Susanne Middelberg

After the death of his mother, Ricky, a twelve-year-old non-verbal boy, is left to care for his infant sister on his own while struggling to survive in a collapsing Western Europe overrun by the living dead

A documentary crew follows a married couple as they adjust to the wife’s new vegan lifestyle. While the couple tries to understand one another, their respectful disagreements reveal growing instability in their relationship. Determined to prove that her husband will not notice the difference, she secretly replaces his chicken with a vegan substitute.

After a ruthless bandit forces a young cowgirl to kill her own brother, she sets out on a dangerous path of revenge. This remarkable HKU graduation film delivers gritty Western authenticity, raw emotional power, and an utterly relentless pace.

Princess and the Pea is about the turbulent dynamic between teenager Lotta and her parents when she’s stuck at home with depression and anxiety. She can’t, she won’t, she wouldn’t dare. Also isolated at home are Marthe and Paul, scared to lose their daughter. In a house full of misunderstanding and hopelessness the family gets help from a psychologist in their search for recognition, connection, and hope.

“30 Days to Happiness” is an absurd yet deeply human tragedy. After a painful breakup, Louis’s world collapses. A strange TV commercial promises happiness within thirty days. He begins the program. But as the days pass, the line between healing and losing himself begins to blur.

Symptoms of influenza mean the last days in the life of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918) seem to be played out beyond the confines of a set time and space. His stylised portraits come to live and edge him further towards death. Choreographer Stuart has transformed his images into a transparent movement language that by turns follows and ignores the music by Alexander von Zemlinsky. The rawly expressive and confrontational imagery reflects the powerful effect of Schiele’s drawings and paintings.

When Death comes to visit a little boy, every day life suddenly becomes estranged for his family.

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