The Art of Bin Racing (2024)

For my own reasons

I'm twenty. I need to be scared of things.

Older, Stronger, Wiser

In this short documentary, five black women talk about their lives in rural and urban Canada between the 1920s and 1950s. What emerges is a unique history of Canada’s black people and the legacy of their community elders. Produced by the NFB’s iconic Studio D.

idizwadidiz

Two friends walk and draw circles. It is what it is, idizwadidiz, c’est ce que c’est, seskecé. Nice weather.

Still Processing

A box of stunning family photos awakens grief and lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera.

I Have Sinned

Pablo confesses a crime to Anders, who has a hidden agenda.

April Nights

Daniel & Florencia meet at a bus stop. After recreating their first date, they reminisce and wander the streets of Pando catching up with their lives. Through the night the memories and reproaches take over. Between beers, smokes and missing lighters, they will reveal the true intentions behind this not-so-random meeting.

The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas

Meeper and the ChubbChubbs go to the North Pole; when Santa Claus is injured and can't deliver his presents, he is replaced by Meeper.

Maricón POP

Maricón POP is a singing game that will uncover the deception in a relationship. Each player has to choose a trigger word and say it to the other player, who has to sing at least five words from any pop song containing the trigger word.

die kastanie

The chestnut tree is old and sick and may have to be felled. But for now, it still stands, towering over the garden. Slowly, like buds unfolding, the stories of the people who gaze upon the tree emerge.

FFG: un retrato

An experimental portrait of Fernando Fernán Gómez, one of the most renowned Spanish artists of all time.

Bambini

A working day for a group of young open-pit miners by a quarry in Apulia, Italy.

Hell

Chennu committed his first crime when he was 15 years old: being a street kid. And he entered hell: Pademba Road. The adult prison in Freetown. In hell, Mr. Sillah is in charge, and there is no hope. Chennu got out after four years. Now he wants to go back.

The Pill Pounder

Charlie is a small town druggist trying to wait on trade and play a social game of poker in the back room.

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.

The Arrival

A little boy feels betrayed when his mother has another son and decides to give her a taste of her own medicine -- by summoning another mother.

Alexander the Grape

ALEXANDER THE GRAPE, an unfinished cut-paper animated short from Jim Henson from 1965, relates the fable of a young grape with big ambitions who learns that it is better to accept yourself than to try to be something you are not. The short was reconstructed from film and audio elements; images from Jim’s storyboard fill in missing segments of the animation.

Fires of Kuwait

After Saddam Hussein had the Kuwait Oil wells lit up, teams from all over the world fought those fires for months. They had to save the oil resources, as well as reduce air pollution. The different teams developed different techniques of extinguishing the fires. Man's emergency creativity can be seen at it's best.

Do Útero Ao Túmulo

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Ringo Rocket Star and His Song for Yuri Gagarin

A dry, tragicomic musical short about a gipsy who thinks he will become famous by writing a song for the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin.

Egos

With an actor who can't perform and a dissatisfied crew, a film director tries to create an emotional scene for his film - but the egos involved present true obstacles.

Pow!

A Native American kid scrambles to charge his dying video game console at a bustling intertribal powwow.

Chigh

A documentary of the epic story of the weaving Chigh. Chigh is a kind of texture made from wood and osier that is made in the ilats of the west of Iran and is used for covering around their Siah-chadors

Dirty Airforces

A short film about two best friend's day out and what they accomplish in a day. This short film was inspired by a poem created by the writer (Khalid Rashid) wrote.

Anthony

Christmas Eve. An enormous explosion tears through Lapland. Santa and his elf, Anthony, have crash-landed in the middle of nowhere on their busiest night.

¿Por qué la gallina cruzó el camino?

A hen questions the meaning of her life on a farm.

Wonton

A laundry cleaner named Wonton falls for a prostitute.

Mustapha El Atrassi - La Vie Est Folle

Immersion in Mustapha's mind during the lockdown period.

A Slice of Lynch

David Lynch, Mädchen Amick, Kyle MacLachlan and John Wentworth reminisce about "Twin Peaks" while seated at a diner counter.

RELAXE!

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Hurricane Boy F.Y.T!

Delphis, an 11 year old kid from the roughest part of Montreal, lives life according to his own rules, under the label of the Hurricane. Set in 1991, the film crudely deals with various social labels with a dose of black humor.