A charismatic sergeant is put on trial when a hostage extraction goes very wrong.
Devastated by her best friend Marlon's death, Kim travels from NYC to Canada to attend his funeral. There she meets his family and friends for the first time and awkwardness ensues as she tries to explain how she never met him in person because their friendship had been exclusively online.
Through the eyes of our protagonist Ellis, who suffers in silence in a world which pounces on any form of perceived weakness, we consider the harmful effect of needing to conceal the truth from the people around you.
A teenage girl and a young boy run for their lives to cross 'The Line', but are they running away from danger or towards it?
Risto, a zombie loses his burial plot and to reclaim it he must get a job in a factory. His former lover Sanna also works at the same place.
Kristian, who is a transvestite, still lives at home with his mother Emma, because she loves him just the way he is. Life as a transvestite offers many humiliations from the outside world, but with his mom, Kristian feels that he can be himself. Until one day when Emma meets the alcoholic Søren, who does not have the same tolerance...
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a raccoon spends the night looking for food for his family. After his encounters with a skunk, a frog, and a menacing bobcat, he experiences the dangers in a vacant cabin.
The Seven Deadly Sins - Are they true to being called sins or are they simply human impulses? To what is a sin and what is not? Such is a question worth pondering. In the end - do as you wilt.
A young boy’s infatuation with flight is the subject of Vláčil’s poetic, prize-winning early short, made for the Czechoslovak Army’s film unit.
During a middle school dance, a boy is struggling with his courage when experiencing his first love.
Lena and Rita are friends but they act like it’s something more. What do they want from each other and what do they really feel? The lack of clarity between them will have its consequences.
In a stylized world of neon drenched sunsets, the cult of Santa Muerte keeps a gang of rebel surfers young forever. But when a straight-laced teen named JOHNNY falls for the wrong girl, he must fight for life and love against the bad boys that rule the beach. This is Hitchcock set to surf rock in a land of dark sands, welcome to the SURF NOIR.
A troubled corrections officer pays a visit to a man he’s never met to request he cook a last meal for his ex-girlfriend on death row; one that will kill her before her execution the following morning.
Théo, the village's water tower, is crying his eyes out. To try and understand why he's sad, Robert, a nine-year-old boy, tries to talk to him but Théo takes fright and runs away. He turns up in town, where he gets taunted by the museum, some houses and the church, who don't consider him a real building. But when the town is set ablaze, they all ask for his help!
Frank Johnson, a wealthy landlord, without a heart, has no mercy for the poor. His cold attitude towards the public in general has a great influence in his life, and when he proposes marriage to Eleanor Groves, his manner is indeed anything but that of love. Eleanor, although she cares for Johnson, reprimands him and tells him that she could never marry a man as cruel as he is. Her last line of rebuff, "The ghost of your better self will appear to you and make you realize what a beast you are," gets Johnson to thinking.
An educational short film featuring the character of Luxo Jr. demonstrating the concept of "front" and "back."
One of the adventures of João de Deus.
Edyth Fellows is a nurse recruited for an research project with a time travel device that can snatch any being from any time and bring it to the present. The first such test brings an Neanderthal child to the project and Fellows is responsible for his care for the interim. As she manages this task, Fellows is increasingly revolted at how the scientists dismiss him as little more than an animal, especially when his real intelligence shows. This growing moral dilemma comes to a head when Fellows realizes what they plan to do with him and she cannot stand by and let it happen.
Every morning, Pedro carefully prepares coffee for Tiago, but even with all his extraordinary efforts, he is unable to prevent the drink from getting cold.
With depth, intimacy, and humor, FLOAT! captures filmmaker Azza Cohen's magnetic grandma’s life-affirming journey learning to swim at 82, inspiring audiences to defy societal expectations of aging and to boldly look forward at every stage.