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Selections LHIFF 2024
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Bin Day
Country: Australia
Director: Ryan Neil Butler
Runtime: 8:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: The sun is shining, the birds are singing and the zombie apocalypse has settled in nicely. There's just one problem...one of the undead is in the yard. What's a pacifist to do?
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Un Homme and a Lady
Country: United States
Director: Mitch Yapko
Runtime: 10:08 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Un Homme and a Lady is a comedic homage to love in the French New Wave.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Alala High
Country: Israel
Director: yael arad zafrir
Runtime: 20:58 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: After years of attempting to spice up their marriage with the help of illegal substances, Hila and Joel decide to try a desert vacation with the promise of staying clean. while Joel goes to bed, Hila secretly drinks MD. will she confess? and will their relationship survive it? A cheeky, witty and honest look at married life in the age of instant thrills and gratifications. Is it possible to have your cake and eat it too?
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Ethel
Country: Switzerland
Director: Beatrice Jäggi
Runtime: 8:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Ethel discovers boxes with glittering clothes of her late mother, who was a figure skater. In the snowy forest she searches for the idyllic pond where her mother once taught her to skate. She wants to relive those memories, attempts to understand her mother’s passion. On the frozen pond Ethel, however, encounters the Bone Ice Princess, who challenges her to a dangerous dance on thin ice. Will Ethel survive this contest in one piece? A tale of letting go and growing up.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: The Baby Bubble
Country: Spain
Director: Ivan Marković
Runtime: 8:50 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A young couple is trying to repair their relationship, while the mother is going through a postpartum depression, slowly turning into a psychosis.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Discharge
Country: United States
Director: Ryan Metcalf
Runtime: 14:17 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: DISCHARGE noun
dis·charge | \ ˈdis-ËŒchärj
1. the act of doing a task or duty that you must do:
2. to fire a gun
3. to relieve of or release from something that burdens or confines
As his world begins to crumble around him, a troubled police detective, who has tried to ignore the effects of the trauma he suffered, must finally confront his past in order to begin healing and reclaim his present.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Where The Tracks Lead
Country: Canada
Director: Kate Bromley
Runtime: 14:55 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Woman now aged 35, born and raised in Canada who is half Israeli and half Ghanaian goes on a journey to Auschwitz to retrace her history.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Dandelion
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Gillian Simpson
Runtime: 11:47 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Alice lives alone in the middle of a field of wind turbines, the constant thump thump her only companion. She is haunted by the memories of the day her daughter Grace and her partner, Jamie died, a tragedy that she can’t seem to recover from. One morning she realizes that she never will and decides to end her life. As she dies, she is resurrected by a strange symbol on her arm and is confronted by her dead lover who gives her a second chance at life, but guilt ridden by the part she played in her family's death, will she take it?
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: El libro de dibujos
Country: Spain
Director: Helen Eller
Runtime: 6:16 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis:
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Unsorted
Country: Switzerland
Director: Daniel Gönczy
Runtime: 4:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A woman goes through the process of finding a job that conflicts with her disability. When she thinks she lost the job, her friend unintentionally gives her an idea on how to overcome this issue.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Twin Leaps
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Wayne Kelly
Runtime: 12:43 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Trim twins Jimmy and Timmy take the keep fit world by storm with their Twin Leaps phenomenon. Then a falling out leads Jimmy to greater fame and Timmy to overweight obscurity. Has Jimmy really become a success all on his own? Timmy’s fiancée Pavi and Jimmy’s unacknowledged personal trainer Rhonda Gauntlet’s answer is no! Together they set about getting Timmy back on track and exposing Jimmy’s throw away the bread beer before bed approach to losing weight.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Forever Khaild
Country: Palestine, State of
Director: Yousef Salhi
Runtime: 8:37 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Khaled clashes with everyone he meets, his girlfriend Sophia tries to help him accept the reality and adapt, but all in vien.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: The Faint Goodbye
Country: United States
Director: Aaron Garcia
Runtime: 9:31 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A visually poetic journey between two past lovers revisit years later in a cafe as they succumb to old emotions in faint memories and get swept away in a past they haven't let go of.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Life After
Country: United States
Director: Autumn Libengood
Runtime: 14:58 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A priest unable to escape the shame. A pastor haunted by her memories. Neither knows how the trauma of their past will affect their future.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Love Bubbles
Country: Switzerland
Director: Marcel Hobi
Runtime: 7:34 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Floating on a pink cloud as a couple is easy.
It is much more difficult to cope with everyday life and the future together - an amusing relationship drama.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: L+T
Country: Bulgaria
Director: Nevena Nikolova
Runtime: 17:58 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A young woman makes a heartbreaking love confession to a stranger in a snack bar. None of them imagined how far this will go.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: My Digital Truth
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Swen Werner
Runtime: 9:01 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A banker in present day London on a quest for knowledge, battling illness, and forming an eerie alliance with ChatAI, blurring the lines between reality and the digital world
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: SPiN: No Matter What
Country: United States
Director: Jim Vacca
Runtime: 3:17 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: In 'SPiN: No Matter What' a woman's seemingly quiet night home alone becomes a gripping thriller, wherein the classic power pop song's lyrics undergo a haunting metamorphosis, culminating into a suspenseful reality as the next morning unveils a chilling revelation.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: The Art Whisperer
Country: United States
Director: Flemming Fynsk
Runtime: 44:27 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis:
An intimate portrait of an outspoken woman who loved art, lived in a glass house but did not want to be seen. In her lifetime Ginny Williams went under the radar. She reinvented herself when she got divorced at 60. She intuitively bought work by women artists. Some of them she befriended - many she championed.
She was an early collector of Louise Bourgeois’ work. She owned the largest private collection of her work and became a close friend of hers. If you googled her name you’d find nothing. Yet she had amassed one of the most important collections of work by female artists in the world.
Through her involvement with major institutions she would ensure the work got seen by the public and the women got their due recognition.
She contributed over 90 works to the Guggenheim Museum out of a small collection of about 8000.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: The dream of Vero
Country: Spain
Director: Jose Córdoba
Runtime: 9:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Vero, a young woman who, despite her situation, fights every day to fulfill her dream, to be a psychologist.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Creature
Country: Bulgaria
Director: Nevena Nikolova, Petar Gerzilov
Runtime: 7:25 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: beyond the concepts of monstruous and devine a reverse creation explored
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Supertramp
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Fabrizio Gammardella
Runtime: 6:39 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A stray puppy gets rescued by a sweet, little girl, finally finding a family he can live with. But Destiny has something else in store for the dog, who ends up on the street once again.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: The Letter
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Ellie Spooner
Runtime: 8:18 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Two women at different stages of life are brought together by the mysterious arrival of a letter. Though strangers to each other, they are bonded by a secret, and part ways with a sense of fulfilment.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Doggy Bunny
Country: Belgium
Director: Maurine Nijssen-Horrion, Agathe de Lovinfosse, Gregory Rotsaert
Runtime: 25:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Fred and Nina, a precarious couple, desperately try to have a child. After 6 unsuccessful attempts at in vitro fertilization, they learn that the 7th will not be reimbursed by the Belgian mutual. To earn money, Fred decides to become an erotic dancer. Nina reluctantly accepts. However, Fred becomes more and more familiar with sex work, discovering a new way of living his masculinity and endangering his life as a couple. Will they manage to surpass this test?
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: The Cookbook
Country: Portugal
Director: Pedro Chaves
Runtime: 19:31 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: After his father's debilitating stroke, an estranged son returns home to Central New York where he's torn between taking over his father's Lebanese restaurant and carrying on family tradition or pursuing his own dream.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Completely Well Adjusted
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Ella Muscroft
Runtime: 29:42 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis:
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Ultimate Chabite
Country: France
Director: Julien Ivanowich
Runtime: 01:36:06 h.
