Curta Experimental

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

In a small village, a lonely fisherman yearning for a son is drawn to an ethereal light that links him to others and their long-buried secrets.

Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.

A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team

Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...

A retired boxer intends to return to the ring for one last shot at the title, but first he must make the weight. Holed up in a room in Las Vegas with an unscrupulous trainer, he embarks on an intensive and illegal weight-cutting program.

Stanley manages his boxer brother Lion but when a devastating loss in the ring leaves the pair in debt, an opportunity to recoup the cash leads to a series of misadventures that threaten to break the bond between them.

Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son.

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep an eye out for the inevitable racism. The racists come in the form of The Ten, a secret group of the elite students. They want Pearce to leave on his own free will, but are prepared to torture him to make it 'his free will'. Will is forced to help Pearce and he is prepared to risk his own career to do so.

A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

A dangerously unstable man addresses the unseen followers of his video log about his obsession with an old army buddy.

A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.

The true story of Madalyn Murray O'Hair -- iconoclast, opportunist, and outspoken atheist -- from her controversial rise to her untimely demise.

A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and becomes overbearing and possessive.

Experimental university short film inspired by grief, the passage of time and the filmmaking process

Somewhere in the dreary zones of Mumbai's film industry, stuck between star-cult, superstition and the daily gridlock, Camera Threat explores the ambivalent, and sometimes paranoid relationship that this film city has with the moving image itself. Seated on a casting couch, two actors are getting trapped in their impromptu conversations on the unwanted side effects of a world that no longer bothers to tell facts from fiction. An expanded multi-genre film within the constraints of the so-called Masala Formula popularly known from Indian cinema.

During his visit to a graveyard, a young man is suddenly projected into a dream-like realm. Empty and removed from time, the familiar landscape forces him to confront certain pains when blood suddenly effuses from his hands.

A girl approaches a divine entity that comes to the world in the form of a yellow umbrella, and ends up discovering her true self.

Hebe, in her journey from childhood to adulthood, finds herself compelled to explore the boundaries of the real and the illusory through her extrasensory perceptions. Endowed with a singular gift: glimpsing the past and future as an eternal present, Hebe defies temporal convention, questioning whether her premonitions are pre-written destinies or mere whispers of chance. Inspired by true events, Hebe invites us into the fabric of time to discover whether her gift can and should be controlled or whether she should surrender and succumb to it.

Three unlikely individuals attempt to escape the dark prison known as "The Void."

After committing a gruesome act of violence, the fallen angel September reflects on their relationship with Rowan, the human who came to their aid.

Samantha is an 18-year-old girl who, in the middle of a move, experiences a flashback of memories and is reunited with her imaginary childhood friend, Flux. Between waves and cardboard boxes, she passes the farewell with herself, with what surrounds her and with the tide.

In a house suspended in time, three women—Lúcia, Madalena, and Dolores—inhabit different layers of the same memory. Driven by curiosity, resistance, and silence, they orbit a love that never came to be, yet continues to unfold within them. Like nested dolls, they reveal and conceal themselves in an intimate cycle where remembering is inevitable and forgetting, an act of survival.

The short film captures the memory of an apartment and its surroundings: a young adult man lives his daily life, a journalist interviews a retired novelist who grapples with the idea of the end of the world, and two young boys searching for portals. Three storylines intertwine as the film progresses.

Inside a bathroom, a woman dissolves. Not into water—but into identity. Set in an oneiric, liminal space, this experimental short dissects the most banal of routines—eliminate, change, wash—and refracts them through the prism of identity. What do we flush away, what do we conceal with powder and polish, what residue do we scrub from the self? The film doesn't offer answers. It exists in the space between viewer and image, where meaning is slippery and selfhood runs down the drain.

A kaleidoscopic exploration of found objects that express deeper human emotion.

Lulled by flickering lights and distorted melodies, a woman wanders in a state of trance. Each gesture, an annulment. Each relief, the next treacherous stumble. In the encounter with her own mask, everything becomes a field of experimentation between desires and agonies, light and blood.

A woman evolves in a self-managed cell offering her the necessities of life. She escapes her routine through a virtual reality machine. During one of her "outings", a disturbance in the waking dream leads to a nightmarish phase. The woman then wonders about the existence of an Other.

‘TAKBO’ is a short experimental film that studies the realities by which young Filipino women live.

A visual poem about memory, identity, and the quiet beauty of Bahrain. Moving through palm trees, fishermen, and old streets, the film blurs the line between hazy memory and vivid reality — a meditation on what it means to belong to a land, and the fear of watching it slowly disappear. An experimental film with no dialogue, only feeling.

A young creature’s emotional awareness clashes with an elder determined to define what he should feel.