I Was Never Here(2020)

Fake Me A Happy New Year(lv)

Anita and her children, Santa and Kristaps, live in an apartment in Riga. Every year, they celebrate New Year’s Eve with grandma, uncle Peter and a feast fit for kings…

The Nettle(cs)

Nikola is about to join his girlfriend at her father’s house for a summer holiday, but after wearing makeup for the very first time, he begins a startling and life-changing process of self-discovery.

Boys and Girls(en)

Ryan and Jennifer are opposites who definitely do not attract. At least that's what they always believed. When they met as twelve-year-olds, they disliked one another. When they met again as teenagers, they loathed each other. But when they meet in college, the uptight Ryan and the free-spirited Jennifer find that their differences bind them together and a rare friendship develops.

The Fringes(en)

In a corporate world void of human interaction, Ennis has lost her ability to relate to others. When the company fires her and forces her into a crowded tenement building, Ennis must overcome her fear of human connection to begin again.

Daughter(cs)

A young girl buries in her soul a memory of a painful moment, when as a child she brought home an injured bird and her father burdened by his own weight of worries didn’t notice her feelings and longing for understanding. The girl took her father’s reaction as indifference and closed herself in her inner world longing for her father’s love and its manifestations. Since that moment she and her dad continued to grow apart, and as an adult she is no longer able to accept his endearments. The father suffers from guilt and searches for a way back to his daughter, trying to revive their lost relationship.

A Field of Honor(en)

An ex-soldier encounters many dangers in the small town he lives in.

The Heat-Stroke, Heart-Broke Cowgirl(en)

A short student film about a lonesome cowboy in the 21st century attempting to prove his love to a teenage crush cowgirl, who recently falls into a coma.

Doña Rosita la Soltera(es)

At the end of the 19th century, young Rosita and her cousin are engaged to be married, shortly before he has to leave for Cuba.

Nelásky(cs)

Potted Palm Trees(de)

The dress is too lavish and the toilet cubicle too small for the bride to fit in. The ballroom is jam-packed and the mood is alarmingly good. Something is about to burst: the groom’s delusion of grandeur? The pregnant belly of deaf Betti? Her step-father’s patience? Or the wine-filled bladder of his ex-wife?

Three Sicks(en)

This ode to standup comedy and overall antisocial, student film, headlined the 2002 film program at Long Beach.

The Reflection(en)

A social worker recounts the case of Ella Jackson, a girl who sees a man standing behind her in the mirror

Ágata(es)

The abusive professional relationship between Luis, an intransigent painter, and Ágata, his traumatized model, takes an unexpected turn when she finds a mysterious self-portrait of him…

The Lesson(cs)

When two teenage girls plot to steal liquor for themselves, their plan goes awry when they decide to visit their old piano teacher who's developed dementia.

I Am(de)

Her self-chosen solitude in the thick forest comes to a sudden end for Noé, when she finds the broken body of a female android. While she slowly approaches the mechanic woman, Noé’s past is revealed and brings up questions about how alike she and the android can become.

Airawat(mr)

The film explores the mental time and space of one character, a girl, who lives in a lane in a suburb of a city (Mumbai).

The Denigration of Carl Skiln(en)

Up against a deadline, a narcissistic screenwriter forces two of his worst critics to delete their reviews of his work at gunpoint.

Amaranthine(en)

Set in an abstraction of 1970s London, Amaranthine tells a tale of punks, betrayal and revenge.

Tingling(en)

Over a devastating night, a couple grapples with memories from the Gulf War.

The American Ambassador(en)

U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau risks his job and his reputation by leaking memos to the New York Times and becoming the first whistleblower of the Armenian Genocide. (Based on "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story" by Henry Morgenthau)