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Four friends are playing a silly game that will soon provoke the collapse of human society.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Blood is Thicker
Country: United States
Director: Melissa Skirboll
Runtime: 13:50 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Two sisters living in the same city but completely different worlds reconnect over a meal. A mother suffering dementia pulls them back home but before they can return the trauma of their past must be addressed.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Too Much Sand
Country: Sweden
Director: Rosso Pérez Bueno
Runtime: 14:14 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: When influencer Zephro's health deteriorates because of the edible sand he's promoting, he must choose between life and fame.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Hamelin 77
Country: Spain
Director: Javier Ideami
Runtime: 16:46 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Lara, a school teacher, is interviewed at the Nawu corporation for the position of prompt engineer, which consists of using language to guide artificial intelligence systems. A catastrophic power failure during the interview will trigger an unexpected discovery that will reveal the delicate balance between humans and artificial intelligence systems.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Leben
Country: Poland
Director: Ania Plonka
Runtime: 29:07 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A reflection on life on a Polish housing estate from the perspective of a relatively young person who feels already dead inside.
Unfit for life and emotionally inept student Olga moves into a flat inherited from her grandma. Initially, she feels hopeless, her roommate annoys her, and the area she remembered from her childhood and now lives in seems like a depressive pit. A random visit to Astoria bar and meeting her childhood friends makes her realize the fascinating oddity of the local community and gives her hope for true settling in.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Rik&Ade..Little Bastards!! Spend more time with the people who make you laugh
Country: Spain
Director: Patrick Cox
Runtime: 2:36 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Watch this little film. Then message your best friends and arrange to meet up. A well-being & wellness information short animated story, about an important life nugget of information.
Spend more time with the people who make you laugh. Made in Spain.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Sandalen mit Socken
Country: Germany
Director: Veronica Isola, Pol Diggler
Runtime: 4:30 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A Latin American immigrant in Berlin tries to adapt to German customs and habits - will she end up being more papist than the pope?
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: The Deserving
Country: United States
Director: S.S ARORA
Runtime: 01:14:59 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: "The Deserving" unfolds the dark and gripping tale of Karter Sai, a celebrated yet mute photographer, who finds himself ensnared in a web of his own making. The film meticulously traces Karter's journey through a series of disturbing events within his home, brought upon by his past transgressions. Characters like Lucy, an ambitious actress, and a recognizable mail lady, play crucial roles in Karter's descent into a harrowing ordeal. His actions, stemming from an abusive childhood and a psychologically twisted father, lead him to a path of retribution and self-confrontation. The narrative culminates in a stark realization of the consequences of his crimes, leaving the audience to grapple with the complexities of justice and atonement.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Tales from Shakespeare: Folios & Follies
Country: United States
Director: Nathaniel Glein Scott
Runtime: 01:47:43 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: An anthology film which uses the cinematic medium to focus on the smaller moments & more human details of Shakespeare's most famous stories.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Captain Carnival
Country: Italy
Director: Alessandro Soetje
Runtime: 01:30:13 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Since 150 years, the giant allegoric carnival floats of Viareggio, Tuscany, parade along the promenade, higher than the highest art nouveau buildings of the city.
In the Covid-19 age, the carristi appear just like captains of a ship - the float - that must be brought at all costs, and maybe for the last time, to destination. And no one remembers why.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Will You Miss Me?
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Craig J Shorrock
Runtime: 3:56 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A short film shot on a smartphone using excerpts from a poem to tell a story of life and death.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: An Intermission
Country: France
Director: William Georges-Garcia
Runtime: 13:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: After receiving a letter and questioning everything he took for granted, Rufus prepares to leave everything behind when a chance meeting with Amelia, his childhood love, forces both of them to come to terms with the end of their young adult lives.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: The Embrace
Country: United States
Director: Anderson James Hauptli
Runtime: 3:53 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: "The Embrace" is a romantic drama by Anderson Hauptli. Two strangers wake up one day and get psychologically bonded to one another. These strangers become soulmates and partake in a journey to find each other...
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Roswell Delirium
Country: United States
Director: Richard Bakewell
Runtime: 01:50:00 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: During the 1980s the US is hit by a wave of nuclear attacks, and after the fallout those who remain pretend like everything is normal even though they are all experiencing radiation poisoning. A young girl named Mayday tries to make contact on a series of ham radios with her father who is in space on a shuttle mission. Instead of making contact she receives a intergalactic distress call from space that leads her on a journey to Spacerock, the land where Area 51 once was. She is exposed to severe levels of radiation and within days all of her organs start to fail. Knowing that medical treatment won't help her mother Wendy brings her back to Spacerock to give her to the aliens in hopes that they may be able to save her.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Happy Anniversary
Country: United States
Director: Stephanie Ruiz
Runtime: 22:03 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: "Happy Anniversary unfolds the gripping tale of a couple with intriguing ties to the black market, seeking solace on a weekend getaway to reignite the spark in their tumultuous love. Yet, their attempts at reconnection are continuously thwarted by their enigmatic host, who manages to intrude at the most inconvenient moments, disrupting even the most potentially life-saving encounters."
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: The Ball
Country: United States
Director: Malgorzata Saniewska
Runtime: 01:33:34 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: "The Ball" takes you on an intimate journey into the underground ballroom culture created by marginalized LGBTQ people of color in early 1970s NYC. Thirty years after "Paris Is Burning," the ballroom is thriving worldwide, and "The Ball" gives you an in-depth perspective of courage in the face of adversity.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: All For You
Country: United States
Director: Dawn Reavis
Runtime: 14:27 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A career-driven daughter and her resolute mother clash over conflicting priorities and learn how far they're willing to go for the sake of love.
All for You" is a heartfelt story that revolves around Cassie Jackson, a successful lawyer, and her mother, Darlene. Cassie is on the brink of a major promotion, but her concerns for her mother's health and independence weigh heavily on her. Darlene, despite her health issues, is adamant about staying in her home.
The screenplay delves into the emotional complexities of caregiving, family bonds, and the struggle between personal ambitions and familial responsibilities. As Darlene's health deteriorates, Cassie is torn between her career aspirations and her commitment to caring for her mother.
The story takes a poignant turn when Darlene surprises Cassie by deciding to move in with her, defying expectations and bringing joy to her daughter's heart.
The screenplay beautifully captures the deep love and sacrifices made within a family, exploring themes of aging, independence, and the enduring strength of familial bonds.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Getting Along
Country: Canada
Director: Scott Dobson, Michael Phillip Wojewoda
Runtime: 5:16 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: "Hope you’ll be glad to know you’ve been nice to me in my dreams...”
Getting Along is as much short film as music video. 

This piece poignantly captures the fairly terrifying suspended animation of life for artists at the height of pandemic lockdown, but not without levity and hope. Isn't it remarkable that so many artists in that time responded to the question of how they were possibly going to keep making art under such conditions, by making more art?
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: With Love L.
Country: Germany
Director: Max Fritzsching, Chari Krause
Runtime: 15:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Jane's life in a big city is monotonous and every day feels the same. One day she finds a mysterious note on her doorstep that takes her out of the dreariness of her daily grind and aducts her on an emotional adventure that turns out differently than expected.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Do Over
Country: India
Director: SHARVI
Runtime: 01:23:38 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: An alcohol use disorder who reaches his last stage of alcoholism by which he loses his loved family, job and his friends. A struggle inside him to get over is DO OVER. a Motivational movie
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Wiped Out 2
Country: Germany
Director: Benjamin Agsten
Runtime: 8:42 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: "Wiped Out 2" is a heartfelt short film that delves into the world of a struggling artist and his supportive girlfriend, the love of his life. The story unfolds in the intimate setting of their shared bedroom, where the artist finds himself grappling with a severe case of writer's block. His creative well has run dry, leaving him feeling lost and uninspired.
As tension and frustration mount, the girlfriend steps in as his muse and best friend.
