Zippo

Through an immigrant cab driver, our world collides with a nervous filmmaker, a lawyer whose new breasts her ex-boyfriend wants to see, a mystery man, a gay man who might or might not have AIDS, and a birthday girl who got stood up. It is a mixture of laughter and sadness, all floating on a sea of philosophy.

When a doctor invents a formula that can restore youth, the 80-year-old Abbas takes the new formula and starts a new adventurous chapter as a young man. But reliving his youth comes at the expense of his family as he falls in love with his son's fiancée and decides to marry her.

Kamal is a shy young man who is involved with his classmate Nadia. As Nadia leaves for a few years with her family, Kamal becomes a famous designer who is known for his many affairs. When Nadia comes back and finds out, she takes revenge on him by claiming that she is dating his cousin.

Hanuma is engaged to struggling musician Mahrous. She meets film producer Khaled, who decides to take her to fame. She forgets her people and she's torn between following her desires or returning to the right path.

Every evening, Brindone, a teenager, goes to bed before the end of the TV programs. Every evening, instead of going to bed discreetly, his big brother Musclor turns on the light in their shared bedroom to annoy him. Every evening the same routine. Brindone can't take it anymore.

Amongst the contemplative static shots of decaying architecture weaves an abstract narrative unveiling the life-cycle of a higher perception, too large to perceive. Shot at various sites across south-east England, INFRASTRATA is a study on the concept of super-organisms, and the relationship between structure and nature.

Country rube thinks what he sees on the movie screen is real. He jumps out of his seat to try to stop a kissing scene.

When Bugs calls a cab he doesn't know it's the getaway car for a couple of bankrobbers (he does know the capital of Nevada).

Set in the candy-colored world of 1950s suburbia, a reluctant young housewife suspects that the friendly neighborhood dentist is hiding a horrible secret, but is it just the anesthesia at work or is there something more sinister hiding below the surface? Open up and say AHHHHHHHH!

A six-year-old boy in pre-hippie 1960s United States endures ridicule from his schoolmates and worry from his father over his fixation with a TV star named Dottie.

A disturbing puppet short exploring the concept of creativity.

A young medical student struggling to pay tuition is drawn into the shady world of underground body-modification.

Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.

It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.

Sailors in repose on an island paradise seemingly have no worries of war or danger — until a playful gesture is interpreted as an act of wilful aggression. Soon, the innocent act of slight slapping becomes a relentless and unforgiving orgy of open-palmed face-smacking.

An old spinster receives an unexpected Valentine's letter.

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the Tunnel is said to mark the beginnings of narrative editing. It is in fact, two films in one, hence the 2 min length. Firstly, the G.A. Smith film here for the central cheeky scene in the carriage. The train view footage however is Cecil Hepworth's work, entitled 'View From An Engine Front - Shilla Mill Tunnel', edited into two halves in order to provide a visual narrative of the train entering the tunnel before the kiss and then leaving afterwards. More information about the filming of the phantom train ride can be found searching for the Hepworth film separately.

When Zomorod Agha dies leaving a huge fortune, the heirs are shocked to learn that Falafel the beggar shall be responsible for giving them their shares after confirming their morality and their worthiness of the money.

Alice asks Viril to hold his head under water for three minutes.

A hungry mosquito spots and follows a man on his way home. The mosquito slips into the room where the man is sleeping, and gets ready for a meal. His first attempts startle the man and wake him up, but the mosquito is very persistent.