A young boy’s infatuation with flight is the subject of Vláčil’s poetic, prize-winning early short, made for the Czechoslovak Army’s film unit.
Kristian, who is a transvestite, still lives at home with his mother Emma, because she loves him just the way he is. Life as a transvestite offers many humiliations from the outside world, but with his mom, Kristian feels that he can be himself. Until one day when Emma meets the alcoholic Søren, who does not have the same tolerance...
A man has to announce an unspeakable news to his girlfriend, freshly awoken from an accident induced coma. He has trouble finding the courage.
December 31st, at dusk. Florence, 37 weeks pregnant, is preparing for new year’s eve party. Her friends arrive, they talk loudly, they get dressed and dance together before going out. Florence finally changes her mind and decides to stay home. As she lays down, at the sound of the windy night, she thinks about the arrival of a new year, and about her new life that is about to begin.
Driven by his adolescent urge to flout convention, Loïc decides to tail along with his friends when they break into a house in a well-off neighborhood. An unforeseen event forces him to look deep within his heart and come to a crucial decision.
An ex-boxer desperate to connect with his only son gives him a gift on his 21st birthday that will change their lives forever.
"Scars," is a short film that explores the horror of domestic abuse. The story follows James through a nightmarish experience of his past relationship with his girlfriend, Camila. He's unconsciously guided around his house by a mysterious presence that forces him to observe his cruel treatment towards her.
Something is about to change drastically, and the only thing to do is to witness it.
Mikaela has undergone gender reassignment and is now a woman. One night at a bar, she meets a guy and takes him back to her place.
Rina wants to tell her best friend, Eli, about her arranged marriage, by dating her on the last night they could be together.
A young boy, Alfred, is dying, but through the stories about Helium, a magical fantasy world, told by the hospital's eccentric janitor, Enzo, Alfred regains the joy and happiness of his life, and finds a safe haven away from daily life.
A comedy about a chaotic morning in a family with kids, and a mother who is determined that it's best to take care of everything herself.
BARK is a portrait of a seemingly simple argument between two teenage girls that curdles into a surreal, psychological struggle.
A solitary dish washing robot living out his life in the back room of a restaurant is enlightened to the world that exists beyond his four walls, with the help of a small friend he breaks free of confinement to pursue his dream of exploration.
After a weekend of dancing and camping on a recreation island near the city, a young factory worker decides to stay and cut work for a day. Walking around the now deserted island, he meets a beautiful woman camping alone and sunbathing in the nude on the beach. A hot romance flares up between the worker and the more upper-class married lady, lasting through the light-filled nights of the whole summer week until the woman's much older husband returns to the island the next weekend.
It's late night in a burger bar in Wales...
This short film is the only cinematographic experience of Alberto Moravia. It shows some typical themes of the writer: the bourgeois setting, the taste for detail, the eros and the violence that scratch indifference.
Ruben is an anodyne guy attracted by the unusual beauty of Alba, an enigmatic woman. Both live in a peculiar silent universe, with established and surrealistic rules. Ruben must break some of these rules to get Alba's attention.
Oscar works in a public bath, where he murders several people.