A Small Life

Indy and Finn are best friends who escape into the forest to create a fantasy film filled with heroes, monsters, and wooden swords. As they immerse themselves in their imaginary world, the real world quietly encroaches, Finn is moving away, and neither boy knows how to say goodbye. Their playful filmmaking project becomes a means of clinging to a fleeting connection. Through toy knights, hand-drawn monsters, and whispered arguments, the boys wrestle with the inevitable changes that come with growing up.

A short film about a young American man who spends one last night with his deceased friend while stranded in rural Mexico.

Following the sudden and tragic death of their younger sister, two young men must cope with their loss. But is there more to her death than what it seems?

A gay man has lost his lover to a fatal illness and is trying to go on with his life. If only his preparations for a night of dancing weren't constantly reminding him of the one that he lost.

Two couples and a surrogate lay bare the complications, contradictions, heartbreak, and absurdities implicit in how we think about motherhood.

The story of a Finnish rap artist Cheek and his brother.

Created during a workshop focussing on the representation of the human body at the 2nd Video Biennial in Medellin, Colombia, Réminiscences carnivores engages the imagination and all of the senses. Memories of an incestuous relationship come to the surface as the apprehensive narrator waits for a reunion with his brother. With readings from Augustin Gomez-Arcos, Gide and Verlaine, the work has the rich texture of a cameo.

When an unthinkable tragedy disrupts the lives of astronaut Sam Bowman and his wife Sarah, Sam accepts an interstellar mission to save the lives of a missing crew on a deep space voyage, abandoning his life on Earth in the process. But when a critical failure leaves him without a crew, and without hope, he's forced to reckon with a harrowing guilt he can no longer avoid.

In a post-apocalyptic world, three strangers are hiding on an abandoned house, learning about each other's past and hoping to stay alive.

An unnamed passer-by is forced to trace a circular route inside an abandoned tram station, facing loss and time. The broken walls act as a channel, transmitting fragmentary, blurred and analogical memories. 

A woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive.

Parallel stories connected through an intimacy with death. The living and the dead communicate through visions, memories and reality.

80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken away from a better life at birth; following a hospital fire, he vividly recalls being swapped with another new-born, and subsequently grows up in a poorer neighbouring household.

As the world nears it's end, a woman finds herself overwhelmed by emotion. She searches for closure as threats mount.

To prevent an act of domestic terrorism, a negotiator must break protocol and make an emotional bond with the hostage taker.

When 12-year-old Elsi Björkman and her mother Paula return from a week's holiday abroad, Elsi immediately notices that someone has been in her room. She tells her mother about it, but she does not believe her. At the local supermarket Elsi meets Henry, who seems to spend his time returning shopping trolleys. Elsi does not know anything about the boy, who has an irritating habit of appearing from out of nowhere, only to disappear again, as if into thin air. Nevertheless, the children become friends.

For Agatha, Christmas triggers sadness. She yearns for freedom laced with imagination, when magical creatures were part of a game played with friends in the forest. The death of her parents after a 1978 Christmas Party still haunts Agatha. She sees similarities between her parents' unhappy marriage and her own. The Black Madonna statue from her childhood visits Agatha, escalating her anxiety and goading her towards change. The discovery of a mysterious portal offers Agatha the possibility of resolving her grief and saving her crumbling marriage.

A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass-shooting at his college, then took his own life.

Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the name of protecting kids from too-strict parents and nasty neighbors. He heads the ABPA (American Boys' Protective Association) and through it disrupts a number of local social events. The townspeople are pretty fed up with Penrod and his gang, but when a couple of outlaws come to town, Penrod shows his mettle.

The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.