Puzzle & Sling: Boredom Killers (2024)

Awakening

Carsten is dating Melissa, who introduces him to her parents. On a camping trip with Melissa's family, Carsten finds that he shares a secret with Melissa's father.

Kamen Rider Hibiki: Asumu Transform! You can be an Oni, too!!

Asumu Adachi imagines if he could be like Kamen Rider Hibiki, and are approached by talking Disc Animals who teach him how to be like Hibiki, eventually allowing Asumu to transform into Kamen Rider Armed Hibiki.

Eid Mubarak

A privileged six-year-old Pakistani girl embarks on a mission to save her beloved pet goat from being eaten on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Azha, only to learn the meaning of sacrifice.

The Danish Poet

A woman ponders over the strange coincidences that made her forefathers and -mothers meet and create the premises for her becoming the person that she is.

Coney Island

Arbuckle escapes the watch of his domineering wife and heads for Coney Island. Keaton arrives that same day with his attractive, and rather easy, girlfriend, who is immediately stolen from him by St. John.

Convict 13

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.

Max Fleischer: Lost Cartoons

A series of rare Max Fleischer sound cartoon shorts released by animation historian Jerry Beck. Fleischer was a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios. He brought such animated characters as Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye and Superman to the movie screen and was responsible for a number of technological innovations including the Rotoscope.

Resurrection

In the wake of a traumatic incident at a funeral, an aging widow is faced with a bizarre, impossible choice.

My Brother

Alberto has fled as far as possible from his conservative family. He lives in Berlin with his partner, and works as a comics illustrator. But an unexpected event forces him to return home and face the past.

Barrio Boy

A secretly gay Latino barber quietly falls in love with a handsome stranger over the course of a haircut during a hot and sweaty summer afternoon in a macho Brooklyn hood.

Sweet Dreams

A cupcake escapes a city of sweets and is marooned on an island with vegetables where he learns to reform his destructive ways in this tasty stop-motion from the talented Kirsten Lepore.

Escaping Gravity

To finally gain her father's acceptance, transsexual Leonie decides to return masqueraded as a man to the world of her childhood: the funfair. Though even the old owner of the ghost train has something to hide.

Footing

One winter morning, a father and his son go for a jog. Along the way, we understand that a gap has grown between Marco, a Parisian who has come to spend a few days in the countryside, and Jean-Claude, a retired policeman who doesn't talk much. Their love is present, but barriers and modesty hold them back from expressing it.

How to Train Your Dragon: Snoggletog Log

When Hiccup and Toothless begin sharing stories of their special relationship with their respective families as they prepare for the Snoggletog Festival, it quickly becomes clear that the new generation of Vikings don’t remember the bond between dragon and human.

The House That Jack Built

Story about the cow with the crumpled horn that tossed the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built.

We Are Fine

A boy makes a discovery at the seaside.

Krakatau

An portrait of madness and inner turmoil, conveyed through mesmeric images of dreamlike intensity.

Antoine and Colette

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

Bella

Just before the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, at the end of the Cold War. Everything is changing in front of Anthi’s eyes and Christos seems to be changing too. Bella is the story of a moment in time recreated as if in a feverish dream where fiction and documentary overlap perfectly, creating a striking and emotional cinematographic universe.

Fauve

Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane and the headless horseman is brought to life, narrated by Bing Crosby.

The Champion

Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love.

The Perfect Human

An elegant and humorous film—in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise—spotlights "The Perfect Human," a model of the modern Dane created by our wishful thinking.

Clodagh

A lonely priest's housekeeper discovers a young Irish girl of exceptional promise.

Newman Laugh-O-Grams

A short film depicting Walt Disney sitting at his desk drawing a series of still cartoons and simple animations in a satirical newsreel format. A compilation of four cartoons about Kansas City are presented: "Cleaning Up!!?," "Kansas City Girls Are Rolling Their Own Now," "Did You Ever Take a Ride Over Kansas City Street in a Fliver" and "Kansas City's Spring Clean-Up."

Animated Putty

Stop-motion animation of putty modeling itself into faces.

Broke

A teenager's millionaire father goes bankrupt, and rumors about the girl's family finances make the school day a painful struggle.

Next Door Man

Alkis, a young gay man, is upset when Tonia, his ex-girlfriend, moves in next door to him with her new husband. Her marriage is not going well and she makes a play for Alkis. He rebuffs her but is worried that her next target will be Babis, his boyfriend.

Fighter

In Mexico, two grandparents do their shopping. Small bickering and old grudges will they lead them in the ring?

BOB

A painter in a creative crisis gets help from a monster behind a door in her studio.

Armour

Hector's father just died. His girlfriend just left him for an older man and returned to her parents' home, taking their eleven-year-old sons to meet her "new" father. Hector is drunk and is wearing light cavalry armor borrowed from an ambulance driver he knows. There is a medieval festival going on and the town gets on fire.

FRATERNITY

Two brothers clear the air and have a bonding conversation on the past.

Blood Ties

A young woman is forced to confront her past when her family is attacked. She quickly learns she can’t run from her roots.

100m Freestyle

Polo and Domingo spend their last days together between Ciudad Mendoza and Cordoba, in Veracruz, Mexico, before Domingo moves to another city for college. Domingo has to say goodbye to his girlfriend, Mina; while Polo deals with his feelings towards his best friend in the little time they have left.

Arrival

This traditionally animated film tells the journey of how a young boy's personal discovery affects the long-distance relationship he keeps with his mother.

Written for Walken

An aspiring filmmaker uses his few contacts to try and get actor Christopher Walken attached to the movie he hasn't written yet.

Protozoa

Darren Aronofsky’s AFI short opens with angry slacker Dave sitting in a dreary, empty junkyard. Dave stares into space, sips beer, and beats the hell out of a cracked guitar. We quickly realize the emptiness of the dump parallels the emptiness of Dave’s life which consists of smoking weed, staring at television screens and watching school children. Dave’s friend Pete is shortly introduced, along with their friend, Ari, who despite calling her pals losers, doesn’t seem to accomplishing much herself. These three are going nowhere fast. They’re the amoebas of life… protozoa….

Not Under My Roof

A story about the relationship between two mothers with their daughters and the different way they cope with their homosexuality.

Clouds

When a little girl realizes her beloved hamster pet has been secretly replaced by her mother every time it dies, she must come to terms with the reality of life and loss.