Popping Eyes

An audiovisual exploration of tlaxcalan childhoods, which delves into the imaginary in a curious, creative and challenging way.

Vin, a talented painter, is frustrated that he doesn't know how to finish his next great work, giving up on it. Seth, his self-centered and careless friend, visits him to rub his next great work in his face; thanks to Seth, Vin finds the final touch of his work but at a high cost.

While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.

Based on the tale by Dale Jarvis, "Lady at Number 16" tells the story of two sailors in the 1800s that help a young lady back into her mansion. They return a few hours later to realize that their night was not all that it had seemed, and it may have had a more sinister twist than expected.

This experimental film takes a closer look through the entomologist's lens at the cyclical behavioural patterns linking humans to the insect world. Just as the fig wasp inevitably finds death in the pollination of the fig tree flower, we too are thrown into the dance of passion and death. Drawn by the seductive scent of allurement and the inevitability of the final end.

Steve is bearing the weight of his isolated existence, when a person enters his world. This person happens to be his bathtub drain. Is this some sick prank? Or is it the root of something much deeper?

A reclusive photographer's strange encounter with a long-thought-missing woman threatens to draw him out of his isolation.

A young reporter travels to an isolated village in the mountains, intrigued by the surprising rumor that its inhabitants have found the remains of a giant buried deep in the forest.

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

A police officer haunted by the spirits of a serial killer's victims, must search to find the killer before he strikes again.

On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.

A Science-Fiction Short film where a man gets sucked into a shelf to an unknown realm.

A lonely Brooklyn photographer (Randy Harrison, "Queer as Folk") gets the courage to come out from behind his camera to capture his crush, but it turns out there is more to the picture than meets the eye.

ATITHI is a Kannada short film about a caring father whose growing health concerns lead to a terrifying ordeal. Haunted by a mysterious, unseen visitor, he struggles to distinguish between reality and his own fears. As the line between the real and imagined blurs, he fights to maintain his sanity amidst the haunting presence.

Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna's disappearance, though the relationship suffers from guilt and tension.

An absurd, surreal look at the lives of two people and the way their lives turn out after meeting each other.

A young man named Phillip finds himself in a purgatory reality that's littered with clues of his past life. From the discovery of his own corpse to the mysterious connection with a woman scheduled for an abortion, Phillip slowly reveals this doomed fate by his own hands.

After discovering his mother crying, a boy is stalked by unknown presences.

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.