Property Is Theft (UK)
With my own two hands (France)
The Replacement (USA)
LOVE (Switzerland)
I Hope To See You (USA/Malta)
Following last year's success, the “Gozo Film Club” is proud to announce the second edition of the Gozo Film Festival this summer from the Friday 24th to Sunday 26th of August 2018.
A three-day long event promoting local (Gozitan and Maltese) and foreign filmmakers.
The festival will be held on the picturesque bastions of Gozo Citadel, in the heart of the island’s capital with indoor and outdoor events.
The Gozo Film Festival combine quality International short and feature movies with local movie productions, including children sessions and Film Making workshops.
The event is held in conjunction with VisitGozo, the Gozo Ministry and Gozo Culture.
Property Is Theft (UK)
With my own two hands (France)
The Replacement (USA)
LOVE (Switzerland)
I Hope To See You (USA/Malta)
Filmed in Malta - Legendary explorer Thor Heyerdal's epic 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove that it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
Directed by Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg
with ål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgård
Original language with English subtitles
LOONEY FOODZ! (Italy)
Qrempucu (Malta)
Mogu and Perol (Japan)
Big Booom (Russia)
The Legacy (Malta)
10 MInutes with Filmmaker Roy Davidson
Leave a print (UK)
Tough Guy (Canada)
Deep Beneath The Earth (UK)
Sparkles (France)
Twilight Tales (Ireland)
I want to live in the Zoo (Russia)
Friend or Foe (Malta)
Eve - Lejliet (Malta)
Qrempucu (Malta)
Track7 (Malta)
The Legacy (Malta)
The Last Grain (Malta)
Dar ir-Rummien (Malta)
I Hope To See You (USA/Malta)
Property Is Theft (UK)
The Things Of The ... (Spain)
Filmesque (Italy)
Fatta male (Italy)
Expend (United States)
The Ball (Spain)
The Replacement (USA)
Panic Attack! (USA)
The Snag (France)
Brothers (Norway)
The Last Grain (Malta)
Misdirection (UK)
Friend or Foe (Malta)
Big Booom (Russia)
Eve - Lejliet (Malta)
Shellshock (Ireland)
Sheep (Malta)
LOVE AND LOSERS.THE MOST DANGEROUS COMBINATION IN THE WORLD.
filmed and produced in Malta
Directed by Jameson Cucciardi & Written by Malcolm Galea
with Maria Pia Meli, Aldo Zammit, Stefan Cherriet Busuttil, Taryn Mamo Cefai, MaryLu Coppini, Anthony Ellul, Nanette Brimmer, Chris Dingli and Naomi Said
3 Short Children movies followed by a workshop on Filmmaking by Filmmaker Federico Chini
A crash course in filmmaking. Learn about film language, storytelling, script-writing, filming and editing in this hands-on workshop by Filmmaker Ken Scicluna
(Includes 30 mins break)
7 Planets (UK)
Blindness (Iran)
The Turtle Terminator (UK)
Una partita ai confini del Mondo (Italy)
Track7 (Malta)
How to become famous on the Internet (Germany)
Trust Exercise (Bulgaria)
Saul's 108th Story (USA)
The Confidence (Russia)
The Dijon Story (Finland)
Qrempucu (Malta)
LOONEY FOODZ! (Italy)
The Legacy (Malta)
The Turtle Terminator (UK)
Rey (Australia)
Two children are looking forward to spending an exciting holiday in Malta with their father, an English archeologist. But when dad fails to turn up at the airport, they befriend a peanut seller called Jimini. He manages to get them a cab to their father's house but, just that morning, the father has been kidnapped by a gang of thugs who know he is looking for a valuable treasure
Directed by Derek Williams
with Mario Debono, Aidan Mompalao de Piro, Marylu Coppini, Guido Saliba, Joseph Baldacchino, Vanni Riolo, Rita Attard, Joe Zammit Cordina, John Curmi, Jo Mompalao de Piro.
The history of humanity and of our planet in four minutes. An eco-friendly statement developed in a single shot that has it all: humor, action and tragedy.
FA blind mother asks for help from a woman to know if the girl who loves her son is beautiful or not.
Two brothers share a special bond, but there are some secrets they keep from each other.
Vasya, a diffident young man, asks his smart friend Jenya to help him impress a cute girl Vika who is Vasya’s dream woman. Jenya offers Vasya to protect Vika from a fictional abduction with abductors being Jenya’s friends.
The only thing young Lucy likes is gaming on her ipad. But when she loses it in the woods, she’s determined to get it back. Her search leads her on a journey deep into the earth…
Four Finnish hipsters end up in a funky bar in Berlin. Kaarlo is trying to impress the girls by telling them what once happened to his not-so-talkative Lappish friend Toni in another bar in Dijon, France.
A stop-motion film about a man’s endless hunt for elusive energy sources in a decaying world.
Cinzia and Filippo meet in person for the first time after having met on chat. A badly cooked dinner, a few extra drinks, a constant alternation of attraction and embarrassment.
