A teenage girl roams the streets trying to buy alcohol. Then she gets desperate...
Liz Newey, a recovering alcoholic, is in the midst of her early morning recitation of the Twelve Steps, when she's interrupted by a phone call. Her father, Frank Newey, estranged for twenty-three years, is on his death bed in a Toronto hospital.
Hope explores the fragmented violence of war seen through the eyes of a General on his deathbed. A mind accustomed to a life on the battlefield surrenders to a stream of consciousness, mixing death, brutality, and finally, one last gesture of hope.
A road trip pushes a dysfunctional family to the brink after their journey descends into a claustrophobic hallucinatory nightmare.
Set in the Summer of 94, in Sandwell, West Midlands. The dramatic story of Lumbu and best friend Ravi as they navigate the consequences of a long-held family secret finally becoming known. As the secret gets out, Ravi loses control and learns about the tyrannies of the adult world.
Ella, a young aspiring actress, stands at a crossroads, pondering her journey on the day of a career-defining audition. her career. No matter how small, every decision can change the course of her day, illuminating the subtle battles of everyday life. In the heart-vibrant chaos of Paris, Ella navigates the complexities of her identity: a foreigner, a woman, and a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community.
Two boys, one girl, one night in the Northeast of Brazil. A morning of passion and secrets revealed.
Art student Ian Jing impresses the realism-loving art teacher Mrs. Hui from the get-go. Following her advice, he draws exactly what he sees, straining his eyes in the process. To Mrs. Hui’s horror, Ian’s artwork gets progressively blurrier. In turn, his online fame skyrockets, as art critics on social media praise his unique style as an abstract artist. They ascribe deep, profound (pretentious) intentions and meanings to his stylistic choices, when all he's actually doing is drawing exactly what he sees.
A young filmmaker accidentally claps her idol’s mystical clapperboard, throwing the two on a frantic journey through film genres and beyond.
A father, reconnecting with his son, is the victim of an incident that suddenly shakes up his fragile reconstruction.
Gertrud is young, beautiful, rich, and the mother of three-month-old Vilhelm, whom she adores. When he is kidnapped, she is initially paralyzed with shock, but then she takes matters into her own hands. The police and the press are stepping on each other's toes to solve the crime, but Gertrud gets there first. And a surprise awaits her: the kidnapper may be able to offer her son something she herself cannot.
A Canadian woman with two working class boyfriends writes letters to them, breaking off with one of them while professing her love for the other, but fears that she mixed up the letters.
A hot summer day. The cherry-tree branches are full of ripe berries, swaying from the wind and weight. A recently retired father invites his son to help him with the cherry picking in the garden. The father is not in a rush, as he now wants to spend more time with his son, leaving the cherries in the background. Working together and staying silent, they both realize how much time they’ve lost during those 30 years. The cherries bring the two men back to their first memories and let them experience them longer, as if to start all over again.
After his e-bike is stolen, a food delivery driver in New York City comes to terms with the fragility of his life in America.
Aningaaq, an Inuit fisherman camping on the ice over a frozen fjord, talks through a two way radio with a dying astronaut who is stranded in space, 500 kilometers above Earth. Even though he doesn't speak English and she doesn't speak Greenlandic, they manage to have a conversation about dogs, babies, life and death.
Dolly, a 67-year-old cleaning woman, gets mad at the Coop Supermarket. She thinks they're only pretending to be environmental because they still shrink-wrap their vegetables in plastic. She calls Coop and gets put through to Majken. Meeting Majken changes Dolly's life. You can't shut people down forever.
Every day Paul crosses a canal that separates the Amsterdam city center from the north side, where his lover Christiaan lives and waits for him. A dear routine for both - until one day Paul meets Claire, who starts seducing him into her very own universe, the Hotel Paradijs. Claire makes Paul the audience of her own play: a play where the roles are reversed and into which Paul is undeniably drawn.
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.
Three criminals pledge to free the soul of their friend from his gibbeted corpse in this short film based on 'The Highwayman' by Lord Dunsany.
Matryoshka Doll