(Some) Mortal Tales (2018)

The Testicle

Laurent is a thirty year old dreamer. The day he gets dumped by his girlfriend, he has to go back to his parents and discovers he has testicle cancer. His whole vision of life and priorities are then going to change.

Elsewhere

Nick and Cath head into the middle of nowhere, armed only with strange trinkets and a silver boombox. A journey of love, loss and destruction, all set to a mixtape cassette.

If We Keep Talking in Summer Days

In a small city in the north, the time of midsummer is very short. Two boys get to know each other by chance and agree to meet by a lake. But one of them doesn’t keep the agreement, and it begins to rain heavily.

The Anniversary

Today, Rosa celebrates the anniversary of her engagement with Roberto. While she waits for him for dinner, she spends the afternoon in the pool with her younger brother Angelo. They begin to comment on a news story happened a few days earlier: the body of a boy found in a field a few kilometres from the city. Roberto arrives before they expected: the glances between the three become enigmatic and restless.

PK

The local pastor’s daughter escapes youth group to go to her first high school party.

Killer

Dusty is convinced he has a terrible new ability.

Ganef

Confusion escalates when a little girl thinks she sees her beloved family cleaner steal a precious ornament.

Kapaemahu

Long ago, four extraordinary beings of dual male and female spirit, led by Kapaemahu, brought certain healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii and were loved by the people for their gentle ways and the miraculous cures they performed.

Ília

Ília suffers from a syndrome named Capgras that prevents her from recognizing her own sister. What desperate ways will they have to take to keep themselves close to each other?

Foreign Relations

On a Mediterranean group tour, shy Tom is randomly assigned an intriguing Greek roommate who provokes the age old question: Gay or European?

Digre daier

The class receives a substitute female gym teacher with the world's most delicious bouncing breasts. After the class, the boys spy through a keyhole. The smallest of the boys, Marius, is bullied into going for a closer look to examine the "goods".

Waterborne

When a local ranger in a small country town finds an unidentified algae overwhelming the town's water supply, he knows something's not right. But it's not until the sun goes down that he discovers the true extent of the danger – it seems the town is about to experience the effects of a mysterious infection that turns not only humans, but animals too, into zombies.

Consequences Of Any Kind

Lena and Rita are friends but they act like it’s something more. What do they want from each other and what do they really feel? The lack of clarity between them will have its consequences.

My Ira

The true story of a young mother sitting in a tree, while a rope languishes around her neck.

Chicken Boy

Chicken Boy is a dark coming-of-age story in which a lonely boy recognizes parallels between the bullying he endures at school and the neglect he experiences at home.

Inflatable Swamp

A short film that explores gay male psychical intimacy, with some explicit nudity scenes. Matt, a gay man in his late twenties, navigates the lonely intersection of carnal sex and human closeness. With the arrival of Luke, a new man in his life, he finds a way to reconcile pleasures of the flesh with the new aroused imperatives of the heart.

Closets

It's 1986, tormented teenager Henry is struggling with his sexuality and abusive home life. Henry sits in his closet contemplating suicide. In a flash of light he is transported to 2016 where he meets teenager Ben — now occupying his room 30 years later.

Casual Encounters

A depressed man tries to get back with his ex while drowning his depression in meaningless hook-ups.

The Gift of the Magi

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The Last Dragon

Video poem based on The Last Dragon by Radu Stanca.

Ponyboi

An intersex runaway searches for love and a way out of his working class neighborhood in New Jersey.

Der Rand

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White

Seven colors are assigned to eat the food of their own color. They don't question it, until one of them wants to take a different path.

Epitaph

In the Dark Ages a lone knight, haunted by the spirit of death, braves a dark forest to lay his wife’s ashes to rest.

Judgement

At the identification of a dead body, a couple and a morgue employee both claim to be related to the deceased, and therefore the rightful recipient of an indemnity of at least 520,000.

Chasing Ghosts

Lucas Simons, an 11-year-old filmmaker, is obsessed with death after the loss of his brother. When Lucas accidentally captures a mysterious presence in one of his films, he inadvertently becomes a YouTube phenomenon, and must learn to live life in the spotlight while also learning how to once again start living life to its fullest.

Last Summer

A park bench plays stage to the meeting between two people - Emma and Ben. Here we see them in present day and we learn that they once spent three years very much in love.

Kids on Fire

A prepubescent boy slowly learns of his special role in the impending apocalypse during a religious camp. As he participates in the camp activities, he gets confused between constantly emerging fantasies and his divine calling.

Born Digital: First Cuts

Collection of tech-related short films marking the 30th anniversary in 2019 of the World Wide Web.

The Gruesome Grizzly Death of Dean Taaffee

Its New Years Eve, cause for celebration? NO ! CAUSE FOR MURDER !!?

Session Man

When personal and creative differences threaten to destroy a musical supergroup during the recording of an album, studio guitar player McQueen is brought in to smooth out the tracks. Soon he is reconsidering the direction of his life as he dreams of the elusive brass ring.

Keeper

A woman takes time in private on a tiny island in Helsinki to contemplate a loss that has caused sudden changes in her life. This tragedy has challenged her to see the world in a different light. A light that is driven by a force of nature.

Guys! Action!

The high school multimedia club students aim to win Best Short Film in Cinemalaya Film Festival to avoid dissolution ordered by the school admin.

Lontano

Ibrahim is an African immigrant in Italy. Working as an delivery man during the Covid-19 pandemic, he struggles to make a living. Far away from his family, Ibrahim tries to make more money from the drug trade to afford the return journey to his country, but everything goes wrong.

La fuga

The internal journey of eight men, who, through a theater workshop, go through the different prisons they inhabit. Practicing the art of seeing themselves, in Boal's words, this group of men reflects on their masculinity as a representation to hide their true strength: their vulnerability.

Open House

While robbing a house, Julio asks Ricardo to pretend to be the house's owners. Both of them take advantage of the solitude of their surroundings to express what they truly feel for each other.

To Live

To live is to dream and to fight to communicate and ward off loneliness. In this sexually-charged experimental, two men find each other in a time of need.

Un Camino de Dos

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