The Valley

The Son of La Llorona One strange night, a woman possessed by the spirit of La Llorona has a reunion with a man who claims to be the son she once drowned in the river.

Moment Musical A re-creation of a 1933 commercial, lost during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw, animates photograms of light-pierced jewelry, porcelain, and glass to music by Ravel.

Ambrogio A woman wants to graduate to the Italian Naval Academy in the 60s. She has to fight her family, her friends and a world not ready to accept her.

The Girl Has Flown Nadia is an apathetic 16-year-old girl with no friends of sorts, in or outside school. One day, she takes a walk with local no-good Brando, and the boy rapes her. From that moment on, Nadia's life changes forever.

28... A turbulent day in the life of a woman in her thirties looking for work in a Lisbon flooded with tourists.

Aviary Experimental short by Sheri Wills.

Acetylene Experimental short by Sheri Wills.

Word Beata Parkanová, the filmmaker behind Moments, returns to Karlovy Vary with an exceptionally vivid portrait of the family of notary Václav Vojíř, a small-town moral authority, and his selfless wife Věra. This masterfully told and highly original intimate drama, whose protagonists undergo a difficult ordeal in the summer of 1968, is reinforced by finely wrought, exquisite performances from Martin Finger and Gabriela Mikulková.

Fever Experimental short by Sheri Wills.

Camera Obscura This short experimental film explores improbable chances, the direction of time, a fragility of feeling, and the nature of the universe—as understood within and outside the confines of the Super 8 film frame. Recorded voices are taken from vintage answering machines from Richman films and Leonard Susskind from “Boltzmann and the Arrow of Time.”