"Wiped Out 2" beautifully captures the profound passion and unity that exist between these two souls, demonstrating that sometimes, it takes the magic of love to rekindle the flames of creativity.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Flamin Hot
Country: Spain
Director: Clàudia Romeo Cassadó, Paula Othmer Pérez, Alícia García Iniesta, Adrià Carballada Mallofré, Leanora Schnog Barriga, Bernardo Oliveira Mesquita, Marlon Anthony Hugi Zapata, Pol Corcoles, Sergi Mora Murciano, Pablo Matas Solera
Runtime: 2:18 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: To overcome a messy breakup, a lovesick girl must
face the harsh challenges of her now distorted reality.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Leo's Whiskey Bar
Country:
Director: Odell Payne, Ty Brueilly
Runtime: 3:41 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis:
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: The island of the missing
Country: Peru
Writer: Juan Jose Roca Rey
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Another one of us, a disturbed young man, constantly questioning life, death and even his own existence, is searching for the meaning that will save him from his own limbo.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: The Handbag
Country: Germany
Director: Marion H von Loewenstern
Runtime: 32:06 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Two women discover their joint passion for adventurous journeys and they decide to share a trip on a motorcycle.
The tour catapults the viewer through a maelstrom of occurrences.
It remains unclear what is reality and what is due to the effect of the mysterious observer on their experience.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: A Conversation
Country: United States
Director: Tre King
Runtime: 12:44 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A young stubborn LEVI must face the difficult decision of whether or not to reconcile his differences with his best friend, NAOMI, after the two have a heated argument.
My intention with creating this film is to challenge audiences to reflect on the aftermath of a friendship fight and what processing those feelings looks like for young adults. My hope is that people walk away with a deeper sense of reflection in the context of friendship.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: CINNA - Thorns & Roses
Country: Germany
Director: Nicola Dymale
Runtime: 5:53 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A young stubborn LEVI must face the difficult decision of whether or not to reconcile his differences with his best friend, NAOMI, after the two have a heated argument.
My intention with creating this film is to challenge audiences to reflect on the aftermath of a friendship fight and what processing those feelings looks like for young adults. My hope is that people walk away with a deeper sense of reflection in the context of friendship.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Color
Country: Spain
Director: Eva Jakubovska
Runtime: 8:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: In an upside down world, Diana finds herself facing a difficult conversation with her family.
Her revelation provokes unexpected reactions.
Will love, understanding, acceptance win?
Will we, once and for all, speak the same color?
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: From Zero to a Hundred
Country: United States
Director: Matteo Banfo
Runtime: 01:54:19 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: “FROM ZERO TO A HUNDRED” is an inspirational feature-length film that explores the life-changing journey of high school students engaged in the Winners Circle Project. Throughout the course of a year, these students embark on an extraordinary endeavor: building a real race car from scratch. As the documentary unfolds, their unwavering spirit shines amidst adversity, including the unprecedented challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
From overcoming obstacles to achieving success, the film celebrates their journey of personal growth and highlights the transformative power of education, opportunity, and resilience.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Fachamamma
Country: Argentina
Director: Analia Fraser
Runtime: 9:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Cristina has not seen her daughters Luján and Emilia in a very long time. The three of them attend a virtual meeting where Cristina will try to convince them to collaborate in organizing their grandmother's 80th birthday party. They will only be able to understand each other if they are willing to share their long-kept secrets.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Loosed
Country:
Director: Brianna J Sacry
Runtime: 11:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: "Loosed" is an adaptation of "Cain Town", "Loosed" is a story of faith over fear when past trauma resurfaces in relationships.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Zheimer
Country: Spain
Director: Álvaro Gabarrón
Runtime: 12:32 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: An old woman suffering from Alzheimer's wakes up one day, looks at herself in the mirror and, not recognizing herself, begins to search for her face, trying to remember and find what she has lived with all her life, what changed overnight.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Wheel Gone Kid 2
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Wayne Kelly
Runtime: 3:53 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Mum wants to swim, Aki wants to ride!
Wheel Gone fun drives to the seaside.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Beauty
Country: Spain
Director: Aitana Belda Camós, Aroa Celdrán López
Runtime: 3:22 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A deer runs for its life in a forest awash with death.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Somewhere in between
Country: Belgium
Director: Liza De Maeyer
Runtime: 14:03 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: How do children experience sexuality becoming a part of their lives at the age of 12?
A moment in a person's life when a lot is about to happen and life takes a different turn for good. Especially in terms of sexuality. Suddenly your body begins to change, parents, teachers and peers view your body differently. Teachers talk to you about that changing body and what you can do with it. This film will try to look at themes such as puberty, love and sexuality from the position of the children.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: RECALL
Country: Belgium
Director: Jelle Bleyenbergh
Runtime: 9:56 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Natan starts a dangerous procedure for love.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Kiseru
Country: Croatia
Director: Igor Neljak
Runtime: 17:08 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: In a mysterious world, a synthetic being lives in isolation. While tending to a garden of bonsai trees, it evolves, learns, and strives to fathom its own purpose. With each power cycle, it dutifully continues its routine until a single bonsai tree withers, leaving the synthetic puzzled.
To acquire new bonsai seeds, it must reunite with an enigmatic being and deliver the contents of a small golden box. However, before any exchange can occur, they must engage in a philosophical discussion, reflecting deeply on the meaning of existence.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Easy
Country: Spain
Director: Alisa Selishchava
Runtime: 9:13 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: In this fake world of social media, all we need is connection and love. Lucky for Eddy and Sibylle, their first date is going really well. The conversation is flowing and attraction is obvious. They fall in love and live happily ever after…. Hold on, hold on, this is not a Hollywood film! We don’t have a happy ending. What we have is deception, lies, disappointment and laughs. And you might recognise yourself or a friend in our heroes. This is the new normal after all.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Run Away
Country: United States
Director: Chico Bennett
Runtime: 3:44 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis:
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Melodrama
Country: Italy
Writer: GIUSEPPE DE VUONO
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Rebecca Reveal, a promising designer, lives with her husband in an old farmhouse lost in the middle of the countryside. She is a beautiful woman, visionary and devoted to the art world, he a paranoid and egocentric man. They seem the picture of the perfect family, but both are hiding a secret that will push them beyond their limits.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Melodrama
Country: Italy
Director: GIUSEPPE DE VUONO
Runtime: 33:37 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Rebecca Reveal, a promising designer, lives with her husband in an old farmhouse lost in the middle of the countryside. She is a beautiful woman, visionary and devoted to the art world, he a paranoid and egocentric man. They seem the picture of the perfect family, but both are hiding a secret that will push them beyond their limits.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Mute
Country: Mexico
Director: Andrea Borbolla
Runtime: 17:05 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Luisa, an opera singer, loses her voice after a breakup. This leads her into her deepest and darkest self. She will have to heal from the inside inorder to be reborn and find her voice back.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: ugly people
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Antonis Christ
Runtime: 11:48 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: An internal conversation between the present, the past and the future version of the same person.
An attempt to make peace with what already happened, find stability with an ongoing moment and desperation for what is to be discovered next.
Born from a place of disappointment and chaos, W, M and N aim for nothing more or less than to understand.
Let’s redefine dirt with poetry and ugly with fascinating. After all, everyone deserves a closure.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Faamoe
Country: Sweden
Director: Marika Renhuvud
Runtime: 28:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: What lays behind the strength that indigenous women possess? With help of the nature and the Sami goddess Saaraahka, this film tells a story about community, strength and power. Faamoe is the south sami word for ”Strength” and also the title of this screen dance film about the primal power that women carry.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Penélope_(B&W)
Country: Portugal
Director: Ricardo G. Santos
Runtime: 16:08 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: The woman who waits for the man who went to war. The colonial war. What man will this be? If he comes back, how will he come back?
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: A NEW DAY
Country: Spain
Director: Gema Hernandez Felipe
Runtime: 9:20 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: It's James birthday, her girlfriend videotapes the day, just another birthday... or is it? A New Day has begun!
