Drowning (2023)

The Curve of Forgotten Things

A magical girl, who exists outside of space and time, inhabits an odd, timeless landscape that is both old and modern, and spends her days playing and collecting objects from history, things that she loves.

Echo

A reframing of the classic tale of Narcissus, the director draws on snippets of conversation with a trusted friend to muse on gender and identity. Just as shimmers are difficult to grasp as knowable entities, so does the concept of a gendered self feel unknowable except through reflection. Is it Narcissus that Echo truly longs for, or simply the Knowing he possesses when gazing upon himself?

The Devil's Ball

After receiving a suspicious suicide note, a pro hacker investigates a mysterious theatre troupe, only to come dangerously close to his own curtain call.

Prep & Landing

Wayne gets a new rookie partner, Lanny, after his previous partner got the promotion he wanted. Lanny has to remind Wayne of the Spirit of Christmas and the importance of being an elf in Santa's Prep and Landing elite unit.

Monster Pets: A Hotel Transylvania Short

Drac tries out some new monster pets to help occupy Tinkles for playtime.

The Secret Life of Tom Lightfoot

Tom is anxious, he holds a secret in his human heart, a wing beat and a flutter and its bursting to take flight.

Polar

A little bear feeling lonely in a forest communicates with the Ursa Major (Great Bear) constellation. When a star suddenly falls from the constellation, he decides to bring it back to the Great Bear.

The Last Word

A charismatically verbose writer who befriends the resident bartender on a train ferrying dark secrets. The writer’s sanity begins to unravel as he faces a haunting truth he can’t escape.

The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas

Meeper and the ChubbChubbs go to the North Pole; when Santa Claus is injured and can't deliver his presents, he is replaced by Meeper.

Meshes of the Afternoon

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.

Basorexia

A young artist is caught in between the world of fantasy and reality. There he finds a girl that he can't understand, explain, or identify.

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

The unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse traveling together in the boy's search for home.

Dora and the Fantastical Creatures

Dora and Boots embark on an incredible adventure to the land of alebrijes, the most magical and colorful creatures in the rainforest. There, they must band together against Swiper to save the beloved alebrijes and their Copal Tree Celebration.

Wonderwall Guy

Wonderwall Guy brings his guitar to a party to impress girls and just won’t leave. A group of the fed up partygoers band together to try and get him out of there, but something unexpected happens…

Tadpole

I was very small, but I still clearly remember. Dad and mum didn't see it but I, I knew straight away. What was in the crib wasn't my little brother. No. It was you.

Miracle of Time

By chance, two strangers cross paths, sparking a love story intertwined with dreams long forgotten. As their worlds collide, they must decide whether to chase their dreams or let this unexpected romance slip away like a fleeting moment.

Wolfwalkers

In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack. But when she saves a wild native girl, their friendship leads her to discover the world of the Wolfwalkers and transform her into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.

Kaalam Darrr - Short Film

Ever thought about getting rid of the worst parts of your life to find peace? Meet GoKi (Gopala Krishnan), a frustrated and vexed young man who spends New Year's Day running his uncle's CD shop. Desperate to escape his monotonous life, he stumbles upon a mysterious calendar in a pile of trash. As soon as he tears off a sheet, his life takes an unimaginable turn. Yet, time has a way of binding human lives to reality. This 3-minute (2 mins, 49 secs) mystery comedy Tamil short film depicts how time intricately crafts a profound journey for its protagonist.

Placebo - Protége-Moi

Controversial director Gaspar Noé pays homage to the orgy scene from Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, filmed in one single fluid shot.

Snakes & Stairs

Upon the death of his grandfather and playmate, Bruno, an 8-year-old boy, embarks on a journey in a magical world, trying to finish the unfinished story he was building with his grandfather to become a king.

Big Trouble in Little China

Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.

Danny Boy

A young poet falling in love. A city that awaits a drama to unfold. A time of sadness and conformity, a time of decisions. There is light, there is hope, there is poetry behind the dark clouds of our world.

The Tree and the Cat

Away from people, animals, forests and fields stood a very tall tree. It did not need anyone, it was completely indifferent to everyone. Once a cat wanted to learn the style of life of the tree, which has allowed her to stay near it, so that she could take over its attitude to everything around. But eventually the cat affects the tree as well...

Hotaru

Nova, immersed in metaphors that cross her unconscious, is guided by fate, door to door.

Beauty and the Beast

Tonight's program has been composed by and for grown-ups who are children at heart. Eternal history, the tale of Belle-Rose. Also known as Beauty and the Beast.

Bunny & Non-Bunnyness

When the Easter Bunny discovers nobody believes in him anymore, he has an existential crisis.

Howl from Beyond the Fog

Set during the Meiji reformation era in a small village in Kyushu, Japan. The story revolves around a young boy named Izana and a blind woman named Takiri, the two encounter the large monster Nebula who since ancient times was feared as the god of lake Amenosagiri. Theme of the film focuses on the Japanese concept of light and darkness, as told by puppetry and model miniaturization of the films’ world with practical special effects by Keizo Murase.

DC Showcase: The Phantom Stranger

Jess joins her friends at a party in a dilapidated mansion hosted by the mysterious Seth. When odd things begin to happen to Jess and her friends, the Phantom Stranger intervenes to save her from a dreary fate.

Infraction

Amandine, an inflexible traffic warden, takes perverse pleasure in punishing every little infraction by handing out a fine. An unexpected event suddenly disturbs her daily routine.

Hollywood Lucifer

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Céu

The angel protecting Mariana must guide her to her death. What happens when she finds herself falling in love with the human she protects?

Simonetta's eyes

Walking in her home, Evelia experiences the past, the present and the future at the same time. In the symbolic life she leads, governed by the god Janus, everything around her seems to speak to her, until random visions are born poetic. Through the trance state that awakens the inner gaze, Evelia's anima connects with the anima mundi. Simonetta's eyes is about the memory that a person will leave behind; Evelia tells the viewer, with the language of the gaze: "one day, we will only be memory".

Trouser bar

Set in a London gentleman's outfitters in 1976, and taking inspiration from the emotions aroused by a fetishist love of corduroy, leather and tight trousers, two men enter Sir John's Trouser Bar but little do they know the sexual adventures that await them inside.

Entering Red

A woman walks into a bar and is sold the life of her dreams.

Flores

In a natural crisis scenario, the entire population of Azores is forced to evict due to an uncontrolled plague of hydrangeas, a common flower in these islands. Two young soldiers, bound to the beauty of the landscape, guide us to the stories of sadness of those forced to leave and the inherent desire to resist by inhabiting the islands. The filmic wandering becomes a nostalgic and political reflection on territorial belonging and identity, and the roles we assume in the places we came from.