Cat in the Eastern Palace (2020)

The Courtesan and the Female Scholar

Cross-dressed as a man, the young scholar did not anticipate catching the eye of a beautiful courtesan, nor the bond that they form together. But will her long-standing deception create a rift between the two of them?

Conséquent

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The Caged Canary

Years of trying to fit in with the high society as the Gu family's foster daughter, Gu Shuyi meets headstrong & charming, Bai Yuwei. These two women grow fond of each other. With their new found trust and support, they try to break free from the constraints of patriarchy and embrace modernity.

Who Will Comfort Toffle?

The lonely Toffle learns to overcome his fears when he needs to rescue the Miffle from the Groke.

Water Lilies

Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama of the angst of coming-of-age.

The Fox Spirit Repays a Debt

A wife and a concubine seek freedom. In a game of seduction, together they join forces to defeat their oppressors.

Henry V

Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.

A Tale of Yearning

This is a sad tale of a noble lady who is entranced by an opera singer. Hoping to get closer to the singer, the lady takes up lessons with her. Despite their affection, they must face obstacles.

A Search Through Nine Lifetimes

For love to travel for thousands of years, they will eventually meet.

Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous

A tampon woman meets with an astronaut man in order to fly to the moon. While Daniel’s charged with scattering his mother’s ashes, Claude awaits the miraculous return of her period.

ACT

Several fragments of one day in Leningrad in the autumn of 1989, refracted in the imagination of the artist.

Loving Alex

For Dan, ALEX is more than a virtual assistant; he's his soulmate.

The Liar and His Lover

Set within music field, this film depicts a love story between a 25-year-old sound engineer and 16-year-old high school student Riko, who posessess a gifted voice. 25-year-old sound engineer Aki is a member of popular band "Crude Play," but right after the band decides to make their major record debut Aki quits the band. But, Aki provides his music to Crude Play under the name of producer Soichiro. Aki begins to date Riko, whose father runs a fruit and vegetable shop. Riko doesn't know about Aki's background, but she likes to listen to him hum. Riko is in a band herself, with childhood friend Yuichi and Sota. One day she is scouted by producer Soichiro.

Mädchen in Uniform

A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.

Charlotte

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she escapes to the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only an extraordinary act will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.

Saving Face

A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.

Loving Annabelle

Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly though when sexual chemistry appears between her and the Head of her dorm and English teacher, Simone Bradley. Annabelle pursues her relentlessly and until the end the older woman manages to avoid the law.

Before, Now & Then

Set against Indonesia’s turbulent post-independence years in the 1960s, the story revolves around the domestic life of a woman whose personal life has been completely overturned by the political turmoil.

Polycephaly in D

Informed by an underlying sense of anxiety and anguish, Michael Robinson’s Polycephaly in D nestles fragments of narrative within a collage of sound, image, and text that oscillates between the elegant and the discordant.

Fèlix at the Sant Cebrià's Mountain

Fèlix is a farmer who lives in the quiet vineyards of the Catalan Penedès. One day, he receives a visit from his grandfather, an old wizard, who asks him for help. Fèlix's sister, Sara, has been kidnapped by the dark wizards who live in the castle of the Sant Cebrià’s mountain. She will be sacrificed to the evil Wizard King Morden, who thousands of years ago was imprisoned by Fèlix's grandfather in that castle. Being Fèlix the only one able to save Sara, he will arm himself with his grandfather's ancient stick; he will walk to the wizards' castle and will cope with Morden.

Heart of Mold

On a historical grave site, a teenage girl with low self-esteem, a white rapper, and the ghost of a confederate soldier become entangled in a love triangle.

Ryusei-Kacho

Ryusei-Kacho is renowned for his unmatchable skills in securing a seat on the infamous Japanese commuter trains. Never once has he failed until he meets the beautiful and talented Automatic Maria.

The Night of the Butterfly

Installed in their comfortable cocoon, a couple spend an ordinary holiday on the French Riviera. During a night out at a nightclub, the young woman's attention turns to a stranger filled with freedom.

La promesse

A young woman probes her boyfriend after he didn't show up at dinner with her family, and can't decide if he's lying or telling the truth. Spontaneous DIY film made while visiting the Swiss Neuchâtel Fantastic Film Festival.

Thor

Against his father Odin's will, The Mighty Thor - a powerful but arrogant warrior god - recklessly reignites an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Once here, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.

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.

When Night Is Falling

A prudish woman working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university finds herself attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman who works at a local carnival.

Opening Night

A high school teenager navigates the final minutes before his first theater stage performance, which includes experiencing his first kiss. Despite his rising anxiety, he shares a romantic moment with a fellow classmate.

First Date

Suryo (25), a thug asking for security money from shops, wants to be closer to Ajeng (24), who is an employee of a used clothing store. Previously, Suryo only know Ajeng by name, nothing more. When on the last day asking for security money, Suryo ventured to get to know Ajeng further. However, Ajeng's indifferent attitude makes Suryo clumsy and almost runs out of topics to talk about. Gradually through the chat, Ajeng slowly opened up. Suryo who is at his wits end starts a chat with his move after this. But unexpectedly, Ajeng also hopes to have the same fate as Suryo. The farewell of the two of them is just ended with Suryo getting the name of Ajeng's facebook account.

Witches

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Episodes in the Life of a Gin Bottle

A gin bottle is personified with a spirit. As the gin bottle changes hands the spirit of the bottle tempts the various possessors to take a drink. A pro-prohibition movie, the story exemplifies the tragedies of drinking.

Daffodil Afternoon

Immediately following the events of 2021’s “Dark Disco”, Evan Melada finds himself on the run from police after a series of serial murders in a Las Vegas motel room in 2090. Seven years later, Melada is drinking himself to death. After gathering several talismans (a framed photo of Mae West, a lei, a bottle of poppers, and a bandana), he launches himself into a botched dream world.

Spotless Dominoes

A child, a cat, a starry night but, in this world of innocence, dream and magic, obscure forces of evil awaken. This animated short revolves around the adventures of a young, horned boy and a group of six devil-like vermin that can combine themselves to make one large creature.

The Parasite

A young couple is terrorized by a seductive psychic woman. A David Lynch Master's in Film thesis, based on the novelette by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

La défense du drapeau

As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.

Zerch

Zerch asks his boyfriend Cano to do something terrible for him. Cano, driven by a powerful love, agrees without knowing he is about to sacrifice more than he imagined.

The Weepers

'The Weepers' is a 30-minute short film that playfully explores Scotland's relationship with the Gothic horror genre. Drawing on a variety of cultural reference points, including Scottish myth, haunted house movies and Doctor Johnson’s trip to the Hebrides, the film is a surreal exploration of Highland culture post-Clearances, where the number of sheep has gradually exceeded that of the human population.

Good Girl

After ending a six year relationship, a well-behaved, Jewish, OBGYN decides to turn her brain off and her body on by exploring BDSM; instances of which are popping up in the most unusual places.

Something Blue

A lonely wedding photographer falls for a wedding crasher, who disappears under untold circumstances.

Pagbigyang Muli

Age doesn't matter. Or does it?