Maniacs (2023)

Goodnight Cinderella

Cinderella escapes at midnight, leaving behind one of her glass slippers. In the days that follow, the gay prince can't give up the idea of completing the pair.

The Associate

An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.

The Paleface

A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly, but the tribe has resolved to kill the first white man who enters their encampment because white oil tycoons are trying to force them from their land.

The Prince and the Pauper

Long ago in a land with an ailing king, there was a pair of boys who looked exactly alike, a pauper called Mickey and the other, the Crown Prince.

Alone

After a catastrophic incident occurs at the Mars Research Station, an astronaut finds herself drifting off into deep space.

Me and My Girl

Recording of the Takarazuka Revue's 2008 Moon Troupe production of the musical "Me and My Girl."

Smile Guide

Nicolas finds a VHS tape in a box that his ex-girlfriend left behind. What he watches next will determine her fate... or maybe even his.

Tearsucker

Emotionally vulnerable women are preyed on by a charming psychopath who wants to suck their tears.

Girl Blunt

Two young women decide to use their newly found drug-dealing business to get revenge against a conniving man of their past.

Dark Water: The Murder of Shani Warren

Twenty-six-year-old Shani Warren was found drowned in Taplow Lake, Buckinghamshire, with her hands tied and feet bound together in 1987. Revealing how it took a forensic breakthrough to solve the 35-year mystery of the death of The Lady in the Lake.

The Box-er

Debuted at the 2022 Calgary Underground film festival and made in under 48 hours, The Box-er is about a crime boss who hires the most innocent man he can find to lose a boxing match so he can make more money.

Ranch

After a drive-thru deprives food fanatic Brandon of his beloved ranch dressing, he derails his friend Dave’s first date and forces him to join an outlandish race against the clock that will put their friendship to the test.

The Launch

When a ruthless tech nerd is faced with pushback right before a big launch, he must find a way to hype up the team—and himself—before going onstage.

Busco Empleo

Mariana is looking for a job after being fired, but she will learn to value herself as a person.

MAN

An animated short film looking at man's relationship with the natural world.

Fabrizio’s Initiation

In the heat of summer, Fabrizio is desperate to find the right time and place to make out with Nadia, his longtime girlfriend. With frustration building because his best laid plans are constantly getting interrupted, he comes up with a novel solution — but it will take more than just one teen boy to make it happen.

Prototype

In the near future, life-like androids with artificial intelligence have been created to help people with menial household tasks. The prototype, One, created by Roger Marshall and tested by his family, proves to be popular but flawed. Roger has been working on a new model, Two, whose improved features show promise of its super-human abilities. As tensions rise between Roger and wife Shelley, the androids malfunction and the lives of the whole family are soon in danger of Two's sinister plans.

Totally N Utterly

Two maneaters collect the souls of their friends at a house party for Satan

A Piñata's Life

A piñata experiences the same fateful day over and over again, on which it is bought by a girl and finds death at her garden party. Shocked, the piñata tries to break out of this eternal cycle.

The Boy Next Door

When a middle-aged, sexually frustrated, man agrees to help his husband steal the neighbor's prized mid-century art piece in exchange for sex, he finds himself in a compromising position when they unexpectedly discover the neighbor's attractive son has come home from college.

Accepted

A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.

Off-Piste

The two best rescue workers in the region take off for their umpteenth mission. Professionalism and efficiency all around, but things don't really go as planned.

Another Nail in the Coffin

Brad the Vampire is a hopeless romantic. So when he falls for Megan the Vegan who doesn't return his feelings, he's left heartbroken and suicidal. Unfortunately, it's hard to kill yourself when you're already dead...

Antropomorph

The Selva del Camp is in danger. Two anthropomorphic animals have appeared in the town, and they are causing disasters without mercy. The town's residents will try to do everything possible to stop them, but will they be able to put an end to the anthropomorphic threat?

Folk Stories: The Tricksters

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Seanie & Flo

Seanie is a lonely, borderline delusional man who empties bins on the sparse stretches of motorways that haven’t been populated with service stations yet. He’s also responsible for picking up the rubbish that is illegally dumped around the outskirts of the town. Flo is a belligerent teenage girl on her first day doing community service for spraying graffiti around the town. Today is their first day working together and their attitudes to both rubbish and art couldn’t be any more different. When they catch a couple illegally dumping on a roadside, a feverish chase ensues. Seanie & Flo is a short comedy about learning when to break the rules.

The Gesture and The Word

A lonely postman (Gilbert) secretly recreates postcards for a woman (Aurore) on his postal route when her boyfriend's homemade postcards stop arriving from his travels around the world. With the help of his friend Mr. Rostalle, (Paul Dooley) a blind widower and retired literary professor/poet, Gilbert (James Michael Tyler) learns to open himself up to the prospect of love, and in the process of trying to bring someone else happiness, discovers it for himself.

Dodudindon

Film produced as an opening short for the 2009 Annecy International Animation Film Festival (FIFA).

The Den

While Mario is driving under the rain, he finds a woman in the middle of the road, disoriented and covered in blood, who does not remember where she has been or what happened to her. Looking for assistance, Mario stops at a quiet bar called The Den.

MESSiAH

In a playful collision of cultures, a hapless Irishman and his Parisian girlfriend get more than they bargained for when they encounter a particularly mischievous stranger in the spectacular Australian wilderness.

Mésozoïque Alternatif

Dinosaurs and humans evolve and live together throughout history. However, the annoying and invasive behavior of humans begins to annoy Rex, a peaceful dinosaur.

Me & Aydarous

A gutsy young woman sneaks off for a date only to butt heads with her chaperoning chauffeur.

Hazel

An obsessive mother, on the verge of a nervous breakdown. A father, carefully blotted out from all the family photos and a dreadful child-psychiatrist with unconventional methods - This is the summary of young Hazel's life, secretly attracted to boys...

Intruder

A short film about a mysterious leather jacket man seeking revenge

Visions of Europe

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

The Male Gaze: First Kiss

The Male Gaze is a new series of releases from New Queer Visions that showcases short LGBTQ films from across the world. The first instalment, First Kiss, brings together five shorts that are based around men experiencing romantic and/or sexual interaction with other men for the first time. It takes in films from Sweden, Indonesia, USA, Australia and France giving a rounded look at how similar experiences are depicted across the world. The films are: Naked [Naken] (2013); Pria (2017); Walk With Me (2018), One Night Only (2018); Michel's Mouse [Tapette] (2016).

Thirsty for Likes

From the outside, Diamond and Harmony are living the high life as influencers. What no one knows is what they’ve had to endure behind closed doors.

Stray

Set in a parallel universe where the sexual bias favors homosexuals, Eric, a struggling heterosexual, admits himself into a straight conversion camp. What begins as a cure to his deviant lifestyle, becomes a journey of self acceptance.

Red Dirt

About a man, his car, and a struggle against outback Australia and its denizens. The film follows the story of Blair, a young business man, on his way too the deal of a life time, a deal that will set him up for life. However, much like many well laid plans, his journey goes horribly wrong, but he ends up gaining more than money could ever buy.

Margo & Perry

A disillusioned twenty-something woman spontaneously gets a job babysitting a precocious nine year old, but not everything is as it seems.

Six Coups

An interesting assembly of people decides to play a deadly game of greed for a suitcase full of money.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Two

Marcel the shell is out of sight.

Blue Bedroom

June has had the same dream every night for the past three months. Lorelai is worried something bad is going to happen. Things get weird.