Welcome to our La Guarimba International Film Festival Selection 2017! Our new short film program is back! Fiction, Animation, Documentaries, Videoclips, Experimental, Strange, Very-Dark-Comedies… With some of the wildest and imaginative short film stories by new filmmaker talent from all around the world. Our 5th edition will take place by the sea & under the stars the 7th to the 11th August 2017 in Amantea, Italy. We’re delighted to have you embark on this strange and beautiful journey!

Official Programmers: Pablo Cristóbal, Alicia V. Palacios Thomas, El tornillo de Klaus, Sara Fratini, Giulio Vita, Alex Spagnolo, Jacinta Agten. Guest programmers:  Giacomo Triglia & Fritz Da Cat.
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Veronica L. Montaño, Manuela Leuenberger & Lukas Suter | 2015 | 6’20” | SWITZERLAND

Ivan is obsessed with the incredible softness of dough.

Renata Gasiorowska | 2016 | 8’22” | POLAND

A young girl spends the evening alone at home. She decides to have some sweet solo pleasure session, but not everything goes according to plan.

Luca Tóth | 2016 | 15’43” | HUNGARY

The native people of the surrealistic land of Superbia, where men and women form separate societies, face the changes sparked by the first equal couple in their history.

Alois Di Leo | 2016 | 12’00” | BRAZIL

In a forest of gigantic trees, Oquirá a six year old indigenous girl, will challenge her destiny and learn to understand the cycle of life.

Dahee Jeong | 2016 | 9’30” | SOUTH KOREA

In the woman’s room, memories constantly accumulate and disappear like dust.
The man spends his time in this room creating futile little games with woman’s memories.

Terri Matthews | 2016 | 9’40” | UK

Malcolm Fetcher is a neurotic, middle-aged teacher lost in a dull marriage with his wife of twenty years, Beverly. As he faces an all-consuming identity crisis, their marriage disintegrates and he is forced to express a deep, hidden desire…

Jennifer Zheng | 2016 | 4’49” | UK

New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time.

Wenyu Li | 2015 | 9’28” | CHINA

A little pig leaves “P town” to go to “City ELE” where the elephants live.

Carlos Gomez Salamanca | 2016 | 9’41” | COLOMBIA

In December 2011, a security guard was killed by a pack of stray dogs prowling in a poor neighbourhood, on the Bogota suburbs.

Junjie “Jake” Zhang | 2015 | 6’45” | CHINA

Pokey Pokey is a black comedy and horror animated short film that depicts how a father try to protect his son from seeing filthiness of this crime-ridden city.

Fx Goby | 2016 | 13′ | FRANCE

The tragic tale of a man and his dog trying to survive in the overwhelmingly freezing and hostile nature of the Yukon Territory.

Isabel Herguera | 2015 | 8’00” | ITALY / SPAIN

While a couple walks along the river, hunters hide behind a hill and friends in the forest recall the Dancer of Clavesana, a metaphor of free love. She slowly vanishes into the winter landscape.

Naghmeh Farzaneh | 2016 | 4’41” | IRAN

Immigration is a new chapter in one’s life, a chapter with unexpected events that can take one’s life down paths different from the one imagined.

Nicolas Ménard | 2016 | 5′ | UK

A personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair.

Chien Lan-chi & Chang Chin-wei | 2016 | 22′ | TAIWAN

There is a day in April with inconsistent weather. A taxi driver, four passengers, sisters and brother are going to visit their mother. As strangers. Chaos is in silence, in their minds, on the road…

Rune Spaans | 2016 | 12′ | NORWAY

One day, Eddy gets lost in a dark forest. There he meets an alluring girl infected by a mysterious parasite. Love and violence ensues.

 Nate Sherman & Nick Vokey | 2016 | 6’30” | USA

A man is fired from his job on Mars.

