A discontented housewife self-medicates as her husband assumes control of their daughter's engagement preparations.
Monsters
A solitary young woman living with her dog becomes the target of neighbourhood slander. Her sudden suicide—and the earlier discovery of a dead foetus—fuels harsher speculation. Two neighbouring families, a young couple and an elderly father with his bedridden daughter, confront their own fears while discussing her fate. Her ambiguous life and death expose a society quick to judge independent women yet capable of rare empathy.
A poetic journey of memory and fantasy told through the eyes of four versions of an artist as she creates her own self-identity.
Les Nocturnes
Drawn by a strange ringing, a weary writer slips out of her life to follow it through the city, encountering strangers whose fleeting, intimate moments stir something lost in her. Phantasma reflects on the cards we’re given and what we choose to do with them.
Lost in a whirlpool of loss and regret, Harry Bradshaw attempts to find innocence.
Based on the memoirs of Josephine Marcus Earp, a young opera singer from San Francisco, this docudrama tells the story of how she became the wife of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp.
Dragphoria is a short film about drag and identity, finding yourself in a noisy crowd, and slowly accepting yourself after a long-awaited denial.
A young man learn about people mentality towards success
The Silent Route
When a young man returns to his hometown to assist with a friend's trial it soon becomes clear that he isn't the beacon of success that everyone thought he was.
In Manhattan, the aspirant writer Jabez Stone is a complete loser: he is not able to sell his novels, he lives in a lousy apartment and he does not have success with women. When one of his friends Julius Jenson sells his novel for US$ 190,000.00 to an editor, Jabez fells envy and promises to sell his soul to the devil for success and accidentally kills a woman with his typing machine. The Devil knocks on his door, fixes the situation and seals a contract with Jabez. His low quality novels have bad reviews but become best-sellers; Jabez enriches; has success with women, but has no time for his friends. Jabez meets with the publisher Daniel Webster who offers him a chance to break the contract with the devil.
Stage actor Dina attempts to jump-start her failing on-camera career by standing outside a coffeehouse, asking passersby for first impressions. Humiliated, reduced to IRL comments, likes and indifference, Dina's authorial voice awakens.
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portrays the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.
Elena. An indigenous woman, pregnant and alone, must leave her home to look for better opportunities in the city, always keeping in mind where she comes from.
Steph, a sixteen year old altar server, dutifully puts away the collection money after mass. But when a fellow altar server tries to pocket some of the money, Steph attempts to stop her. What starts as an innocent attempt to prevent thievery looks an awful lot like something else to the priest who interrupts them...Suddenly Steph is followed by symbols of the Virgin Mary, a warning around her sexual desires. Steph must navigate the intimidation of her fellow altar server, a crush on her movie theater coworker, and her own feelings around the comfort of her queer identity.
After a devastating house fire, the all-girl punk band Girlgasm must put their differences aside to make it to Paris in time for their gig.
This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.