Must Be Painful

This meta student film illustrates the trials and tribulations of being a film student.

This ode to standup comedy and overall antisocial, student film, headlined the 2002 film program at Long Beach.

In a corporate world void of human interaction, Ennis has lost her ability to relate to others. When the company fires her and forces her into a crowded tenement building, Ennis must overcome her fear of human connection to begin again.

The dress is too lavish and the toilet cubicle too small for the bride to fit in. The ballroom is jam-packed and the mood is alarmingly good. Something is about to burst: the groom’s delusion of grandeur? The pregnant belly of deaf Betti? Her step-father’s patience? Or the wine-filled bladder of his ex-wife?

An ex-soldier encounters many dangers in the small town he lives in.

Ryan and Jennifer are opposites who definitely do not attract. At least that's what they always believed. When they met as twelve-year-olds, they disliked one another. When they met again as teenagers, they loathed each other. But when they meet in college, the uptight Ryan and the free-spirited Jennifer find that their differences bind them together and a rare friendship develops.

Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.

Anita and her children, Santa and Kristaps, live in an apartment in Riga. Every year, they celebrate New Year’s Eve with grandma, uncle Peter and a feast fit for kings…

Ingbert, the sock, applies for a position as a double bass player at the Vienna State Orchestra. Bad idea.

When two teenage girls plot to steal liquor for themselves, their plan goes awry when they decide to visit their old piano teacher who's developed dementia.

A group of students finds themselves in an academic environment, which hides a terrifiying danger. Should they stay? Where to expect a menace from? What would happen if they try to leave? Students are forced to find it all out by themselves, without getting any hints.

The abusive professional relationship between Luis, an intransigent painter, and Ágata, his traumatized model, takes an unexpected turn when she finds a mysterious self-portrait of him…

A woman looks out of a window.

During biology class, the young Pedro accidentally traps his middle finger in a hole in his desk. The case takes on unexpected proportions.

LETTERS, a dramatic historical fiction written by Mrs. Evelyn Merritt in 2010, tells the story of U.S. soldiers and their loved ones through their correspondence beginning with the Civil War and ending with the War in Iraq. Sahuarita High School students adapted the Readers’ Theatre play into a movie, reasoning the student actors would be kept safe from Covid-19 by filming them individually, and afterward the footage could be reassembled into a screenplay following the original dialogue.

A man without his own half of the body is looking for the other half in the opposite sex. As for the integrity of his body, so for the sake of emotional healing.

A social worker recounts the case of Ella Jackson, a girl who sees a man standing behind her in the mirror

The aged farmer Gunnar and his visiting granddaughter Anna struggle with communication as their dog faces a terminal illness. Over a summer weekend, secrets unfold and the family must duel mortality.

A man with an umbrella emerges from his grave to be momentarily reunited with his lost loved one.

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