Traces of Grief

Shell-shocked Barbara must face up to the loss of a dear companion after a tragic accident. Her best friend Klara and husband Torsten devise a plan to thaw Barbara's heart, after she reminisces about the incident, the funeral, and happier times. Will she agree to the suggestions of her nearest and dearest? Can grief turn into hope?

Born In Summer

A filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and desperately wanting to talk to someone his own age (preferably a girl), he walks into a local phone dating club. Can he hook up with someone? Borrowing the form of a diary-movie, the director unfurls an unpredictable and imaginative look into his own persona. 8mm experimental film by Murakami Kenji, the film that made his name.

The Surface

Evan, an orphaned 22-year-old who grew up in the foster care system, buys a vintage 8mm camera in a yard sale from an elderly man, ends up with reels of the man's old home movies, and begins to live vicariously through these home movies.

A Secret Evening

Ito, Yoshida, Kanbara, and Harumi are high school classmates. Ito secretly has feelings for his best friend, Yoshida. Yoshida doesn't seem confused by Ito's feelings, but simply accepts them naturally. However, one night.

Tricycle Thief

After discovering his eviction notice, a tricycle driver goes on a desperate hunt for money.

8mm of Distance

Since his father's death, Bruno divides his time between his duties as a student and his love of cinema. When he finds an old super8 camera belonging to his father, he changes his perception of the world in which he lives.

Wabishabi

Director Noboru Iguchi's first 8mm film, which he shot as a high school student.

Lost Way

Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.

How Brief

How Brief is a disappearing act set over the course of one night in 1961 when a restless woman returns to her childhood home for the last time, loosely inspired by the music and disappearance of singer-songwriter Connie Converse.

Cream Magec

Echoes

Javier discovers an old camera in his home's garage along with some undeveloped 8mm film reels that hide a hidden past his mother does not want to remember.

Velvet &

Three days with Aèle.

A Night To Remember

An awkward boy and a shy girl meet on a bench, what awaits is a night they will remember forever.

Das Coisas que nos Pertencem e Deixamos para Trás

Intimacy

SUMMER. HEAT. SWEAT. CHILDREN'S LAUGHTER. ALL BECOMES DARKNESS.

Ich fühle, daß ich falle

Directorial debut by Klaus Hofmann and Bernd Siebert, shot on 8mm.

They Don't Come in Peace

As two brothers watch a news cast about extra terrestrial beings, the older brother uses the opportunity to make an analogy about their world being invaded by unwelcome visitors.

Phantom Valley

In the desolate countryside, haunted by recurrent dreams, a young drifter finds himself at the borderlands between the living and the dead.

BARK.

As a young woman walks home alone one night, a chance encounter with a missing dog incites the reclamation of her body and self — as she learns to bite as tough as her bark.

BALL LIGHTNING

A pair of scavengers discover something strange after wandering onto the property of a mysterious technician.