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Esteban, a future Olympic swimmer, has grown up with a single mother and doesn't know who his father is. As he searches for his identity in this poetic short film, he determines swimming is a metaphor for life itself.

On the day of his 18th birthday, Vincent leaves behind a dysfunctional family situation never to return. Seven years later, he is now a filmmaker, and decides to undertake a cathartic process to attempt to renew the strained links with his mother using his memories. In a cabin in the middle of the countryside, the director and his mother are filmed by a camera, sharing a moment, at once painful and intimate, with the person who is recording—and thus, later, with those who will watch. At the same time as the huis-clos conserved by this painstakingly composed device, the filmmaker discusses with his sister, trying with her to dissect the past and its traces, to resolve their differences with regard to this same ordeal.

In an abandoned villa, an android must deal with the fact that her owners are no longer there.

Elijah and Jef, two boys from the boarding school choir, secretly write stories in a notebook every day. Nobody knows what they are about, but the stories are clearly not intended for anyone else's eyes. When one day they are caught by the choirmaster, they are not punished, but just encourages them to continue writing. The boys' secret pact is broken and drives them apart.

When Linus tries to bite through the loneliness at his farm, he gets confronted with a dream about his past and a guilt he carries within. A nightmare that becomes soon reality. (Screamfest)