The Hard Case

Overwhelmed by grief following the death of his wife, Donnelly shares a train carriage home with a troubled young man identified only as the 'Kid'. As the Kid becomes more agitated and foul-mouthed, the journey takes on a violent and dangerous hue – for the bereaved Donnelly and for other hapless passengers on the train. Academy Award Winner: Best Live Action Short Film – 2005

It’s just another ordinary day in 1930s Los Angeles for private investigator Clyde Umney, until a new client walks into his office. Umney soon learns that his client is the crime-fiction writer who not only created him, but now needs to switch places with him.

The imagined perpetrator in a famously unsolved true-crime case, “Who Put Bella Down the Wych Elm”, is confronted about his past by an unearthly Bison in this Stop-Motion animated short film.

A young city couple find themselves stuck at a rural gas station after their car breaks down. An old man, disturbed by their disrespectful behavior, starts telling them a story about the importance of respect: the cautionary tale of El Cojonudo.

Eviction is a crime thriller that follows three friends down on their luck: Jackie, Chris, and Kenny. After Kenny gets evicted, they decide to break in and rob their greedy landlord's house whilst he's abroad. Unfortunately for them, the landlord's son Erik is in the house with them. As both parties slowly start to realise they're not alone, a seemingly easy job quickly spirals out of control, testing their friendship, loyalty, and morality to the absolute limits.

Young take of a girl breaking chains out of her early child marriage to pursue a dream of becoming a makeup artist.

Horror film director must plot to steal the negative of his film in order to save it from being destroyed in an insurance scam cooked up by his sleazy producers.

Three guys in the mafia are assigned to make a hit but when they realise whom they have to kill the night comes to a halt.

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.

When Peloso, a mob lieutenant, is accused of stealing 20,000 from Leito, a mob boss, he is sent into the woods with Leito's top goon, Vinnie "The Scissor" as punishment.

Haunted by trauma and trapped in sex work, Light meets Shuo, an undercover cop who offers him shelter. But healing isn’t easy—can Light choose a new path?

A young gangster is torn between right and wrong on the day of his 18th birthday.

Short film by Kai Kinnert.

A young woman is forced to confront her past when her family is attacked. She quickly learns she can’t run from her roots.

The Good, the bad, and the girl. These lives come together as two thieves rob a bank while one life becomes collateral damage and the other changes for the better.

Bradshaw, an Englishman, is arrested for the New York killing of booze racketeer Buck Cooly. Interrogated by police chief Galvin, Bradshaw claims self-defence, but refuses to name the woman he was with at the speakeasy where Cooly was shot, and who could provide the alibi that would exonerate him from a murder charge. Galvin's continued pursuit of the woman's identity eventually leads to an unwelcome surprise.

The winner of a regional women's darts final suspects her opponent of letting her win, and won't let her leave until she finds out why.

Short graduation film.

In the near future, nanotechnology administered into the bloodstream can sync with computer apps to augment the human genome. A new law mandating and regulating this once elective procedure meets resistance from hacktivists who are conspiring to thwart the impending roll-out of "Nano version 2.0."

Amal, a 13-year-old refugee from Lebanon, deals drugs in the Hannover subway system. He lives an isolated life in an asylum home outside the city...