Treading Water

The daily routine of a women's Republic in the late days of 1963 and early 1964 - before the military coup - is presented from the perspective of several characters, and the place's owner who is about to sell the house to an international company who wants to build a mall in the place.

Religious and cultural tensions escalate when an African Islamic woman has an affair with a white American agnostic man.

After tragedy strikes, a meek Ruby Oliver enters a broken VR game for a last chance to see the dead. Little does she know that this game treats all girls as a virus as she fights to save herself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna travel to Europe for their honeymoon and end up staying in a health resort in Switzerland, only to return to Russia after four years. Fyedya can’t shake his roulette habit and keeps losing their money. His wife accepts this fate since he keeps assuring her that it’s all for inspiration and soon he shall write his to-be masterpiece, 'The Idiot'.

A young model's brutal murder near Mulholland Drive and a series of brazen burglaries rattles the community in the luxurious Hollywood Hills.

Five people in one city, different ways of loving and living, different views on how to experience or suppress the past.

The boy with talent in photography arrives to summer camp. The main magic of his photos is that he can make couples from people on his works. But when he falls in love for the first time, couples from his other works, except for him and his love interest, start to separate and argue with each other. How can he combine his talent of making couples from his other characters of his photos and to save his own first love?..

Kelly and Blake adopt a new fish just as their relationship starts to show cracks.

Ishang sells fish on the street with her mother, who is determined to afford Ishang’s dental braces and a better life. Eventually, Ishang begins to notice unsettling changes in her body, feeling as if she transformed into the very fish they sell—and realizing she may not be so different from them after all.

After many years, geologist Ina Sedlitz returns to her home village of Neukirch - a place that has been transformed from a former brown coal mining area into a popular tourist destination. Ina only wants one thing: to transfer her inheritance of the family hotel to her niece Mara and finally put the past behind her. But when she is asked to draw up a geological report for the man-made lake, she comes across dangerous instabilities - and the shadows of a long-suppressed family secret.

A pretty mouse, gray as a pebble, comes into money, builds herself a cabbage house and looks around for a man. As she likes to sing herself, she wants him to have a nice voice. She doesn't like sheep, frog and rooster, so she gives her favor to a tomcat. One day, when he gets to lick her blood, his appetite overcomes him. She manages to escape - and they have lived in enmity ever since.

In the face of a breakup, a young woman retreats to her own fantasy where she will try to make sense of the relationship and whether it was destined to fail.  

During the last therapy session for a couple seeking a divorce, the therapist dies in a freak accident. Now Tom and Nina have to get together one last time to get rid of the corpse.

While many GDR opposition activists emigrated to West Germany at the beginning of the 1980s, the well-known singer-songwriter Bettina Wegner held on to her homeland against all odds. Although she was sent to prison as a young mother, she remained convinced that it was worth fighting to make the GDR a better, freer society. However, life as an undesirable person in the state becomes a real ordeal for her and her family.

In the near future, the “method” controls the health and freedom of society. The life of neuroscientist Mia Holl, who is loyal to the system, changes abruptly when her brother Moritz Holl is wrongly accused of murder and imprisoned. In the fight for truth and justice, Mia begins to question the system and becomes the hunted herself.

The world's most loved fairy tale is back in a whole new fantastic imagining in Pinocchio. When a piece of pine-wood falls into the hands of the poor old toy maker, Geppetto, he carves it into a puppet which he names Pinocchio. To Geppetto's delight, Pinocchio comes to life - and like most little boys, he's full of reckless whims and wild ideas! His crazy escapades lead him into a series of madcap adventures from joining the circus to visiting the inside of whale! Along his journey, and throughout all the fun, Pinocchio learns to be considerate and courageous and learns what it takes to become a real boy.

An erotic drama that submerges an innocent new arrival to the City of Angels in the intoxicating double life of her charismatic lesbian dominatrix housemate.

Two worlds collide when a vampire chick falls for a surfer dude.

A semi-fictionalized documentary about a day in the life of Australian musician Nick Cave's persona.

Micro short film directed by Portuguese multi-award winning Sara Eustáquio, 16, starring Canadian young actress Jaimie Marchuk. Student project produced at New York Film Academy, in NYC.