A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
In Cyprus, Olivia takes her mother on a summer road trip in an attempt to reconnect as the early onset of dementia begins to affect their relationship.
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
37 year old sales manager Iwatsu is so caught up in work, he's unable to truly live his life. One night while looking at his graduation album on his phone, he receives a sudden call from a girl named Kana. He's taken to his hometown Kobe, where he lived as a teenager. Slowly, by way of Kana, Iwatsu's past is resuscitated.
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.
Sitting in Zoe’s beat-up Beetle, two girls chomp on their fast food. At no point do they look at each other. We don’t know why. They don’t acknowledge their rather… interesting attire. We don’t know why. But what they do is talk- about life, London, and pigeons. Having moved from France and a small English village, the girls have long dreamed of coming to the city. But now that they’re here, they’ve found themselves lost in the smoke. Zoe and Lady must push through the loneliness they both feel, and perhaps, in doing so, realise that yes - they are lonely in London. But they are lonely together. Flying Duo explores what it means to live in a new country, and the loneliness of migrating to a big city.
"Nostalgia of Everything", the second short film experiment in the Experimental Test trilogy, blends fragments of the director’s personal past with newly filmed material. It features scenes originally shot as memories, never intended for a film and later combined with a few moments captured specifically for this project. As with the first entry in the trilogy (Days, Months, Years and Nothing Else), all visuals were filmed quickly using a phone camera, under natural light, without any formal setup. The monologue was written during post-production, crafted to emotionally resonate with the imagery and the atmosphere shaped by the non-original soundtrack, Mystery Man by Terje Rypdal.
After getting suspended from school and fighting with her mom, 14-year-old 'Bucket' finds herself confronted with the harsh reality of trying to grow up too fast.
Years after the crime, three clueless investigators discuss the disappearance of a young tourist in a small French town.
Phoenix Club
The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town
Molly anxiously awaits her first sign of menstruation, which means that she'll be able to date and go dancing. The school nurse explains exactly what menstruation is to her, by using diagrams.
Benteveo
"A young artist presents his last show. While the audience watches the story of everything, he struggles to let go."
Faced with the prospect of being sent to work abroad, Sally Brown returns home from London to Hull, to see if she still feels the same attachment for her home town - and for her old boyfriend Mike Thurlow. Will she decide to take the job abroad or return to live with Mike in Hull?
A young woman makes amends with someone from her past.
The 2024 Senior BA students would like to invite you to a Playdate!! Bring your blankets, stuffed animals, and pillows as we celebrate the path that got us to where we are!
A group of high school friends reunite in their hometown for the funeral of an old buddy, 'Bender'; they will spend a weekend struggling to accept that Bender escaped what they can't — adulthood.
In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the twenty-something trio's childhood exploits, the memories capture the mood and nostalgia of the '80s era.