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“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes’ mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert’s steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.” International Film Festival Rotterdam.

When a flea market salesman finds major success with his raunchy, pushy pitch style, what led him to fame leads him to a world of trouble.

Daymo and Dumbass try in vain to finish their stunt video as the past starts catching up to them.

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The absurd story of an appropriately named little frog man and the path of havoc he leaves behind him. Watch as his shenanigans catch up to him in Little Frog Man.

A group of animals living on a mysterious island try to overcome their personal traumas.

A group of trench coat wearing lesbians go to the bar.

Inside a bazaar located in the outskirts of Baku, a young film team tries to shoot a film scene with a well-known actress.

Some people in North Kalimantan are facing a strange situation where the Rupiah (Indonesian currency) suddenly disappears, and they are the only ones who still remember it.

Two podcasters uncover a cheating scandal in a handball match which shocks the town of Gripton and disturbs the status quo of the local handball scene.

A group of former criminals do their best to get to their parole interview on time.

After a protest gets out of control, activists Nell and Esme are forced to go on the run. They squat in a beautiful and seemingly empty mansion, but danger descends when another interloper arrives with an unexpected connection to Esme.

Louis Friedman, a gay man reeling from a bad break-up, wants to know what the ugliest part of himself is. One day, a strange woman arrives and shows him.

It is the end of a meal. Eight people are gathered around a big table. They evoke the memory of a lost friend. Through the stories of each about the absentee, the character traits, the haabits or the expressions, a portrait in hollow is outlined.

In a daycare far, far away… but still in Springfield, Maggie is on an epic quest for her stolen pacifier. Her adventure brings her face-to-face with young Padawans, Sith Lords, familiar droids, Rebel scum, and an ultimate battle against the dark side, in this original short celebrating the Star Wars galaxy.

When the bride and the groom go missing on the day of the wedding, the stressed-out mother of the bride recruits the best man, who is running late to the wedding, in a frantic search to find them before it’s too late.

Two Russian craftsmen, slightly warmed up by a game of chess, where instead of pieces there are glasses with "strong drink", invent a perpetual motion machine... for a ballerina.

Mentiroso, a period piece set in a small Mexican town, is a coming-of-age story about a boy who tells his friends that he can get a nude photograph of a beautiful girl.

Planet earth’s contaminated drinking water threatens to end civilization. A celebrated quantum physicist, volunteers to be the first interdimensional traveller with the hopes of finding an answer to the contamination problem.

Peter is a housekeeper with a crippling fear of cats. When a pig-lizard monster emerges threatening the safety of his town, Peter enlists the help of his friends to face his fears and stop the Pizard.