How to Smile for More Than Five Seconds (2022)

Headdress

For First Nations communities, the headdress bears significant meaning. It's a powerful symbol of hard-earned leadership and responsibility. As filmmaker JJ Neepin prepares to wear her grandfather's headdress for a photo shoot she reflects on lessons learned and the thoughtless ways in which the tradition has been misappropriated.

Hardcore

A German tourist solicits two Israeli men for kinky sex. The Israelis feel pressure to fulfill the German's violent sexual fantasies.

MutantLand

As the sun goes down in the dark and terrifying Mutantland, hunters are lured into a forbidden zone in their quest for food only to find themselves candidates for the main course.

Course of Action

An FBI agent (Logan Tribou) on the search for his parents, meets them and is inducted into a hippy cult, where he finds love, loss, and lies.

Curiosity

On a quiet night, a young couple find themselves caught up in a nightmarish ordeal after they witness a murderer disposing of a body in this claustrophobic thriller.

High Sugar

A police officer has a fever dream after having too much sugar.

Who Am I

Bastian, a young religious guy decides to embrace his sexuality and goes on a hook up with a stranger. Soon, he regrets it and does not know how to cope with it. Once his best friend Peter finds him at home crying, he has to go out with the truth. However, Bastian is more than surprised by Peter's reaction.

Under the Hood

Stars from the Watchmen movie team up in the amazing live-action/CGI Under the Hood, based on Nite Owl's powerful firsthand account of how the hooded adventurers came into existence.

Alice in Wonderland

This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch. She follows him down a hole and finds herself in a hall of many doors.

Back To The Gaia

An action to save to world, a clinging mourning of her father, the metamorphosis of a girl in her fighting with loneliness and fear.

The Quiet Silence

Bustoni, a performing arts worker who lives with his mother who are dying, has a question that distract his life. What will happen to a woman after death?

Latch Key

Mom's out shopping and the gay boy is smooching with his buddy downstairs while his brother's upstairs with his girlfriend! When the cat is away, the mice will play.

A Hard Blow

Elsa arrives at Oliver's. She is ready to be seduced. But what he wants her to do is far much more exciting.

Man and Boy

A father takes justice into his own hands when he thinks his son has been sexually assaulted. A suspected paedophile lies dead outside a block of high-rise council flats. Did he jump or was he pushed, roles are reversed as the hunter becomes the hunted.

Meet Joe Gay

Director Benjamin Morgan takes a hard look at his own life while trying to write and direct a fairytale gay romance.

Operation YY

Ron, at 22, still lives with his parents. He barely knows the daylight hours and his nights are divided between his job as editor of wedding videos, chats on the Internet and futuristic fantasies. One night all the elements he toys with converge and, for the first time in his life, Ron is willing to risk an in-person human interaction.

Precious Moments

True story of a 30 something man arrested for having sex with a young man under the age of consent. The younger man (resident of a group home) made the initial contact and claimed to be old enough to consent.

The Chef's Letter

In the early morning hours, a chef struggles to write the letter that could overturn his ordered life forever.

The Neighborly Thing

A chilling tale about a man's violent encounter with two strangers, resulting from his overzealous obsession with his upstairs neighbor.

Mis-drop

300 years in the future, a forensic accountant reviews the video stream from one mercenary's drop-pod which has been damaged during the initial stages of a colonial invasion.

To: Gerard

A sprightly elderly man brightens the day of a little girl through magic.

After School

Fifteen year-old Jack is forced to come face-to-face with his growing romantic feelings for his best friend Danny.

Twins

On the eve of his wedding Daniel meets again with his true love-his identical twin brother Jan. For the last five years he's been running away from his feelings. Now, on his stag night he is being tested once more.

A.

Having lost her memory, A. could barely recall glimpses of her childhood in Argentina. After her death, her son visits the empty house for the last time. A sensory journey through a house without objects but filled with memory.

Between Notes

Trapped in the swirling thoughts of a late night shift, a restaurant worker receives a cryptic phone call, guiding her to a refuge from the noise.

Burning Soul

Australia, June 1727, a ship from the Dutch East India Company wrecked on the hostile coast. Pieter and Hendrick are friends like brothers - they grew up together, sailed together, survived together. But when Hendrick discovers the true nature of Pieter's heart, the two men are taken in a storm where friendship and faith collapse.

After Ashes

After a plague wipes out most of humanity, transforming them into mindless creatures, The Grim Reaper struggles with boredom as he kills time more than he does people. Kali Kaminski, the lone human survivor, struggles to maintain her sanity while keeping creatures and lethargy at bay. These two individuals inevitably meet and find kindred spirits in one another changing both of their outlooks on the world they find themselves trapped in.

An Urban Allegory

A ballet dancer is late for an audition for a show inspired by Plato's Allegory of the Cave. She arrives with her seven-year-old son, Jay, and begs the director to give her a chance.

Sweet Pea & Glass

Two rookies have one last chance to prove themselves to the "Suits" gang. All they have to do is ditch a body in enemy territory without being caught. If the rival "Scars" don't kill them, their boss sure will.

Robot & Scarecrow

A love story between a robot and a scarecrow who meet and fall for each other at a summer music festival.

Puppy!: A Hotel Transylvania Short

The residents of Hotel Transylvania find their world turned upside-down when youngster Dennis gets a surprise monster-sized pet.

Water Lily: La Naissance Des Lotus

Water Lily, an invented japanese tale about the birth of the lotus flower, made in Supinfocom Valenciennes (2015) !

Self Portrait

In the process of taking off her make-up, a young woman reveals her true face.

TRIPLE TIMe

A theoretical physicist discovers his life is in danger when he comes home to find two future versions of himself.

Kissing Drew

Inside a drab middle school in 1992, a sexually-confused eighth-grader attempts to regain his dignity after being bullied by a sex-obsessed 'cool kid' whom he privately fantasizes about.

The Sweet Advance of the Knife

A gore story about a girl who learns to use sharp machetes to avenge the death of her beloved murdered by religious fanatics.

Angst & Flesh

Elena loves Abel, she is drowning on the anguish of being, her subconscious manifests her urges; during the funeral misfortune sets in. Laceration and calm, devotion and fear, angst and flesh.

Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays

Hungry for sun, light and warmth, a group of teenagers embark on a dream trip to the Balearic Islands.

The Evening Broadcast

A 30-minute broadcast from the public access station WEVP-TV. An accompaniment to "Un Pueblo De Nada," a short game made as an interlude in the episodic adventure game "Kentucky Route Zero" by Cardboard Computer.

Playpen

The portrayal of a gargantuan baby splashing through silver paint.

Deliverance

Two monks on a mission choose very different paths