, avant-garde, independent, digital, indie, diy, underground, guerrilla

Duration:

1:15:44

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2019-03-16

Language:

English, French

Ans and the Universe

Ans Hoornweg's extraordinary life, her out-of-body experiences, and communication with extraterrestrials are explored in this sincere testimonial by Berkveldt. 

In Poortugaal, a small village just south of Rotterdam, lives Ans Hoornweg – an 80-year-old spiritual medium with tales as vast as the cosmos. The documentary "Ans and the Universe" offers a captivating portrayal of Ans, who is an incarnated alien from the distant planet of Laborax. This isn't mere fantasy; interstellar travels and conversations with extraterrestrial entities have defined Ans her life.

Ans has crafted dolls of many of her celestial friends, a tangible memory of her vast intergalactic network. Since the 1980s, Dutch television audiences have been both bemused and intrigued by Ans and her collection of alien companions. 

In 2016, she began sharing her message online, with the support of her confidante Merlinde. Through her YouTube channel, she shares otherworldly wisdom and delivers a stern caution about humanity's reckless treatment of Earth. 

Her persistent claim that "the aliens are already here, living peacefully among us" might have garnered admiration within the New Age circles, it also marked her as an outsider amidst her own kind. The documentary "Ans and the Universe" moves between moments of kind-heartedness, melancholy and solitude. It's an exploration of belief, identity, and the touching spaces in between, a moving narrative of a woman moving between cosmic connections and earthly isolation. Berkveldt captures this duality with a delicate touch while documenting Ans in the last years of her life. 

Through their lens, viewers are taken behind the scenes of Ans' YouTube presence, witnessing her life unfold, where each piece – a personal moment or a broadcast snippet – form a part of her vibrant story. The audience is offered a unique opportunity to journey across alien realms alongside Ans.

Directors:

Noelle Ingeveldt, Juriaan van Berkel

Key Cast:

Ans Hoornweg, Morgana Hoornweg, Merlinde Swiers

Writers:

-

Producers:

Noelle Ingeveldt, Juriaan van Berkel

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:47:00

Country of Origin:

Netherlands

Completion Date:

2023-09-01

Language:

Dutch

City of Mermaids

It is in their dualism, both physical and psychological, that the Femminielli, an ancient figure in Neapolitan popular culture, live their daily lives, feeling both women and men. They are strongly integrated into the social fabric and often represent a spiritual and religious point of reference for the community. Amidst changing social models, many secular traditions tied to this figure still survive. A journey between the sacred and profane, in the hope that as long as Naples exists, the Femminielli will live on.

Directors:

Andrea Fortis

Key Cast:

Ciro Cascina

Writers:

Andrea Fortis

Producers:

Gianluca Contaldi, Andrea Fortis

Other Credits:

Editing supervisor: Francesco Loffredo; Sound editing: Fabrizio Rabacchi; Music composer and supervisor: Gianluca Capurro; Colourist: Giorgia Meacci; Camera operator: Michele Gerthoux, Cinzia Corpetti, andrea Fortis; Editor: Andrea Fortis

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:16:30

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2024-08-28

Language:

Italian

Concrete

In an alternate version of 20th century America, all citizens are subject to government-issued neurological implants which they are told prevent their heads from exploding. When Arkady, the lone caretaker of his ailing mother, has his implant forcibly removed by an unknown assailant– his reality begins to collapse and he scrambles to find answers.

Starring Ed Harris, Henry Fulton Winship, Sophia Ali, and Frankie Quinones

Directors:

Eli Vidis Newman

Key Cast:

Ed Harris, Sophia Ali, Frankie Quinones, Henry Fulton Winship

Writers:

Eli Vidis Newman

Producers:

Annika Dawson, Lily Darragh Harty

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:15:44

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2024-04-01

Language:

English

Divine-Spark

A 71-year-old bricklayer named Francisco seeks answers to his questions in spirituality, philosophy and quantum physics.

Directors:

Melquior Brito de Morais

Key Cast:

Francisco das Chagas dos Santos

Writers:

-

Producers:

Rosana Borges da Silva

Other Credits:

Fotografia: Jailton Costa, Wilton Costa, Thiago Dantas; Colorista: Marcos Campos

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:20:00

Country of Origin:

Brazil

Completion Date:

2023-10-29

Language:

Portuguese

Dweller

​As paranormal investigators, we've encountered many strange occurrences and varying degrees of entities. This documentary is our account of experiencing the Dweller on the Threshold.

Directors:

Ben Goldman, Sarah Lienard

Key Cast:

Brienna Shear

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

Photographer: Angela Wingard

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

Paranormal, Documentary

Duration:

0:45:00

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2024-08-28

Language:

English

Fire in Quibayo

Every October 12, the Day of Indigenous Resistance, the Dance in Candela is celebrated, which attracts people from different parts of Venezuela and the world, to the Quibayo sector, located in the "Cerro María Lionza Natural Monument" in the Yaracuy State. Hundreds of dancers jump over the burning embers, to pay tribute to Queen María Lionza.

Directors:

Luis Sotillo

Key Cast:

Sarah Castillo

Writers:

Luis Sotillo

Producers:

Luis Sotillo

Other Credits:

Photography: Luis Sotillo; Camera: Luis Sotillo; Art: Luis Sotillo; Sound: Luis Sotillo; Editing: Luis Sotillo; Interview: Sarah Castillo; Logistics: Andrés Borges, Alexander Bastidas

Project Type:

Documentary, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:08:25

Country of Origin:

Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of

Completion Date:

2023-12-09

Language:

Spanish

Gabriel: The hole runs after the rabbit

A man seeks to ease his weary body and mind at a new age health spa, but he gradually becomes unsure if he hasn’t done it all before.

Directors:

Adriaan de la Rey, Jaco van der Merwe

Key Cast:

Gabriel Marchand, Phomolo Sekamotho, Jaco van der Merwe, Deolandre de Jager, Adriaan de la Rey, ,

Writers:

Jaco van der Merwe, Adriaan de la Rey

Producers:

Jaco van der Merwe

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:20:57

Country of Origin:

South Africa

Completion Date:

2024-01-31

Language:

English

Ghosts Moving Flowers and Physical Mediumship

This Ghostcircle film by Director Karl Fallon, is a thought provoking documentary about Physical Phenomena never captured before on film. The documentary captures moments in time about modern day Physical Mediumship with Physical medium Patrick McNamara. Patrick explains that by providing the necessary conditions with people in a "Psychic Circle", it will allow spirit entities the opportunity to move flowers in people’s hands. These Psychic or Physical Circles were demonstrated repeatedly and held in independent and reputedly haunted locations around the UK and Ireland. The film explores and captures the phenomena as he discusses the process around the demonstrations. All attendees were unknown to the medium and his team before turning up to see what they would get. The individual independent Psychic Circle sitters actually see and feel amazing phenomenon, and then give witness statements about that they experienced. See the strange and flower moving by the spirit entities with the sitters.

Directors:

Karl Fallon

Key Cast:

Patrick McNamara

Writers:

Patrick McNamara

Producers:

Karl Fallon

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:00:00

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

2024-03-11

Language:

English

Gizmo

GIZMO is an absurdist black comedy disguised as a police procedural in which the police methodically wastes time and resources, looks the other way and never gets anything done. The disappearance of a young woman inside a Natural Park and the bizarre death of a police chief tie together and begin to circle around a paranoid plot and a possibly supernatural mystery, all the while the film's anti-hero does his best to save his own skin and sanity and avoid any kind of social responsibility or metaphysical entrapment. Is Gizmo a pantheistic horror story or just another day in the mad world of Mexican sur-reality? Who really knows...

Directors:

Everardo Felipe Garcia

Key Cast:

Julian Herbert

Writers:

Eduardo Padilla Gutierrez

Producers:

Paul Smart

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

Detective fiction, Weird Tale, Black Comedy, Buddy Movie

Duration:

1:17:30

Country of Origin:

Mexico

Completion Date:

2024-04-03

Language:

Spanish

How To Escape A Cult

Musician Tito Strange embarks on a psychedelic journey as he is initiated into a mystical cult. Their secret ways are unveiled in a dark and stylish series of rituals with blood sacrifices, money burning and fire. Tito is then forced to confront his inner demons unveiled to him in a fire dance by a mystical mage, only to lead him to the fight of his life. 

Directors:

Christian Antonio Salinas

Key Cast:

Tito Strange, Dominic Baker, Raquel Zamora

Writers:

Christian Antonio Salinas, Tito Strange

Producers:

Christian Antonio Salinas, Tito Strange, Keyring

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Music Video, Short

Genres:

Sci-Fi, Horror, Musical

Duration:

0:09:21

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2023-12-31

Language:

English

Illuminatus!

A young reporter is recruited by a mad genius and his anarchist followers aboard a giant yellow submarine. Their plans to foil the nefarious plots of the Illuminati seem about as unbelievable as the hidden underwater city of Atlantis, where they happen to be going next. 

Directors:

Chris Kalis

Key Cast:

Alex Cox, Jon Glaser, Gregg Turkington

Writers:

Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson

Producers:

Timothy Peternel, Chris Kalis, Nick Helweg-Larsen

Other Credits:

Assistant Director: Nolan J Downs; Producer: Timothy Peternel

Project Type:

Animation, Experimental, Short

Genres:

Satire, Adult Animation, Science-Fiction, High Weirdness, Fantasy

Duration:

0:09:54

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2024-08-23

Language:

English

Myth of the Cave

A child enters a cave to complete a sacred ritual and must learn to face the shadows that lie within.

Directors:

-

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

Director, Producer, Animator: Corin Astles; Storyboard Assistance: Francisco Alvarez Simavilla, Dana Nitai; Visual Development: Milton Daney Alanes Sandoval, Thomas Corcoran, Dana Nitai, Tanwen McIntyre, Ava Groves Webster; CG Modelling: Becky Jervis, Yasmine Necib, Katerina Owen, Tamasyn Taylor-Ryan; 2D Rigs: Dylan Escobar Scott; 2D Animation: Milton Daney Alanes Sandoval, Francisco Alvarez Simavilla, Grace Asplin, Dominic Baidoo, Thomas Corcoran, Alexander Donlin, Nish Gurung, Erin Leung, Travis Perry, Izzy Robins, Lucy Watson, Hoching Yeung; CG Animation: Leo Haden, Hannah Leung, Laura Page, Aaron Yee; Post Production: Jack Farnell, Ned Ivay, Jamie Ker; Voice Acting: Laura Page; Sound Designer: Ned Ivay; Composers: Ellen McDonald, Christine Zhou; Special Thanks: UWE Animation, Luis Cook, Libby Bass, Tom Jobbins

Project Type:

Animation, Short, Student

Genres:

Mythological

Duration:

0:03:40

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

2024-07-15

Language:

-

Rosso Veneziano

Young twins Leo and Lea are haunted by the phantoms that inhabit their family house in Venice, they start a quest to unveil the mystical history that exists in La Laguna.

Directors:

Baldassarra Anne Franchetti

Key Cast:

Leonardo Ferrari Dubois, Lea Violetta Ferrari Dubois

Writers:

-

Producers:

Baldassarra Anne Franchetti

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:24:45

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2023-09-15

Language:

Italian

Shadow Flame, Shadow Gold; Winds of the West

This film evokes the integration of shadow and flame through the shape-shifting image of the feline, who sees into the dark and both stalks and dances with its own shadow. Through this illumination of fire — night sight, in the literal underworld, the dancer, the projected shadows and the cave walls converge in movement as the vocalist’s acoustics echo through this ancient cavern. The interaction of movement and sound within the cave formations creates a sensory and psychic chiaroscuro. 

Directors:

Mary Carol Hill, Chuck Shanlever, Carol Johnson

Key Cast:

Carol Johnson, Mary Carol Hill

Writers:

-

Producers:

Mary Carol Hill

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Music Video, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:06:27

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2024-02-28

Language:

English

So Below

A contemporary reflection on the utopian poetics of Charles Fourier, framed within a multi-format cinematic landscape variously local, regional, global, and cosmic.

Directors:

Jeff Carter

Key Cast:

Hrothgar Matthews

Writers:

-

Producers:

Jeff Carter

Other Credits:

sound design: Chris Gestrin

Project Type:

Documentary, Other

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:15:00

Country of Origin:

Canada

Completion Date:

2024-06-28

Language:

English

Sri Ramanujar

Logline:

In 11th-century India, young philosopher Ramanuja challenges rigid social norms and religious orthodoxy, embarking on a spiritual journey to spread a message of divine grace and equality, ultimately transforming Hindu philosophy and empowering generations to come.

Synopsis:

The film "Sri Ramanujar" begins in 11th-century India, highlighting the cultural and religious landscape of the time. Born in a humble Brahmin family, young Ramanujar shows extraordinary intellectual and spiritual inclinations. He questions the prevailing social and religious norms, particularly the rigid caste distinctions and the esoteric rituals of the priests that keep divine knowledge away from the common people.

As he grows up, Ramanujar becomes a disciple of the renowned scholar Yadava Prakasha. However, his divergent views on the nature of God and the universe led to tension with his teacher, forcing him to leave the ashram. Guided by his spiritual experiences and divine visions, Ramanujar sets out on a journey to spread the message of devotion (bhakti) and the accessibility of God's grace to all, regardless of caste or social status.

