The Payphone (2023)

The Second Time Around

A waitress, while closing a café on a rainy night in London, is confronted by a mysterious older woman.

The End of My World

Filip tries to reconcile himself with his new life after his long-term boyfriend broke up with him.

Deer Boy

A story about a hunter's son, who was born with antlers, and about how each man kills the thing he loves.

Apollo

Apollon is a teenager hung up by the social ideals of masculinity. He fantasizes about having the perfect body - complete with big beefy muscles and a big banana.

Mi Unico Hijo

A young man must choose between his mother's plans or to follow his lifelong goal as a session musician.

Pompo the Cinephile

Operating out of the movie capital "Nyallywood," Pompo has been shooting one B-grade entertainment flick after another that anyone would enjoy. One day, Pompo's "movie buff" assistant Gene spots a new script written by Pompo and is moved by its exquisite story. In a fit of passion, he proclaims, "I want to see this as a finished work in theaters as soon as possible!" However, Pompo tells him, "So you shoot this film." Thus, Gene takes on his first directing gig. Meanwhile, Natalie, an ordinary girl who just arrived in town with movie actress dreams, has been discovered by Pompo...

Plain and Simple

Plain and Simple” is a window that gives on the lives of 4 different characters that share an acute sense of loneliness while striving for a secret desire of belonging.

Soliloquy

Featuring Joan Adler (who also appears in Chinese Checkers), Soliloquy is one of the four early Stephen Dwoskin films that were awarded the Solvey prize at the EXPRMNTL festival in Knokke, Belgium in 1967. “In Soliloquy a girl broods uncertainly over a failed love affair, while the camera roves over her fingers, her cigarette, her knuckles, her lips and the hand mirror in which she peers. In its dark reflection one isolated eye seems a dead thing, twitching; the split between her body and her spoken thoughts becomes a strange bilocation of consciousness; towards the end, an aeroplane drones overhead” (Raymond Durgnat)

Childhood Tears

One night after a home party eleven-year-old Tessa is touched by her stepfather, Bruno in a way she shouldn't have been touched. Her life is forever broken.

5 Centimeters per Second

Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friendship with Kanae, who is secretly in love with him; the demands and disappointments of adulthood, an unhappy life in a cold city.

Rooster's Crow

Drowned in the chaos of a family reunion filled with testosterone and pig roast, Reynald will try to prove to his nephew, his family but mostly himself that he's still king.

You and Me, Before and After

Now in their 30s, grumbling sisters Hannah and Rachel decide to get their first tattoos together. As they get inked, and unable to leave until it’s done, they bond in conversation over still-fresh wounds that they share.

Aban

Under constant pressure from her ex-husband, Nazanin should turn their child - Aban, nine years old - away from a very driven feminine taste. One day, Aban goes to the hospital thinking of undergoing life-changing surgery.

Kissing Drew

Inside a drab middle school in 1992, a sexually-confused eighth-grader attempts to regain his dignity after being bullied by a sex-obsessed 'cool kid' whom he privately fantasizes about.

The New Shelter

Film set in a remote mountainous area where work and living conditions are harsh.

Monkeylove

In the evocative landscape of wintry Hokkaido, Monkeyboy (a young man in a monkey suit) searches for his stolen heart – but even the serene beauty of a mountain cannot redeem the failed connection.

Underwater

A susceptible teenager, in trying to escape the tumult of his home, drowns himself in alcohol, drugs, and parties. Based on a true story.

Purple Dictatorship

Yeda, the green-faced woman, sells homemade bread to support the house where she lives with her sick husband. Through the context of green-faced people, we know the reality of those who live on the fringes of a purple-faced society.

Sitara: Let Girls Dream

Pari, a 14-year-old girl, dreams of becoming a pilot while growing up in a society that doesn’t allow her to dream.

Violet Evergarden: Recollections

An emotionally scarred former child soldier becomes a letter writer in this condensed recap of the moving, gorgeously animated award-winning series.

Neptune

The growing desire between Sandro and Maicon.

