Jorge

A young man receives a complicated text before traveling home.

In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

Juliette is frantically running away from a man when a car hits her. Lying in the street, semiconscious and stunned, she commences counting. She knows that if no one helps her by the time she reaches 100, something terrible will happen.

In a fancy restaurant, Ben plans to propose to his long time girlfriend only to find out that his ring was mistakenly sent to the wrong table.

There is a rumor that a private LEE reported the irrational incident in his platoon.

A lonely guardian of land, longing for a companion in life, battles uncomfortable dates and long distances in his search for love in this short puppet film.

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

The Last Ramen

A young mother from Arkansas is forced to travel across state lines in search of an urgent and necessary abortion.

Though they are strangers to each other, three young men trapped in the ruins of an amphitheatre reveal their innermost shame, fears and secrets to break free and accept their fluid sexuality. By taking its starting point in the bisexual man, the conversation turns into a broader inquiry into gender and sexuality and becomes an existential portrait making to reframe our general understanding of men.

Today is going to be a good day.... or so we hope. Watch as we follow a Mime go throughout their day creating a public disturbance with a smile that makes you nervous until their day goes from good to bad to even worse.

Collaboration with Amadou, who also produced the soundtrack.

The cheerful critique

A short animation by Makoto Shinkai in Lightwave 3D. Inspired by Haruki Murakami's book "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" with music by Tenmon.

A poor and orphan little girl arrives at a village immersed in the aversion of the unknown.

A man and a boy are in the middle of a desert that used to be the bottom of the largest river in the world. Together, they start a search for the last drop of water.

After a summer apart, best friends Anna and Sophie reunite and find themselves discovering the true value of their friendship.

In Sara's class, the popular kids, also known as the kings and queens, are subjected to daily humiliations, which include having their pants pulled down or water thrown on them, but this is only a sign of their elevated status. Sara is the only blond and blue-eyed girl in her class, and she is completely overlooked by the kings and queens who do not have blond hair and blue eyes. She has a secret crush on one of the kings, who is way out of her league, and she doesn't have any friends either, but would like to become friends with Karen, also an outsider who aspires to a better status. One day, Sara eyes an opportunity to boost her popularity by humiliating herself and thereby become queen. Karen instantly becomes her friend, she seems to catch the eye of her kingly crush and popularity appears within her reach. However, her happiness is short-lived, and in the end she learns a far more valuable lesson than how to be queen for a day.

On the beach at sunset a man waits for his one true love. When she arrives, a bittersweet romance ensues.

A damsel in distress agrees to run away with her wealthy lover in order to escape from her abusive husband. But all is not as it seems in this 1940s film noir.