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: As A Girl
Country: United States
Director: Linnan Liu
Runtime: 6:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: As the world of social media reigns down on Lily, she must summon her courage and inner strength through dance.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Axioms
Country: Netherlands
Director: Arjan Gebraad
Runtime: 6:23 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: What if there was a guidebook to help us out? Would things be easier? In this short video, The Windmill Collective tries to answer the questions on how we should live.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Gilipollas
Country: Spain
Director: Joan Bentallé, Pol Diggler
Runtime: 7:20 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Lolo and Dick meet again after a long time in a friendly bar and they catch up. To the surprise of both, feelings that they thought were forgotten arise again.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Cambalache
Country: Spain
Director: Jacobo Pecharromán
Runtime: 9:52 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A student who doesn't want to leave college, a graduate looking for stability and a moonlighting teacher who can't sit still contemplate their lives in this collection of reflections on change, trying to make sense of a question. Do we still remain ourselves after the change?
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Shape Of Ritual
Country: Finland
Director: Lotta Emilia Taarasti
Runtime: 13:51 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Documentary film Shape Of Ritual stops four people to think about things they repeat every day. The film explores the significance of repetition. During the film these people are trying to point out the difference between everyday routine and a mystical-sounding ritual. At the end of the day-long meditation, the interviewees find a common outcome.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: The Silent Treatment
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Steven Lancefield
Runtime: 9:14 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: The Silent Treatment is a sign of domestic abuse through emotional bullying designed to make victims feel afraid, controlled and humiliated. Our film ‘The Silent Treatment’ wants to highlight this often overlooked subtle abuse and reiterate to victims the message YOU ARE NOT ALONE AND YOU ARE NOT TO BLAME.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Hold On
Country: United States
Director: Ryan Daniel Kavanagh
Runtime: 3:42 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis:
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Life's a Ball
Country: United States
Director: Lolia Etomi, Justin V. Ricci
Runtime: 9:07 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: "Life's a Ball" is an extraordinary short film that pays homage to the vibrant history of the queer ballroom scene, a triumphant celebration of resilience and identity for black members of the LGBTQIA+ community during times of adversity. Set in a world that feels like it should be more accepting, the film unveils an emotional journey where acceptance isn't just sought, but magnificently earned in a world that yearns for more inclusion.
Our narrative is an ode to the courageous spirit within us all. Following the path of a young queer woman who, after a heart-wrenching public rejection, roams the streets weighed down by dejection. However, destiny intervenes as she discovers an enchanting sanctuary, a realm where magic and reality entwine.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: HOTDOGS
Country: Argentina
Director: Tobías Reizes
Runtime: 9:07 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: One hungover afternoon, Jan and his friends decide to tour the city in search of their favorite hot dogs. The memory of the previous night is not clear and the construction of the present is hindered. Jan doesn't want to be there, he doesn't know where he is, or where he wants to go.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Romana Gioventù! - Roman Youth!
Country: Italy
Director: Federico Cianferoni
Runtime: 10:30 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Luke is a millennial that wants to make films, but he can’t. He can’t break down his mental barriers and he can’t find a place in a society where film making is not even accepted as a job. Luke is looking for a meaning to his lack of inspiration, he’s looking for a meaning in living in Rome, such an exiting city as much as it’s trapped in its past. Luke looks for comfort in his friends and in his lovers, that are the only real distraction, analysis and consciousness. External voices that breaks the flow of ideas and bring him back to reality.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Unbearable
Country: Belgium
Director: Benjamin Van den Berghe
Runtime: 14:01 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Arthur is a young man who battles with depression. During his childhood he had to deal with domestic violence, as his stepfather would often beat his mother. When Arthur was younger he had Bernard to go to, an imaginary friend he had created to talk to about his problems. These events of violence are in the past now, and so is Bernard, but Arthur never really got over it. He also never talked about it with friends and family because he doesn't want to bother them with his problems. Because Arthur has been bottling everything up for years he fell into this depression.
By keeping his depression to himself, Arthur now suffers from flashbacks to those moments of domestic violence. Certain sounds and situation triggers these flashbacks which are making Arthurs life unbearable. He is considering ending it all.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Riduani
Country: Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
Director: Genaro Rivas
Runtime: 7:15 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Riduani, a 10-year-old girl enjoys an afternoon at el tarajal beach in the autonomous city of Ceuta in the company of her favorite toys, without imagining that she is part of a great migratory exodus.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Distalgia
Country: Romania
Director: Alexandru George FiÈ›
Runtime: 10:40 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Distalgia is a metaphorical story about a man falling into depression due to the passage of time, as he constantly dwells on what he believes was the happiest time of his life, a certain summer. He now sits in a large abandoned cage in the forest, where he watches a painter recreate scenes from his long lost summer, the only place where he can still glimpse into his past.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Figment
Country: Netherlands
Director: Lieke Anna Haertjens
Runtime: 30:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: In Figment / Hoofd Stuk, we follow artist Lieke Anna (35). Born and raised in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, the Netherlands, she has always had a very tight relationship with her mother, Jeanine.
On June 19, 2020, disaster struck when Jeanine suffered a severe cerebral hemorrhage while Lieke was sitting next to her on the couch. What followed were anxious and uncertain weeks of operations and complications. For a long time it stayed unclear whether and how Jeanine would wake up. When slowly and painfully it would become clear that the confident and independent woman she used to be has turned into a needy and dependent woman.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: New normal
Country:
Director: Yujie Zhang
Runtime: 3:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis:
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: An Open Door
Country: United States
Writer: Nela Wagman
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: An Open Door is a drama feature with many moments of humor, that ends with a thrilling chase.
Shira is an intelligent, solitary middle-aged woman, who has always put herself in the background to support the careers of men. She reluctantly agrees to take in the handsome immigrant grandson of the Polish family who saved her father and aunt during World War II. Surprisingly, these two lonely people, far apart in age, recognize in each other something beyond what they present to the world. Their involvement becomes intense, physically intimate, emotionally complex. But the young man has secrets - since his arrival in the US he has become involved in a sex trafficking ring. When assigned to escort a mother and her small child, he balks and brings them instead to Shira’s home. It falls to Shira to extricate all three from the illicit operations run by deadly criminals: Transcending her worst fears, Shira rises to the frightening, dangerous challenge and in the process finds her own self worth. She helps the young man move on, with the acknowledgement that they have changed each others lives, and the mother and child are protected. Shira takes the credit and position to which she is entitled, and finally opens her life to the possibility of meaningful connection.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: LESBIAN PSYCHO?
Country: Poland
Director: Nicola Vitale Materi
Runtime: 01:30:08 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Two new media journalists get on the tracks of a murder case in a psychiatric clinic.
The outcome stuns them.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: In My Day
Country: United Kingdom
Director: William Grave
Runtime: 14:06 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: In this black and white drama, Asif is in a loving relationship with his young white British girlfriend, Michelle. But, the local far-right skinheads in the city and her parents in the countryside aren’t accepting of him and their relationship. The true reason for their hostility is only revealed at the end: Asif is a robot.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: They're Real
Country: United States
Director: Jack Kierski
Runtime: 14:03 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: While a group of former high school friends are on vacation, they must fight for their lives from an Alien-masked maniac.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: NARÚ
Country: Spain
Director: Olivia Gajetzki, Peter Benedict Salole
Runtime: 7:13 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Nakia decides to visit and meet her deceased father for the very first time in her life, at the cemetery where he is buried.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Ropa Vieja
Country: Argentina
Director: Félix Grether
Runtime: 9:21 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: It's New Year's Eve. After his recent divorce, a father and his two children cook a known family recipe while they wait anxiously for the arrival of a mysterious guest for supper. As the night goes on, changes in the family's traditions begin to be noticed, that reveal the ongoing tension between the father and his oldest son.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: The Match
Country: United States
Writer: Crystal Rivers
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Paige makes peace with her new normal in a wheelchair as she visits her ableist aunt in New Orleans to experience her first Mardi Gras.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: The Legend
Country: United States
Director: Keith Armonaitis
Runtime: 7:06 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A young woman gets more than she bargained for when she tries to save an endangered species from a hunter's barn.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: MyView
Country: Israel
Director: Lotem Leizer
Runtime: 29:18 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Uri spends his days watching MyView, a device transplanted in people's eyes that allows them to broadcast their literal point of view. When Uri accesses a hacked MyView of a famous model, he witnesses a crime she committed and decides to blackmail her into being his pretended girlfriend.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Love I Can Love
Country: United States
Director: Adam Grindler
Runtime: 4:45 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A garage door opens and reveals a domestic scene that can almost pass as normal. The usual staples line the walls: a lawnmower; flower pots; a shovel; a barbeque pit. But at the hands of two curious characters making sense of an artistic medium both delicate and vibrant, their pedestrian surroundings undergo a transformation. Watch as seeds of Wild Balloomium and Ivy Latexia grow into an explosion of color, helium, and inflatable vines that leave their cultivators nearly eclipsed from view.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: LifeLine
Country: Netherlands
Director: Emma-Rose Thompson, Maxim van den Broeke
Runtime: 15:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Lily is trying her hardest to live up to everyone's (read: Mom's) unrealistic expectations of being a "real" grown up. However, when she is caught red-handed having an abortion in secret, Lily is forced to realise (as is Mom, obviously) that being an adult, especially a "perfect" one, isn't something you can do on your own.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Women and Roads. The Way to Yourself. Mallorca.
