Dear Martha (2024)

La Jetée

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.

Bardo

After a long night working the New York City streets as a taxi driver, Johnny finds himself frustrated, on edge and seeking an escape. While pulled over and getting ready to satisfy bad habits he is interrupted by Lily, an old lady insisting for a ride home. Reluctantly he agrees to drive her and what follows is an unexpected journey.

Closets

It's 1986, tormented teenager Henry is struggling with his sexuality and abusive home life. Henry sits in his closet contemplating suicide. In a flash of light he is transported to 2016 where he meets teenager Ben — now occupying his room 30 years later.

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).

Drink

A Twilight Zone-inspired cautionary tale about a young mother forced to come face-to-face with her deepest desire.

Dream Kitchen

A tale about isolation and lack of communication, the gap between the reality a teenage boy lives, and how he would like it be. He has a secret that he would like to tell his family, something that he has come to terms with and is about to affect the rest of his life. But how will they react?

G O'Clock

Alex is a paramedic who saves lives on London's gay chemsex scene, but can he save himself from it?

Mother

An everyday conversation between Marta and her mother turns into a tragic race against the clock when Marta receives a phone call from Iván, her six-year-old son, who is on holiday in France with his father.

Mutterseelenallein

An elderly man who lives alone begins to experience a gradual erosion of his memories, as well as his sense of time, place, and reality. As he navigates the uncertain and disorienting terrain of his own mind, the man struggles to hold onto his sense of self and avoid losing touch with the essence of who he truly is.

Caesura

A male #metoo story set in the classical music world.

Anhedonia

In a dystopian near future, a class of people are vaccinated with Anhedonia, a vaccine that causes the loss of pleasure and feelings in order to keep a population focused on farm work.

Isha

Rahmi, a Romanian immigrant living in England, creates a new life for himself while trying to keep up appearances with his Muslim family. This moving, evocative drama costars renowned Romanian actress Maia Morgenstern and Game of Thrones’ Lino Facioli alongside newcomer Hora Savescu as Rahmi.

The Notebook

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

The Unknown Man

Louis, a Flemish writer, decides to isolate himself at the Côte d’Azur, hoping this place will bring him inspiration.

Northern Great Mountain

Elle, 78, doesn't like Sámi people—even though she is Sámi. Pressured by her son, she returns north for her sister's funeral. When she realizes he's planned for them to stay with their relatives, Elle checks into a hotel.

Jules

A flying saucer lands in the backyard of an elderly suburbanite with memory problems, who forms a bond with the scared alien inside.

Chlorine

Miguel and Diego are on the same water polo team. Miguel just wants to enjoy the sport. Diego, on the other hand, has only one goal: to play in the big leagues. Little by little, both will discover that there is more than just chlorine between them.

Three Friends

Each night, after the day's work at the factory, the three bachelor friends met and declared anew their attachment over a social glass. They bound themselves to remain thus as long as life might last, never to marry. But one was a traitor, while the other two were called away. A widened breach, a quarrel, fanned the resentment, but true friendship at last claimed its own.

Laissé inachevé à Tokyo

A young woman travels to Japan to write a novel.

Easy Money

Jaime, a young and attractive male prostitute, arrives to a hotel room to earn what he believes will be easy money. But to his surprise the client has a different deal in mind... Soon, the situation will take a turn to the unexpected.

My Ira

The true story of a young mother sitting in a tree, while a rope languishes around her neck.

Ganef

Confusion escalates when a little girl thinks she sees her beloved family cleaner steal a precious ornament.

Look at Life

Look at Life is a short student film by George Lucas, produced for a course in animation while Lucas was a film student at USC Film School. The film's running time of exactly one minute was required by the course. This was the first film made by George Lucas and was heavily influenced by Canadian filmmaker Arthur Lipsett.

Influenza

The film starts with a man named Cho Hyuk-rae who has perched dangerously on top of the Han River Bridge. It is a sad picture of a man who has been caught unwittingly on a security camera. The camera continues to reveal the downward spiral of Cho and those of us who surround him. The 'real' images shown through the camera keep on becoming more 'corrupted' as the time goes by.

Lebensraum

Marie Kaufmann has to face an unusual interview that decides not only her own fate.

Greek School Prayer

Two high school students, constantly seeking their identity through violence, will inevitably test each other's boundaries.

The Sands Between

A woman has a phone conversation with her significant other which slowly deteriorates as she comes to realize that the world around her might not be real.

Juliet in Paris

A young student, alone in Paris, is engaged in strange and bloody experiences of which she is both the authorizer and the victim.

Emotion

Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with…a vampire?

Michelle

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For People in Trouble

When two people meet one night in London, their relationship blossoms and fractures, intertwined with impending societal collapse.

Sunflower

After being sexually assaulted by a well-respected professor, a reclusive Chinese American girl who grew up in an abusive family struggles to find her voice while her mother tells her to be silent.

Mia

Mia recounts her most intimate confessions, uncensored, in her first approach to a totally new world of domination and submission.

The Light

Spain, 19th century. In a small coastal village, Olalla and her family prepare to live a very special night, during which it is mandatory to comply with a single rule: no light must remain on.

Stud Boob

Two sisters in a bathroom debate their different approaches to the patriarchy.

Beauty Boxed

Young take of a girl breaking chains out of her early child marriage to pursue a dream of becoming a makeup artist.

The Disappearance of Willie Bingham

Progressive Amputation is introduced as a new form of punishment for particularly heinous crimes, in this pitch-black social satire by Matt Richards.

Normal Doors

An OCD gay twentysomething considers a romantic life with a struggling actress he meets at an S&M-themed party.

Foreign Relations

On a Mediterranean group tour, shy Tom is randomly assigned an intriguing Greek roommate who provokes the age old question: Gay or European?

High Tide

A young woman in love finds herself immersed in a state of confusion that leads her to feel suddenly alone.

Short Plays

Football seen through the eyes of some of the best directors of the world.

The First

A teenage boy explores his sexuality to the brink of exhaustion.

Pauline

A young woman chronicles her childhood of neglect and isolation.

Beach Boy

It's mid-summer. Dimi has to spend the vacation with his older brother by the Baltic Sea. On a country road he meets beautiful Isabelle. He is fascinated by her, but disillusioned when they arrive at the campsite together: Isabelle is in a relationship, and her boyfriend is Dimis’ older brother Steffen. But Dimi doesn't give up and keeps on struggling for her attention. He shares an inflatable mattress with her, scares her in the shower and takes her on a boat trip. Even if Isabelle is unreachable for Dimi – in the end he will have reached something and will have made everyone reflect a little.

Jim

Jim, a gay priest, invites a sex worker over for the night. The encounter changes Jim’s life forever, but not as he expects.

Filleann an Feall

Two Dubs, Sean and Ger, get wind of the proverbial pot of gold and what should be a straight-forward job becomes a fiasco. But, there's an old Irish saying - "Filleann an feall ar an bhfeallaire - What goes around comes around".