Petra's Lasso

A magical girl, who exists outside of space and time, inhabits an odd, timeless landscape that is both old and modern, and spends her days playing and collecting objects from history, things that she loves.

A group of kids embarks in a macabre adventure, full of characters from the Brazilian popular imaginary - the werewolf, a witch, a ghost, monsters and The Saci.

Rancid stalwart of the corporatist dream, Mr Topps, wakes to find himself in a Donald Rumsfeld inspired version of This Is Your Life, in which mysterious host, Deep Throat, lovingly reunites him with a collection of past associates, each one literally itching for a one to one. Featuring a host of the UK's finest underground 'performance 'art' misfits. Plus a very special guest appearance by Troma legend Lloyd Kaufman as Battery Bob the Chicken Man.

A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.

A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.

The boy has longed to visit the northern country and experience the beautiful mysteries of nature that his childhood friend Norman the Snowman has told him about. On the first day of snow in the northern country, the boy sneaks out of his house and boards a northbound train with Norman to see the mysteries of nature with his own eyes.

Concept short about two girls who stumble into an abandoned building to find a terrifying staircase with a mystery at the bottom.

A young girl is playing on some waste ground when she finds a pencil with a face. Whatever she draws with the pencil becomes real. Just an ordinary day.

Daydream Therapy is set to Nina Simone’s haunting rendition of “Pirate Jenny” and concludes with Archie Shepp’s “Things Have Got to Change.” Filmed in Burton Chace Park in Marina del Rey by activist-turned-filmmaker Bernard Nicolas as his first project at UCLA, this short film poetically envisions the fantasy life of a hotel worker whose daydreams provide an escape from workplace indignities. —Allyson Nadia Field

While burying a body in the woods, a murderer is called by a phone scammer.

After three long years away, a crippled World War II soldier excitedly returns home to his wife, only to discover her life now revolves around a sinister stray cat.

Basque Country, Spain, 1843. A police constable arrives at a small village in Álava to investigate a mysterious blacksmith who lives alone deep in the woods.

Experimental filmmaker and color cameraman here collaborate in a surrealistic retelling of the old myth. But this is a dream fantasy with no real parallel to Pandora, replete with striking symbols where everything is larger than life--the silhouetted image of a mother and an infant, the profiled view of two sculptured heads spouting smoke and fire.

Inside a remote cabin in the woods, six strangers take part in a medical experiment that’s hiding a dark secret.

After a girl's wish for all animals to have the ability to speak comes true, local robbers try to capture her talking hedgehog.

Abby awakens to find herself trapped inside a crate, with unknown figures outside and her only hope is to find a means of escape.

A spiral of dreams and ages unravel as two celestial characters awaken and transmutate into a mythological being.

A teenage girl goes through a bizarre transformation after she gets her first period.

One of the early short films of Italian independent filmmaker Fabio Salerno.