Richer and Richer

Reeling from a recent separation, a single mother and her young son move into a pub-attached house and fall prey to their invasive new landlord.

Unemployed and broke, Michael’s seemingly useless efforts to find employment lead him to discovering inner peace and the value of perseverance.

A children's film about the largest mass suicide of the 20th century reconstructs the 1978 event. The Reverend Jim Jones forced nearly a thousand followers of his People's Temple sect to drink poison in the settlement of Jonestown, Guyana, South America. A third of them were children. Jan Bušta gives sadists, voyeurs, and necrophiliacs one minute to leave the cinema. His self-reflective documentary, which is the result of ten years of time-lapse filming, does not depict dramatic scenes. To the sound of an audio recording from that fateful day, we see a collage of child ghosts preaching about escaping the corruption of the world.

Mater Mortis is a short narrative film that asks what the limits of family bonds are under the weight of illness. Rajan must care for his mother, now afflicted with a condition that makes her the living dead. Relations between Rajan and his father fray as tensions rise to a head in this meditation on family, disease, and the right to life or death.

A man's life becomes threatened after he goes on a date with a woman who's in love with the Devil.

Seeing himself as a form unable to experience intimacy, he is given the chance when brought to the household of twin sisters.

A man on the brink of death, has a conversation with a stranger. The pair philosophize about the meaning of a life well lived.

In his Miami studio, built as a solar observatory, a famous painter lives alone, without a wife or children. His only obsession is to paint at dawn. But for some unknown reason, as he prepares to finish his last canvas, that morning the sun does not rise.

A young man stands at a crossroads and receives advice from a thoughtful new friend.

Elara, a young violinist, is madly in love with Lucio, a Sicilian student. Their love blossoms, but suddenly Lucio must return to Italy to care for his sick niece. Elara struggles with loneliness and sadness, until she finds new inspiration in a dream.

Marcus Payne (Salman Sheikh) has only one aspiration: to become Student Body president. As such, he's gone to great lengths to ensure that he's a leg up on his entire competition- outspending them on various campaign materials, and even going insofar as to hire his own campaign manager Scott (Jordan Noriega). In his mind, it seems as though his victory is all but assured - that is, until the most popular girl in school- Skylar Morgan (Sara Thiboult) enters the race. With his victory suddenly far from assured, Marcus decides to take matters into his own hands and force Skylar from the competition by any means necessary. After a few unsuccessful attempts at persuading Skylar to leave the race- he enlists the help of an intrepid journalist for the school newspaper (Bailey Cooper) to leak damning misinformation regarding Skylar's personal life. This in turn causes a chaotic spiral of controversy and conspiracy that might do more than determine the victor for the Student Body election."

Adam, thirty-two, still lives with his overprotective mother. Their everyday life is filled with rituals of obedience and mutual dependence. Everything changes when one night Adam is accompanied by a man in a gray suit, visible only to him.

After a sudden terminal cancer diagnosis, a teacher and her factory worker husband work to save their marriage from the teetering edge of divorce.

Two actresses have made it to the final callbacks for the role of a lifetime: to play Anne Frank in an upcoming staged production. But as the topic of color-blind casting makes its way into the audition room, the controversial question emerges: who is best suited to portray Anne Frank?

Sabine is looking for a missing image: a day that has left its mark forever and that everyone remembers but her. But maybe this absence is what allows her to move on with her life?

Praiano

Joy can't let go of her ex, but doesn't seem to be able to fall for the new guy. In the meantime she keeps having casual sex with strangers.

Ratnakar, an old man, is devastated when he discovers that his wife is ill. He helplessly goes through a series of trials and tribulations in order to save his dying wife.

Corazón en el cenicero

Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.