Panic in Valley City

Garden of Remembrance

2022

An untidy room. Empty beer tins, empty wine bottles, a half-empty glass of whisky... A girl is getting up absent-mindedly and starts preparing herself. YOUR morning starts. Lazy and hard-to-wake-up YOU. The emoticon is ME watching over YOU. I play tricks on YOU, while YOU are playing the guitar and drinking. One day, in town, YOU walk past THE CHILDHOOD FRIEND who is buying an Anemone I liked, and remembering that I liked them, YOU rush out to buy them. THE CHILDHOOD FRIEND displays the Anemone with care. One day, years after I died, YOU hear noise from the closet. Opened, YOU see MY garden right in front of YOU. Overflowing emotions of ME and YOU. When exiting from the room with memories, a picture of the Anemone that YOU painted is displayed in YOUR new room.

Glimpse

2021

A highly emotive, visual feast set in the imaginative mind of a heartbroken panda called Herbie, who has recently broken up with his deer girlfriend Rice.

Strangers

2022

This footage was shot shortly after the civil war in Sri Lanka on the occasion of my mother’s long-delayed reunion with Kamala, the aunt she lived with as a child. Kamala was living a life of solitude at this point and has now since passed away—this film is dedicated to her.

Precipice

2019

A grieving woman discovers an app that offers an unconventional method for alleviating her pain.

La chaqueta del botones

2016

Amaranthine

2018

Set in an abstraction of 1970s London, Amaranthine tells a tale of punks, betrayal and revenge.

Tingling

2020

Over a devastating night, a couple grapples with memories from the Gulf War.

The Miu Miu Affaire

2024

Nothing went as planned: what seemed to be an original idea (taking an international fashion event to a small town in the Argentine Pampas) ended up as a mysterious affair, with a mannequin who seems to have vanished, and who insists on leaving small clues scattered across the immense plains. But nothing seems to be too strange for Commissioner Sirota and her particular method which, this time, includes a clairvoyant, a legendary detective arriving from Santa Rosa and some picturesque “peritas” who choose to work at night, swinging to the rhythm of Ska. In the middle, a disturbing question: Is it a police case they are dealing with, or is someone taking them (the police, the whole town, the Italians – all of us, perhaps) for a fool?

Beauty Is Not a Sin

2024

When a young woman attends confession, she admits her fault of resisting temptations, causing the priest to experience a revelation by sharing in her ultimate sin.

The Job

2023

After an experience of workplace sexual harassment, a woman wanders through empty streets like a ghost.

Stanley

2017

Two boys, one girl, one night in the Northeast of Brazil. A morning of passion and secrets revealed.

Let's Roll

2019

A teenager defies her mother by training in secret for a town’s dangerous tradition to try and live up to her brother’s past successes.

Rumble

2016

A deaf boxer must decide whether to give up the sport he loves in favour of an operation that could allow him to hear for the first time.

Limbus

2019

As Alex struggles with disturbing hallucinations, his wife Vera tries to help, until they both experience their own profound revelations.

Uncanny Valley

2017

After the mysterious disappearance of his mother, Elliot struggles to find a new family dynamic, while dealing with his grandpa's crazy antics and theories.