2024 New Orleans Film Festival

Narrative Shorts: Penumbra

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Heaven is Nobody's
In this contemporary dark fable, a boy journeys through a nightmarish city to find a cure for his mom as a dancing curse descends on him and his home.
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Some Kind of Heavenly Fire
In the summer of 2003, on the eastside of Detroit, a Grandfather tries to hide his daughter’s incarceration from his young grandson in the midst of a city wide blackout and alien invasion.
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_PREVIEW_
A theatre critic interviews the first AI to have an original play open on Broadway.
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Recurrence
An old man can't find his cows. Realizing there's no place for him in his house, he leaves, and the cows come back.
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When Cigarettes Taste Like Blood
At a boarding school for young adult male orphans, the affectionate bond between two friends turns brutal when their peers accuse them of homosexuality.
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Aunque es de noche
La Cañada Real, Europe's largest slum on the outskirts of Madrid, has been without electricity for over a year. In the firelight, Toni, a 13 year-old boy, discovers that his best friend is leaving forever. Amongst Roma legends of a possible future, Toni looks for a way to stay connected to him.
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Betwixt and between; questions and shadows … a sense of the strange permeates this collection. These films in turn touch on elements of the supernatural, the mythic, and the apocalyptic in their evocation of new, melancholic genre spaces where histories are drawn and tested, and futures are never guaranteed.

La Cañada Real, Europe's largest slum on the outskirts of Madrid, has been without electricity for over a year. In the firelight, Toni, a 13 year-old boy, discovers that his best friend is leaving forever. Amongst Roma legends of a possible future, Toni looks for a way to stay connected to him.

  • Year
    2023
  • Runtime
    16 minutes
  • Language
    Spanish
  • Country
    Spain, France
  • Director
    Guillermo García López
  • Screenwriter
    Guillermo García López, Inbar Horsh
  • Producer
    Marina García López, David Casas Riesco, Justin Pechberty, Damien Megherbi, Pablo de la chica
  • Cinematographer
    Alana Mejia Gonzalez
  • Editor
    Victoria Lammers
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