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An isolated young black man leaves reality behind to become a giant Octopus.

Harraga is an illegal immigrant who do it by land, by air or by sea. With no visa, nor passport. Out of the law (...) Yes, that's the key, outlaw ... but what happens when those harraga are kids?

Dakar, Senegal. Ousmane, a 7 year old child, begs in the streets. He decides to write a letter to Santa Claus.

After his mom's funeral, a boy encounters the odd girl next door, who insists they journey through space to find a planet for departed souls.

When you've given everything, what do you have left? After achieving his dream summit, an elite climber finds himself empty. Broken and untethered, he searches for a fulfillment more lasting than a faraway peak.

A re-enactment of the Jules Durand case. In 1910, Jean Jaurès [leader of the French socialist movement] took the lead in defending a working-class coal miner, Jules Durand, accused of complicity in and condemned to death for the murder of a labor leader. As in the Dreyfus Affair, a false dossier had been used to convict Durand. Jaurès argued that the memory of the Dreyfus Affair saved Durand, calling the case the working class’s Dreyfus Affair.

A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over it. The executioner lifts his axe ready to bring it down. After that frame Mary has been replaced by a dummy. The axe comes down and severs the head of the dummy from the body. The executioner picks up the head and shows it around for everyone else to see. One of the first camera tricks to be used in a movie.

Songbird

Short film spinoff of CONFESSIONAL featuring one of the minor characters.

Edward James Olmos narrates this multi-fest winner about an immigrant who recalls a vivid and momentous memory where he discovered his boundaries.

With a suitcase in hand, a son arrives to visit his elderly mother.

Padam...

Bunny, an elderly rabbit who uses a walker, is in her kitchen one night baking a cake. A pesky and persistent moth bangs about the kitchen. Nothing is what it seems.

A boy leaves a party and gets on a passenger tram. Aboard, he shyly watches a girl, who soon falls asleep.

A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.

The film features two men who emerge from the sea carrying a large wardrobe, which they proceed to carry into a town.

A surrealistic montage set in motion by a tidal wave and incorporating a samurai battle.

Sometimes first love is found in the most unlikely of places, like in the carpark outside the Te Kaha pub.

A satirical visualization of strange and forgotten, but (at that time) nevertheless still existing laws in the U.S.A.

The lonesome construction worker Carl gets into a relation with Flicka, a girl inside a computer program.