LUMINAL
FILMS
The Protuslan Ensemble
Nobody knows where they came from. Nobody knows where they go next. They belong to no country — but they have their own language, Protuslanian. Google can't translate it yet. They can.
"Back to the Fire"
A film crew arrives at a seaside tavern to shoot a movie about smugglers — until the bell rings, and no one is pretending anymore, this is LUMINAL's most ambitious work to date: a story about ordinary people who put down what they loved to defend what they couldn't explain.
"Nobody Came"
A lifelong dream of the sea finally comes true — and there's no one left to share the toast. A meditation on loneliness at the top of a personal journey, sung entirely in Protuslanian, a language invented by the director's daughter at age five.
"Keeper of Chaos"
Baron Münchhausen never asked for the job, but someone has to fix a broken world. An 18th-century dreamer takes on bureaucracy, cracks in the pavement, and the quiet absurdity of existence — inspired by Karel Zeman, Chaplin, and Buñuel.
Gypsies in Hell
Dante spent a lifetime mapping Hell. He never accounted for a gypsy jazz orchestra arriving uninvited, looking for their goat. They bribe Charon, befriend Cerberus, and turn the underworld into a football stadium — Hell survives, barely, and the music never stops.
"Skeleton Keys"
Some worlds stay just out of reach. The musicians searched for a key that could open every lock — the cat simply walked through the portal and came back with proof. A small film about parallel shores, impossible doors, and creatures who understand more than people do.
Hava Leya
Five musicians gather at a table. One by one, they disappear. Their instruments remain. Not a song about war — a song about the silence that grows where people used to be, and the music that refuses to stop.