Checkmate (2025)

The Actor

In his dressing room, a young actor is making up as an old man. But behind the young man’s mask, what is his real face like ?

The Tell-Tale Heart

Within the chambers of a desolate house, a solitary servant tends to his invalid master. Tangibly detailed period design and hauntingly lifelike puppetry unearth the dreamworld of Poe.

Gaston's Recital

This short fiction film about a young boy torn between conflicting loyalties is resolved with humour and wisdom. Sunday, 2 o'clock, is zero hour for Gaston. He must be in two places at once: performing at a music recital and playing hockey with his teammates. What is Gaston to do?

KM 9

The 1980s, the Tuscan countryside. Two young lovers are driving east to enjoy the dawn but they end up at the scene of a crime and become the new target of the criminals

The Cell

A man condemned to die is allowed a prostitute for his last night alive, but the two of them have dark secrets to share.

The Untimely Gift

A young boy diagnosed with Astrocytoma documents his recovery from cancer with his camera, but after undergoing surgery to remove a tumor, he begins to look at life through a different, more spiritual lens.

White Room

A man wakes up in an endless white void, unable to remember how he got there, he soon encounters an A.I. who takes the man through old memories of himself until he realizes his tragic purpose in the white room.

Purity

A cam girl and her blender salesman brother navigate life in the San Fernando Valley.

Wake

With a hurricane raging outside their hospital, two nurses have one last job before evacuating: stow the “dead-on-arrival” corpse of a young girl in the downstairs morgue before the building floods.

Echo of the Past

José Alberto seems condemned to wander through the countryside like a lost soul since the moment of his beloved's untimely death. Until one day, nature conspires to remind him of his torturous past. It takes strength to uncover the mystery that resides within him, and perhaps, to finally break free from living chained to melancholy.

Rainy Season

Based on the story by Stephen King, Rainy Season follows a young couple who arrive in the small town of Willow, ME.

How Do You Type a Broken Heart

How close to the abyss would you go to save another person? New mother Becky is awakened at close to midnight by Justine, who is on the brink of self-destruction. In order to reach Justine, Becky must open her own padlocked past and finds the imps inside.

This House Has People in It

AB Surveillance Solutions, a security company seems to be keeping logs and watching a family as they live a seemingly average life. However it seems that there is something darker going on under the facade.

Dawn

On an evening commute, Tye detects racism from another passenger's glance. In revenge, he decides to follow and confront the man. Tye's preconceived notion of race and sexuality are tested when he discovered that his younger brother is gay, and the victim is in fact his younger brother's lover.

Body Beautiful

A heavyset woman who keeps being harassed by her aerobics instructor and her attempts to get even with him on a Body Beautiful contest.

The Boogeyman

A man goes to see a psychologist to explain how an evil creature is responsible for the deaths of his three children.

Piecemeal

An approaching loss threatens the of a middle-class family, whose dark secrets gradually come to light and begin to gnaw away at the family members - literally.

A Snake Marked

After many years, a convict who spends his days sketching charcoal art in his prison cell receives a surprise visit from his estranged father, forcing him to contemplate his own existence.

Don’t Hide

Three strangers help a young woman fight to survive in her own nightmare as a demon comes for them all.

The Phone Call

Heather is a shy lady who works in a helpline call centre. When she receives a phone call from a mystery man, she has no idea that the encounter will change her life forever.

Historia Naturalis

A woods dwelling hermit is disturbed by a group of outsiders.

Red

A young woman becomes close with a mechanic who feels responsible for the death of her brother.

Guaxuma

Tayra and I grew up on a beach in the north east of Brazil. We were inseparable. The sea breeze brings me back happy memories.

Visions of Europe

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Fragment of Seeking

A young man desperately seeks out the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers much more through the surreal explorations of his own sexuality. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Kind Mother

An estranged mother arrives at the silent retreat that her daughter is attending. When the two women engage in an unusual - and fantastical - power struggle, limits are tested, generational trauma is brought to light, and together they must grapple with mortality and forgiveness.

nothing, except everything.

A graduating high schooler navigates a world of seemingly inevitable chaos by finding order in the number 7.

Destricted

A compilation of erotic films intended to illuminate the points where art meets sexuality.

The Weeknd - Red Terror

"Red Terror" visual picks up where "Open Hearts" leaves off. The Weeknd is portrayed as a mouthless child who appears to be chased by monsters through an ominous forest as he tries to shed his original form.

One Last Dive

In the morning's small hours, a police diver in search of evidence at a cold underwater crime scene makes a final effort to further investigate and goes for one last dive. The Chief wants to wrap it up in twenty minutes, however, what the diver is about to discover is utterly unexpected and fiendishly gruesome.

Zodiac

Peter is an eight year old boy who lives in a cheap hotel room. When his mother oddly disappears, a transsexual woman comes to take care of him, against her own will. Sooner or later Peter will find out that this is the woman with the 'plumed snake', the woman that will pull him to outside world, where anything is likely to occur.

Hold Your Breath

When four friends jump in a swimming pool, their unspoken expectations start bubbling up to the surface.

A Tale of the Laundry Game

A night ride, a few beers with an old friend, memories of better times. One seemingly ordinary drive reveals the dark truths of men’s past and a sinister web of strange events.

The Drunkard

A couple shelters an alcoholic haunted by his Republican past in their suburban home.

Anya

When a sinister entity emerges from the forest on a 1970s Halloween night, a young woman's true motives are revealed - and her future is decided forever.