The Isle

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

In this art film, we follow the lives of three room-mates, over a period of seven days. JP, Ginger and Steve are young men who are all in some respect running away from life. One day, they meet a disabled gay author, who forces them to rediscover themselves and those around them.

Inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet, set in the old city of Valletta, Malta; this is a short film that explores dark, liquefied decrepitude. A sailor's son is damned to row a rotting boat back and forth across a hemmed harbour. Numbed by ineptitude yet spurred by guilt and expectations, tormented by the enseamed union between overbearing mother and weaselly uncle, the boy spirals down a foredoomed path.

In a strange place where daily broadcasts require everyone to “keep the silence”, the long-isolated residents of Edifice 129, trapped in their apartments and by distant memories, creep forwards, day by day. / Edifice 129 is a particular collaborative project, created by filmmakers across three countries. In the midst of the COVID-19 lock-downs, Linda Gasser — director of the Arc Film Festival in Mainz, Germany — invited filmmakers to join her Creatives Across Borders initiative. The aim was to meet via Zoom, support each other, and talk film, but talking film soon turned into developing a film. Meeting regularly, sometimes weekly, four writer/directors and a digital 3D artist created short films designed to work both as standalone projects and, when inter-cut, as one cohesive story, despite being filmed in Germany, the UK and Malta, and with the filmmakers never having met in person until after the films were finished.

Two women are held together by the emotional distance between them. Faced by the question of creating a new life, their relationship hangs in the balance.

Emme is an animated Maltese preschool web series that follows the adventures of a young bird as he discovers the world. The aim of the series is to expose young children to the Maltese language and basic vocabulary related to daily life.