Roberto F. Canuto
Roberto F. Canuto, Spanish filmmaker, created and directed films and commercials and received awards including Best Film. MFA in Filmmaking, NYFA at Universal Studios, CA (USA). BA in Audiovisual Communication at Madrid’s “Complutense" University (Spain).Co-founder, director and writer at Almost Red Studio Chengdu (China) Roberto F. Canuto is a filmmaker from Gijon (Asturias), Spain, with working experiences in Los Angeles (USA) and China, where he co-found Almost Red Production China. He is one of the first european directors that collaborates with a Chinese filmmaker producing films in China. He directed various short films and a feature film, screened in Film Festivals around the world and received awards, including best film. Roberto has a Master in Fine Arts degree (MFA) in Filmmaking, obtained at the New York Film Academy (Universal Studios, Hollywood), where he directs different projects, including the award winning films “Toto Forever” (screened in over 30 international film festival) and the graduation feature film “Desire Street”, co-directed with Xu Xiaoxi, his usual collaborator (Best feature film in Asturian Film Festival 2014 and Special Mention Best Film in Mix Mexico International Film Festival). Previously he obtains his BA in Audiovisual Communication at Madrid’s Complutense University (Spain). During his study years he collaborates as a film critic in different media and he gets influenced by many classic directors after frequent sessions at the ...
Toto Forever
(2010)
A wide-eyed young postman and a gangster in trouble with the mafia find their lives become inexplicably intertwined when a heady affair attracts danger at every turn. (more)
A wide-eyed young postman and a gangster in trouble with the mafia find their lives become inexplicably intertwined when a heady affair attracts danger at every turn. (more)
Floating Melon (2015)
A journey of passion, a bitter night. Xiao Cheng ask for help to resolve a big trouble, the guy with whom he spend the afternoon is dead on his bed from the effect of a drug, not something the Chinese authorities look kindly on. (more)
A journey of passion, a bitter night. Xiao Cheng ask for help to resolve a big trouble, the guy with whom he spend the afternoon is dead on his bed from the effect of a drug, not something the Chinese authorities look kindly on. (more)
Advent (2016)
Suso, a young unemployed man, spies a young woman who throws herself off a cliff, before he could do anything about it. Suso will seek answers that awaken memories of the past and even make him rethink his true identity. (more)
Suso, a young unemployed man, spies a young woman who throws herself off a cliff, before he could do anything about it. Suso will seek answers that awaken memories of the past and even make him rethink his true identity. (more)
Ni Jing: Thou Shalt Not Steal
(2013)
Xiaofan, a young girl who works at a Karaoke Club, awakes one morning in a remote forest with her body covered in blood. As she struggles to find her way out, she tries to understand the drama circumstances which got her into the situation, events mainly related to ... (more)
Xiaofan, a young girl who works at a Karaoke Club, awakes one morning in a remote forest with her body covered in blood. As she struggles to find her way out, she tries to understand the drama circumstances which got her into the situation, events mainly related to ... (more)
Desire Street (2011)
A family (mother, daughter and son) tries to survive their loneliness and obsessions by going through different sexual experiences and relationships with a new neighbour, a prostitute. (more)
A family (mother, daughter and son) tries to survive their loneliness and obsessions by going through different sexual experiences and relationships with a new neighbour, a prostitute. (more)
Sunken Plum (2017)
Working at a nightclub in Chengdu, a transgender Chinese woman receives an unexpected visit from her cousin informing her that the mother she has brushed aside, has died. As the only "son", she feels obligated to return to her birthplace for the sake of her family, ... (more)
Working at a nightclub in Chengdu, a transgender Chinese woman receives an unexpected visit from her cousin informing her that the mother she has brushed aside, has died. As the only "son", she feels obligated to return to her birthplace for the sake of her family, ... (more)
The Male Gaze: Nocturnal Instincts (2021)
Strap yourself in for an exhilarating journey into darkness with these five award-winning short films from across the globe that delve into heart-pumping escapades varying from the intensely erotic to the ultra-violent to the warm-inside feels. The night has never ... (more)
Strap yourself in for an exhilarating journey into darkness with these five award-winning short films from across the globe that delve into heart-pumping escapades varying from the intensely erotic to the ultra-violent to the warm-inside feels. The night has never ... (more)
New Queer Visions: Parental Guidance (2021)
As any mother or father will tell you, when it comes to parenting, there's no right way to do it! Discover the highs and lows of being a queer kid in a straight family and vice versa in these six moving short films from Germany, Bulgaria, Israel, China and the ... (more)
As any mother or father will tell you, when it comes to parenting, there's no right way to do it! Discover the highs and lows of being a queer kid in a straight family and vice versa in these six moving short films from Germany, Bulgaria, Israel, China and the ... (more)
The Male Gaze: Celluloid Dreams (2021)
Embark on a journey through celluloid from 1985 to present day in these freshly digitized cinematic pearls from around the world that explore an array of gay encounters from years gone by. The 7 short films are: Just Out of Reach (1998); Toto Forever (2010); Men ... (more)
Embark on a journey through celluloid from 1985 to present day in these freshly digitized cinematic pearls from around the world that explore an array of gay encounters from years gone by. The 7 short films are: Just Out of Reach (1998); Toto Forever (2010); Men ... (more)
Water Circles Under Cotton Clouds (2023)
In a dystopian future, with a social context influenced by various pandemics and with a political upheaval triggering reactionary governments, various young people hide on the outskirts of a city after looting a batch of vaccines. While the leaders of the group ... (more)
In a dystopian future, with a social context influenced by various pandemics and with a political upheaval triggering reactionary governments, various young people hide on the outskirts of a city after looting a batch of vaccines. While the leaders of the group ... (more)