Ramanujar travels to various temples and holy sites, gathering a group of devoted disciples. Along the way, he faces numerous challenges, including opposition from orthodox priests, political powers, and even his own family. Yet, his compassion, intellect, and unwavering faith in Lord Vishnu and his avatars help him overcome all obstacles.

The film delves into his profound theological insights, especially his doctrine of Vishishtadvaita, which teaches that while the soul and the universe are distinct, they are also inseparably connected to God. His philosophy emphasizes God's grace and the importance of personal devotion over ritualistic practices.

The climax of the movie focuses on Ramanujar's greatest contribution: the reformation of the Hindu tradition and the establishment of the Srivaishnava Sampradaya. He is seen making the sacred mantra accessible to all, declaring that divine knowledge should not be confined to a few but should be shared freely with everyone.

The film concludes with a reflection on Ramanujar's enduring legacy, his impact on the Bhakti movement, and his role in shaping the religious and philosophical landscape of India. As the final scene fades, it shows Ramanujar being revered as a saint and philosopher whose teachings continue to inspire millions across the world.

Themes: The film explores themes of equality, devotion, the struggle against orthodoxy, and the quest for spiritual truth. It portrays Sri Ramanujar as a visionary reformer whose ideas were ahead of his time and continue to resonate today.

Directors:

Ravi V Chandar

Key Cast:

KRISHHNAN Thirumalai

Writers:

Ravi V Chandar

Producers:

KRISHHNAN Thirumalai

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

Drama, BioPic

Duration:

2:00:00

Country of Origin:

India

Completion Date:

2024-07-25

Language:

Tamil

Surviving the Witch

A green filmmaker sets out on an island paradise to make an ethno-ecological documentary, only the spirits have their own agenda and it all backfires on him.

A docu-fable that reflects on Mankind's lack of vision.

Directors:

ERic Connor

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Eric Connor

Producers:

Eric Connor

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:30:10

Country of Origin:

France

Completion Date:

2024-10-01

Language:

English, Other

Tales of a Space Pirate Coming from the Moon.

A biographical documentary about Daniela, a pirate woman who sees the world through a magical lens. Through her stories, visions and dreams, this documentary shows how the supernatural has shaped her life hinting who she really is. 

Directors:

Valentina D'Annunzio

Key Cast:

Daniela Farinato

Writers:

Valentina D'Annunzio, Daniela Farinato

Producers:

Valentina D'Annunzio

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature

Genres:

-

Duration:

2:20:00

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

2024-08-08

Language:

English, Italian

Tears of Blood

A knight and a priest investigate the disappearance of a young girl and the masked cult responsible in medieval Europe.

Directors:

Joshua Clay

Key Cast:

Sinan El-Sayed, Joshua Clay, Viviane Clay, Nicola Pedrozzi, Sophie Scholleck, Jürgen Buscher

Writers:

Joshua Clay

Producers:

Viviane Clay, Joshua Clay

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

Medieval, Fantasy, Mystery

Duration:

1:27:40

Country of Origin:

Germany

Completion Date:

2023-12-10

Language:

English

Terminal Emulator

When a sexually abusive tryst in outer space ends by bloodshed, a distraught corporate executive faces demons after her lover provides a psychedelic, designer drug. 

Directors:

Benjamin Capps

Key Cast:

Katherine Bellantone, Benjamin Capps, Frankie Temple Ruthless, Gabriel Fries, James Cook, Axel Menz, Richard Leviathan, Jamie Jacobs

Writers:

Benjamin Capps

Producers:

Benjamin Capps, Barbara Capps, Mary Mitchell

Other Credits:

Cinematography: Matthew Hughes; Stop Motion Animation: Benjamin Capps; Special Effects: KL Kenzie; Hair and Makeup Artist: Jill Sandmire; Intimacy Coordinator: Isabella Alonso; Assistant Director: Lara Unnerstall; Gaffer: Addae Shelby, Katie Bellamy; Sound Recordist: Morgan Jensen; Camera Assistant: Gavin Pringle; Grip: Ken Lobacz; Electrician: Ryan Campbell, Latham Williams

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Sci Fi, Horror

Duration:

0:15:22

Country of Origin:

United States, United States

Completion Date:

2024-08-12

Language:

English

The Addends

Something hidden and powerful decides wars and fates. But what really rules, strategy or superstition...

In 2021, director Edi Mils connected with Julienne Davis, known for her role in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, through IMDb. Davis shared insights into the hidden workings of Hollywood, prompting Mils to delve deeper into the subject. His reflections and research on the global influence of prominent American elites—including the Bilderberg Group and the Rothschild, Rockefeller, and Warburg families—ultimately inspired the creation of The Addends.

Directors:

Edi Mils

Key Cast:

Frédéric Moulin, Violetta Jackson, Hannah Clarissa Knauf

Writers:

Edi Mils, Hector Hugh Munro

Producers:

Anton Giulio Priolo

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Drama, Comedy

Duration:

0:10:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2023-09-14

Language:

English

The Enchantment of Consciousness

​​The enchantment of consciousness recounts the meeting between Leonardo, the director of the film, and Arcelia, a woman calling herself the “Blue Woman” and a self-described “Demon Goddess.” Through rituals that arbitrarily mix elements from different Mexican indigenous cultures and the use of entheogens, she shows Leonardo a violent approach to spirituality, driving the young director to the darkest experience of his life.

Directors:

Leonardo García Castilla

Key Cast:

Arcelia Arteaga, Julia Julieta Casimiro Estrada

Writers:

-

Producers:

Leonardo García Castilla, Bárbara Merlos

Other Credits:

Production Company: La Furia Cine, Malandra Media, IMCINE; Executive Producer: Bárbara Merlos, Yuli Rodríguez, Leonardo García Castilla

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:26:00

Country of Origin:

Mexico

Completion Date:

2023-01-01

Language:

Spanish

The Fool´s Journey

This story traces the journey of consciousness based on the

metaphor of the tarot ́s major arcana in the context of a party.

On this trip everything is possible...

Directors:

Juana Segura, Sofía Zavaleta, Ignacio Zavaleta

Key Cast:

Juan Grandinetti

Writers:

Ignacio Zavaleta, Sofía Zavaleta, Juana Segura

Producers:

Ignacio Zavaleta, Sofía Zavaleta, Juana Segura

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:19:00

Country of Origin:

Spain

Completion Date:

2023-12-19

Language:

Spanish

The Hidden Spring

4000 kilometres away on the other side of Australia in Perth, my father is dying. 

The camera becomes a tool for me to process.

From my small house, overlooking a railway in Sydney, I watch the world. I contemplate our family’s history of displacement. I reflect on buildings, landscape and mysticism. Slowly, a film comes into being.

Directors:

Jason Di Rosso

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Jason Di Rosso

Producers:

Jason Di Rosso

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:52:00

Country of Origin:

Australia

Completion Date:

2023-02-09

Language:

English, Italian

The Lady of the Labyrinth

This short allegorical essay is a mythological journey to Paradise Lost. Inspired by the ancient civilization of Minoan Crete, It shows a primordial vision where life is celebrated under the festive atmosphere of a bewitched world. It shows the childhood of humanity contemplated as the peak period of our collective evolution on Earth, where separation from nature had not taken place.

Directors:

Ana Miranda Garcia, Sonia Garcia Parrilla

Key Cast:

Marisa Moreno

Writers:

Ana Miranda Garcia, Sonia Garcia Parrilla

Producers:

Ana Miranda Garcia, Sonia Garcia Parrilla

Other Credits:

Animation Design: Jeremy Bastide

Project Type:

Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Music Video, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:15:00

Country of Origin:

Spain

Completion Date:

2023-06-13

Language:

Spanish

The Landscape of the Spirit

To grasp the phenomenon of "places of power" the creators of Landscape of the Spirit set off on a journey across Poland. It leads them through country roads, lush forests and serene mountains, as well as, through the hearts and minds of five experienced guides. 

In Warsaw, they meet with Jakub Zemła who initiates them to the practice of radiesthesia - a pre-scientific craft used to study the energetics of different locations. Jakub is a craftsman, but also an official, as he chairs the Association of Radiesthesia Appraisers.

Later on, they cross the Western border with Marta Tscharntke from Zgorzelec to Görlitz. She shows them the field practice, demonstrating how radiesthetic tools (wand and pendulum) are used to inspect and quantify energy in order to detect the "places of power". From a discussion about numbers and frequencies, the conversation quickly expands onto the topics of transcendent experiences.

In a Kashubian forest which hides ancient stone circles, Eugeniusz Leciej (a mechanic turned exorcist) reveals how over 20 years ago, his fate became forever tied to that place. While browsing through his memories, he tells captivating stories of supernatural experiences and tales of miraculous healing, but also reflects on the history of the stone circles and the cultural heritage that they hold.

Back in the capital, in the halls of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the creators meet Dorota Hall - a cultural anthropologist. She recalls memories of her research into the "places of power". In

their conversation, she paves new paths for understanding the relationship between New Age spirituality and religion.

At the foot of mount Ślęża, Jacek Kwiatkowski shares stories of his spiritual pursuits which over the years brought him from being a Catholic priest to becoming a bioenergetic healer. In the stone circle that he built, he opens up the blend of his empathic nature and exposes conscious approach to stones as carriers of knowledge. For Jacek, Slęża - the Polish Olympus - still holds a mystery to be decoded.

The road through the country, but also the hearts and minds that inhabit it, unravels a hidden richness of thinking, feeling and experiencing belief that slips out of knows trails. Apart from the guiding characters, the road is filled with symbols, snippets of radio broadcasts and cultural landmarks which altogether portray the multidimensional spiritual map of Poland.

Directors:

Antoni Czarczyński, Helena Łomnicka

Key Cast:

Jakub Zemła, Eugeniusz Leciej, Marta Tscharntke, Dorota Hall, Jacek Kwiatkowski

Writers:

Antoni Czarczynski, Helena Łomnicka

Producers:

Antoni Czarczyński, Helena Łomnicka

Other Credits:

Sound Design: Tomasz Kulpiński; Soundtrack: Leon Andres; Color Grading: David de Bruijn; Graphic Design: Jan Wojda

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:03:00

Country of Origin:

Netherlands

Completion Date:

2024-09-13

Language:

Polish

The Metaphysician's Dream

Metaphysicians materialize living toys from a parallel universe.

Directors:

William Kersten

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Animation, Experimental, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:15:05

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2020-11-01

Language:

English

To be or to be?

The main character of the film "To be or to be?" - writer and traveler, Giacomo Casanova. Casanova is the author of the translation of the libretto by Louis Cahuzac of the opera by J.F. Rameau "Zoroastre" ("Zarathustra"). 298-year-old Giacomo returns to Earth to travel from West to East, to the homeland of Zarathustra. 

Casanova heads to the Temple of Fire, reflecting on the immortal spiritual component of life, on the boundless, timeless, universal value of earthly and extraterrestrial existence. Having laid a bridge between the two oldest cities of Western and Eastern civilization, Prague and Baku, the authors of the film send their hero in search of a source of spiritual light...

Directors:

Leyla Begim

Key Cast:

Gulnara Imanova, Mehriban Gasimzadeh, Sabina Zulalova, Aibeniz Nabieva, Kamilla Mamedova, Shahran Hasanova, Rufat Aliyev, Rovshan Makhmudov

Writers:

Boris Goldberg, Leyla Begim

Producers:

Boris Goldberg

Other Credits:

Producer: Boris Goldberg; Filming operator in Baku, Film editor, Sound engineer: Sarkhan Radjabov; Art director of filming in Baku: Ulviya Akhundova; Filming operator in Prague and Duchcov: Aneta Baldovich; Authors of poems: Boris Goldberg, Natalia Volkova, Ulviya Akhundova, Leyla Begim; The film featured the overture of the opera ''Zoroastre'' (''Zarathustra'') by Jean Philippe Rameau: Symphony orchestra named after Kara Karaev under the leadership of Nargiz Aliyeva; Members of the ''Sabah'' choir: Rasima Abdullaeva, Ayan Mamedova, Rashad Abdullaev, Ayan Khasanova, Fidan Yunus, Ali Talibov, Fakhriya Bayramova, Lyaman Gambarova, Telmina Bayramzadeh, Fidan Amirova

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:26:40

Country of Origin:

Czech Republic

Completion Date:

-

Language:

Russian

To Semiramide

ENG

The documentary To Semiramide retraces the life of Semiramide, the most famous clairvoyant of the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Brescia in 1907, she would become the psychic of politicians such as Benito Mussolini, Augusto Turati and Italo Balbo, showbusiness people such as Vittorio Gassman and Gina Lollobrigida, and a myriad of other high-ranking personalities including the wife of Gabriele d'Annunzio, Maria Hardouin of Gallese. The film shows the research of a journalist - who is also one of the directors, Silvia Ghilardi - committed to reconstructing Semiramide's activity and life: she will dig into the past, collect the voices of direct and indirect witnesses and discover unpublished episodes. A journey that shows a glimpse of life under the years during the fascist dictatorship and those after the war but which also addresses universal issues such as the female condition and the need, innate in each of us, to seek confirmation of a beyond beyond death. A local story that becomes global both from the point of view of the characters involved and the topics covered.

