Ella

Ella, a young aspiring actress, stands at a crossroads, pondering her journey on the day of a career-defining audition. her career. No matter how small, every decision can change the course of her day, illuminating the subtle battles of everyday life. In the heart-vibrant chaos of Paris, Ella navigates the complexities of her identity: a foreigner, a woman, and a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community.

Ella Havelka made history in 2013 by becoming the first Indigenous dancer at the 50-year-old Australian Ballet. In this engaging, MIFF Premiere Fund-supported world premiere, Ella – a descendant of the Wiradjuri people – charts her inspiring journey from growing up in modest circumstances as the only child of a single mother in rural Australia to gaining entry to National Ballet School, then spending formative years with the acclaimed Bangarra Dance Theatre before accepting the invitation of The Australian Ballet's artistic director David McAllister to join one of the world's foremost ballet companies.

Mexican movie

A follow up of a young woman, an artist's model, in her dreamlike wandering through the intimacy of her home.

A burlesque drama about old, boozed-up Ella, 73, who refuses to take a bath.

When Georgina dies, her husband Alcides tries to give her a dignified funeral, which is quite difficult, because they have no money and are living in the poorest district of Bogotá.

A film about a mother's unbreakable love for her daughter. Ella only wants' to give her daughter Sara a hug.

Ella – well she has a name too – Luna (Patricia Garza), is actually about her much older husband and painter Alfredo (Paul Vega), and his choice of actions/reactions after she decides to leave him for a lover that he wasn’t aware of. Alberto has been going through a creative crisis and is under pressure to complete a series of paintings for a forthcoming show. It is nevertheless also plain to see that he’d been treating Luna, who’s also his model, largely as an object of desire and obsession – capturing with camera her every movement in the house when she’s not posing for him, and memorising her every physical feature, moles and warts included – he’d apparently counted twenty seven moles on her body. When Alfredo tracks down and entraps the lover she’d wanted to elope with (Rómulo Assereto), he’ll discover that they both have more in common than merely desiring the same woman…

Ella's paranoia of losing Chuck has led her to spin scenarios in her head, that feel so real, she sometimes forgets what is actuality and what is imagination. This short film tries to capture the angst attached to many women's and men's dilemmas within relationships by telling the story of one night in two versions in the lives of Ella and Chuck. Will jealousy and mistrust ruin them? Does Chuck have just the same fears Ella? Or is it all a dream?

A mother lays dead in the kitchen. A father with blood on his hands. Not all is what it seems.

As surreal as it is nightmarish. Ella's parents get into a nasty argument and leave her in a house with two unknown guests.

She is a girl in a limited situation, a short about the reproductive rights of women and the right to decide.

Ella has been living in her apartment in the city center for more than 40 years. Due to the massively increasing price of rent, she is forced to move out soon and to give away most of her beloved pieces of furniture. Even the ones, she restored by herself. When the new tenants of her apartment stop by to pick and choose which of her valuables they would like to keep, Ella realizes that her time in this apartment is coming to an end.