The Two in Tracksuits

A son quits his job and is persuaded by his father to head off to a cottage in the remote mountains. Together, the two of them manage to get through their days while wearing old jerseys left by a deceased grandmother. The following summer, the two once again leave the stifling heat of Tokyo, as if escaping to the mountain cottage. However, the next summer is very different.

Mr. Fox

Sr. Raposo is a staged documentary about the daily life of Acácio, who found out he was HIV+ in 1995.

My Biker 2

Over break, Gentle and Motor grow close—but once school resumes, Motor pulls away, leaving Gentle hurt and their fragile new relationship at risk.

Gritty Fraggle Rock

Worlds collide when a secret passage way to the dying world of Fraggle Rock is discovered in the U.S. Officer Lamb and Officer Chops are on the case, when a seemingly targeted string of murders begin to take place against the people of Fraggle Rock. Gobo Fraggle and his friends face new threats, and adventure, in their new home, Earth.

Pop

Pop follows a young boy, Jack, as he explores his own identity by befriending the recently released ex-convict, Pop. The pair bond, but Pop's past and his inability to control his emotions threaten to put Jack in danger.

Mashin Sentai Kiramager Spin-Off: Yodonna 3: Yodonna's Valentine

In the special, Yodonna is given an opportunity to revive as a human on the condition she learn about the emotion of love on Valentine's Day.

I'm Here

A library assistant plods through an ordinary life in LA until a chance meeting opens his eyes to the power of creativity and ultimately, love. When this new life and love begin to fall apart, he discovers he has a lot to give. This short film proves that ordinary is no place to be.

Hot Nasty Teen

A young teenage girl is being filmed through a simple video camera. She is being told to dance by an older man. Two months later they are traveling together by car through small town Sweden. She wants to go home but he insists that they should go on. After all, they have a few more friends to visit. Hot Nasty Teen depicts a seemingly well-known Sweden. But underneath the ordinary surface it simmers from suppressed desires and oppression. Hot Nasty Teen brings a new and daring perspective to male exercise of power and sexual abuse. The cast consists of some of Sweden's most well-known actors.

Lethargy

After receiving an anonymous threat regarding intimate photos shared on social media without her consent, the inner world of Ágatha, a lonely young woman, undergoes a profound shift and turns against her.

The Old Man and the Sea

An old fisherman makes the biggest catch of his life.

The Little Matchgirl

An animated short based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale about a poor young girl with a burning desire to find comfort and happiness in her life. Desperate to keep warm, the girl lights the matches she sells, and envisions a very different life for herself in the fiery flames filled with images of loving relatives, bountiful food, and a place to call home.

Judgement

At the identification of a dead body, a couple and a morgue employee both claim to be related to the deceased, and therefore the rightful recipient of an indemnity of at least 520,000.

The Nightingale

Franti, an organ grinder of the poor districts of New York, has a daughter, Isola, who sings to his street piano's accompaniment.

Hambre

A child is tormented by a hungry well that demands food but, unable to quell its hunger, is forced to find another way to satisfy it.

Tenez

Before a crucial tennis championship, Leo encounters his former coach, who physically abused him nearly ten years ago. Leo, who has been struggling with mental health problems since then, threatens to spiral out of control, caught between the tennis court and the gambling halls.

Emergency

Faced with an emergency, a group of young Black and Latino friends weigh the pros and cons of calling the police.

Pumzi

A sci-fi film about futuristic Africa, 35 years after World War III, 'The Water War'.

James

Young James struggles as an outsider at his school. His teacher, Mr. Sutherland, is the only person he feels he can connect with. When James finally puts a voice to his feelings, Mr. Sutherland's response isn't what James had hoped for.

Secrets

One night, five teens and a deck of cards. Deception. Revenge. Sex. And it's all about to explode.

Dopo il buio

Roberto Faenza's Nouvelle Vague-inspired graduation film at CSC, shot in 1964 with a then-unknown Raffaella Carrà in the lead role.

The One

What appears to be a typical mother-son day in the park proves to be anything but typical.

Weekends

Set in 1980s Toronto, a young boy shuffles between the homes of his recently divorced parents.