ITA

Il documentario A Semiramide ripercorre la vita di Semiramide, la veggente più famosa nella prima metà del Novecento. Nata a Brescia nel 1907 diverrà la sensitiva di uomini politici come Benito Mussolini, Augusto Turati e Italo Balbo, personaggi dello spettacolo, come Vittorio Gassman e Gina Lollobrigida, e una miriade di altre personalità altolocate tra le quali la moglie di Gabriele d’Annunzio, Maria Hardouin di Gallese. La pellicola mostra le ricerche di una giornalista - che è anche una delle registe, Silvia Ghilardi - impegnata a ricostruire l’attività e la vita di Semiramide: scaverà nel passato, raccoglierà la voce di testimoni diretti e indiretti e scoprirà episodi inediti. Un viaggio che mostra uno spaccato di vita degli anni durante la dittatura fascista e di quelli post conflitto bellico ma che affronta anche tematiche universali quali la condizione femminile e il bisogno, innato in ognuno di noi, di cercare conferme di un oltre al di là della morte. Una storia locale che si fa globale sia dal punto di vista dei personaggi coinvolti sia per gli argomenti trattati.

Directors:

Silvia Ghilardi, Silvia Cascio

Key Cast:

Silvia Ghilardi

Writers:

Silvia Ghilardi

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

historical, investigation, mystery

Duration:

0:50:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2023-08-30

Language:

Italian

Try, Tri-Butterfly

Try, Tri-Butterfly is a meditation on the frame and framework of creation, transformation and introspection. Who is the architect that creates in his image; is the intertwined dead ringer growth or decay? Does creation and transformation require sacrifice?

Directors:

Jonah Steeman

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

surreal, occult, psychological

Duration:

0:03:00

Country of Origin:

Belgium

Completion Date:

2024-11-15

Language:

-

Vaklush

"Vaklush" is a documentary, filmed during the period of 1998 until 2022 and contains unseen archival footage from the life of the famous spiritual leader and Teacher Vaklush Tolev. The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of his birth and is a story about the life path and ideas of one of the most enigmatic personalities of Bulgaria.

Vaklush Tolev is a theologian by education, lecturer and author of numerous volumes on religious, philosophical, cultural and historical topics. Having gone through the prisons and camps of the communist regime, for him suffering does not exist, but is rather development. Persecuted by the repressive State Security authorities as an "enemy of the people," he insists that evil does not exist, but is rather unevolved good. A graduate theologian, he comes to the idea that man is not a sinner, as religions teach, but a god in evolution.

After the fall of communism in Bulgaria in 1989, he was invited to teach at Plovdiv and Sofia universities. There, in his lectures on the history of religions, he often reminded his students of the inscription on the temple of Delphi; "Know thyself and thou shalt know the gods and the world." He himself experienced this knowledge and formulated his own teaching, which he called "The Way of Wisdom".

The film features: 

Peter Stoyanov – President of Bulgaria, 1997-2002

Dr. Ilko Semerdjiev – Minister of Health for the period of 1999-2001

Prof. Dr. Maria Slavova – lawyer and lecturer at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ognyan Minchev – Political Scientist and Doctor of Sociological Sciences

Prof. Ivan Zhelev – theologian

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ivan Bachvarov – physicist and lecturer at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kiril Kolikov – mathematician and lecturer at Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski”

Dr. Ventsislav Zlatarev – philosopher

Prof. Todor Balkanski – linguist

Kalin Kalinov – engineer

Petko Atanasov – editor and scriptwriter at Bulgarian National Television

Boyko Stankushev – journalist

Iliana Slavova – journalist

Tsveta Nikolova – journalist at Bulgarian National Radio

Sia Georgieva – lawyer

Georgi Tolev – nephew of Vaklush Tolev

Jacqueline Toleva – daughter of Vaklush Tolev

Directors:

Nikolay Vasilev

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Nikolay Vasilev, Lilia Angelova, Tanya Cheshmedjieva

Producers:

Nikolay Vasilev

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:40:00

Country of Origin:

Bulgaria

Completion Date:

2022-03-19

Language:

Bulgarian

we go to church but we do not speak to god

With the help of a mischievous new friend, a runaway bride turns to the tarot to find answers to her questions about ritual, tradition, and faith.

Directors:

Luke Oleen Junk

Key Cast:

Tessa Torreano, Tricia Buerke, Nicolas Sullie Sullivan, Sam Benson

Writers:

Luke Oleen Junk

Producers:

Tessa Torreano, Tricia Buerke

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Drama, Comedy, Experimemtal, Music, Art Film

Duration:

0:07:47

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2024-03-16

Language:

English

SPECIAL SCREENING

Embassy of the Free Mind

Welcome to the Embassy of the Free Mind (EFM), the world's only museum dedicated to free thinking. Located in Amsterdam's historic House with the Heads, the EFM celebrates the city's centuries-old legacy of freedom. Since the 17th century, Amsterdam has been a haven for free thinkers, craftsmen, and artists, fostering a climate of tolerance and intellectual exchange.

The EFM houses the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, a renowned rare book collection that has recently received UNESCO's Memory of the World status. This collection includes 25,000 prohibited books exploring the connections between humanity, nature, and the universe, with focuses on hermetic wisdom, alchemy, mysticism, and more. Through evocative images and stories, visitors journey through 12,000 years of global wisdom, 2,000 years of Western thought, and 400 years of Amsterdam's free thinking heritage.

Directors:

Sara Ferro, Chris Weil

Key Cast:

Joost Ritman

Jasha van der Wel

Lucinda Martin

Jozef Ritman

Corey Andrews

Kyra Gerber

Aricia Ritman

Derek Lomas

Natalie Koch

Rachel Ritman

Han Bakker

Sem Kramer

Project Type:

Feature documentary

Genres:

Esoteric, Special interest

Duration:

1:40:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2024-12-12

Language:

English

COMPETITION

A Sheep, At Last!

An elder counts sheep as they fall asleep for the last time. Seeds spread across infertile land, among the deterioration of our bodily vessel and the earth it decomposes into.

“A Sheep, At Last!” is an experimental film utilizing stop motion animation, hand made sets and figures. Crafted, filmed, and scored on the bed of the filmmaker.

Directors:

Benjamin Evan Williams

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Benjamin Evan Williams

Producers:

Benjamin Evan Williams

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Animation, Experimental, Short

Genres:

Experimental, stop motion, animation

Duration:

0:09:35

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2020-04-20

Language:

-

Alchemy: Pathway to Profound Powers

Alchemy is an ancient practice that has fascinated and mystified people for centuries. This documentary explores the history and secrets of alchemy and its connection to the pursuit of profound powers. Through interviews with experts in the field, as well as a detailed historical timeline, viewers will learn about the origins of alchemy and its evolution over time. They will also delve into the beliefs of ancient and contemporary alchemists, who sought to turn base metals into gold and discover the secret to eternal life.

The documentary will explore the ways in which alchemy has influenced science, philosophy, and spirituality throughout history. Its audience will learn about famous alchemists, such as Hermes Trismegistus, John Dee, and Sir Isaac Newton, who made significant contributions to the field. The film will also explore the idea that alchemy is not just a historical curiosity, but a practice that is still relevant today. Viewers will learn about modern practitioners of alchemy, who believe that the pursuit of spiritual and psychological transformation can be achieved through alchemical practices.

​Ultimately, the documentary will argue that alchemy is not just a quest for material wealth or immortality, but a path towards profound powers that can transform the individual and the world around them. Whether you are a skeptic or a believer, this film is sure to offer a thought-provoking exploration of one of the most intriguing and enigmatic practices in human history. 

Directors:

Sharon Ann Rowland

Key Cast:

Michael Lamb, Sevn, Cristian Matheson, David Monaghan, David Still, Vesna Sterjovska, White Raven Heart, Madison Eaton

Writers:

Sharon Ann Rowland

Producers:

Greg Charles Eaton

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:40:17

Country of Origin:

Australia

Completion Date:

2023-07-07

Language:

English

Alegrías riojanas

An ophthalmologist's confession gets interrupted when the priest who was attending him leaves in an emergency. On his way to his office, he is fatally run over by a car, and his immortal soul is thrown into a purgatory populated by grotesque creatures.

Directors:

Velasco Broca

Key Cast:

Juan Antonio Herreruela, Ramon Churruca, Fernando Moreno, Rafael Alberola

Writers:

Velasco Broca, Lucía Moreno

Producers:

Eduardo Carneros

Other Credits:

DOP: Isabel Ruiz Ruiz; Sound: Luca Rullo, Roberto Fernández; Edition: Velasco Broca; FX: Salvador J. Boluda, Jorge Torrens

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

Sci-Fi

Duration:

0:28:12

Country of Origin:

Spain

Completion Date:

2022-09-29

Language:

Italian, Spanish

Beyond the Speed of Life

Beyond the Speed of Life : 1970 is a visual accompaniment to Port Sulphur's 'the Speed of Life' long-player.

Shot entirely with 1960s vintage 16mm cameras and lenses it is an exploration of early music video aesthetics, B-Movies, amateur filmmaking and the Underground – Warhol, Brakhage, Deren, Mekas and Anger.

Reflecting the recording of the Speed of Life album, the filmmaking process deployed a similar 'automatic' writing approach of unlearning technique, a refusal of pre-determined composition and ensuring that 'first ideas' take priority regardless of secondary thought merit.

Directors:

Grant McPhee

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Feature, Music Video

Genres:

Fantasty, Horror, Experimental

Duration:

1:05:00

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

2023-01-05

Language:

-

Black Tea

A lonely Victorian widow longing for her lost love, conjures a spell to be reunited.

Directors:

LAURA MCQUAY

Key Cast:

Allyn Carrell

Writers:

LAURA MCQUAY

Producers:

LAURA MCQUAY

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:07:34

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2022-06-15

Language:

-

Death of Mandanin

The film is a surreal short film in which the filmmaker was looking to converse and resonate with the film-making history, especially the part dates back to the last century. Though the movie is shot with modern digital devices, not with the traditional means of film-making. The filmmaker is also looking to provoke thoughts on the impact of modern devices on the ways of making new films.Since Un Chien Andalou (1928 France), numerous talented directors have started their very own depiction of human’s deepest desires in their works. The filmmaker of Death of Mandanin believed people’s hidden consciousness has served as a major drive that spurs people climb up the social ladder. However, in a society without a fair competition where almost all the dreams are flightless, one could hardly realize what he or she desires. It is also a manifestation of the death of people’s spiritual freedom.The film co-opted chapters from the Bible as hidden clues, it also blended in the film with elements such as Tarot, psychoanalysis, philosophy, poetry, contemporary communist movements, etc. The film describes the struggles of the people at the bottom from all aspects. The film conveys a tragic view that idealism will be disillusioned when suppressed by the social structure, but the film is also a heroic lament, at least it conveys a positive belief to find the way to ultimate freedom. The artistic feature of the film is that it fictionalizes a dialogue between God and the sleepwalker which also mocks the reality.

Directors:

yucan ye

Key Cast:

zhi ye

Writers:

yucan ye

Producers:

yucan ye, zhi ye

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:19:59

Country of Origin:

China

Completion Date:

2023-04-20

Language:

English

First Hermanubis: Initiation

First Hermanubis is the first installment of a planned longer series of films using the figure of Hermanubis, a Hellenistic-Egyptian deity combining Hermes and Anubis, as a starting point for thinking about hybridized identities, magic and the occult. This first episode focuses on the story of my family, Greeks who came to the United States from Turkey in the early 20th Century, my relationship to growing up in the Greek Orthodox Church, self-initiation into magic, and relocation to Cairo, Egypt.

This film is available to screen as a 16mm print, a DCP, or a quicktime file.

Directors:

Michael Alexander Morris

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:40:00

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2022-12-15

Language:

-

Ghost Song

A narrator reveals the details of a mysterious, transformative encounter that took place in a remote locale. 

Directors:

Joseph Keckler, M. Sharkey

Key Cast:

Joseph Keckler

Writers:

Joseph Keckler

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Music Video, Short, Other

Genres:

Ghost Story, Comedy

Duration:

0:05:59

Country of Origin:

Not Specified

Completion Date:

2022-10-31

Language:

-

Gli orrori della prostrazione di Giacomo Chernini

-

Directors:

Lorenzo Leucio Domenico Incardona

Key Cast:

Ivan Coscia

Writers:

Lorenzo Leucio Domenico Incardona

Producers:

Lorenzo Leucio Domenico Incardona

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:00:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2023-04-13

Language:

Italian

HEART. HEAVEN. HORSE. HELL

HEART. HEAVE. HORSE. HELL is a meditation on the perpetual human strugle between our intuitif nature and our flaud contructed ego. This chaotic dance of opposites results in an entwined Jungian chimaera.

Due to the plague of narcistic "main character syndrome" that modern society has birthed, we see ourselves as the heroic equistrian, riding and taming the herd animal, which is in fact our true self. Only through introspection into our primordial heart can we transform.

We can choose to become the butterfly, or a horseman of the apochalypse.

Directors:

Jonah Steeman

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:04:00

Country of Origin:

Belgium

Completion Date:

2023-11-01

Language:

English

IDOL

Disenchanted with the women around him, a man creates an idol of the perfect female and falls in love with it. This live-action puppet short film uses the classical Pygmalion story to explore contemporary issues such as objectification, media culture, social withdrawal and hikikomori syndrome.