In a near steampunk future the great film director Federico Fellini is in trouble with his camera. Totò 'The Clown' will help him and both will make a 'filmesque' trip. An art cartoon, a tribute to the cinema.
Malta, 1941. RAF Squadron Leader James Alden is given the order to escort a German child to safety. The survival of this girl will ultimately decide the outcome of a conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
How do I want to present myself?” The young woman Julia must face this question while uploading photos of her journeys to the internet. Her ordinary life is about to change drastically when she gets more and more attention online. Soon she reaches 500.00 followers and tries to keep one thing secret: All those pictures are fake….
Cyra, despite her new and loving relationship is still living in her muddled past.
Sasha struggles at home. Her parents expect her to tidy up her room, eat porridge and do homework. Sasha decides that life in the zoo sounds much more interesting! She heads off to try and find her place among a bunch of penguins or maybe giraffes?
A family of arctic foxes learns to cope with the fact that one of them is fading away. A story about leaving, losing and what is left behind.
The film opens with Tom at Aquarium with his Grandpa where he learns a little about the sea and its Eco system. Years later he is at the Aquarium with his grand daughter, and how things have changed.
Gaetano, a sexton at the local parish, is alone on the church rooftop on Christmas Eve. To his surprise he encounters Marco, a teenager from the village who has also sneaked upstairs...
What would happen if the food and drink that, every day we put in our refrigerator, could come alive, move and speak?
WHAT YOU THINK, YOU BECOME. WHAT YOU FEEL, YOU ATTRACT. WHAT YOU IMAGINE, YOU CREATE.
A jilted wife meets mysterious stranger in a night bar. Their flirtatious conversation inspires her dark side but she gets more than she bargained for.
A story about two friends living on Yummy Island, where delicious food can be found everywhere! Whenever Mogu is cooking, Perol just pops up and eats the yummy meal..
You know the nagging thoughts that start with "did I leave the coffee on?" and turn in to "am I pregnant with a devil-baby?” This hand-drawn animation explores anxiety, obsession, and one woman’s slippery hold on reality.
Two young con-artists attempt a real estate scam but things become complicated.
Sweet dreams are made of cheese. One stormy night, under a carob tree, QrempuCu is lying in his bed, trying to fall asleep. The little mouse has hardly managed to close his eyes, when suddenly there is a knock on the door.
After the death of a work colleague, Rey has a crash landing and re-evaluates his life learning to climb out of his comfort zone.
As a teenager in 1950 Brooklyn, all Saul wanted to do was hang out with his friends and go to the beach. Instead, he got roped into a dangerous new job, and Saul got in a little over his head.
When bureaucracy encounters the living world. Narrating an absurd situation.A German documentary film-crew follows, for one day, a Maltese police officer at his post in the Maltese sun, where he guards a group of illegal sheep.
A little girl in pajamas runs away from home to turn on strange circuit breakers in the streets of Paris.
During a football match with his friends, two kids stole Angel's new ball. Charo, a friend of Angel, says that she knows where one of the thieves lives. Angel and his father go there to try to recover the ball. But things get complicated ...
On election night, a janitor feels cheated out of a life he might have lived when his own clone becomes the President. He goes on a bender to seek justice, encountering new forms of prejudice, dismissal, and classism. In a society where the morality around cloning is dividing the masses, physically looking like the newly elected President has its own dangers…
Rafa has inexplicable premonitions about the fate that hangs over certain women victims of gender violence. His mysterious forebodings make him live in a permanent uncertainty, since he is not sure if his visions are true or not. A mysterious friend pushes him into action in a critical situation of gender violence on which Rafa had previously had a conjecture.
Set on the island of Gozo, “Dar ir-Rummien” (The Pomegranate House) is the heart warming portrait of young love through the generations. Starring Eugene Bajada, Sue Scantlebury, Ema Grech, Sam-Anthony Grima
When Camille meet Etienne, there is something more than usual. But she has a secret which will ruin everything between them : she has HIV. When she runs away and then he catches her, the complicity turned to a lack of understanding. Despite their shared desire, those two hearts will hurt each other.
Bitten by a turtle in his childhood, a man remembers the effect that the scar has had on his love life. Following its protagonist's fragmented recollections through childhood, youth and old age, The Turtle Terminator distills a lifetime of romantic mishaps into a concentrated concoction of unreliable memories, youthful enthusiasm and unbearable heartbreak.
Bobby has had a long time crush on Milla. But she has neither noticed his interest, nor is looking for a relationship. With her headphones always on, she is inaccessible to his attempts to win her over. When finally there is a chance for him to reveal his feelings, she relentlessly puts him to a Trust exercise. Will Bobby pass the exam?
'Twilight Tales' is an animated short depicting a child’s perception of the world during storytime, the bedtime story in the animation was mainly dictated by my young sister, Lily-May (aged 4 at the time), the child narrator heard in the piece. The endearing, unpredictable quality of how she describes her thoughts influenced the visual style of the piece.
Sentinella Cultural Centre (day)
St. John's Demi-Bastion (evening)
Victoria,
Gozo, Malta