Alone

A young adult silently drowning in trauma, yearning to let out what’s inside of him, navigates a series of encounters—each revealing fragments of his inner struggle, toxic masculinity, and unspoken vulnerability, as well as the painful dissonance between his desires and his actions.

In this reenactment of a propaganda documentary, a woman is falling prey to the role assigned to her in slow motion. Upon her arrest, diplomat Mária Kerényi is interviewed by the state television. Her story in espionage confronts the mechanisms of autocracy and the concept of guilt in a closed society.

What does it mean to be free? The Cocoon explores the feeling of imprisonment experienced by women who try to find freedom – not only in times of social isolation.

A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon.

This seminal work of avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson arrives full-circle, coming to France, the site of its 1976 Avignon Festival world premiere, at the tail end of this 2014 revival tour for a landmark Theâtre du Châtelet production and a first ever filming by award-winning arts filmmaker Don Kent. Eschewing conventional narrative, the opera revolves loosely around pacifist Einstein’s relationship to the creation of the atomic bomb.

He really likes Poughkeepsie Crispies. Maybe too much. A darkly funny, minimalist loop of repetition, ritual, and barely-hinged performance.

SOME COLORS

A young man performs 'pranayama' sitting against a bleak wall. We observe him through a frame that seems to be connected to him in some way. As we go on to witness the nature of the frame, will the images presented to us be able to convey his intentions, thoughts, and ultimately, his fate? This experimental feature film is comprised of 7 parts of black and white imagery with no sound at all.

"Beyond the Autumn" «Persian: پس از خزان» is a poetic meditation on the collapse that humanity calls "the end." Here, autumn is not a season of falling leaves, but a threshold where existence sheds its veil within the shadows. Beyond this descent, perhaps only a light of serenity remains. It whispers that following the world's silence, a subtler form of consciousness may emerge. "At the farthest edge of the soil, eyes open that no longer belong to the ground."

Shell-shocked Barbara must face up to the loss of a dear companion after a tragic accident. Her best friend Klara and husband Torsten devise a plan to thaw Barbara's heart, after she reminisces about the incident, the funeral, and happier times. Will she agree to the suggestions of her nearest and dearest? Can grief turn into hope?

In a silent world ruled by routine and precision, a man's search for order reveals a deep inner disturbance that leads him to a sudden moment of collapse.

With formal rigour and subtly playing with genre, body and soul, this story of knots and liberation follows Lilian, who is as inscrutable as her desires, constrained by a pact of celibacy. When her father dies, she returns to the place of her past.

Notas de Cambio

The armed conflict between the Philippine military and the communist resistance at the beginning of the 1990s forms the backdrop to this study of three individuals who, for different reasons, are trying to resolve an untenable situation.

A camera is set up. A demand is made. In the heavy silence of a shaded place, a young woman faces the ultimate pressure to conform.

A young man walks around town, after deciding against taking his own life, and comes across a dying bird--to which he chooses to offer shelter.

When forest animals invade our cities, the world is in disarray. Office vixen Fiona struggles with her banana phone addiction. Will she succumb to it? Temperamental bunny Barbara only gives her stag sugar daddy Nestor his special massage, after he dines her and plays the big spender. This obscure short film pinpoints postmodern tropes of consumerism, eroticism, and art with an homage to the theater stage and references to literature. This work uses a fantasy language and needs no subtitles.

Nestor is a boy immersed in melancholy. In an attempt to forget an old love, he begins a relationship with Isabel, an android.

When his older sister Samantha leaves their small Colorado town for college, sixteen-year-old Owen is left behind with a silence he doesn't know how to fill. With Samantha hundreds of miles away, Owen finds himself drifting through empty rooms and long, quiet days as the distance between them slowly reshapes his world.

A couple goes away for the weekend to discover new experiences and reignite their passions with a mysterious woman named, M.