The Improv: 50 Years Behind the Brick Wall

After being blacklisted from The Academy Awards, movie enthusiast Matthias Agganis decides to start his own awards show. But when things go wrong, the focus begins to shift on a variety of different programs. This comedy will have you "tuned in" the entire time.

A group of friends in a car give a ride to a stranger who will affect their lives indirectly.

Co-hosts Josh Bath and Samantha Newman have troubles with their early morning talk show when Josh gets dumped live on the air and battles through the five stages of grief.

An improvised film; a man discovers he's emotionally stuck between his ex-girlfriend, his new girlfriend and his best friend; and in the course of a day he must follow his passion and become unstuck.

An important audio-visual record of a landmark series of four concerts staged in London in 2022 when more than 30 musicians joined improviser, percussionist and animateur Eddie Prévost to mark his 80th birthday. The film takes a close look at improvisers who create music in the moment, free from the authority of a composer, score or conductor. Ranging from profound delicacy to subversive atonality, the “awkward wealth” of this music raises vital questions about artistic freedom, individual responsibility and what it means for people to make music together in the 21st Century. Featuring performances by John Butcher, Sue Lynch, Ute Kanngiesser, Marjolaine Charbin, Nathan Moore, Seymour Wright, Veryan Weston, Alan Wilkinson, John Tilbury and Eddie Prévost amongst others. Plus readings by musician and author David Toop. The film includes the last ever concert by AMM, the pioneering improvising group co-founded by Eddie Prévost in the mid-1960s.

An irreverent group of teens - Thirty, Whoopie, Headguy, Pinky, Stinky, Jumbo, Giggles, and James - are thrown into a two-day panic-induced adventure after one of them discovers she's pregnant.

A mockumentary that follows the 5 main contestants of The Golden Apron contest, a competition in search of "the greatest home chef in America", being held by a nefarious food manufacturing company with their own corporate agenda.

Henrik Fladseth Lavkultur

It's rude to double dip, especially at the precipice of success.

The Grand is in the tradition of improvisational comedies like Best In Show and This Is Spinal Tap. The story is set in the world of professional poker and follows six players who reach the final table of the world’s second most famous high stakes tournament, the Grand Championship of Poker.

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.

When Brad gets fired from his job, he goes to reopen an old cinema, he enlists his frends to help him show the last film the cinema aired before it closed... Only they don't know, the film is in Italian. With everyone sitting ready they begin to dub the movie... on the fly!

Liberté, égalité, improvisez !

At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received used defective toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas.

Two college students set out to capture a ghost on film to make millions instead of doing their finals.

A movie premiere gone awry leads to an equally chaotic trial to determine the fate of four amateur filmmakers.

A short film about a man who hires a professional to provide industry-level compliments.

Jean-Jacques Garbo is deeply dismayed by his wife's infidelity when he suddenly has inklings of another love affair.

This short film follows a guy desperate to experience honey on pizza. What will one determined man do to achieve his goal when the universe seems to be determined to prevent him from it?

Montreux Comedy Festival 2017 - Best Of