The Melusinas at the Edge of the River (2023)

behind the scenes

An experimental documentary/animation hybrid exploring likeness scanning, AI, and what that means for identity.

How to Be Alone

When her husband leaves for a night shift, a woman battles physical manifestations of her repressed fears and desires.

My Name Is Julia Ross

Julia Ross secures employment, through a rather-noisy employment agency, with a wealthy widow and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she awakens in a different house in different clothes and with a new identity.

SelfCare

A boy is cooking, a girl is waiting. Breakfast is soon served. Then a stranger enters the bedroom where the girl is lying and the nightmare begins. A short film about love and dependence, about relationships and the urge to break out. Experimental, atmospheric and drenched in neon red.

Oisys

An unemployed dry alcoholic and former smoker longs to escape his shadows in a small abandoned village. Triggered by a mysterious meeting with his neighbour, he must face temptation, hallucinations and nightmares as he searches for his own fulfillment (in form of a cake).

Mug

After fun-loving metalhead Jacek is disfigured in an accident at work, he becomes the first person in Poland to receive a face transplant. This leads to his status as a media spectacle and martyr, all while battling ensuing identity issues as a consequence.

O Outro

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A Believe

A search for the identity of a student named Fathiyah about redefining the values ​​of nationalism on Independence Day. On her way, she encounters many challenges that disagree with her way of thinking, can she overcome them?

El Conejo

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Gramps Is in the Resistance

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!

Sugar, Honey and Pepper

Three episodes. In the first episode Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. In the second episode Giuseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, gets a job as a maid. His mistress falls in love for him. In the third episode, Plinio is a taxi driver who loves his cab above all. But at one point he is involved with the kidnapping of a woman.

Palombella Rossa

Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of election day, he begins to remember his past life, revealing the picture of a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors the one of Italian communism.

Racing Stripes

Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely mistaken notion that he's a debonair thoroughbred. Once he faces the fact that his stark stripes mark him as different, he decides he'll race anyway. And with help from the young girl who raised him, he just might end up in the winner's circle.

Takva: A Man's Fear of God

Humble and introvert Muharrem lives in a solitary and meager existence of a prayer and sexual abstinence adhering strictly to the most severe Islamic doctrines.His extraordinary devotion attracts the attention of the leader of a rich and powerful Istanbul religious group and he offers him an administrative post as a rent collector for their numerous properties. Muharrem's new job throws him into the modern outside world he has successfully avoided for so long. He soon witnesses conflict attitude toward alcohol consumption and goodwill.He notices that he himself has become proud, domineering and even dishonest.To make matters worse, Muharrem's inner peace is unnerved by the tormenting image of seductive woman who tempts him in his dreams,both night and day.With the balance of his devotion now upset,his fear of God begins to eat away at his senses.

Primer

Two fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

Pretty Pari

Pari takes the responsibility of taking care of her family after her father's death. He is trying to save his younger sister Mariam who is working in a cafe under a one-sided contract with a man named Asghar, and so he goes from Shiraz to Isfahan and meets a rich young man named Parviz. Pari reads in the newspaper that Parviz is looking for a private driver. She comes to Parviz's job by wearing men's clothes and using the name Masha Allah. Pari finds out that Parviz's uncle has decided to marry his daughter Laden to his nephew, and Parviz is against this union. Parviz becomes interested in Pari until Asghar's uncle takes Pari hostage with the connivance of Parviz to agree to marry Laden. Pari escapes from the predicament and appears in Parviz's wedding ceremony where he sees Masha Allah's velvet hat fall and Parviz realizes that "he" is actually Pari.

Psycho

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

Mirage

In New York City, David Stillwell struggles to recover his memory before the people who are trying to kill him succeed. Who is he, who are they, and why is he surrounded by murder?

Explicit Television

Introducing Horsin Dickler, who introduces the fundamental concepts surrounding the idea of explicit television.

Quién te cantará

Lila, a famous retired singer, loses her memory after suffering an accident, just as she planned her return to the stage.

The Face of Another

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

IDENTIDAD

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Future Glasses

A meditative teenager contemplates the rooms of the future. Just one wrong choice will change the course of her life. Life and death are determined by her chosen faith. Can it?

Eighth Grade

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

Signé Furax

The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.

Growing Fangs

Val Garcia, a Mexican-American teen who is half human/half vampire, has had to keep her identity a secret from both worlds. But when her human best friend shows up at her monster-infested school, she has to confront her truth, her identity, and herself.

Caminho para a Inexistência

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4.48

In order to win over a tough dramatist at her next audition, a young actress turns to method acting to such an extreme that she slowly loses herself in the coveted role of a promiscuous bisexual self-destructive wild girl and starts sleeping around, provoking fights and cutting herself. Can she pull herself back from the edge of the abyss before it's too late?

I'm Not Gay : A Musical

Plagued by a hidden childhood trauma that is destroying his life, an obsessive-compulsive MMA fighter moves to Fire Island and pretends to be gay in order to buy the house of his dreams and exorcise his demons.

Something About Alex

A teenager struggling with his gender attempts to reconcile with his identity.

Double Identity

As a teenager growing up in East London, the constant decisions about how to behave and how these choices affect us is a major responsibility and has been communicated in the narrative. This piece explores this sense of right and wrong and specifically the theme of duality and the Jungian phycological idea that everyone has a shadow side - which are the things within them that they hide from others and sometimes from themselves. My short film will explore these differences in an effort to highlight the power of the conscience.