Feeling unhappy in his current home, a squirrel seeks an opportunity to break free and find the place he truly belongs.
A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.
A funny story about a middle-aged man who ran into a store, bought two pies and ate them while standing in line. When it was his turn to pay, he got into trouble - no one had seen how many pies he had eaten. The head of the section invites the customer to go to the head of the department, and the latter, in turn, addresses the store director. The director suggests that the customer wait until the store closes, when the goods will be removed.
Zhora Volobuev, a slacker and stylist in search of a client, appears in the lobby of a Moscow hotel and soon meets Frank, the son of a Californian millionaire. Zhora invites Frank to his home, where Frank arranges a kind of press conference. He is interested in everything: how his new friends live, what they think about life, on what means they live. After the visit, Frank leaves for the hotel. In the hope of buying up the American's overseas things, Zhora and his buddies follow him and learn that their new friend is an ordinary Soviet journalist.
The film is based on the feuilleton of the same name by I. Ilf and E. Petrov. A writer named Moldovantsev delivers a thrilling Soviet‐style Robinson Crusoe adventure on deadline, only to have his editor insist on adding a local party chairman, freed ex‐members, an activist collector, a housing committee and even a meeting table, bell and ledger washed ashore. Reluctantly he complies, so far that he jettisons Robinson himself as an unjustified weakling, transforming his novel into an absurd manifesto of bureaucratic excess.
When Bússi, Iceland's toughest cop, is forced to work with a new partner to solve a series of bank robberies, the pressure to close the case as soon as possible proves too much for him.
Caleb, a South Florida teen, loves his camera, his weed and his grandmother. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when he's exposed to HIV. While he waits three months for his results, Caleb finds love in the most unlikely of places.
Paris, in the Belleville neighborhood in 2002. Two benches are placed opposite each other in a public garden. One is always in the sun, while the other is always in the shade. Every day, two elderly Jews and two elderly Arabs rush to have the best seat. One day, the bench exposed to sunlight disappears for no reason...
At the end of the 19th century, young Rosita and her cousin are engaged to be married, shortly before he has to leave for Cuba.
A woman craving connection during Covid, reaches out to her ex-girlfriend. When she's invited over, they awkwardly navigate whether or not they're willing to drop their masks to reignite the romance.
An aging hairdresser escapes his nursing home to embark on an odyssey across his small town to style a dead woman's hair for her funeral, rediscovering his sparkle along the way.
Small Talk
Two Pilots present software at a convention after the tragic death of their friend.
A researcher in plant sciences returns home to his village in rural Lebanon to attend his father's funeral. During the three-day-long Christian Greek Orthdox memorial he discovers that a pathogen is infecting the trees across his village. A dark comedy about tradition, grief, and the environment.
A fake commercial for a lesbian telephone hot line. A short by Kyle Dunnigan and Tig Notaro.
For his 45th birthday, wealthy Californian Adam receives a surprise gift from his choreographer partner: 100 weekly Spanish lessons with Cariño, a vivacious expat who teaches virtually from her home in Costa Rica. Adam's unconvinced at first; a self-described “creature-of-habit”, he’s unsure about where or how this new element will fit into his carefully-structured routine.
A true story about a gay boy growing up in the collapsing USSR, his courageous mail-order bride mother, and their adventurous escape to Seattle in the 90s.
When a happy young exterminator discovers there's a better version of her out in the world, she begins to question the life she chose for herself.
Picture this if you will. A futuristic lighthouse floating through dark space. Aboard this lighthouse is a Spirit Guide and his two younglings Alexi and friend Micah. Three spiritual beings on an unusual journey. When the curious Alexi asks what his life will be like on earth the Spirit Guide is compelled to show him. He knows that dark forces are at hand and Alexi may indeed never be born at all. The Guide reluctantly shows him special moments in time where we find Alexi's family in deep turmoil where dark secrets abound.
An archaeologist and his assistant discover two female mummies in an Egyptian tomb with a warning in hieroglyphics not to wet them with the water in an urn. When they do, one mummy gets up to hi-jinks, while the other, Princess Itmay, does a burlesque dance.