Syncing Sinking

With a keen sense of visual beauty, director Markku Lehmuskallio has created a thought-provoking, aesthetic film about a married couple and an old man living in a remote part of Finland. The young husband goes out hunting but only to support himself and his wife, not to kill off hordes of animals. He sets traps, and that gets him in trouble with the police who proceed to ticket him for using the devices. The forest cycles themselves are intimated when an old tree is shown falling to earth -- perhaps a reflection on the old man's passing years. In contrast to these few people living off the land and basically keeping the ecological balance intact, a highway construction crew is shown at work felling trees. Soon the antagonism grows between encroaching civilization and the quiet life of the young couple and elderly man.

Can You Hear The Music

Nil follows Luca off the beaten track through tall grass and low branches. The rising sun touches his face. He observes Luca, his back, his nape...

A sociopath gathers and drugs groups of college students to bring out their existing suicidal tendencies to the surface then walks among them to enjoy and record their deaths.

An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.

In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.

An anthology of 7 Mexican short films, all created by 5 up-and-coming independent filmmakers, with a common thread: to explore themes of human relationships. In order, A Hand Beneath the Snow (Una mano bajo la nieve), Friendship (Amistad), The View from Up Above (La vista desde arriba), The Short Film (El cortometraje), Silvestre (Silvestre), Cocktails For Two (Cóctel para dos) and When I Hear You Sing, I Forget (Cuando te escucho cantar, olvido).

On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.

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

This experimental film explores the relationship between what we perceive as natural and what we perceive as unnatural and how this relationship changes over time due to natural and unnatural decay.

Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...

A documentary about a funeral director and her views on life and death.

A former investigative journalist goes undercover at a psychedelic wellness center to find her missing sister. What she uncovers is far more unsettling than she expected. Wet Paper Bag is a psychological drama that explores identity, control, and the quiet tension beneath carefully constructed lives.

A recent amputee's desperation for autonomy over her own body takes a dark turn during an LSD trip with her boyfriend, resulting in a shocking act of violence that exposes the raw intersection of physical and emotional trauma.

The wild and wanton Francisca, known as "The Tigress," is the eldest of three sisters, who are bosses of a farm in Ecuador. A medicine man tells Francisca and Juliana that their youngest sister Sara must remain a virgin to protect their land. A travelling salesman, engaged to Sara, tells the police that she is being kept locked up by her older sisters.

In a recording studio, five mothers read the testimonies of other anonymous mothers and open up, laying bare their regret about motherhood. On an imagined island, these five mothers are locked away in an open-air prison. They are under surveillance and forced into hard labor.

This shortfilm follows Noel and River, two individuals struggling to move on from a past relationship. Through parallel therapy sessions with Avery, their therapist, they reveal their versions of the breakup, each feeling broken by the other. When they unexpectedly cross paths at therapy, they are forced to confront their past and face the truth about their relationship.

A group of friends from a summer village. Over the past few years, they've been seeing each other less and less. Bruna invites them to lunch to celebrate her birthday, in the village, in the place where they have shared so many moments together, to relive it once more, perhaps for the last time.

Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, a young nomad is confronted with his destiny after animals fall victim to a plague which threatens to eradicate nomadism.