Universal Leader (1997)

Monster Girls

Leah, a lonely zombie-in-hiding, is forced to rejoin society when she inherits a house from a mysterious relative. Bullied into getting roommates by a suspicious inheritance lawyer, she's joined by Hazel (a gutter punk goblin-in-exile) and Half-Off (a naive alien researching human love) on the path to redemption. Monster Girls takes a darkly comic look at the lives of every modern 20-something; desperate to find identity, acceptance, and a way to resist the urge to kill everyone they meet.

Boom

A pair of clumsy birds try their best to protect their eggs from a volcanic eruption.

Time Gentlemen, Please

A would-be publican decides to set up shop on a remote island with a flat-pack DIY pub, but encounters more competition than he bargained for.

Manon aime le hockey

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The Case of Jan Pampuch

An absurd comedy about a modest toy salesman who displays an advertising banner for his company. Unexpectedly, the banner becomes the subject of a worldview conflict that Jan has to resolve in order to keep his business.

Prangover

Boy meets Girl but with no dialogue or contraception.

Chainsaw Richard

A boy and his ghost friend go to see a movie.

An Affair to Remember!

A wife reveals to her younger husband that she is having an affair.

Hurricane Boy F.Y.T!

Delphis, an 11 year old kid from the roughest part of Montreal, lives life according to his own rules, under the label of the Hurricane. Set in 1991, the film crudely deals with various social labels with a dose of black humor.

The Laughter Congress

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The Impossible Voyage

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

Oktapodi

Two Octopi fight for their lives with a stubborn restaurant cook in a comical escape through the streets of a small Greek village.

Long Distance Relationship

A brief story of a guy who's obsessed about having sex with ETs.

La Cura

In the De Angelis household, the days pass slowly and Federico, a bored modern prince, lives in the world while remaining detached from it. An encounter with a special friend becomes an opportunity to be reborn from the ancient ruins of his family.

Hotsy Footsy

Magoo's at a Rutgers alumni dance and winds up squaring off with a pro wrestler at the arena across the alley, thinking he's dancing with the wife of an old friend.

The Bell Boy

At the Elk's Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests. The elevator is powered by a stubborn horse. A sham robbery turns into a real one. And there is a chase on a runaway trolley.

Christmas Comes But Once a Year

At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received used defective toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas.

No Time for Nuts

Scrat comes across a time machine and is transported to various times all in pursuit of his beloved acorn.

Fuck Yourself and Dance

David is a guy with a job, some friends and fairly successful with women. He cannot complain, but he feels completely empty. Then, Elena enters his life and he idealizes her at once. David thinks he has found what he has been looking for. He thinks he is in love, he wants it very badly. This time, it seems everything is going to be fine. Or is it?

The High Sign

Buster is thrown off a train near an amusement park. There he gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. Ordered to kill a businessman, he winds up protecting the man and his daughter by outfitting their home with trick devices.

Softboiled

Having run out of weed, Norville visits his close friend and drug dealer Gary, only to find himself ravelled in an absurd conspiracy that only he can get to the bottom of.

State of Matter

A troubled filmmaker struggles to watch his own film in a cinema inside his head, along with a made-up audience that negatively reacts to his film, State of Matter.

Visions of Europe

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Meat Puppet

Oz, an irresponsible man baby, nearly misses his girlfriend’s Graduation because he’s too busy playing with toys. Before he can make amends, a mysterious package arrives containing a mangy old hand puppet. Despite the pressing need to be there for his girlfriend, Oz can’t resist trying on the puppet first and instantly has his soul imprisoned in its soft foam body. Oz is left to contemplate the sorry state of his life choices while his human body dies before his eyes. If he’s to have any hope of saving his relationship, and surviving, he’ll have to do the one thing he’s always avoided: grow up.

Learning English

An enthusiastic new arrival to the US seizes an unorthodox opportunity to practice her language skills.

Life Without Trick

Popolo, a magician full of spirit who works at a small circus, loses the legs of his beloved assistant Amabilé during the act of the woman cut in half. Of course, she gets mad at him, especially when they are both fired. To cheer her up, Popolo promises to pay her a vacation, but he needs to find a job first, any job.