SPI International (Firm)
1) Half Shaved
Publisher
SPI International
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Romanian
Description
At the beginning of 1991, after the Romanian Revolution, an old barber meets by chance his former torturer who came in for a shave. Quickly, the parts are inverted though the client refuses to acknowledge that he has been recognized. As the barber holds the razor against the client's neck, he gets scarier and scarier wishing for revenge and payback. Will the victim spare his former torturer?
Publisher
SPI International
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A universal parable about differences, told in three colours. A story about the natural and the excluded, the normal and the uncommon; a duel between learned binary oppositions. The film reflects on an important issue: If our nature isn't a threat to anyone, then who or what prevents us from living our life - possibly the only one we have - to the fullest?
3) The Princess
Publisher
SPI International
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A woman's reality seen through out a day in her life. She makes herself ready for a party at midnight while wondering if there is any meaning to her mundane activities. Winner of Best Brazilian Short Film at the **Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival**.
Publisher
SPI International
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Are we truly free? Are our desires truly our own or merely imposed products of the society we live in? Are we slaves to the culture and society we were born in or is there a way to escape after all? Winner of a FIPRESCI Prize at the **Annecy International Animated Film Festival**.
5) Father
Publisher
SPI International
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When did you last talk with your father? Will you ever ask him about those things that hurt you? Nominated for an award at the **Annecy International Animated Film Festival**.
Publisher
SPI International
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After reading an newspaper advertisement in the London Times about touring Canada, an elderly Englishman decides to do just that. Following his long walk across the Atlantic Ocean, Keaton travels along the Canadian National Railway tracks on a railway motorcar (speeder), performing a few stunts reminiscent of those in his younger days.
8) Jungle
Publisher
SPI International
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
The lines between trust, betrayal and forgiveness become gray and intertwined as we follow Amadou and Yaya, two Senegalese vendors working in New York. Nominated for the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
9) Human
Publisher
SPI International
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Romanian
Description
He is a silent man. He walks the streets, watching, looking for the right place. He finds it. In the middle of a market. He sets up a stand. But instead of selling his goods, the silent man gives them away for free. The other sellers watch. They feel provoked. The situation escalates. They lose control. But in the end... there is hope. Nominated for Best Short at the **Orlando Film Festival** and the **Palm Springs International ShortFest**.
Publisher
SPI International
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Seven guests, a newly hired personal secretary and two staff are gathered for a weekend on an isolated island by the hosts the Owens who are delayed. At dinner a record is played and the host's message alleges that all the people present are guilty of murder and suddenly the first of them is dead, then the next - It seems that one of them is the murderer but the leading person is always the person who is murdered next and at last only two people are...
11) Iron Island
Publisher
SPI International
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Persian
Description
Some poor people in the Southern coasts of Iran do not have any place to live, and thus, they reside on an old, abandoned ship in the sea. Captain Nemat, their chief, tries to persuade the ship-owner and the official authorities not to get the ship back. On the other hand, he is selling the iron parts of the ship piece by piece. IRON ISLAND is the story of those whose ignorance makes them simply trust those who are always ready to abuse their trust....
12) Gregoire
Publisher
SPI International
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Shot in his hometown of Fort McMurray before it was ravaged by wildfires, Cody Bown's drama draws on real-life events to capture snapshots of a community teetering on a precipice and a collection of twenty somethings whose seemingly directionless lives have intersected.
Publisher
SPI International
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Hungarian
Description
On August 16, 1958 two Hungarian immigrants break into the Hungarian embassy in Bern and take the ambassador hostage. As the Swiss police surrounds the building and a group of Hungarian immigrants shows up on the street to demonstrate, a tense, twist-filled hostage drama plays out behind the closed doors of the embassy. Based on a true story. Winner of the Federico Fellini Award at the **Tiburon International Film Festival**. Nominated for the Grand...
14) Listen
Publisher
SPI International
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Copenhagen. A police station. A foreign woman, wearing a burqa, is there with her young son to file a complaint. Yet, it seems the translator is not willing to report what she is telling.
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