Lou Hamou-Lhadj & Andrew Coats | 2015 | 6’45” | USA

A weathered Sheriff returns to the remains of an accident he has spent a lifetime trying to forget. With each step forward, the memories come flooding back. Faced with his mistake once again, he must find the strength to carry on.

Volker Schlecht & Alexander Lahl | 2016 | 7′ | GERMANY

A film about political imprisonment, forced labour, and enormous profits on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

Daisy Jacobs & Chris Wilder | 2017 | 7’30” | UK

When the dad next-door walks out, five-year-old Toby discovers that parents leave. The rooms keep pace with Toby’s volatile emotions as home life spirals out of control in the divorce boom of the 1970s and 80s.

Kenny Ozier-Lafontaine | 2015 | 15’18” | BELGIUM

It’s with children eyes that Fernando Arrabal stands there in front of the gate and present his hand. As if to invite us to play.

Stefan M Pavlovic | 2015 | 09’43” | USA

Through the eye of nostalgia the cleaning and washing of a car named Pearl is shown as the camera allows us a glimpse into the birth of a first love and a long lasting relationship.

Sam Peeters | 2016 | 14’13” | BELGIUM

Right-wing populism is spreading through Western Europe like wildfire. Sam Peeters portrays an ironic caricature of life in the Flemish suburbs, which reflects the current European zeitgeist.

Mark Olexa & Francesca Scalisi | 2016 | 12’00” | SWITZERLAND

The story of a girl and the tragedy that changed her life.

Jessica Kingdon | 2016 | 10’44” | USA

The daily lives of the vendors who work in China’s Yiwu Markets, the largest consumer market in the world.

Nebojša Slijepčević | 2016 | 29’10” | CROATIA

There are eight underaged girls living together in the last house of a small village in Slavonia, trying to change their lives around with some help from the caretakers. The girls are growing up together, they take care of the household and manage the estate.

Fabio Palmieri | 2015 | 08’55” | ITALY

Each year 400.000 people from Africa, Asia and Middle East, try to enter Europe. They flee from war, persecution and poverty. Since the ways by land have been interrupted, they board overloaded vessels and face a dangerous and often deadly voyage across the Mediterranean.

Thomas Horat & Corina Schwingruber Ilić | 2017 | 13’00” | SWITZERLAND

Every four years, over a period of three moths in winter, wood is being cut in a steep mountain high above Lake Ägeri and prepared for log rafting. Neither economic change nor technology has been able to replace this traditional and sustainable craft in Switzerland.

Nils Clauss | 2016 | 06’21” | SOUTH KOREA

Factory life during the rapid industrialisation of South Korea throughout the 1970s and 1980s meant tight communal living quarters and a drastic shift in cultural norms for the millions of factory workers that fed the country’s growth.

Maria Giovanna Cicciari | 2016 | 26’16” | ITALY

At the end of XVIII century a large part of Calabria, in Southern Italy, was hit by a massive earthquake. The memory of this distant event is made of concrete signs like the white scars on the mountain ridges and the remains of a town that over the centuries has gained a new life.

Simon Gesrel & Arnaud Viémont | 2016 | 4’33” | FRANCE

Inside a shabby American diner on the side of a lost national road, the mesmerizing dance of a stripper triggers an extremely violent brawl among the customers.

Music by: YETI LANE

Dexter Navy | 2016 | 12’10” | UNITED KINGDOM

Shot around northwest London, the film traces the story of a young woman named Rina as she navigates the underworld of crime and violence that surrounds her.

Music by: A$AP MOB

Zuzanna Plisz | 2017 | 4’21” | POLAND

An alienated boy creates a wooden female creature which becomes his dearest friend and a threat to the small society in which the boy lives.

Music by: MROZU

Oren Lavie | 2017 | 3’57” | ISRAEL

A young man lives in his bachelor’s apartment which he shares with the memory of all his past relationships.

Music by: Oren Lavie

Mike Greaney & Aaron McDonald | 2016 | 4’32” | AUSTRALIA

Music by: CLIENT LIAISON