MsFF SUMMER SERIES

Vlado is the fictionalized portrayal of the night before real-life Brazilian journalist Vladimir Herzog, turned himself in for questioning to the Brazilian police and was never heard from again. Set in Sao Paulo in 1975, in the context of the Brazilian military dictatorship, the story sets to illustrate one man's final moments and the build-up to a decision that would eventually change the course of an entire country.

Leigh (Jason Perini) is a luckless single man who sets his standards low when it comes to romance. When he knocks on the door of his blind date, Miranda (Geraldine Hakewill), he is disappointed with her beauty. Leigh’s unexpected disapproval leads Miranda to make some unlikely confessions that teach them both to raise their standards.

Rusty machines living in their small houses, imagine that the sun will come and take them to the sky someday. A small light, keeps them alive and dreaming. But one of the machines wants to see the sun itself and he has a plan for that.

Sometime in the future an old man, equipped with the benefits of evolution, survived the extinction of all other living beings. It is a very lonely world for someone unable to die. A collaboration between director/animator Quique Rivera Rivera and multiple Latin Grammy and Grammy Award winner René Pérez Joglar (Calle 13).

A deranged super hero protects his town from the threat of a multinational oil corporation.

The difference between how we think romance should work and how it actually does is at the comedic heart of EN LAS NUBES, an exploration of cultural disagreements about intimacy, love, and marriage proposals in the age of YouTube.