(Please note: this film contains minimal non-essential dialogue that is not intended to be translated or subtitled)

Directors:

Kris Fleerackers

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Kris Fleerackers

Producers:

Kris Fleerackers

Other Credits:

Puppeteer: Kris Fleerackers; Puppets & Set Creation: Kris Fleerackers; Original Story: Publius Ovidius Naso; Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau; Cinematography: Kris Fleerackers; Lighting: Kris Fleerackers; Editor: Kris Fleerackers; Sound design: Kris Fleerackers; Outside Eye: Atma Frans

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Drama, puppetry, poetry, art, live animation

Duration:

0:13:45

Country of Origin:

Canada

Completion Date:

2021-09-19

Language:

English

IL VANGELO DI GIUDA

Film sperimentale senza scopo di lucro.

Directors:

FREDERICO MONTE SIMIONATO

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

FREDERICO MONTE SIMIONATO

Producers:

FREDERICO MONTE SIMIONATO

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Feature

Genres:

-

Duration:

4:04:35

Country of Origin:

Not Specified

Completion Date:

-

Language:

-

Ipsa

AN ANCIENT INDIAN FABLE 

The Himalayan Foothills, circa 500CE: A neglected housewife struggles with infertility, leading her husband to bring a second wife into their home. As she grows distant from the family, she visits a mysterious sage seeking divine intervention.

Directors:

Pavitra Verma

Key Cast:

Pooja Bhamrrah, Pankaj Berry, Hitesh Sharma, Rushita Vaidya, Ravindra Chauhan

Writers:

Pavitra Verma

Producers:

Aastha Verma, Anil Kumar

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Short, Student

Genres:

Mythology, Drama, Horror, Fantasy

Duration:

0:24:45

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2023-02-28

Language:

Hindi, Sanskrit

Közüngü

Közüngü is the name given to the mirrors worn on the chest areas of their ritual costumes by kam, who were the anonymous sages, inventors, manufacturers, artists and craftsmen of the hunter-gatherer Turkish communities. The documentary explores the reflections of Central Asian Turkish culture on the culture of Anatolia

Although kam came to be recognized in time as witch doctors, the palce of these people in societal history is way beyond what this term implies. Kam are individuals who stand out from their communities by their unique psychologies, ways of thinking and dispositions, evident from their childhood onwards. What makes these individuals each with very high observation skills is the ability to synthesize their observations, draw conclusions from these and convert them into knowledge.

Közüngü, through interviews with craftsmen and artists knowledgeable both in their fields and the evolution of Turkish culture through the ages, focuses on the questions of who “kam” is, what duty they took, and why they had to take, upon themselves in the Central Asian society, and why it is believed that the first blacksmiths, musicians, instrument makers and artists were “kam”.

Directors:

Ahmet Tolga Ayıklar

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Ahmet Tolga Ayıklar

Producers:

Ahmet Tolga Ayıklar

Other Credits:

Director of Photography: Ziya Kasapoğlu; Color / VFX : Şeref Sinan Akkaya; Sound Mix: Metin Kahyaoğlu; OST: Ahmet Tolga Ayıklar, Metin Kahyaoğlu; Location Manager: İbrahim Yılmaz; Production Assistant: Yusuf Mustafa Saatçi

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:14:00

Country of Origin:

Turkey

Completion Date:

2022-06-01

Language:

Turkish

Leaving Jesus

A group of former Christian fundamentalists meets at a retreat in San Francisco to free themselves from the communities into which they were born and the traumas that came with it. What happens when your entire worldview is shattered, and how do you form a new one while questioning your closest friends and the truths you took for granted?"

Directors:

Ellen Fiske

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Ellen Fiske

Producers:

Michael Krotkiewski

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature

Genres:

Drama

Duration:

1:27:12

Country of Origin:

Not Specified

Completion Date:

2023-11-08

Language:

English, Norwegian

Magus Incognito

"The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding" 

-The Kybalion

The Kybalion, a book about ancient Hermetic philosophy, was published in 1908. The original author(s) were listed as "The Three Initiates," and there is a compelling theory that William Walker Atkinson is the real author. Atkinson sometimes published under the pseudonym Magus Incognito. This 77 second animation is inspired by The Kybalion and its author.

Directors:

Jim Doran

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Animation

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:01:17

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2023-11-12

Language:

-

Maimulu

Maimulu, a young Nuragic warrior, has a nightmare, a terrifying vision. Danger is coming from the sea. As soon as he wakes up he sees the fire signals, the alarm raised by his people. He must leave his wife and son and begin his silent journey; an arduous journey but also a spiritual one. 

Directors:

Andrea Vacca

Key Cast:

Andrea Petrillo

Writers:

Andrea Vacca

Producers:

Claudio Marceddu

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

historical, visionary, dreamlike

Duration:

0:23:37

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2023-02-03

Language:

Italian

METAMORPHOSIS

A tyrant father holds his two sons hostage. Alice, the eldest daughter, will find the strength to free herself.

Directors:

Stefano Zait Oliva

Key Cast:

Sergio Danzi, Martina Costa, Simone Marchisio, Siria Colombo, Alexia D'Onofrio

Writers:

Stefano Zait Oliva

Producers:

Stefano Zait Oliva

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

Drama, Horror, Grotesque, experimental

Duration:

0:29:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2021-02-01

Language:

Italian

MOANA - Immortal

A dark fantasy music video following a wild Heroine through a post-apocalyptic world. Pianos on fire, enchanted scenery, strange and surrealist creatures, hungry witch rituals... can the pure of heart survive, or will she too become a monster? 

Directors:

-

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

Director / Editor / Production Designer: Emile M Smith; Cinematographer: Oscar Pappilon; Assistant Director: Mason Duncan, Reece Sturgeon; Main Cast: Moana Mayatrix

Project Type:

Music Video

Genres:

Music Video, Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, Art Rock, Ballad

Duration:

0:06:55

Country of Origin:

Australia

Completion Date:

2022-05-10

Language:

English

Mystic Maya, Journey of Initiation

"Mystic Maya: Journey of Initiation," is a cinematic masterwork that unveils the ancient wisdom of the Maya. Prepare to be captivated, challenged, and forever changed by this extraordinary exploration of esoteric knowledge.

Step into a hidden realm beyond the pyramids as this captivating documentary unravels the truth about these enigmatic structures, intertwining the sacred initiation rites of the Maya, Egypt, and modern Western Esoteric Mystery schools. Prepare for a mesmerizing journey that challenges your perception of history and illuminates profound connections between diverse esoteric traditions.

"Mystic Maya" unlocks the secrets of pyramids, revealing their purpose as catalysts for personal transformation and global change. Featuring intimate interviews with Mayan lineage holders, esteemed Western Esoteric authors, and renowned experts, "Mystic Maya" reveals the once-veiled knowledge and illuminates the hidden dimensions of world history. 

Experience a transcendent journey that awakens curiosity and invites you to embark on your own path of initiation.

Directors:

Douglas Kip Beechwood

Key Cast:

Hunbatz Men, John L McCollum, David Leonard, Aum Rak Sappar

Writers:

Douglas K Beechwood

Producers:

Douglas K Beechwood

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

History, Maya, esoteric, mystical history, spirituality, shamanism, religion

Duration:

1:15:00

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2023-06-30

Language:

English

No More

While shaving his head in a dark and shabby bathroom, Jesus, thin, filthy, and in torn clothes, nurtures doubts about everything. Until the owner of the crumbling hotel where he lives knocks on the door, shouting at him for months of unpaid rent. Jesus is at his limit and runs away without direction. From humanity and from the obligation to save it. He flees from an omnipresent and manipulative father, cowardly and adored by hypocrites and murderers. Jesus flees but he is not the only one. Magdalene and Lucifer are out there. Watched by God. Lambs refusing to be slaughtered in a world of wolves hungry for eternal life.

Directors:

Fabricio Estevam Mira

Key Cast:

Fabricio Estevam Mira, Luiza Leão, Alessandro Martins Neto, Lucas Machado

Writers:

Fabricio Estevam Mira

Producers:

Fabricio Estevam Mira

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

Drama, Horror, Experimental

Duration:

0:31:47

Country of Origin:

Brazil

Completion Date:

2022-01-14

Language:

Portuguese

OR 119

A theoretical musical about the scientist and social thinker Wilhelm Reich, shot in his home and laboratory in Rangeley, Maine. In this playfully performative piece, the writing and work of Freud's favorite student are put to melody and into conversation with contemporary feminist writers.

Directors:

Peggy Ahwesh, Jacqueline Goss

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Music Video

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:59:00

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2023-01-01

Language:

-

Smokescreen

Macroscopic landscapes out of the microscopic world.

Note: Strobe effect throughout the video, 8 pulses per second, inspired by the "Dreamachine", emulating approx. the resonance of this planet and the brain's alpha waves.

Lyrics:

In tune with the cycle that's running deep

thriving our perceptions like a sleeping pill

invading our minds from morning till night

distracting from thoughts calling through from within

Enough times repeated, it does become real

Reaching out for air above the thick haze

I will not be a part in your wheel!

While blowing, the smokescreen, takes over the sight

thinking in numbers, in never's enough

taking only prey to wounded to fight back

but you will be surprised!

Enough times repeated, it does become real

Reaching out for air above the thick haze

I will not eat your fruits of deceit!

I peel off the layers of your poison in me

I seek luminescence and I soak it all in

I'm well aware of your means of deception

while I try to set my mind free...

Free

Free 

Free

Directors:

-

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

Director, Camera, Editor // Songwriter, Guitar and Vocals: Andrea Lara; Song Recording, Mix and Mastering: Victor Bullok

Project Type:

Music Video

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:04:46

Country of Origin:

Germany

Completion Date:

2022-01-13

Language:

English

Soul Searching

The following film, Soul Searching, is an abstract audio-visual representation of commonalities and echoes I have found across studied texts, interviews and research undertaken for this project on the subject of the soul. I chose to anchor my research predominantly in my own western tradition and religious/spiritual strands of thought that resonate most with my own experiences and unconscious cultural paradigm. Through regular visits to the Alex Johnston Reference library, I developed focused research around concepts of the soul according to the western traditions of:

- Hermeticism

- Neoplatonic Philosophy 

- Rosicrucian Philosophy

- Transpersonal Psychology

- Theosophy

- Gnostic Texts 

- Alchemical Texts

- Jewish/Christian Kabbalah and Mysticism

- Ancient Egyptian Texts

These traditions survived either through sectarian branches of monotheistic practice (as with gnosticism and mysticism) or through practices directly outside of (and sometimes in opposition to) the canon of mainstream denomination. The use of language of these texts veil the meaning through subtle and abstract language forms. Some of these source materials purposely obscures the essential message so as to protect their pupils and to escape heretical accusations for its deviation from the cultural monotheistic dogma - however, in most traditions, adepts of the teaching schools are deliberately presented with analogies and shrouded messages, presented as gateways of knowledge, through personal engagement with the totality of Self. The ineffable is respected for its inherent qualities, by allowing its meaning to fall outside of the domination and restriction of language. Rather, it is found in the space between fixed language.

As such, gentler, less directive language, that is subtle and allows the individual to arrive at their own implicit meaning making, is used in an attempt to describe the indescribable. Without earthly form and beyond the reaches of knowing through ordinary means, the soul is understood through our internal resonance, through subtle personal gnosis - that is, knowledge beyond intellectual knowledge, an inner knowing; through contemplation and experience. This film endeavours to propose an abstract representation of the ineffable in motion, inviting the viewer to contemplate and tune into their own inner knowing.

For the purpose of this piece, I have set out to demonstrate the fluidity and dynamism of the soul, as well as its splicing with the representational facets we experience in our waking life; corporeality, matter, mind, consciousness, emotions - all properties through which we encounter the soul. These synergistic attributes are in symbiosis with the soul, both enveloped by it, and expressed within the function of its parts. Through the development and growth of individual parts, we grow the whole of our individual soul. Within the work I hope to infer the possibility of our individual soul as an expression of an anima mundi , the all, a universal soul, enveloping and expressed through individual parts.

