The film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than parody status would imply. In the context of this film, "Allegro non Troppo" means Not So Fast!, an interjection meaning "slow down" or "think before you act" and refers to the film's pessimistic view of Western progress (as opposed to the optimism of Disney's original).
A young woman shows up on her cousin's doorstep after a ten year absence. As dark events from the past resurface, someone in the woods follows their every move.
In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and becomes convinced that she is a vampire.
In the late 1970’s and after a traumatic event on their honeymoon, a struggling couple visit an experimental, and borderline unethical memory research facility.
Alfredo, a bank manager and meticulous researcher of eccentric wigs, after his divorce from Dorotea, the forgetful stingy lawyer and former Scout leader, is finally free to decide on his own holiday. The unexpected arrival of Dorotea and their godchildren Eugenia, the hypochondriac germaphobic vloggher, and Michelangelo, the clumsy, visionary creator with a multiple personality, spoil his plans. Together they embark on the journey to San Polo D'Enza; where Anastasia Genoveffa Annunziata, Michelangelo and Eugenia's cousin, who is close to the altar, lives.
As Erin packs her old life into boxes, she overhears a violent attack in the apartment above that derails her night.
Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.
A man loses grip on reality while his neighbor keeps throwing parties during lockdown.
Painful memories are unleashed following an act of violent suicide.
Proyecciones del Limbo
Frank visits his friend Josef, who introduces him to his pedigree rabbits and his wife Mary. Frank is more interested in the slightly unsettling fact that Josef and Mary's garden fence is entirely made up of living people holding hands.
Katelyn discovers she is a character in a film after fighting back against 'The Narrator' that controls her life.
A child, a cat, a starry night but, in this world of innocence, dream and magic, obscure forces of evil awaken. This animated short revolves around the adventures of a young, horned boy and a group of six devil-like vermin that can combine themselves to make one large creature.
A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare - no matter how twisted or odd that way must be. A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll’s novel "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland".
A man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.
Described as 'a fairytale with its roots in the worlds of dadaism and surrealism'.
Winnipeg Film Group. Deep in the winter of 1986. Guy Maddin is in the process of filming Tales from the Gimli Hospital and needs to rub a dead seagull on somebody's chest. Immediately, Dave Barber agrees, submitting his bare flesh to Maddin's road kill and to film history. (This film was commissioned by the Winnipeg Film Group's Cinematheque for its 25th anniversary, Silverscope)
As surreal as it is nightmarish. Ella's parents get into a nasty argument and leave her in a house with two unknown guests.
The adventures of post-Soviet Russia's favorite son, Captain Pronin.
In My Head