The Last Rung on the Ladder

The homoerotic poetry of Mutsuo Takahashi sets the stage for these associated images based on male desire.

A Chel White short film from a story by Joe Frank Eerie, erotic, and touching, Soulmate is a complex study of alienation and obsession. Told from the perspective of a middle-aged woman, the film explores longing and objectification through the story of a landlady and her young male tenant.

A girl with financial struggles who lives alone in poor neighborhood is threatened to get kicked out of her flat for late payments. Thus, considering to 'sell her body' though fear of getting her dignity stripped off is haunting her.

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

A young man living with his parents in Wisconsin comes face to face with a terrifying monster while searching for the elusive cryptic known as the Hodag.

It's 1992. Martin is 17 and he films his daily life with his Hi8 camera. He films anything and everything—his room, the world around him... But never his father, the thought doesn't occur to him. One day he meets Dominique. He's 23 and works as a student monitor at Martin's high school.

A young woman dealing with the psychological aftermath of sexual violence shuffles between experiences both mundane and extraordinary as she attempts to leave her New York City apartment.

A silent man is lifted out of a life of exploitation through an unexpected bond with guard dog, Sabre, and the healing power of nature.

Hiraeth is a heart-breaking film that explores one woman's grief at the edge of the solar system. Amber Jones, a British astronaut on the first manned mission to Europa. She's a controversial choice with a checkered background.

Bogo, a self-deprecating stand-up comedian, struggles to find happiness in a life where his only value seems to be making other people laugh.

From childhood to adulthood, brothers Bilal and Nassim support each other no matter what.

Wild Beasts

On the verge of a nervous breakdown, a school teacher finds the wisdom she needs in the most unlikeliest of places.

After teenage Ben comes to the realization that his stage 4 testicular cancer is terminal, he decides to throw a "practice funeral" as one final hurrah before the end of his young life.

Christian is on family vacation with his wife and son. One day he meets Luca, an old friend, at the bar on the beach. This sudden emergence from the past bothers Christian. Luca asks Christian to restart a game interrupted many years ago...

Leela's mother tries to coerce her into a gender stereotype, while Leela thinks only of leaving home to study in Toronto with her lover. Taking up the codes of Bollywood, Becoming Leela is above all a quest for freedom.

This is not a pipe, it is adolescence in the feminine with its ambiguities, its whims, its desires, its impulses and above all, its very very expensive (and enormous) libido.

The surreal state of childhood perception is evoked in this 35mm portrait of a mischievous duo running amok in the Czech countryside.

Oona is looking for a bed in a Stockholm where the housing shortage is maximal and the sun never seems to go up. One night she gets to sleep at Agneta's place. But what does Agneta really want in exchange?

Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for leprosy before Kalani, a 10-year-old patient is exiled into the leper colony of Molokai.