A special thank you to interview contributors:

Gary Kidgell - Professional Esoteric Astrologer and Author 

Mike hall - Qigong & Tai Chi Consultant, Theosophical Society Chair

Marcus LeBroque - Kabbalist, Teacher

Father James Cadman - Exorcist, Catholic Priest

Luca McQuillan, David McLoone, Jamie L McKenzie & Charlene Morgan - Catholics

List of Notable Books:

The Way of Divine Union - Arthur Edward Waite

Reincarnation; A study of Forgotten Truth - E.D.Walker

Everyone's Book of the Dead - Tim Wyatt

Cycles of Eternity - Tim Wyatt

From Soul to Soul - John M Watkins

Mansions of the Soul; The Cosmic Conception - H. Spencer Lewis

Esoteric Psychology; The Seven Rays - Dr Douglas Baker

The Soul’s Imperative - Harold Tarn

The Philosophy of Witchcraft - J. Mitchell & Jn. Dickie

Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy - Grillot de Givry

Egyptian Magic - S.S.D.D edited by W.W.Westcott

TheWorld Soul - H. Fielding Hall

Transpersonal Development - Roberto Assagioli

The Inner Journey; Pathways to the Higher Self - Gary Kidgell

The Lamp Relit - Vestigo

The Book of the Dead; Papyrus of Ani - E. A. Wallis Budge

Cosmic Consciousness - Richard Maurice Bucke

The Sevenfold Planes of Nature - Susan Bayliss (article)

Who Do You Think You Were - Robert Woolley (article)

Directors:

Dawn Eva Berry

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Dawn Eva Berry

Producers:

Dawn Eva Berry

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:08:03

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

2022-10-26

Language:

-

Story of Godia

Hussein lives in his father's house, who used to put the house as a retirement home before he died in a poisoning accident with a number of elderly people with Hussein's daughter who was in the house by chance. Hussein lives in his father's house with his sick son who suffers from a disease that needs expensive treatment. The child watches things strange happening in the house

Directors:

Mouayed Zabtia

Key Cast:

Basma alatrach, Wasif alkowaldy, waheb kalahed

Writers:

Ibrahim Albishari

Producers:

Mouayed Zabtia

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Television, Web / New Media, Other

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:45:00

Country of Origin:

Libya

Completion Date:

2023-05-03

Language:

Arabic

Supper for the Dead Souls

“…The dead souls enter into homes at midnight, passing around the laden tables, departing afterwards satiated only by the aroma of the food. If, instead no dish has been prepared the dead leave accompanied by heavy sighing...” 

It is still alive in Sardinia the ancient habit of leaving served on the table, on the night between 1st and 2nd November, a supper for their own dead, consisting of a full meal characterized by sos macarrones de sos mortos (the macaroni of the dead).

Filmed in Orune, in central Sardinia, this documentary - with an observational approach - describes the preparation of the banquet and some connected rituals.

Directors:

Ignazio Figus

Key Cast:

Pasqua Goddi

Writers:

Ignazio Figus

Producers:

Istituto Superiore Regionale Etnografico

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:16:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2017-09-15

Language:

Italian, Other

The Beast of Loch Ness

Aleister Crowley (The Wickedest Man in the World) was an English occultist, philosopher, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the 20th century. Crowley has remained a highly influential figure over Western esotericism and the counterculture of the 1960’s and continues to be considered a prophet in Thelema.

In 1899 Crowley purchased Boleskine House on the south bank of Loch Ness near the village of Foyers. The house is also famous for being owned by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page who had “a great interest in the occult,” Page claimed “bad vibes” ran through the 18th Century property, where he maintained the head of an executed man - believed to be Lord Lovat who fought with the English during the 1745 uprising - could be heard rolling around the floor. In The Beast of Loch Ness, we tell the untold story that exists within the walls at Boleskine House. A story that is shadowed by the building’s pop-cultural modern-history. This film brings together a colourful group of well-known researchers from across the globe who together explore the history and mystery of Boleskine House, replacing timeworn narratives with new insights.

Directors:

Jim Brown

Key Cast:

Alec Westwood, April Watson

Writers:

Jim Brown, Ashley Cowie

Producers:

Jim Brown, Ashley Cowie, Chris Brown

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:23:47

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

2023-06-01

Language:

English

The Echo

By 'sewing' together shots from archived films found in the Montenegrin Cinematheque, a story about the archetypal human is told. 

In the beginning was the Sacred Mystery (God) which manifested itself into the material universe and living beings. Humans were created 'in the likeness of God', with a divine spark in them, so that they might know this Mystery through the knowledge of their own selves and awareness of their surroundings. The perfect state of consciousness is unity the divine, be that inward or outward. The trials and tribulations of the ordinary world cause this unity to break, and humans find themselves attached to psychological and material idols. 

The hero of the film, a representation of humankind, realizing that he is not fulfilled with his life, sets on a journey. This journey is a symbolical representation of the stages of psycho-spiritual growth. After passing all the necessary 'alchemical' processes, the hero manages to return to the state of unity.

The film is keen on defending the idea that throughout all the customs, rites, art, myths, legends and stories of any community on earth, the same underlying truths pervade. Inspired by the works of Joseph Campbell, Christopher Vogler and Carl Jung, the 12 chapter base/structure of "the hero's journey", once filled and nuanced by the diverse folkloric, religious and mythological imagery found in the original archived films, and the editing of various (originally unrelated) shots into dream-like scenes, it becomes an expression of the idea that true unity is found in the celebration of our diversity. 

Directors:

Dario Haruni

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Dario Haruni

Producers:

Albanian National Film Archive, Montenegrin Cinematheque, RECON Project

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental, Short, Other

Genres:

Docu-fiction, Repurposing of archival footage, Experimental, Spiritual, Mythological, Psychoanalytical

Duration:

0:40:32

Country of Origin:

Montenegro

Completion Date:

2022-09-17

Language:

Arabic, English, Montenegrin, Serbian

The Flight of the Siren

In 1375, the first woman accused of witchcraft in Italy was tried.

The fact happened in Reggio Emilia and her name was Gabrina degli Albeti.

Gabrina was a simple herb seller who cured the ailments of the body and soul with plants

but she was accused of being a witch.

She was found guilty, branded and had her tongue cut out to prevent her from

utter their curses.

Nowadays a researcher and anthropologist, Dr. Giorgio Greco, is commissioned by

a scholar of local history, Professor Francesco Bongiovanni, to find the Chalice which

it is said that the Chalice of the Albeti belonged to Gabrina.

The search will lead Giorgio Greco in contact with a disturbing mystery, an enigma must

be solved to find the Chalice and an ancient Pagan Goddess, Melusina watches over

affair.

Melusina is the Bicaudata Siren, which Christian syncretism replaced with the image of the

Madonna.

A secret sect, poisons, apparitions and murders to find the chalice with magical powers.

Clues and omens will lead Giorgio Greco to the Revelation and to the presence of the Great

Goddess in the mysterious Apennine Prehistoric Sanctuary of Ceriola.

Flight of the Siren

Directors:

Gian Luca Carretti

Key Cast:

Giuliano Brunazzi

Writers:

Gian Luca Carretti

Producers:

Gian Luca Carretti

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:23:05

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2022-12-04

Language:

Italian

The Holy Archipelago

Solovetsky Monastery - from infinity to eternity.

The documentary searches for the true meanings of life, faith, hope and love. This is a large-scale narrative about the life of the Solovetsky monastery.

What is the spiritual life of a person? What is a religious tradition and what kind of role does it play in the modern world?

How does faith in God affect people's lives?

The Solovetsky Islands are a key point in the spiritual geography of Russia. These places are marked by spiritual, historical, cultural events that have left a deep mark in history and in people's memory. The Archipelago is located on the far outskirts of Russia. However, by the will of fate, it has become one of the most powerful symbols of the Russian spirit.

The documentary was filming on Solovki for 2 years. Step by step, the film crew went deep into the measured calm concentrated prayer life of the monastery. The audience will get the idea of the life and spiritual work of this place. The substantive part of the film are in-depth conversations with wise monks. Here we will find deep reflections and monologues on issues important in everyone's life. 

Understanding the importance of the topic, the monastery, represented by the abbot and the whole brotherhood, actively participated in the filming. The documentary included many unique shots, including the sacrament of tonsure. The content of the film is in harmony with the breathtaking cinematography. The way the camera captures the fantastic light and nature of Solovki islands is stunning. The film was shot in 6K format.

Directors:

Sergei Debizhev

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Sergei Debizhev

Producers:

Natalia Debizheva, Michael Skigin, Vitaly Baranov

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:38:00

Country of Origin:

Russian Federation

Completion Date:

2022-05-24

Language:

Russian

The UFO's of Soesterberg

In the early morning of February 3, 1979, a mysterious object flew over Soesterberg Air Base. At least twelve soldiers witnessed this. Despite being in the middle of the cold war

this event has still remained unexplained. And that is not the only anomalous sighting in that specific part of the Netherlands...

Directors:

Bram Roza

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Bram Roza, Richard Raaphorst, Michiel ten Kleij, Maarten in ' t Hout

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:18:00

Country of Origin:

Netherlands

Completion Date:

2023-05-01

Language:

Dutch

Troubled Minds

Brothers Robert and Martin are a month away from their biggest yet contemporary art exhibition. To get creative juices flowing, Martin locks himself in a dark black 2 x 2-meter cube. Once out, his focus shifts and he decides to save the environment by finding Soviet Military chemical waste that was dropped in the Baltic Sea in the 90s.

But through a series of strange ideas and sleepless nights, both brothers lose control over their artwork and their brotherhood. 

Martins’ behavior at an alarming rate has become extravagant and tensions between the brothers escalate to a troubled state. 

To seek tranquility Martin escapes to the very edge of the world – Northern Saami Lapland. Robert is forced to take a trip to find his eldest but a bipolar and disordered brother.

On the return Martin is institutionalized and Robert takes over ‘Don Quixote's role to perform almost an art terror act at the Grand Opening.

Directors:

Raitis Abele, Lauris Abele

Key Cast:

Marcis Lacis, Toms Aunins, Daniela Vetra, Darta Danevica, Juris Zagars, Marija Skangale

Writers:

Raitis Abele, Lauris Abele, Zanda Zeidaka

Producers:

Roberts Vinovskis, Kristele Pudane, Raitis Abele

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:46:00

Country of Origin:

Latvia

Completion Date:

2021-11-22

Language:

English, Latvian, Norwegian, Russian

Witch Hunt

Ignited by the appointment of a controversial political figure, witches across America cast spells to restore justice.

Directors:

Melissa James, Sarah Sharkey Pearce

Key Cast:

Pam Grossman, Beverly Smith, Amanda Yates-Garcia, Zhana Levitsky, Michael M. Hughes, Dakota Bracciale

Writers:

-

Producers:

Melissa James, Sarah Sharkey Pearce

Other Credits:

Cinematographer: Zebediah Smith; Editor: Sophy Romvari

Project Type:

Documentary, Short

Genres:

Pop Culture, Spirituality, Political, horror

Duration:

0:11:52

Country of Origin:

Canada

Completion Date:

2022-12-15

Language:

English

SPECIAL SCREENING

6th Anniversary Curators' Contribution

C. G. Jung on Alchemy - Documentary Series

Uncover the secrets of alchemy and psychology. Explore Carl Gustav Jung's private collection of rare books and his personal handwritten excerpts. Filmed in the home of C. G. Jung and Eranos, Switzerland. 

5 years of work and research: Fathom the knowledge of soul transmutation, the hidden story behind the Red Book, Gnostic wisdom, the individuation process, synchronicity, archetypes and much more.

Directors:

Sara Ferro, Chris Weil

Key Cast:

Françoise Bonardel, Paul Bishop, Murray Stein, Aksel Haaning, Alfred Ribi, Thomas Fischer

Writers:

Sara Ferro

Producers:

Sara Ferro, Chris Weil

Other Credits:

In association with The Foundation of the Works of C.G. Jung

Assistant:

Bettina Kaufmann

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature, Television

Genres:

Biopic, History, Special Interest

Duration:

Chapter 1: Earth (64 min)

Chapter 2: Air (57 min)

Chapter 3: Fire (55 min)

Chapter 4: Water (57 min)

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2023-10-26

Language:

English, French, German

MicroGnosing

A psychedelic agent discovers her Third Eye: a rollicking romp of antics between two secret agents colleagues. Only seemingly a low profile appointment. Half backroom and hail-fellow-well-met, half acutely yet inconspicuously earnest, almost solemn. After all it is matter of nothing less than briefing latest instructions concerning an untrained new approach to the missions, where the agents have to quickly master esoteric techniques for improving their insight abilities. And just for boosting up the speed of assimilating them, why not commencing with a micro-dose of a synthesized psychedelic substance? Under the supervision of Agent A, Agent Wundersaar will undergo a wildcat training workout not only getting the knack of it but having a transcendental experience too, perhaps still a bit shallow one, nevertheless one capable of giving the taste and the grasp of something infinite and sacred behind reality. After all, it's just a little miracle per se when micro-dosing becomes microGnosing!

Directors:

Sara Ferro, Chris Weil

Key Cast:

Wundersaar

Writers:

Sara Ferro, Chris Weil

Producers:

Sara Ferro, Chris Weil

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

Esoteric, Psychedelic

Duration:

00:14:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2019-09-19

Language:

English

The Ritman Library - Amsterdam

Once a treasure only for initiates, now available for everyone - the European underground heritage.

More than 23.000 books in the fields of: Alchemy, Hermetica, Cabala, Magic, Rosicrucianism, Mystic, Theosophy, Freemasonry, Pansophy and much more.

Watch legendary first editions, rare books and manuscripts like the famous Fama Fraternitatis, Corpus Hermeticum, Tabula Smaragdina, Atalanta Fugiens, Spaccio della bestia trionfante, Plontin Polyglot Bible and discover incredible works of authors like Basilius Valentinus, Marsilio Ficino, Johannes Reuchlin, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Paracelsus, Giordano Bruno, Heinrich Khunrath, Michael Maier, Jacob Böhme, Lambspring, Robert Fludd, Daniel Mögling, Baruch Spinoza, Matthäus Merian and Stephan Michelspacher.

