We Still Have to Close Our Eyes

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A great apple tree bloomed and gave its fruits to everyone. Its branches bent by liquid ripe fruits, which were thankfully thwarted by passers-by. But once a greedy man fenced the tree off from outsiders, boldly making it its own. The built stone fence reached the very top of the apple tree blocking the light, birds, and people...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.

The short film (conveyed in a parable-like story structure) follows a man devoted to himself and the blessings of his attributed god. He struggles to survive a primitive life and is forced to take action to ensure his own prosperity.

Sabina Cervoni, member of Exit, provides assistance to whoever chooses to take its own life legally.

The second of three pilot shorts that eventually became the 1989 movie Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland.

Hold It!

Thirteen year old Julija and her mother flee their abusive household to find refuge on an idyllic Croatian island where Julija grew up. Emotionally scarred, Julija is desperate to reconnect with her best friend, Ana. But Ana is in love with a boy and Julija is no longer a priority.

On the importance of invisible "cogs", or screws, in the work of an enterprise.

Twenty-year-old Anaïs works with her father on a farm that is struggling to keep operating. When their fertilizer distribution machine, borrowed from the farming cooperative, is stolen, Anaïs reacts, and fights in order to continue working, and to keep her father, on the brink of giving up and selling their farm, afloat. She also grows closer with a seasonal worker who she suspects is behind the robbery.

A man loses his wife. A woman finds her husband. A mother sees her children.

A free adaptation of the story of Cain and Abel, from the Book of Genesis.

Thumbelina is born in a calyx. A bumblebee opens the flower and the little one goes on a journey of discovery. She has to hide from a nubile frog in a nut and lands on a water lily leaf. A fish bites through the stem of the leaf. Thumbelina swims down the stream until she is called to dance by a cockchafer. The dance fails and the beetle pushes her off the leaf into the depths. She falls into a spider's web and onto a dandelion. She sails away with an umbrella of seeds and lands on her calyx again. The autumn storm breaks the flower. Thumbelina finds shelter with a field mouse. There she cares for a sick swallow. The mouse wants to marry Thumbelina off to the mole, but the little girl manages to escape with the help of the swallow. They both fly off to the sunny south.

A short documentary where director Dave Jackson digs into his catboy past and life after Cat Sick Blues.

In an era marked by the reign of fluid relationships, through apps and blind dates, Alejo seeks to fill his sentimental void by constantly changing sex partners.

A three way relationship expands and contracts.

Jimmy Park is visiting home for the first time in years and has nothing to show for his time living overseas in Seoul. But old tensions come to a head when he confronts his homophobic sister at a family dinner.

Caught in a raging sandstorm on Christmas Eve, Santa must find a way to bring presents to children of the Middle East. With the help of Camels Akhmed, Moshe, Yosh and Amir, Santa delivers.

A gay man has to fend off a woman after he helps her and she develops a crush on him.

A professional water jumper, exhausted by active training, refuses to jump and goes to a massage session.