Beat the Devil

A short film about a raisin.

August has to put up with quite a lot. Ever since his parents separated, his father no longer seems to have any time for him. To console him, his Dad gives him a sweet little dog. But his mother refuses to have the animal in her house and before long there are shouting matches on the phone again. August can hear them arguing through his bedroom door – it's something he seems to have become used to. When his mother remains adamant about not having the dog, August packs his bags to move in with his father. But there’s no place for him in his father’s new family either. And so the boy makes up his mind to create a drastic wake-up call. Told from the boy’s perspective, this coming-of-age drama describes the situation for children who are caught in the middle when their parents decide to separate.

Internet comedian Carl Déman from the humor group JLC lived a life that looked glorious. But beneath the surface was a terrible gambling addiction that almost cost him his life. In 2019, he and other gambling addicts struggle to stay afloat in a contemporary age marinated in gambling advertising. Carl wants to ask those who make the advertising how they think and wonders why the advertising profiles now also come from the world of culture and entertainment.

Scuggs, the utterly unpleasant super of a Bronx tenement is driven to desperate measures by an innocent-appearing, but manipulative 11 year-old girl. Based on the graphic novel by American Master Will Eisner, Meinecke combines larger-than-life characters, borrows from the traditions of melodrama and applies a visual language derived from German Expressionists to create a haunting tale, that won particular favor with New York critics.

A quirky high school girl has to learn that you can't fit friendship into a checkbox.

Pussy Have the Power is the song improvised by four girls in a recording studio. When an established music producer walks in, they face the choice of selling out their work to something that could lead to success, while they risk losing their own message

Herrmann is a leftist Thirty Something, who is still politically active, despite beginning to live the usual life of having a girlfriend and a child. On the way to his weekly political meeting he is kidnapped.

In a desolate future, one small town has survived because of a large windmill dam that acts as a fan to keep out pollution. The dam's operator, Pig, works tirelessly to keep the sails spinning and protect the town, despite abuse from classmates and an indifferent public. When a new student joins Pig's class, nothing will be the same again.

SPACEMAN uses mime, stop motion, classic animation, and theatrical elements, to explore one artist's loss of creative passion, and his journey to get it back again.

A man must confront the pain and trauma of a past relationship, as a former lover unexpectedly arrives on his doorstep.

After her hands are severely damaged in an accident, an over-zealous hand model hatches an ill-conceived plan to get back in the extremity modeling game with her feet.

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.

Under the leaden sky of a summer day, Eric goes to work to defend a great issue. But, blinded by stress, Eric is forgetting the most important thing...

A man returns to Taiwan, the country he left behind decades prior, only to find himself wandering a city he no longer recognizes and in the company of a stranger who took him in.

A butcher whose meat is most tender, surrounded successively by ephemeral and delightful cashiers.

Two boys, one girl, one night in the Northeast of Brazil. A morning of passion and secrets revealed.

On the Day of the Dead, a 10-year-old kid anxiously awaits a visit from his grandfather from the afterlife to finally meet him

A short animated film about an orphan kitten raised with love by a sea otter, whom had lost her own child. The film's message was to promote the abolishment of nuclear weapons using anthropomorphic animals.

After aborting his last assignment for moral reasons, a contract killer is given a second chance to prove his loyalty. But when he learns his mark is his girlfriend's husband, he finds himself battling the ultimate moral dilemma. With only 72 hours to fulfill the contract, he must find a way to save the innocent, and himself... but not everyone is as innocent as they seem.

When Robin's daughter Lacy wants to buy an expensive guitar, Robin reminisces about the days when she was a teenager, asking her dad for her first car, an Olds Cutlass Supreme.