Directors:

Sara Ferro, Chris Weil

Key Cast:

Joost Ritman, Esther Ritman, Cis van Heertum, José Bouman, Marco Pasi

Writers:

-

Producers:

Sara Ferro, Chris Weil

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature

Genres:

History, Esotericism, Mystery, Science

Duration:

01:30:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2017-07-17

Language:

English, German, Italian

Timor Panicus

What if the gateway to Agartha would have been relocated to the very center of a billion busy alpha city metropole where fashion and financial districts meet? Horripilation? Not at all. Perhaps when the Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro envisioned his Solar Disc, an extraterrestrial intelligence was capable to align diverse terrestrial forces in order to bring them locating the magnum opus there where it actually is, concealing the very toran to that secret ruling world, in disguise among passer-bys quintessentially too blind for even just inquiring about the identity of the ruler of the Earth. Until a day, a female street performer declaims in the premises of the Big Disc the prologue by the French inquisitive mind of René Guénon to the narration about the King of the World. And the mechanism starts moving opening up the underground secrecy for everyman.

Directors:

Sara Ferro, Chris Weil

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

René Guénon

Producers:

Sara Ferro, Chris Weil

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Animation, Experimental, Short

Genres:

Sci-Fi, Underground, Esoteric, Occult, Moving Image

Duration:

00:03:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2020-01-03

Language:

English

Ugo Dossi - Art and Space

The figurative artist Ugo Dossi presents his works in the field of metaphysics, astronomy and the cosmos, hypnosis, telepathy, tarot, alchemy, collective subconscious, Franz Anton Mesmer and Wilhelm Reich, that has been already shown two times at the Documenta in Kassel and twice at the Biennale in Venice as well as in many other international exhibitions and museums.

The documentary offers exclusive impressions and views into the atelier of the Bavarian artist and explains the deeper meaning of his artworks. Moreover, we are going to talk about the system and history of the tarot and the method of automatic drawing designed by the artist himself. Furthermore, we will have a look at the questions of relative liberty and the own me in correlation to the whole view of the universe.

Directors:

Sara Ferro, Chris Weil

Key Cast:

Ugo Dossi

Writers:

-

Producers:

Sara Ferro, Chris Weil

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature

Genres:

Art, Science, Biography

Duration:

00:60:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2017-10-03

Language:

German, English, Italian

WhimSeaCall - Nocturnal Sea

WhimSeaCall or a whimsical call from the sea, a rinvigourating allegorical swim in the alchemical archetype of the Red Sea otherwise hinting at the blackest dead sea of the unconscious performed on a black sun shore of an Italian coastline with harbour landscape in the background reminding the relation of the psyche to its environment. On that liminality the mare magnum is the canopy of the secreto secretorum once revealed to the great Alexander Magnum and tonight to a woman.

Directors:

Sara Ferro, Chris Weil

Key Cast:

Wundersaar

Writers:

-

Producers:

Sara Ferro, Chris Weil

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

Mystery, Supernatural, Alchemy, Esoteric, Occult, Ritual, Spiritual, Dance, Magic

Duration:

00:02:35

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2019-05-01

Language:

English

MULTIMEDIA

Virtual Reality

Zoroaster Superstar

Art installation in memory of Zoroaster: Friedrich Nietzsche, David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust), Freddie Mercury (Queen) and Il Casanova di Federico Fellini feat. Nino Rota.

From the epochal 'And Thus Spoke Zarathustra' onward, his descent from the mountain of the most inapt prophet has not been halted, actualizing at every turn, where pop icons like David Bowie aka Ziggy Stardust have projected the prophetic Nietzsche into the new millennium, unsuspected Zoroastrians like the missed but already more than real Sir, Queen of the Night and King of Queen, the rock star Freddie Mercury with his stage costumes and emblematic lyrics manifested arcane symbols of his faith unbeknownst to a worldwide audience, undisputed geniuses such as Federico Fellini and Nino Rota in their interpretation of Casanova, spasmodic master in all the most sublime arts and adept of the Magician of the Magi, created new worlds traversed by that magic that both each in his own exquisite way and at the same time bewitched and inspired. Worlds that the ARTOLDO art collective can now bring to life in a virtual reality, inviting you to travel through Bowie's universe, Mercury's spiritual stage and Casanova's fantastical and magical Venice to discover there not only holograms of these gigantic personalities, but also messages concealed in brands such as Tesla, Mazda, Zadig & Voltaire and other references to Zoroastrianism as the cultural matrix religion of so much of what exists.

Artists:

ARTOLDO – Sara Ferro & Chris Weil

Key Cast:

David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Casanova

Writers:

Sara Ferro

Developement:

RedMagicBlue

Other Credits:

Friedrich Nietzsche, Federico Fellini, Nino Rota

Project Type:

Virutal Reality, Installation, Web / New Media

Genres:

Music, Fanpic, Esoteric, Occult, Spiritual

Duration:

3 x 12 min

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2023-03-15

Language:

English

After Meet Night

Story is about a man who is suddenly beset with horrendous disasters that take away all he holds dear.

Directors:

Eugene Feoktistov

Key Cast:

Dmitry Feodorov

Writers:

Eugene Feoktistov

Producers:

Anastacia Vlasova

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Animation, Short

Genres:

Dramma

Duration:

0:14:38

Country of Origin:

Russian Federation

Completion Date:

-

Language:

English

Alchemy

In this episode Batho reveals the secret of the third door.

Directors:

Giampaolo Paoli, Flavia Hettinga

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Giampaolo Paoli

Producers:

Giampaolo Paoli

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Animation, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:10:33

Country of Origin:

Netherlands

Completion Date:

2017-06-01

Language:

English

Alla Bua (A different cure)

In this ethnographic documentary, Maria, Lele and Flavia share their personal stories of healing, all of them connected to a historical-religious phenomena: "Tarantism" in Southern Italy. Since the 14th century the "Pizzica" has been played and danced to cure people from the bite of a spider. Today, as Flavia, Maria and Lele tell us, it can be a cure for any physical or psychological pain, a cure even for the troubles of a fast-paced world. To them, the Pizzica is more than a music or dance form, and by listening, dancing or playing they experience "alla bua", a different cure, which is connected to trance states, visions, the invisible and holy.

Directors:

Zoë Beer

Key Cast:

Maria Fortunato, Emmanuele Ferrari, Flavia Sabato

Writers:

-

Producers:

Zoë Beer

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Student

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:32:34

Country of Origin:

Switzerland

Completion Date:

2021-04-21

Language:

Italian, Swiss German

ANIMA

ANIMA is a short documentary film created with the goal of decreasing violence against animals by raising awareness of what different faiths teach about compassion, animals, and the environment.  The film features leaders across religious and cultural backgrounds including: Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Jainism, the Baha'i, and members of First Nations/Native American communities. 

Directors:

Jennifer Jessum

Key Cast:

Saginaw Grant, Sam Bearpaw

Writers:

Jennifer Jessum

Producers:

Lo Sprague, Jennifer Jessum

Other Credits:

Cinematography: Joseph Tamas, Aaron Torres

Project Type:

Documentary, Short

Genres:

Animal Rights, Diversity, Religion, Faith, Interfaith, Environment, Nature, Peace, Peace-keeping, Multi-Cultural, Non-Violence

Duration:

0:12:35

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2020-08-22

Language:

English

Awakening the Soul

A psychedelic trip into the heart of Ayahuasca — a sacred visionary plant medicine. This documentary deep dives into how and why this medicine is so profoundly effective at unravelling and healing the root causes of trauma, addiction and mental health issues.

Directors:

Samuel Austin

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

Psychedelic

Duration:

1:08:00

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

-

Language:

English

Bardo (Di Maio)

Bardo in tibetan means intermediate state, and indicates the condition of transition between two states.

This film is a journey that reflects on the concepts of Life and Death, of Transition, of Life as a Dream, and of all the illusions that manifest in our lives.

It is an invitation to connect with a deeper sense of understanding, found within the space between each sound and image.

The audiovisual stream becomes a resonating bridge to the Unseen and Unheard, to a knowledge we know exists, but of which we are habitually unaware.

There is an alternative way of experiencing this film, which is to watch it twice, first blindfolded, and then with eyes open.

By removing the sense of sight the first time, much more attention is given to the sound stream.

Stripped of their ability to "see" outwardly, the audience gains space to picture moments and memories according to their own sensibility.

This internal manifestation, this dance of light and color that occurs in the "mind’s eye" in reaction to the soundscapes, becomes a shadow-play of subconscious imagery, replacing "the real" imposed by the eye, by "the possible one" suggested by the ear.

As such, the ear becomes the new "sensitive eye", one which is born out of the enhanced combination of external sounds and internally perceived light.

The sound will break this light into rarefied shadows, and will introduce the listener to one of the main topics of the film: reality, as we know it, could be nothing but a dream.

Directors:

Alessandro Di Maio

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Alessandro Di Maio

Producers:

Palzom Films, Alessandro Di Maio

Other Credits:

Sound Design: Alessandro Di Maio; Original Music Score: Alessandro Di Maio

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:10:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2021-01-20

Language:

English, Tibetan

Bardo (De Stefano)

SYNOPSIS

A man on his deathbed makes a visionary journey between the past, present and future of his land. In those moments it becomes clear and limpid what he has seen and known in life and that the magical rites that he has studied all his life still manifest themselves around the country in other much more modern forms.

STORY

A man on his deathbed clearly sees that the magical and religious rites he has studied all his life can be brought up to date even in the contemporary era. The omniscient eye of the deceased will wander all over the country and will meet different characters, each one struggling to practice magical rites.

The deceased will see a politician on duty seek the consensus of the streets by pointing to an external scapegoat (immigrants) as the evil that afflicts their fellow citizens, just as before the peasants removed the devil from their dry and run-down cultivated land. The deceased will meet a loving couple who argue in a bar and whose boyfriend shares a fake video on his smartphone that portrays blacks hatefully destroying a local police car, and understands the parallelism with the ancient cathartic practices of the sorcerer for atone for the devil from love affairs. The soul still wanders and sees the mother who tries to console the mourning of the loss of her child alone by taking psychiatric drugs and understands more clearly how in the past the mourning process was instead shared with the other members of the community. The gaze of the mother leads the deceased to meet the priest who shortly before celebrated his death and who has now abandoned himself to gambling raising his eyes to the sky just as the devotees of past years raised their gaze to the saints on the altar to seek prosperity and fortune. Finally, the essence of the deceased scholar will be embodied in the eyes of a boy who will become aware of community life and aggregation.

Directors:

G. Daniele De Stefano

Key Cast:

Graziano Bellezza, Maria Cisterna, Ciro D'Amico, Carmine Pisapia, Luigi Vitelli, Daniela Castronuovo, Mario Petracca, Enzo Montemurro, Claudia D'Anna, Carmine Calandriello, Rocco Calandriello, Antonietta D'Amico

Writers:

G. Daniele De Stefano

Producers:

Associazione Allelammie, Lucania Film Festival

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:09:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2020-08-01

Language:

English, Italian

Be ready - The keys of Pope Celestine V

"Be ready - The keys of Pope Celestine V" tells the life of the holy hermit Pietro del Morrone, who became pope in 1294 with the name of Celestine V. He was known for having renounced, by official act, to the papacy after only a few months. The film focuses on the short but intense papacy, on the famous renunciation and on the imprisonment imposed by his successor: Boniface VIII, in the prison of Fumone where a fight takes place, a fight between two different conceptions of the Church: the Spiritual one and the Material one.

Directors:

Luke Anthon, Giuseppe Tandoi

Key Cast:

Lino Capolicchio, Giovanni Visentin, Giulio Tropea, Claudia Lucia Lerro, Giovanni Marchione

Writers:

Eulalia Caterina Rosati, Giuseppe Tandoi

Producers:

Giuseppe Tandoi

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:15:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2021-08-05

Language:

Italian

Cloud of lights

George is a young quaker, who moved to Brussels to work on sustainability. This new city becomes the place of his coming of age, and an internal journey in which his thoughts about faith, the divine and his place in the world confronts a new reality.

Directors:

Hugo Sénégas

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

Editer: David Lestienne; Sound editing and audio mixing: Enzo Tibi

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:18:51

Country of Origin:

Belgium

Completion Date:

2022-08-18

Language:

English

Corpus Piggy

A young doctor engages in a strange culinary ritual, invoking the magic of tarot and surgery. He invites a food photographer to document the process. Dozens of Polaroids later, she finds herself undergoing an unexpected transformation.

Directors:

Kimberly Lovie

Key Cast:

I.B. Kwok, Kimberly Lovie

Writers:

Kimberly Lovie

Producers:

Kimberly Lovie

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:07:16

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2022-02-10

Language:

English

Cosmic Engineers

The doc is about the formation of the Solar System according an ancient Babylonian myth. Syusy Blady tells some hypothesis about the origin of the cosmos, up to a surprising one found on a book by Marco Pesci: the origin of the Solar System is artificial! Made by the digital artist Lorenzo Mariani, with a field overlapping technique in homage to Georges Méliès. He made the very first sci-fi movie ever 120 years ago, "A trip to the moon"... We could define this work a Méliès 2.0!

