The House of Loss

17 year-old writer Zach struggles to survive in the 'dog eat dog' world of high school where he is tormented by bullies. There is no chance of finding comfort at home as one of the bullies happens to be his 18 year-old brother, Sean. In order to escape his bullies at school, he resorts to hiding in the restroom during his lunch breaks.

Mordre

Over the course of a night, Rachel, a bereaved clinical psychologist, combats her grief with elaborate self-soothing rituals while Lia, a regional shopping network host, tries to obliterate hers in a self-destructive haze. They collide in a televised confrontation.

A paralyzed girl finds difficulty living a normal life, so she participates in a ritual to metamorphize into a mermaid to replace her useless lower half.

A man dies of cancer—and then wakes up, decades in the future, because his body was cryogenically preserved. Now he’s not only cured of cancer, but also rejuvenated. And his wife is also alive again, restored to health and youth by miraculous future technology. It’s a post-scarcity future, in which the biggest problem is learning how to start over when everything is new and different.

Fili di memorie

Nicolás's irreverent night plans change when he meets up with Luka again; an attractive and carefree ghost of his past.

Ernesto, a 12-year-old boy, flees from a town violated by drug traffickers and heads to the city in search of a new life. Two merchants that he will meet along the way will accompany him but the ambition of both will endanger Ernesto's destiny.

Two friends are on a road trip and a one-sided attraction develops.

A cartoon about a magpie, greedy for everything shiny.

Paris Ficelle

Suli wants to know about the fate of old buildings in her city. After drinking a coffee with eyeballs in it, Suli became even more confident that she could reveal those secrets.

Taking place before, concurrently, and after the first film, Vinnie receives his drug shipment only to find out someone is suspicious of his activities. Trying to find a way to get the drugs out onto the streets, he enlists the help of his best friend who suggests an associate: Tom Cortini. The two decide to hire a delivery boy and start getting the drugs onto the market, unaware of what's actually happening behind the scenes. The two storylines intertwine and soon come to an explosive and shocking end for all those involved

Based on true accounts, the superficial lines between subject and bystander are blurred and bound together, allowing individuals to walk in a vast space and thoroughly live a fragment of the refugees' personal journeys.

A deaf security guard on the night shift observes a man in a midst of a crisis: they find a new way to communicate.

Naissances

A masterclass in mood, the film plunges us into the darkness of the blackouts that ripple across Cuba. In the murk of shadow, the flickering of fire beckons stories from realms beyond the reach of light. Electricity cuts have revived a protest movement dormant since the revolution, one demanding that power be restored.

A double-length holiday cartoon plus a Christmas bonus.

Scissors is a hand drawn animated short created by artist and CalArts animation student Daron Nefcy. The film is about a girl working a boring job who decides, though a dream, to take that step into the outside.

Two strangers meet whilst both working a shift at a dodgy restaurant in Melbourne's CBD.