Romantic Tales

Erotic awakenings and high-speed dates, multiple realities and an end to depression, a reawakened heart and a last, fleeting chance at love in programme for all the incorrigible romantics among you.

SOFIA
(Wri / Dir: Anabel Caso, Prod: Adriana Vargas, Mexico, 2017, 11 min 50 sec)
An erotic encounter with a stranger, in a gas station in the middle of nowhere, will mark the end of Sofia’s innocence…

SMALL TALK
(Dir: Mónica Palmieri, Wri: Steven Simoncic, Prod / Star: Carla Gil, USA, 2017, 16 min 38 sec)
Two lonely people try to find a meaningful connection in hectic Brooklyn.

AFTERGLOW MANCHESTER PREMIERE
(Wri / Dir: Akira Kamiki, Prod: Sofia Wickerhauser, Brazil, 2017, 11 min 53 sec)
David discovers that his boyfriend Allen is suffering from depression and tries to make him see the beauty and pleasure in even the most mundane things.

RULES
(Wri / Dir: Yassen Genadiev, Gergana Stankova, Bulgaria, 2017, 19 min 59 sec)
Mikhail is the meticulous concierge of a gloomy residential building. His monotonous everyday life is about to be shaken by his new neighbour, the young and extroverted Evelina…

PARALLEL UNIVERSES
(Wri / Dir / Prod / Star: Liran Nathan, USA, 2016, 8 min 5 sec)
As Aden lies alone in the dark, his thoughts carry him through a stream of parallel realities, until he finally settles on the one where he can be eternally happy.

LA FEMME ET LE TGV
(Wri / Dir: Timo Van Gunten, Prod: Giacun Caduff, Star: Jane Birkin Switzerland, 2016, 30 min.)
A lonely widow starts up an unlikely romantic correspondence with the driver of a train which passes her rail-side home every day…

Part of Kinofilm Festival. See the full Burgess programme here. See the full Kinofilm programme here.