Directors:

Maurizia Giusti, Lorenzo F.P. Mariani

Key Cast:

Syusy Blady, Marco Pesci, Alessandro Morbidelli, Martin G. Snidaro

Writers:

Maurizia Giusti, Marco Pesci

Producers:

Maurizia Giusti, Lomar Graphics

Other Credits:

Creazione e animazione 3D: Lorenzo F.P. Mariani

Project Type:

Animation, Documentary

Genres:

Sci-Fi, Spirituality, Archaeology, History, Mythology

Duration:

1:03:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

-

Language:

Italian

Dramayama

Follow Branly, timekeeper in Iximulew -Corn Land/Guatemala- a 21st century Mayan, on his vision quest for meaning and reaffirmation of his Mayan spirituality through the echoes of an ancient civilization in the Vedic South of India.

A journey Inside, an Astrological Cosmic Dance beyond the End of the Maya Calendar.

Experience a space time travel to the past, present and future through the eyes of Branly Gio López, timekeeper in Iximulew -Corn Land/Guatemala- along rituals for the Planets of our Solar System still alive in the Dravidian Temples in the Vedic South of India. Ever since the ‘End of the Mayan calendar’ Branly has researched techniques and the meaning of Mayan Cosmology, trying to recover ancient rituals and knowledge painfully devastated by 500 years of colonization. During his vision quest he slowly recognizes deep roots in the echoes of an old civilization. Meanwhile the volcano erupts, the temple elephant dies and the turtle breathes home.

Directors:

jeanette Groenendaal

Key Cast:

Branly Gio Lopez

Writers:

jeanette Groenendaal

Producers:

jeanette Groenendaal

Other Credits:

Editor: Zoot Derks, Jeanette Groenendaal; Framefucking: Jandries Groenendijk; Color Correction: Jeroen Weeda; Sound Post.: Warning studio's; Music: Stephanie Pan, Stelios Manousakis; Co-Production: Ted Baijings; Post Prod. assistent: Zilfer de Boer; Graphic Design: Zilfer de Boer; Languages: Spoken Languages, Subtitles

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental, Feature

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:30:00

Country of Origin:

Netherlands

Completion Date:

2020-12-21

Language:

English, Hindi, Spanish, Tamil

Eclipsed

In Chilean Patagonia, this dark tale explores the videogame addiction of Nicolas, and his healing path when he meets a local shaman on the day of a Solar Eclipse.

Directors:

Vicente Manzano

Key Cast:

Diego Saavedra, Carolina Vargas, Luz Clara Camus

Writers:

Vicente Manzano

Producers:

Vicente Manzano

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:18:00

Country of Origin:

Chile

Completion Date:

2021-09-01

Language:

Spanish

Escape Velocity

To overcome writer’s block and finish her horror film, an aspiring occultist finds isolation deep in the rainforest to perform a life-changing ritual.

Directors:

Samuel Davenport

Key Cast:

Sophia Roud

Writers:

Samuel Davenport

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

Editor: Samuel Davenport; Animation: Marc Aquino Michaels; Music: Fitting Graves, Val Killer

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:06:30

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2021-04-15

Language:

English

FILM

During the recent excavations at the former “Parenti” Sanatorium located in the north Garda Lake in Italy, was found the camera belonging to the two film directors who disappeared ten years before.

The “Film” case, called so by the authorities, will be reopened.

The investigation will reveal the insane project still in progress designed by the two directors.

Directors:

Niko de Pinto, Valentino Tonoli

Key Cast:

Niko de Pinto, Valentino Tonoli, Tiziano Tonoli, Matteo Aldeghieri, Giovanni de Pinto, Katia Bombardelli, Jeck Mai

Writers:

Niko de Pinto, Valentino Tonoli

Producers:

Niko de Pinto, Valentino Tonoli, Tiziano Tonoli

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Other

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:34:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2021-03-23

Language:

Italian

From Source

A skier wanders alone by a glacier on a bright full-moon night and steps into the abyss of a glacier cave. His longing for spiritual liberation guided him there, as far as possible from everything he knows. Diving in the depths of the unknown, he experiences a mystical connection with his higher self through his freeride skiing visions.

The next day feels like seeing the world with different eyes as he comes back to civilization with a fresh and rejuvenated spirit, dreaming about dancing freely on the spring mountain playground.

Directors:

Yann Rausis

Key Cast:

Yann Rausis

Writers:

Yann Rausis

Producers:

Yann Rausis

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:15:00

Country of Origin:

Switzerland

Completion Date:

2021-08-30

Language:

English, French

Good Morning R.I.P. (EP4)

Sky’s mind bending adventure through the dark recesses of his subconscious force him to confront his fears and insecurities. Entrenched in an endless nightmare, he struggles to cope and distinguish who can be trusted (including himself).

Is he a victim of circumstance or did he bring this on himself? Can he hold it together long enough to find help and escape back to reality or will he spiral into madness?

Directors:

Luke Jacunski

Key Cast:

Luke Jacunski, Alastair Morley Jaques, Nylah Brooks

Writers:

Luke Jacunski

Producers:

Luke Jacunski

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Short, Web / New Media

Genres:

Horror, Psychological, Thriller, Mystery

Duration:

0:09:08

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2022-02-17

Language:

English

Hallucinations

Aliens descend in crystal spaceships to make contact with people through guitar amp distortion and glowing animal skulls.

Directors:

M. Wild

Key Cast:

Ifeoma Kpaduwa, Sierra Erika Taylor, Lary Muller

Writers:

M. Wild

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:34:00

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2020-09-03

Language:

English, Italian, Spanish

Imagemaker

A documentary short film, "Imagemaker" was shot during a 13-year art residency of preparing the image of Goddess Kali for Kali Puja, a traditional Hindu ritual. Complemented by image-making process, archival sources, expert interviews, "Imagemaker" delves into an 80 year-old mystical and artistic tradition in Los Angeles, occasionally turning the lens on the artist and her experience with motherhood.

Directors:

Uma Sanasaryan

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Uma Sanasaryan

Other Credits:

Editor: Uma Sanasaryan

Project Type:

Documentary, Short

Genres:

Art, Religion

Duration:

0:28:40

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2021-04-07

Language:

English

Imbas Forosnai

Following the clairvoyant practices of poets of ancient Ireland, a young man in present day Limerick seeks answers from the Otherworld.

Directors:

Shane Serrano

Key Cast:

Shane Davis, Claire J. Loy, Billy Mag Fhloinn

Writers:

Shane Davis

Producers:

Pete Moles

Other Credits:

Editor: Philip Shanahan; Score & Sound Design: Ronan Mitchell; Director of Photography: Stephen Hall

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Art House, Fictional

Duration:

0:15:00

Country of Origin:

Ireland

Completion Date:

2021-08-20

Language:

English

In the beginning

Buried in darkness, a woman witnesses centuries passing by as she cries out to the world in search of her identity and place in the world.

Directors:

Shaun Clark

Key Cast:

Carrie Thompson

Writers:

Chris Lince

Producers:

Carrie Washington

Other Credits:

Editor: Ariadna Fatjo-Vilas; Sound Design: David Pringle; Music Composer: Madison Willing; Director of photography consultant: Nick Cooke; Actress: Carrie Thompson

Project Type:

Animation, Short

Genres:

Drama, Fiction, Animation, Historical, family

Duration:

0:10:46

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

2022-01-16

Language:

English

INFERNAL NEBULA

INFERNAL NEBULA is an excursion in 8 chapters featuring an original score in 8 movements. Beauty, mysteries, dark dreams and dark histories unfold.

Directors:

Michael Sefton

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Animation, Experimental

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:40:00

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

2021-08-13

Language:

-

Kali Yuga Chants

Kali Yuga Chants follows “Uncle” and “Aunty”, a mixed-race couple living in India, and the 35 children they’re raising in a makeshift foster family. The film chronicles individual kids' transformations over ten years: from begging and picking through garbage, to learning meditation and math, gaining confidence and navigating teenage crushes and turbulent emotions.

Under the mentorship of an internationally-known teacher, the teenaged girls become expert chanters of Hinduism's ancient Vedic mantras, which helps them to break free from the caste and gender stigma of their births, but ironically also brings backlash from the established elite and male priests.

As the whole group struggles to build a permanent home in the jungle, external and internal "complications" threaten to tear apart the family, and raise questions that are central to the human condition.

Directors:

Nilima Abrams

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Robert Pollin, Sigrid Miller Pollin, Ellyn Shander, Heidi Tappan, Doug Nedde

Other Credits:

Consulting Editor: Charlene Music; Advisor: Delaney Ruston; Sound Editor: Tim Joy

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature, Student

Genres:

International, cross cultural

Duration:

1:31:05

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2018-06-12

Language:

English

LARVAE

Turin, 1909. Cesare Lombroso, the world-famous founder of the School of Criminal Anthropology, arrives at the isolated mansion of Lazar, an elderly illusionist. Lombroso, attracted to Spiritualism, challenges Lazar: to prove that the supernatural exists and that it may be the cause of a heinous crime.

What could have unleashed the murderous fury in the young seminarian Tommaso and what binds him to the paranormal faculties of Lazar and his son Lorenzo? Is it illusionism or is there something real?

The ancient and decadent house of Lazar hides many truths and Lombroso's scientific vision will have to open up to new perspectives.

Directors:

Alessandro Rota

Key Cast:

Stewart Arnold, Roberto Accornero, Niccolò Fontana, Fabio Renis

Writers:

Alessandro Rota

Producers:

Alessandro Rota, Francesco Cerrato, Fabrizio Nastasi

Other Credits:

Music: Francesco Cerrato; Production manager: Federico Dedo Gorgoglione; Cinematography: Gerardo Fornari; Set design: Maurizio Corigliano, Sergio Luca Loreni

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Horror, Historical

Duration:

0:30:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2021-12-31

Language:

English

LES-1

HAH's Music vid : a witch discovers a path to the other world - using neural style transfert, optical flow, and Deep dream

Directors:

Micha Vanony

Key Cast:

Charlène Dray

Writers:

Micha Vanony

Producers:

Micha Vanony

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Music Video

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:04:30

Country of Origin:

Monaco

Completion Date:

2021-07-01

Language:

-

MAGICK

A portrait of a young woman in Encinitas, California, and how she uses spirituality and faith to overcome her personal demons around mental health and suicide.

Directors:

Hannah Leis, Juliette Benedetto

Key Cast:

Melia Ennis

Writers:

-

Producers:

Juliette Benedetto

Other Credits:

Cinematography : Kento Komatsu; Editor : Maxwell Sauerbrey; Color Correction: Kento Komatsu; Drone Cinematography: Maxwell Sauerbrey

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:12:11

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2022-05-11

Language:

English

Magnum Opus

ENG

An alchemist begins a spiritual journey that will test him several times. Among obscure caves and surreal places, the man faces a path full of strangeness and occult symbols that force him to face his fears, and then find himself. The goal is the legendary Philosopher's Stone that gives immortality. But it represents much more: a new life and a renewed awareness of himself and the world.

ITA

Un alchimista intraprende un viaggio spirituale, che lo metterà alla prova più volte. Tra oscure caverne e luoghi surreali, l’uomo affronta un percorso pieno di stranezze e simbologie occulte che lo costringono ad affrontare le proprie paure per poi ritrovare se stesso. L’obiettivo è la leggendaria Pietra Filosofale che dona l’immortalità. Ma essa rappresenta molto di più: una nuova vita e una rinnovata consapevolezza di sé e del mondo.

Directors:

Carlo Frigenti

Key Cast:

Ettore Nigro, Rebecca Furfaro

Writers:

Carlo Frigenti

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

Cinematographer: Gaia La Rocca; Editing: Ivan Mazzone

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:14:47

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2022-02-28

Language:

Italian

NAMARALI

NAMARALI is a 50min documentary charting artist Donny (Yorna) Woolagoodja's quest to rekindle deep connections with his traditional ancestral culture. Yorna's spiritual beliefs revolve around the wandjina - creator beings whose images adorn the caves and rock ledges throughout the Kimberley in Western Australia. Refreshed with new ochre each year by his ancestors the wandjinas are now fading away with the absence of Yorna's people.

But the community's decision to allow one of Yorna's designs to appear at the 2000 Sydney Olympics opening ceremony empowers a progressive new perspective. Yorna is compelled to visit the big-boss wandjina NAMARALI in his cave. His mission; to repaint the imposing 4m wandjina image with fresh ochre and restore NAMARALI back to his full glory.

On a distant, inaccessible section of the West Kimberley coast, the film is witness to the radical action of a man and his community determined to bring their deity 'back to life'.

NAMARALI was created over 20 years by Tim Mummery and senior knowledge keeper Yorna Woolagoodja (2021 Red Ochre lifetime achievement award).

Directors:

Tim Mummery

Key Cast:

Yorna (Donny) Woolagoodja, Alison Burgu

Writers:

Tim Mummery

Producers:

Tim Mummery, Yorna (Donny) Woolagoodja

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:52:11

Country of Origin:

Australia

Completion Date:

2021-04-30

Language:

English

Nameless Natives

Ethnographic populations and tribes have seen gradual fading out to complete disappearance from the face of earth over the centuries. Who knows which were the inhabiting populations that we never got a chance to know about? The Santhali community is one of the oldest existing tribes which have continued to exist through the test of times and changes both environmentally as well as socially. So, what intrigued us was to tap into their life more closely and try to investigate their components of strengths, belief & practices which makes the core of their uniqueness and timelessness. Their changes and developments as a tribe matching step with this overhauled globalization and digitization of the outside world and still holding onto their age-old practices haven’t been much spoken about and we at UinDhi strongly believe that such communities like the Santhalis make the real heroes today who are still holding onto their core elements in the face of modernization. Their lives, their stories of pain, pleasure etc deserves to be told and we have made our first step towards it through this documentary of ours- the “Nameless Natives”.

