The Nice Guys

Director: Charlotte Colbert

Year: 2027

BECOMING CAPA is a tale of love, audacity and defiance set against the backdrop of a world in political turmoil. Two tenacious young European refugees fall madly in love and defy the fractured world around them by creating the character of enigmatic American photographer Robert Capa, together shooting some of the most iconic photographs of the 20th Century.

Director: Nina Danino

Year: 2026

“You are a sky of autumn, pale and rose; But sadness in me rises like the sea" The Eyes of Beauty, Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil In Greenwich Park, London two lovers stroll and talk about love, their relationship and the making of a film in Venice. The Venice film is shot on 16mm. Venice at dawn is empty and a protagonist sits at the empty San Marco Piazza, is seen walking in a detached manner from the grand sights and facades and interiors of Palazzos into the backstreets. In gilded interiors and painted ceilings, as the winter afternoon light weakens in a soporific atmosphere, she lays in dark interiors with frescoes of Antiquity. Like the Risen, at twilight she walks the alleyways and into the Like the Risen, at twilight she walks the alleyways and into the dark to meet the Devil at dawn. Featuring the actor Pietro Fanelli – the Devil makes a fleeting but impactful appearance, the protagonist offers herself to his gaze and touch. The film follows a path via the remnants of Romanticism and Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil in search of beauty, opulence, exotic pleasure and lovers, exemplified by Venice.

Director: Adolf El Assal

Year: 2026

An engineer, secretly living in her car while driving for a rideshare app in Berlin, picks up the man whose firm rejected her credentials seven years earlier. Now she must decide how much of her disappearance was done to her, and how much she chose, before she loses her daughter to the same silence.