Spectres (2021)

Unchoosing Yourself

Presenting a short film I made during a 24-hour filmmaking challenge at my university. The theme was "Unchosen Dream," and we had a maximum duration of 5 minutes.

Without Transition

The road can be long when allowing yourself to love again. Shy and self-effacing Léo leads a solitary existence, but an encounter with the confident Thom turns his world upside down.

Darkside

When an unthinkable tragedy disrupts the lives of astronaut Sam Bowman and his wife Sarah, Sam accepts an interstellar mission to save the lives of a missing crew on a deep space voyage, abandoning his life on Earth in the process. But when a critical failure leaves him without a crew, and without hope, he's forced to reckon with a harrowing guilt he can no longer avoid.

The Curtain Closes

During a robbery attempt at the local cinema-plex in 1977, Shawn Davis reflects on the last three years of his life. Movies, cars, girls, college, drugs and personal life-changing decisions.

The End of My World

Filip tries to reconcile himself with his new life after his long-term boyfriend broke up with him.

Deer Boy

A story about a hunter's son, who was born with antlers, and about how each man kills the thing he loves.

Apollo

Apollon is a teenager hung up by the social ideals of masculinity. He fantasizes about having the perfect body - complete with big beefy muscles and a big banana.

Awaiting

A young woman named Yeon-hee is traveling to Pyongyang with a coach full of elderly people. As she flips through old photographs, she remembers telling her husband Min-woo that she wouldn't allow him to "cross over" to North Korea given the political situation of the day. But Min-woo left anyway and never returned home, and their marriage was torn apart by the Korean War. Now, sixty years after the division of Korea, she looks forward to reuniting with her beloved Min-woo again.

They Came from the Attic

A teenage boy is home alone for the weekend but when nocturnal creatures living in his attic escape, he must survive.

My Friendship

Bank and Jack grow closer over time, but just as they part ways, Jack shares a secret that leaves a lasting mark.

Mr. Fox

Sr. Raposo is a staged documentary about the daily life of Acácio, who found out he was HIV+ in 1995.

Blue Christmas

On Christmas Eve, 1968, in a Scottish coastal town, a debt collector goes to work to avoid confronting his wife’s worsening psychosis at home.

The Lunch Date

A woman misses her train and buys lunch in a café. When she returns to her table, a man is eating her salad.

Starcrossed

Two brothers develop a sexual attraction to one another amid the unkind world around them.

Between the Boys

Voyeuristically exploring a relationship between two young men, which falls into the gray area between the sexual experimentation of adolescence and the world of adult emotions, Between the Boys glimpses into one of the few remaining taboos of current times.

Glory to the Nation

A border control inspector’s morals are challenged after meeting a woman among countless war refugees.

Purple Leone

Purple Leone is an experimental short film exploring how trends emerge and spread across the world. Through a blend of visuals and sound, it reflects on influence, identity, and the subtle forces behind global culture. A quiet, atmospheric look at what drives what we follow.

A Handful of Dust

Dr. Neal Goodman enables terminal patients' right to die through the practice of mercy killing via his one-of-a-kind device. But when he sets out to fulfill a mother's request to euthanize her 'terminally-ill' daughter, he discovers that his procedure is the crux of an elaborate cult ritual that tests his ethics like never before.

After Dawn

Ensconced in a solitary existence, Paweł believed that his feelings for the young man he once loved in Brussels had long since ebbed. That is, until one rainy afternoon, when he finds Clément waiting at his home in Poland.

My Spiritual Medicine

Two white-collar clerks setup a private radio program in Shanghai. An Otaku lady lives in isolation. As the random fates of individuals are linked and changed by the radiowave, love, in all possible forms, burgeons.

Hunting Season

Nikos, a low-key man, works as an assistant accountant in an insurance company that is facing financial problems. The main accountant of the company and his superior, Mr. Alexandridis, is a demanding and rude man, who takes advantage of Nikos and his slavery. When one night, Nikos accidentally sees two men threatening Mr. Alexandrides on the street, the balance in Nikos' life changes.

The Musketeers of Pig Alley

A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.

After Her

After finding a mysterious totem in a cave while on a hike with her friend, a wayward teenage girl goes missing.

Birthmark

A father and a son both have the same big birthmark on their butt. Believing that the two birthmarks are connected, the son scrubs his father's birthmark to remove it—but he just can't get rid of it.

Wasp

Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy food. One day her old flame drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared that he doesn't want to go out with her, she lies and tells him that she is just babysitting the kids. This will be her first date in years.

Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi

A propaganda film during World War II about a boy who grows up to become a Nazi soldier.

Zero for Conduct

In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.

Twelve Nights

This film not only lays bare the brutal realities that people experiencing homelessness face, but also highlights the true value of Crisis and its services in helping people out of homelessness.

Achilles

With the loss of Patroclus (his undeclared male lover), Greek warrior Achilles returns to the Trojan War.

Èvanescence

Plot unavailable

Slope

Living in a village full of slopes can drive you mad. Those who have climbed them in the old-fashioned way are fully aware of that. What they don’t know is that their souls might have stuck around.

No Law, No Heaven

A man's life in three vignettes as he grapples with identity amidst tradition in Hong Kong's notorious Kowloon Walled City.

No Word of Goodbye

Sin decir adiós (No Word of Goodbye) is the story of the encounter between Alex and Marina. The ghosts of the past that separated them a year ago will be present in this meeting.

Meet Me in Holmsund

Sabina has travelled from Romania to Holmsund in northern Sweden to find a job with her brothers. Elin has just finished school and is enjoying the first day of the summer holidays. That evening they meet, and it's a meeting that lasts forever.

The Draft

In a far away castle, a doctor has given life to a creature he stitched back together from corpses. However, it doesn’t seem to suffice him…

Steam is Steam

Montreal 1952, teenager Samuel brings his friend Julien to the neighbourhood steam bath for his weekly routine with Dad. Julien’s first time will be a day to remember.

Die Blonde da oben

The janitor of an apartment complex pays a visit to a resident and things get uncomfortable.

Shannon Amen

Shannon Amen unearths the passionate and pained expressions of a young woman overwhelmed by guilt and anxiety as she struggles to reconcile her sexual identity with her religious faith. A loving elegy to a friend lost to suicide.

Meatoo

A naive actor auditions for a film which could launch his career. The things he's asked to do make him more and more uncomfortable, until a choice remark from the director makes him see red.

Days, Months, Years and Nothing Else

This short film, built around a randomly chosen name and composed of scenes shot within a single room over the course of three hours, features an introspective monologue that was shaped and adapted during the editing process. The narrative aligns closely with the emotional tone and visual rhythm of the piece, particularly in harmony with the non-original music selection, Maggot Brain by Funkadelic.

A Mala

Plot unavailable

Pond, Fish

Qingyan Yu confronts confusion and self-identity problems as she gets to the point where romance starts to take place in her adolescence.