Directors:

Utsav Mukherhee

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Taposhri Ganguly, Priya K Gopal

Other Credits:

Cinematography: Somak Bhattacharya; Sound Design: Probar Mukherjee; Editing: Dibyendu Roy, Utsav Mukherjee

Project Type:

Documentary, Short

Genres:

Indigenous, Natives, Tribes, Humanity, Philosophy, Spirituality

Duration:

0:14:57

Country of Origin:

India

Completion Date:

2021-08-31

Language:

Bengali, English

Opus

Inspired by the hermetic language of alchemists and the psychic symbolism of Greek myths, Opus is a series consisting of 5 episodes, which tackles the turbulent path of self-discovery, in a hallucinated and timeless key, where the boundary between human and divine, real and mythological it dissolves and solidifies.

Directors:

Alessio Del Donno

Key Cast:

Enzo Mirone, Claudio D´agostino, Valeria Masiello, Marco Iannuzzi, Consuelo Giangregorio, Maurizio Tomaciello, Ilaria Masiello, Diana Cusani, Maria Pia Rubino, Alda Parrella, Gianpaolo Iannace, Flavia Iori

Writers:

Francesca Mazzoni, Alessio Del Donno

Producers:

Carlo Corso

Other Credits:

Soundtrack: Carlo Corso, Andrea Vernillo, Alessio Del Donno, E.A. Ghost Collective; Editing: Alessio Del Donno

Project Type:

Experimental, Other

Genres:

Hermetic, esoteric

Duration:

0:39:03

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2022-06-30

Language:

Italian

Past Future Journey Nile

Behold the Ancient Egyptian temples along the Nile in their ascending order of awareness and enlightenment; revealing their holistic wisdom and spiritual destiny. "Past Future Journey Nile" is composed from a vintage photo collection, a slideshow travelogue that has been transformed through specials effects into an audiovisual meditation on Ancient Egypt’s sacred vision of our world. Their gods are symbolically portrayed as aspects of the Spirit in Nature and along with their distinctive temples speak to both our rational and intuitive faculties. Traveling through their land as well as their history, philosophy and metaphysics, "Past Future Journey Nile" explores the deep influence of Ancient Egypt on Western civilization and its special meaning for us today and for tomorrow.

Directors:

Mike Mannetta

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Ra Sa

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental, Feature

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:00:00

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2022-03-18

Language:

English

Percy Grows Up - A Mythic Comedy

While an intern at Grail Industries, Percy encounters mysteries that soon vanish. As he begins hunting for the Grail and an ailing CEO, Percy also searches for what it means to be a man. A comedy inspired by the legends of Percival and King Arthur.

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Directors:

Laura Lewis-Barr

Key Cast:

Nick Sleeper, Stephen Gagin

Writers:

Laura Lewis-Barr

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Animation, Short

Genres:

Comedy, fantasy, Mythical, Legends, Fairytale, Stopmotion

Duration:

0:13:33

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2022-06-27

Language:

-

Quintessence

A distraught young woman returns to her childhood home, but becomes fixated on finding the source of a strange melody.

Directors:

Marah M Herreid

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Marah M Herreid

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short, Student

Genres:

Drama, Experimental, Narrative, Hybrid

Duration:

0:09:53

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2022-04-28

Language:

English

Quite another story

This documentary aims to investigates what I like to call "Another story"! I started from the studies of Zecharia Sitchin, above all his idea about our planet being visited far away by some ancient astronauts who gave man civilization and created him as a ‘primitive worker’ at their service. A story between science fiction and mythology, offering a valuable explanation to a lot of historical and archaeological facts that we cannot explain otherwise. The very first – and most important – revelation that I’d verify with this documentary is about our origin: Genesis, or the other Genesis actually.

We know that homo sapiens appeared in Africa, more precisely in South Africa. The homo sapiens first appeared in Africa, more precisely in South Africa. But the fact that right there are also the oldest gold mines in the world, matched with this ancestral presence of human activity, is a real mistery.

A thick mistery if you consider that a lot of stone circle constructions have been spotted in this area with Google Earth: they suggest some kind of considerably intelligent presence, or technological either. I traveled to South Africa to meet mr Michael Tellinger, who studied these structures widely. Structures suggesting the Sumerian myth called Absu, seen from above, i.e. the place of the gold search and the creation of man. A place almost uncharted yet, where Michael Tellinger sought the traces of a very remote past instead. Myth, archeology and human history cross here, revealing something that can change history as we know it into... "quite another story"!

The travel continues in Baalbek, the place where Gilgameš wandered looking for immorality according to his epic. Then in Ecuador, where I found the Agua de Oro, long life elixir. In addition to Michael Tellinger and Zecharia Sitichin's contributions (with some rare excerpts taken from my very first interview with mr Sitchin, made twenty years ago in New York), the documentary collects some unpublished interviews with Mauro Biglino, who reinterprets the Genesis Biblical; Alessandro Demontis, who interprets the Sumerian and Babylonian myths of creation; Pietro Buffa, who analyzes the different phases of human evolution from the genetic point of view, and to some friends of the Tesla group.

Directors:

Maurizia Giusti

Key Cast:

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Writers:

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Producers:

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Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

Sci-Fi, History, Travel

Duration:

0:58:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

-

Language:

Italian

Rinaldi - Instrumental Transcommunication To The Other Side

For almost three and a half decades, a slight and unassuming Brazilian researcher has been bringing forth evidence of an Afterlife via various processes of Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC). Using technological devices such as telephones, televisions, recorders, computers and cameras, Sonia Rinaldi has been able to record both voice messages and visual images of those who have passed on from this life providing comfort to those who have lost a loved one and helping to prove, definitively, that life continues after bodily death.

Over time, the quality and quantity of these voice messages and visual images have become increasingly clearer, and her work has caught the attention of many well-respected researchers. Hear from some of them, as well as from a small sampling of parents who have lost a child, who attest to the amazing influence Sonia Rinaldi's work has on current understandings of concepts such as life and death.

Directors:

Robert Lyon

Key Cast:

Alan Ross Hugenot, Rosanne Grover Norris, Robert Craig Hogan, Caroline Chang, Brandon J Kim, Patricia McHenry, Jennifer Brazier, Lisa Laniewski, Jann Rudd, Diane Hayek, Christa Collins, Sonia Rinaldi

Writers:

Lisa Laniewski, Robert William Lyon

Producers:

Sandra Champlain

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:21:30

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2022-02-22

Language:

English

Ripple in the Mirror

A wild journey through the whimsical struggle of dancing with your inner demon.

Directors:

Oren Kaya Dayan

Key Cast:

Oren Kaya Dayan, Craig Charter

Writers:

Oren Kaya Dayan, Craig Charter

Producers:

Oren Charter

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short, Other

Genres:

Abstract, spiritual, comedy, Psychological, drama, experimental, arthouse

Duration:

0:20:00

Country of Origin:

Not Specified

Completion Date:

2022-06-08

Language:

English

S☉N OF THE SUN

S☉N OF THE SUN is a Hermetic fable illustrating inner alchemy or in particular the Mysterium Coniunctionis --or reconciliation of opposites: Light / Dark, Female / Male, Active / Passive etc..... With an original choreography based on the the ancient Mystical dance of the whirling dervish, the video depicts the symbolic dance of polarities that is found everywhere from the macro to the microscopic scales.

Directors:

Brian Whar

Key Cast:

Mark Wagner, Kat Hanula

Writers:

Mark O Wagner

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Music Video

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:03:41

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

2021-12-01

Language:

Latin

S☉N RISE

The Hermetic Philosopher or Alchemist is depicted in his laboratory, he contemplates and recounts the creation of the world and in doing so, he separates and recombines himself, appearing and dissolving in the creative act.

S☉N RISE

AND THE S☉N RISES FROM HIS ASHES

AND EVERY DUSK MUST BRING ITS DAWN

AND EVERY DAWN WILL BRING ITS MORNING, AND SO WE MOURN THE DAY BEFORE

AND IF I SEE YOU AT MY WAKE IT'S BECAUSE I MIGHT HAVE DIED

BUT IF EVER I MIGHT DIE WELL THEN AGAIN I WILL AWAKE

COS' MY MOTHER IS THE SEA

AND MY FATHER IS THE WAVE

AND I FOLLOW IN THEIR WAKE

AND SO I ALSO MUST CREATE

I'M THE S☉N OF THE SUN

AND MY MOTHER SHE IS NONE

AND HER OTHER HALF IS ONE

THEY MAKE ALL THINGS UNDER THE SUN

AND SO THE TWO GIVE RISE TO THREE

AND THUS CREATING YOU AND ME

AND YOU AND I SEE EYE TO EYE

BECAUSE WE COME FROM THE SAME SEA

IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WAVE

AND SO THE WAVE IT PENETRATED

AND SO THE WATERS SEPERATED

AND THE WHOLE IT BECAME OPEN

AND IN AND OUT THE WAVES GIRATE

SO THAT THE OCEAN IMPREGNATES

AND SO LIKE RIPPLES ON THE WATER

SEPARATE AND REPLICATE

AND SO THE WATER LOST HER WATERS

AND DOWN THE HOLE THE OCEAN WENT

A VORTEX FLOW OF FRACTAL FORM

CRYSTALLISING IN ITS DESCENT

AND SO YOU SEE, THE SEA GAVE BIRTH

TO THE WORLD, TO THE EARTH

TO CURVES AND CIRCLES, SNAKES AND SERPENTS

SOUND & FORM, GEOMETRY

INTO THE HOLE THEN LOOPS THE WHOLE

IN A GREAT FEEDBACK SYMPHONY

ONE FAMILY, A SINGLE TREE

OF WHICH THE FRUIT CONTAINS THE SEEDS

AMD WE ARE NOT AN ENTITY

THERE IS NO YOU, THERE IS NO ME

ETERNALLY IN UNITY AND SO WE ARE INFINITY

AND THE S☉N RISES FROM HIS ASHES

AND EVERY DUSK THUS BRINGS ITS DAWN

AND EVERY DAWN THEN BRINGS ITS MORNING

AND SO WE MOURN THE DAY BEFORE

AND IF YOU SEE ME AT THE WAKE IT'S BECAUSE I MUST HAVE DIED

BUT WHENEVER I WILL DIE WELL THEN AGAIN I WILL REBIRTH

COS' MY MOTHER IS THE EARTH AND MY FATHER IS THE FIRE

AND SHE BIRTHED ME FROM THE SEA AND HE TOOK ME TO THE SKY

Directors:

Ross Adams

Key Cast:

Mark Wagner

Writers:

Mark Wagner

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Music Video

Genres:

-

Duration:

4:50:00

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

2022-01-01

Language:

English

SAMADHI ROAD

A journey in search of wisdom, provided by worldwide personalities and the great discoveries of their inner lives.

Samadhi Road narrates the journey of two young brothers, who, searching for wisdom, decide to take timeless questions to personalities such as the Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil, the American saxophonist Sonny Rollins, the Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller and the Jamaican master Mooji. Drawing a parallel between the brothers' first experiences in India, during their childhood, and the interviewees' inner journeys, the film promotes an immersive experience in universal issues of human life.

Directors:

Julio Hey, Daniel Hey

Key Cast:

Gilberto Gil, Sonny Rollins, Mooji, Robert Thurman

Writers:

Julio Hey, Daniel Hey

Producers:

Claudio Loureiro

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature

Genres:

Documentary

Duration:

1:30:00

Country of Origin:

Brazil

Completion Date:

2021-04-30

Language:

English, Portuguese

Secrets, Dreams, Faith and Wonder: 

A Visual Music Film by Stephen T. Pope and Friends

"Secrets, Dreams, Faith and Wonder" is a multi-award-winning feature-length non-narrative "visual music” film; its five movements (the short-subject contains one section from each movement) use computer animation, painted film, and photographic sources (together with an original electronic-music soundtrack), and map loosely onto the sections of the catholic mass (but with an epistle lesson from Martin Luther King and a credo by Mahatma Gandhi).

The five pieces of music incorporate voices in Latin, English and Arabic (texts from the Bible, by M. L. King and M. K. Gandhi) as well as bird and whale songs. Each of the videos was made to fit the music of the respective movement.

The motivation for "Secrets, Dreams, Faith and Wonder," for making a new mass for the new millennium, is summed up in the following paraphrased quote from the late Joseph Campbell, "Those who have heard the rhythms and hymns of the angels, who have understood any of the words of the angels, will try to recite those hymns in such a way that the angels will be attracted."

Quotes from reviews: Riveting - a tour de force - a hypnotic flow - this is deep electroacoustic music - a fluid and engaging rhythmic and harmonic sense - works both as music and as ritual - incredibly profound - the sonic landscape is pristine - mesmerizing - I can't wait to see it again!

Directors:

Stephen Travis Pope

Key Cast:

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Writers:

Stephen Travis Pope

Producers: