Feature
Androids Dream
In a calm and oblique Benidorm wasteland, the year is 2052 and androids live and dream hidden amongst a dwindling human population.
Feature
Battles
The echoes of war reverberate in peacetime. Battles lingers in the shadows of combat within present life and memory.
Feature
CLOSING FILM: Güeros
In an exuberantly contemporary take on the French New Wave, two students and a younger brother embark on a journey to find a dying mythical folk rocker.
Feature
Limbo
On the outskirts of a small Southern Danish port town, teenager Sara connects with schoolteacher Karen in a way that transforms them both.
Feature
Mandarinebi (Tangerines)
While civil war rages beyond the
thriving tangerine orchards, elderly
farmer Ivo defends his harvest and
his own enclave of peace.
Feature
Mercuriales
A fairy tale in the jungle and a brilliant amalgam of narrative, verité, fiction and science-fiction,
Mercuriales follows two women as they wander through the deserted housing projects and industrial wilderness of Paris.
Feature
No Man’s Land
As a young man, Paulo was an elite Portuguese commando who became a hired killer.
Feature
Opening Film: Sorrow and Joy
Sorrow and Joy presents filmmaker Johannes and his wife Marianne in a series of flashbacks that lay out the intricacies of events leading up to and following the death of their infant daughter and the eventual institutionalisation of Marianne.
Feature
The Raft of Medusa
As the water level rises by an isolated lakeside farm, so do suspicion and desperation of the
trio who find themselves stranded there.
Feature
Vampir – Cuadecuc
Vampir – Cuadecuc is a work of pure alchemy. Pere Portabella creates a ravishing masterpiece shot on the set of Jesús Franco and Christopher Lee’s Count Dracula.
Short Films
Young Filmmakers Showcase
Celebrating our region’s young filmmakers, BFMAF presents shorts in competition for a cash prize and two prestigious awards: The Young Filmmakers Award and The Chris Anderson Award.