Country: Spain
Director: Kristina Kretova, Anna Kameneva
Runtime: 57:44 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Three women Russian and Ukranian origine in one car travel around the island with a camera in search of real stories. There are 24 heroines in their film. Women from 20 countries come to one beautiful island to live, to create and to love. Their journey gives hope that all difficulties can be overcome, and there is a place on earth where people from different cultures, nationalities, religions can find themselves. Mallorca is like the big and kind heart of the world.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Shoes
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Denise Rose
Runtime: 20:55 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Just a young boy finding his path… in the best possible shoes.
Shoes is a simple story, with global ambition. A story about Munidi, a young boy from a village somewhere in Africa. Munidi isn’t happy with his image and so he sets about transforming his life. Among other westernised ideals, Munidi looks to his screen idols of the western world for inspiration. But who can help him realise his Big Life Ambitions? Bond? … James Bond, that’s who!
Munidi’s transformation begins as seeks out the finer things and steps into a new life and a new pair of shoes. Meet the fresh and improved Munidi who is 100% ready to fulfil his dreams, when a series of everyday encounters make him realise that the things he idolises, aren’t quite what he thought they would be? This is the story of how one young boy’s real transformation comes with understanding who he is and what is important to him.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Scenes from Salé
Country: Morocco
Director: Imrane Rahani
Runtime: 14:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A group of young optimistic filmmakers stroll the marginilized city of Salé, provoking several first time interactions and deep exchanges with the people of the city. The individuals evoke their personal life and experiences, addressing themes of art, work, suffering and the current state of the country.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: How We Met
Country: United States
Director: Roe Moore
Runtime: 5:26 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Brian and Claire are setting up their wedding website. When they have to share how they met, they know the true story…isn’t the most happily ever after story.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Overwhelming Darkness
Country: United Kingdom
Writer: Steven Abel Hart
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: After accidentally killing a child murderer, a jaded crime reporter plummets over the edge into a violent journey to rid her city of the criminals that she despises. But what price must she pay as she starts to become the very thing she hates?
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: A Trip Elsewhere
Country: United States
Director: J.R. Sawyers
Runtime: 01:35:00 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: During the Covid-19 pandemic, four anxious strangers take a record-breaking dose of LSD, catapulting them into a shared psychedelic dream where they must find solace and redemption before they can return to the real world.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Car Colors - Old Death
Country: United States
Director: Kyle Garrett
Runtime: 7:17 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: The music video for the highly anticipated debut single from Car Colors (the new project from Charles Bissell, formerly of The Wrens), “Old Death."
The song and music video are about time, how one chooses to spend it, and what those choices cost. Set within the emotional framework of an old portable television with shoddy reception, Charles takes us on an odyssey of music, memory, and mortality.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: syntropia
Country: Switzerland
Director: Andrea Pellerani
Runtime: 18:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A delicate and poetic ode to art, dance, improvisation and inclusion.Syntropia is the encounter of two contemporary dance companies, ZOO/Thomas Hauert (recipient of multiple international awards) and MOPS_DanceSyndrome (made up entirely of young adults with Down Syndrome and the only one of its kind in Europe).
An encounter between artists where the experiences of dance and performance express themselves and dialogue in a path of sharing and research.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: One Person, One Vote?
Country: United States
Director: Maximina Juson
Runtime: 01:18:00 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: One Person, One Vote? is an award-winning documentary that takes an in-depth look at the US Electoral College, its slavery origins, and impact on American politics today.
The film features four dynamic electors - a Republican, a Democrat, a Green Party and Kanye West elector, who offer insight into the inner workings of this often-misunderstood institution.
At a time when the Electoral College is making headlines in America’s political discourse, One Person, One Vote? is a nonpartisan and timely film that will inform the raging debate.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Whatever It Takes
Country: United States
Director: Damien Bianco
Runtime: 30:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: During the great resignation, Emily and Chris try to pursue their dreams, whatever it takes.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Birds & Worms
Country: United States
Director: Jacob C Rowe
Runtime: 01:08:12 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Mitch, a deeply unsatisfied porcelain bird telemarketer, must compete for his career against five coworkers while contemplating his position within the company.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: THE NIGHT THE WORLD ENDS
Country: United States
Director: Michael Szymczyk
Runtime: 01:33:52 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Four couples stranded at a remote lakeside cabin on the eve of a reported alien invasion discover not everything is as it seems.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Aloha Spirit Rising (Cosmic Consciousness)
Country: United States
Director: Christian Filippella
Runtime: 01:20:00 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A spiritual journey through the lives of a free-spirited community living off-the-grid in the secluded Hawaiian jungle to achieve human liberation via the elevation of collective consciousness.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Never Alone
Country: United Kingdom
Director: John Farrelly, Christian Gerring
Runtime: 12:40 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Consumed by the grief of his wife's death, James rejects friend's attempts at company, only to find that when his friends leave, he isn't truly alone.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: El Ratoncito Pérez Y La Magia Del Capitalismo
Country: Spain
Director: R.Ruvens
Runtime: 5:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Before the upcoming visit of Tooth Fairy, Sandra's childhood dreams are in danger. After pulling out a tooth in the bathroom of her house, her mother Ana, who lives a monotonous life, dedicated to folding socks and watching reality shows, over and over again, gives her a spanking. Ana, angry and tired of childishness, wants to make her grow up and reveal the true face of Tooth Fairy to her daughter. But Sandra knows that there is no better defense than a good offense... And, indeed, since words hurt more than blows, Sandra is not going to allow her mother's boring life to overshadow her...
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Los Amantes de Papel
Country: Spain
Director: MIGUEL SOLÍS GONZÁLEZ
Runtime: 10:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Nuria, a young college girl, sits on a bench to take a break from classes and take a coffee. Then, she sees a note, hidden between the wooden boards. When she grabs the note and reads, she finds out that it is a lovely conversation between two people. From that moment on, Nuria starts coming to the bench everyday, and slowly, she starts feeling more and more affection for the two strangers. The notes fill her with joy; she sees how they care and unterstand each other, she imagines how do they look like...
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Rompen Las Olas
Country: Spain
Director: MIGUEL SOLÍS GONZÁLEZ
Runtime: 6:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Flor, a middle-aged nurse whose main goal in life has always been to help people around her, is suffering the daily misfortunes that eventually are consumning her. She starts to wonder if her job is worth it, and her motivation will be in check.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: La Fada Bondadosa
Country: Spain
Director: MARC ROVIRA GAMBIN
Runtime: 8:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Una chica cuenta una misteriosa historia que le ocurrió y que le cambió la vida.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Oro
Country: Spain
Director: Lydia Lucena Lucas
Runtime: 1:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A young university student, Alicia, establishes a friendship with one of her classmates, Ángel. This one, having depression, causes her to start worrying more and more about his mental state, completely forgetting about her own health. Then, she will begin to feel something more for him, but what she feels cannot be reciprocated.
After several months, that trust disappears, leaving the relationship in uncertainty. This affects Alicia greatly and therefore she will suffer many anxiety attacks and her mental health will be consumed by that relationship..
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Et Trencaré La Sang
Country: Spain
Director: David Conill
Runtime: 8:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: 1696. After performing an exorcism, the priest begins to find himself in situations that will make him doubt at all levels. In a lonely environment he will have to face a force stronger than religion.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Jump!
Country: Spain
Director: Ramon Catà Figuls
Runtime: 12:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Sabrina is an official who works in the Jump! program, financed by the Ministry of Health. This program is designed to help anyone commit suicide, regardless of whether they have a pathology or not. Pablo goes to Jump! as a patient, but his doubts grow as the moment to jump into the void approaches, and he puts Sabrina in a difficult situation.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Humormàtic
Country: Spain
Director: PAU ESCRIBANO
Runtime: 19:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A comedy screenwriter for a TV show has to work with a new partner, Humormatic, a machine that writes jokes. The screenwriter will try to make her colleagues, her bosses, the TV host and the audience value her work, but Humormatic won't make things easy.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Ahora
Country: Spain
Director: JAVIER ALVAREZ SOLÍS
Runtime: 4:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Despite medical advances, multiple sclerosis continues to challenge the lives of more than two million people worldwide.
A neurologist, a composer and an association of affected people have embarked on the project NOW WITH MS with a clear message: a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis is not the end.
On the contrary, it is a challenge to transform fear and weakness into strengths, so that goals and dreams can be fulfilled.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Catboy
Country: Spain
Director: CRISTIAN SITJAS MARTINEZ
Runtime: 13:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Marc, after receiving several racist and feather-phobic comments from a gay dating app, receives a message from his transexual friend Cacao inviting him to a Ballroom. Marc decides to go, there he is surprised by the freedom and diversity of the environment. Upon reaching the local bar, she exchanges glances with Leo, an attractive boy. After seeing her friend walk, the two have an intimate conversation where Cacao encourages Marc to walk that night. Once the Catboy Sex Siren category arrives, Leo goes for a walk while Marc watches the situation with a mixture of desire and doubt.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Fotonovela
Country: Spain
Director: Alberto Garcia
Runtime: 4:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: An old photograph triggers a search for identity.
"FOTONOVELA" is a documentary about memory and its representation.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: La Grande Signora
Country: Italy
Director: VALENTINA FAENZA / MANUEL ROSSI
Runtime: 1:02:00 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Can you fall in love with a historic villa, already inhabited and visited by Napoleon, lusted after by kings and queens, up to modern princes, and start a romantic relationship with it that lasted forty years? 'The Great Lady' proves that it can be done. Which happened to us too. And it tells it through an intimate and autobiographical story told by those who lived, restored, studied, loved, inhabited and sweated it for forty years. A docufilm about the dream of some "courageous captains" who, at the beginning of the 1980s, brought this wonderful historic residence back to life: Palazzo Albergati, in the Bolognese countryside. They have taken care of it, transforming it into a place to entertain guests with events of cultural, historical and social interest. The description of the love story that linked a family to this place and the difficult moment of separation even if the love is not over. (Gabriele Mignardi)
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: tandem
Country: Mexico
Director: Ignacio Strozzi
Runtime: 12:59 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: tandem is a drama about Toño and Marce, a young couple who get into a heated discussion after Marce expresses possible plans to continue her studies abroad. While Toño tries to understand why she wants to leave, Marce wants him to comprehend that it's just a possibility, and not a plan set in stone. Each character’s perspective of the future makes their communication complicated, compromising their future relationship.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Unnamed
Country: United States
Director: Jessica Boss
Runtime: 01:52:27 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A poor, Nigerian hairstylist is offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work on a movie set in America, only to be tricked and lured into the dark world of sex trafficking.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: The Battle of Assaroe
Country: Ireland
Director: Emer O Shea, Michael j McMonagle, Manus Brennan
Runtime: 21:03 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: I was inspired to produce this short documentary (21mins) following a chance encounter at a local lake in the northwest coast of Ireland during the early days of the Covid pandemic.The film explores the history of the lake , its performance as a habitat for the natural world and examines the impact of the hydro electric power station on the landscape of my adopted home town Ballyshannon and on the river Erne .The inclusion of archive and contemporary footage and images bring the viewer down memory lane and poses the question "Where to from here".It has been described as a fabulous blending of art and fact with history , geography , natural history and environmental threats blended into a cohesive whole
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: The Architects of Hope: The First Steps in Rebuilding Ukraine.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Paul Thomas
Runtime: 01:15:00 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Now selected for its first 8 festivals! As Russia continues to destroy Ukrainian cities, Ukraine’s leading architects are already building upwards & advanced new buildings are rising again as symbols of hope. This film follows 5 leading Ukrainian architects as they independently spearhead a range of crucial war-related projects.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Planet X - Demigods and Man
Country: Italy
Writer: Guido Maria GIORDANO
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Year 2077. Seven demigods from Planet X descend to Earth to steal the souls of Earthlings and destroy the planet. Will they succeed in their aim at the end of the complex mission?
(Adaptation of the novel "Demigods and Man"
By Enock Mose)
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Crocodylus: Mating Season
Country: United States
Director: Stanley Pomianowski
Runtime: 01:25:43 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Skeptical private investigator Harry Bates is hired by an alluring woman to find her missing brother whom she believes was involved with recent incidents linked to the local legend of the crocodylus monster- a human-alligator hybrid in this campy romp.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Homeless Not Hopeless In America Ft. "Brook"
Country: United States
Director: Gregory Wayne Walton II
Runtime: 01:17:08 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: First-Time Filmmaker Walton’s Debut Film: Homeless Not Hopeless in America is a multi-award winning progressive sociological documentary which provides an up-close and vivid expression of the unreal realities, and street trenches of the impoverished environments many disenfranchised homeless Americans attempt to survive daily. Additionally, the film strongly illuminates how drug abuse is truly a mental disease that should be treated holistically, with modern medical and social services. Therefore, this emotional educational film depicts alarming statistics and substantiative research which prove that individuals should not be criminalized or incarcerated for suffering from a mental disorder (drug abuse) in which they greatly need rehabilitative assistance to overcome....
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Motivational Minute: Encouraging Words for Christians in Transition
Country: United States
Director: Tawana Gardner
Runtime: 01:25:45 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: This is an immersive experience. We all go through things and sometimes we just need a little encouragement to get through tough times. Sometimes we need an encouraging word to remind us of our faith. This work is filled with short testimonies based on my personal journey in times of change and transition.
This is a journey waiting for you. Whether you prefer to peruse the words, listen to the narrative, or witness the captivating visuals, prepare to be captivated. I earnestly hope that this encounter unfolds like an unforgettable experience.
My desire is for you, the reader, is to physically immerse yourself in this work, to be enveloped in an atmosphere of reverence that sets the stage for profound reflection and spiritual connection. My prayer is not just for your you to be blessed, but for you to be transformed....
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Finding Venus
Country: New Zealand
Director: Mandi Lynn
Runtime: 16:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis:
"Auntie Mandi..?"
"Yes Harper?"
"Am I fat?"
Her niece was 5 at the time, and this exchange touched a raw nerve in Master Photographer Mandi Lynn. Why was a 5-year-old worrying about a thigh gap? Concerned that the next generation was going to face the same energy-draining body shame that had impacted her life, Mandi decided to create a “Golden Breasted Shield Wall of Reality" for them.
In December 2016, Mandi put an advertisement on social media asking women to let her cover their torsos in golden clay and photograph them. Six women turned up for the first photo shoot. The numbers quickly rose to 100, and a year and a half later, the “Golden Breasted Shield Wall” was 320 strong. Mandi dubbed the women who were willing to shed their clothing for the movement The Luscious Order of Golden Shield Maidens. Her goal is to reach 600 images which will create a counterpoint to the 400-600 photoshopped images we see daily..
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Dragon of the East Earth
Country:
Director: Han Zhu
Runtime: 3:41 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Dragon of the East Earth" is a three-minute tribal fusion dance film that intertwines the traditional and the modern, the physical and the digital, the real and the mythical. Hanna Z, a dancer and AI startup founder, breathes life into the dragon, a symbol of power and majesty, through her innovative choreography.
This unique film pushes the boundaries of dance, integrating the ancient art of Chinese calligraphy with cutting-edge AI technology. Hanna's body forms the character for 'Dragon', while AI-generated visuals bring this mythical creature into the 21st century, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Party Queens
Country: Sweden
Director: Björn Rallare, Niklas Mertel Ekelund, Peder Carlsson
Runtime: 01:14:00 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: The guitarist in the hard rock band BULLET, Hampus Klang, lives in the Swedish countryside and when he gets off the band's somewhat legendary tour bus, he has completely different interests. He raises chickens, and competes with them at shows where the hope lives for really high scores. Maybe he should start shampooing the chickens before the next competition? His ambitions extend so far that he creates his own breed, Party Queens, who are of course some kind of hard rock chicken. Party Queens is a warm documentary about living your dream, about a man who stylishly finds his happiness in two completely different worlds... which maybe aren't so far apart after all?
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Bienvenida
Country: Spain
Director: Aitor Balda
Runtime: 30:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Una serie de extraños sucesos harán que Lucía reconsidere sus creencias sobre la existencia de espíritus y fuerzas del más allá. Conocerá el terrible secreto de Diego, su nuevo compañero de piso, y descubrirá que hay casas que no quieren ser habitadas.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Luchando En Minoria
Country: Spain
Director: Jaume Duran
Runtime: 30:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Luchando en minoría es una mirada a la enfermedad de Lafora, una enfermedad rara neurodegenerativa, a través de los testimonios de investigadores, pacientes y familiares: un documental sobre la importancia de la investigación biomédica para encontrar tratamientos para enfermedades raras.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: L'últim jazz
Country: Spain
Director: Berta Subirats / Helena Oller
Runtime: 11:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis:
Manel no le teme a la muerte. Se ha estado preparando para cuando llegue. Sin embargo, el último momento le asusta. No sabe cómo será... ¿Te quedas sin aliento? ¿Es un dolor en el pecho? Oriol siempre ha sido el hermano que Manel no tiene. Han crecido juntos hasta la edad adulta.
Durante una tarde de primavera, mantienen una divertida conversación sincera, donde pueden sincerarse el uno con el otro, desde un lugar que sólo una muerte inminente puede propiciar.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Solitary
Country: Romania
Director: Tudor Munteanu
Runtime: 22:10 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Years after release from solitary confinement, a man still runs from his past as part of a 400-mile, self-sufficient, arctic marathon. Hungry, exhausted and cold, he is ready to abandon the race when hallucinations in the ice take him back to a moment in his cell when he contemplated suicide. Past and present fight to reconcile a poetic inner struggle that is the essence of the human condition.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Hole Punched Ear
Country: United States
Director: Alan Yammin, Ben Tull
Runtime: 8:31 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: In a dystopian Chicago, a poet, bound by a strange countdown clock, struggles to finish a poem as her sister tries to free her.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Upon Waking
Country: United States
Director: Max Rissman
Runtime: 01:47:00 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: When two young lesbians struggling with personal demons get carbon monoxide poisoning during a first date and fall into a coma, their disembodied spirits must learn how to love one another and themselves to have a chance at waking up.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: eulogy to the deaf
Country: India
Director: Vedant Chouksey
Runtime: 13:08 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: An autorickshaw driver wanders the city of Gurgaon a week after the demise of his only son. He needs to talk. He needs to vent. He needs to mourn. But the city is barren and unforgiving. How will he grieve?
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: A Letter From The Fathers | Chapter II
Country: Canada
Director: Tristan Jason Barrocks
Runtime: 29:36 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: What does a novelist, actor, photographer, and entrepreneur have in common? Fatherhood. The peaks, the valleys, and all the moments in between. Being a father is an extraordinary privilege that transforms your perspective on the world. "A Letter from the Fathers" is a touching, captivating, and emotive movie that presents the audience with the fatherhood journeys of four men. Gear up to experience laughter, tears, and reflection as these dads share insights from their parenting adventures. It's a profound, insightful exploration of how fatherhood doesn't just mold the children but also profoundly influences the men themselves.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: ORDER MY STEPS Short Film
Country: United States
Director: Augusta Palmer
Runtime: 18:12 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: After almost 20 years of separation, Peg, an incarcerated woman, meets with her daughter, Dorian through a family reconciliation program. As they try to connect, memory intrudes, reminding them of the addiction, neglect and betrayal that kept them apart all of these years. Will this meeting begin to mend this ruptured family?
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Everything's Kosher
Country: United States
Director: Adam Fried
Runtime: 01:30:00 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Adam, a divorced, Jewish father, from Chicago, embarks on a journey to fulfill a promise to his only daughter never to abandon her. Living in a small, German town steeped in the shadows of antisemitism and Nazi history, Adam attempts to open a Jewish deli, to establish a link to his upbringing and try to find comfort and connection in his town.
As Adam struggles with his new life, a painful rift with his estranged father, a man who abandoned Adam and his family decades ago, grinds at his soul. Driven to break the abandonment issues and heal the wounds of his past, Adam embarks on a mission to reconcile with his family.
His quest takes him around the globe from Germany to the doorstep of his father in the US, a man he has not been close to for forty years. In this life-changing journey, Adam grapples with the ghosts of his past, searching for the strength to forgive and move forward, in order to be the best father he can be, to his little girl.
Against the odds, the deli takes shape as Adam discovers the resilience of the human spirit and the power of forgiveness to heal even the deepest wounds. Peace, Love, & Pastrami.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Boogeyman
Country: Spain
Director: GONZALEZ SAMUEL
Runtime: 9:51 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A young black man walking back home stepping on the line of what is normal and what is suspicious. A special individual being misunderstood. A scared neighbor, a 911 call and its consequences.
IF YOU SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING.
Who is the victim and who is the hangman?
Who is to be feared and who is really the boogeyman?
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Nine Years
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Haley Muraleedharan, Gabriel Fernández-Gil
Runtime: 37:33 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Spanning annual snapshots from 1972-1980, discontent school leaver Joodi embarks on a quest for musical stardom. Amidst her rise to fame she confronts formidable economic, political, and social barriers as the nine-year construction of the Humber Bridge casts shadow on her world. Inspired by true events. Music by Paul Heaton (The Beautiful South).
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Saving Walden's World
Country: United States
Director: James Merkel, Deborah Shaffer
Runtime: 01:28:54 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: When a young arms dealer discovers his work is harming families in less affluent societies, he has an ethical crisis and begins a decades-long journey to redeem himself and make the world a better place. SAVING WALDEN’S WORLD is a revealing new film following Jim Merkel as he raises Walden, a budding scientist, in an off-the-grid homestead and wonders: could the very people his past-life’s work targeted, hold the keys to a sustainable planet?
A journey into “enemy” territory ensues, meeting powerful women who reshape society to work for all. Far from affluent utopias, Kerala, Cuba and Slovenia offer women free college, access to contraception, maternity leave, childcare, dentistry and healthcare. Services unimaginable in much of Jim’s blue-collar America.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Volunteer Teachers
Country: United States
Director: Catherine Murphy
Runtime: 17:36 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: In April of 1960, 1,500 young volunteers headed into the rural mountains their island nation of Cuba, the first teachers in a pilot program that lay groundwork for the massive National Literacy Campaign that would take place the following year.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Waiting in the Wings
Country: United States
Director: Sam Brown
Runtime: 15:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Always cast as the understudy and never the lead, Spencer James must decide if her love for theater is strong enough to sustain her in a full career.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Face Me
Country: Spain
Director: Cándida Massielle Asencio
Runtime: 2:31 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Experimental shortfilm about
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Dead in Love
Country: United States
Director: Nicole de Meneses
Runtime: 01:45:00 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Sofia, a shy struggling writer, dies suddenly from a brain aneurysm one night while on the phone with her devout mother. Relatively inexperienced in terms of love in her short life, Sofia begrudgingly agrees to cooperate with her overbearing mother and deceased father, who want to help her find a partner or partners to love in her afterlife. Sofia’s mother finds various candidates for her corporeally-challenged daughter by renting out Sofia's former home. After a few duds move in and out, Sofia finds herself drawn to Maria and Marcos’ lust for life and one another. Learning she can communicate with Maria, who is also bisexual, Sofia explores her new state of being and sexual identity with Maria and Marcos.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Ebony
Country: Germany
Director: Filippo Parisi
Runtime: 25:45 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Young Mark has fled from Africa to Sicily to live with his father. The prospects of a better life than the one in the old homeland quickly shatter. Finally, Mark's father gets involved with the mafia in Palermo. When the father cooperates with the local police, he is shot in cold blood.
Mark, henceforth left to his own devices, travels to Germany to live with his uncle Addae.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Nothin 4 Something
Country: United States
Director: Cody Critcheloe
Runtime: 3:12 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Over his day job and humdrum life, a mechanic fantasizes about being a rock star. Following “Danger”, which was released earlier this year, Roberts takes us back into the realm of moody mid-tempo 80’s throwback energy with his new single “Nothin 4 Something”
Described as a breakup jam, “Nothin 4 Something” drops today and is accompanied by an equally moody black and white video directed by Cody Critcheloe, who has worked with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and directed videos for Kylie Minogue, Robyn, Peaches, Santigold, and others.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: ben-gi
Country: Turkey
Director: Selen Terzi Öztekin
Runtime: 19:59 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A woman wakes up alone on a deserted beach and finds herself searching for ways to survive in an estranged town. Following the breadcrumbs of a dystopian world, she begins to confront her fate.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: LEGENDARY
Country: Netherlands
Director: Janusz Madej
Runtime: 19:31 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Lonely young man develops a fascination with the couple, which lives across the street. Watching them through binoculars, he notices that the woman is being abused by her husband. However he himself is under surveillance from another player, who he encountered during a First Person Shooter phone game.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Derniere Plage / The Last Beach
Country: Italy
Director: Alessandro Onorato
Runtime: 19:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Ginevra, a young woman, goes to a sparsely habited island in search of her ex-partner André: a journey into the intimate and somewhat decadent essence aesthetic of island life and of a relationship at the end of the line.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Conficted
Country: India
Director: Ginita Sunaina
Runtime: 23:02 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A young couple facing some problems as the man called Surat somehow seems to be always restless and can't find peace, the girl called Soni is trying to help him out and finds finally a solution at least thats what it seems like. Will it help Surat? Or will it end up in a crime scene, wait, what? whom will be convicted? Or are we all somehow convicted? Convicted to survive.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Love Don't Bully
Country:
Director: Ilysa Spencer
Runtime: 7:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis:
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Ancora un passo
Country: Italy
Director: Bellavia Alberto
Runtime: 6:30 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A spiritual journey through the beauty and majesty of the mountains.
The mountains are calling, and I must go. human being can listen in silence to what the mountain can say.
we can lose ourselves in the absolute silence and deep respect for the mountain.
"Don't think no end of yourself, little being, because before you existed I was already there and when you no longer exist I'll still be there"
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: SKIN SHOW / LIVE
Country: United States
Director: Richard Daniels
Runtime: 13:07 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Artist Dan Romer paints a live model before an audience at an event during the run of his exhibition Skin Show at Soho Project Space, New York City.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Becoming
Country: United States
Director: Anabella Lenzu
Runtime: 5:34 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: “Becoming” captures a moment on the edge of awakening, the fleeting time before motivation and before criticism. A childhood dream-dance, lived fully in the moment, and destined to be forgotten.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Bernice
Country: Australia
Director: Madeleine Wighton, Tony Gardiner
Runtime: 12:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: A tenacious vigilante in a pink balaclava stops at nothing to burglarise homes and sprinkle goofy magical love wherever she tiptoes. Until she’s beaten at her own game…
Embracing her grief and stepping forward in silliness and kindness, the only thing Burglar Bernice is stealing is people's hearts. But is hers about to be stolen too?
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Ánima que anima
Country: Spain
Director: Juan Burgaleta
Runtime: 5:36 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Bucea lentamente en tu interior, viviendo intensamente incluso la fricción con los corales en este hermoso y poderoso, mágico y transformador viaje de vida
Renaciendo a cada instante...
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Rattle My Cage
Country: United States
Director: Patrick Thornton
Runtime: 4:49 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Space alien infiltrates Austin TX during the Hot Rod Roundup on the hunt for mortal men to zap into her spaceship.
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Tricked and Treated
Country: United States
Director: Victoria Monai Richards
Runtime: 01:39:00 h
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Tricked and Treated is a heartwarming, race against time comedy, that follows three inseparable college friends; Noble, Sunshine, and Nigeria; on an outlandish journey to find Noble's ailing PawPaw.
After Noble receives disturbing news of her PawPaw's deteriorating health, she and her two best friends leave school to spend what could be their last Christmas with him. Shortly after their arrival, PawPaw mysteriously disappears. With the help of her street reformed Auntie and a host of other mysterious, nefarious, and eccentric characters, Noble and her two best friends embark upon a wild, hilarious, and unpredictable search and rescue mission to find her PawPaw. With the clock ticking on his failing health and Christmas around the corner, will Noble and her friends find PawPaw in time or will they be taken too?
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: THE JOURNEY FOR COMING OUT
Country: Japan
Director: Katsuhide Yamago
Runtime: 53:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: In the summer of 2022, stage director Daisuke Fukumasa will embark on a journey to come out to friends, work and family.From Nakano to Kawasaki and Hiroshima.People in their 20s and 30s have been dependent on drugs, alcohol, and sex, so what did I get when I was in my 40s?
It refers to one's own sexual nature, HIV, and addiction.Where does the journey to reveal everything go?This documentary film is a must for those who cannot express their true feelings and are now struggling to get out of society and want to see it.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: ALL I NEED
Country: Armenia
Director: Katia Spivakova Saakiants
Runtime: 11:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Armenia, 2023 (Artsakh). A woman returns to her childhood home amid an evacuation. As she tries to save the last pieces of her past, she recalls her ancestor's story of survival during the Armenian Genocide a 100 years ago.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Zombie
Country: United States
Director: Dr. Lisa Spencer
Runtime: 5:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis:
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Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Manic Pixie Dreamer
Country: United States
Director: Duncan Star-Boszko
Runtime: 24:45 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Still haunted by the ghosts of their toxic past relationships, Two problematic partygoers attempt to force a connection over the course of one night.
Featuring Netflix's "Obliterated" star, Kimi Rutledge, and TikTok sensation, Amelia Samson.
Manic Pixie Dreamer explores the complexity of human relationships, questioning whether it's possible to force a connection in the face of deep-seated pain, whether it's the right decision to even try. How much of what we show another person is the remnants of who we were in our last relationship? Are we responding to how we expect to be treated? Do we push away relationships that could have been good for us?
As the night unfolds, the two characters confront uncomfortable truths about themselves, their perception of their past, and each other.
Manic Pixie Dreamer is a gripping exploration of the fragile nature of human connection and the lengths people will go to escape the ghosts that threaten to consume them.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Love And Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (LHIFF)
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
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Official Selection
Title: Morning Star
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Zara Balfour
Runtime: 25:00 min
Nominated: Pending...(Aug 2024)
Awards Night: September 21, 2024 - Gala 19:00h (LHIFF Awards)
Synopsis: Morning Star takes you on a riveting ride through history. Set against the backdrop of 1940s Malta, this true story weaves together the magnetic tale of Christina, a British entertainer, and the fearless RAF pilot, Warby, whose love story unfolds amidst the impending darkness of World War II. Starring Larissa Bonaci and Ben Lamb (The Gilded Age) and featuring rarely glimpsed historical archive footage, elegant design and an original musical score, "Morning Star" promises an unforgettable blend of romance and wartime suspense.