Impossible Maladies (2024)

The Lord of the Rings

The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle-earth.

Fruitcake

Two sisters arrive at their parents' home for Christmas with boyfriends in tow. When the family leaves for a last minute trip to the mall, the two boys are left to mind the turkey. What ensues will surely become a memorable holiday for all.

Airplane!

An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

The Buffalo Boy and His Flute

A young boy who likes to play the flute dreams that he has lost his water buffalo.

It Rains

Is that what mass graves are like, one body on top of the other and nothing else? Through the rain, Oliver sends signals to his mother to help her unearth the truth.

Abandoned Village

Village, like a human being, is born out of love. Village, like a human being, is ruined, if left without love.

Hec Tic Tac

When the young Austrian couple oversleeps, the imminent arrival of the girl's parents creates a stress situation that turns into slapstick and chaos.

Fuzzy Feelings

Creativity has the power to change the way we see each other, and the world. Sometimes, seeing things through a new lens can make all the difference.

Odyssea

A young woman returns to her idyllic hometown and embarks on a private venture that involves both real and imagined inhabitants from her past.

Not Funny

Manolo and María. They live together and love each other. He loves to constantly play pranks on her. She is very patient and has a great sense of humor. But Manolo doesn't realize that when you play a prank, you have to accept all the consequences.

The Smortlybacks

On a tabletop mountain a mahout and his strange herd make a surprising and never-ending journey.

Flammes

Memories split in the space.

I Was a Teenage Werebear

A repressed gay teen transforms into a beast after being bitten by a hunky classmate.

Pepper

The painful awakening of a couple after an evening of fantasies ...

100 papiers

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Arc

In a bizarre and decadent society, faceless characters are tirelessly trying to appeal to a body of bureaucrats in order to finally be allowed to have a face. Will they be happy when they can get a nose, a pair of eyes and a mouth?

A Grand Day Out

Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

The Wrong Trousers

Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

A Close Shave

Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.

Osamu and Musashi

The animation was produced for the Tezuka Osamu Manga Museum, thus it features scenes from the "life and nature" of Tezuka Osamu's childhood, themes that are central to the museum as a whole, through exchanges between the boy Osamu and the carabid beetle (Osamushi) who provided the origin for the artist's name.

Shivering Shakespeare

The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go from bad to worse when the neighborhood tough kids disrupt the show. The pie fight is given a new twist by use of some slow motion sequences.

The Princess Strikes Back

Misfortune and tribulations with domestic violence lead to an expectable romance. The fairy godfather must save poor Cinderfella from misery and servitude. How will the princess strike back, exactly? This modernized fairy-tale short film by Keeley Knight and Dave Lojek reverses gender roles.

Bug Diner

A dissatisfied marriage, a secret crush, and workplace fantasies come to a head in a diner run by a mole with a hot ass.

Bob's Funeral

Searching for the root of generational trauma, the director takes a camera into his estranged grandfather’s funeral.

Beast

Inspired by real events, "Bestia" enters the life of a secret police agent in the military dictatorship in Chile. The relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations, reveal a macabre fracture in her mind and a country.

The Marriage

Today is the most important day in the lives of Suso and Ricard: after several years in a relationship they're going to get married. Ricard comes from a Catalan family of rancid lineage; Suso, from a humble one in La Mancha. Both of their families are delighted with the marriage. Well, not all: Adela, Suso's grandmother, will be present at the dinner, but unaware that what's being celebrated is her grandson's wedding day.

The Bleacher

The disappearance of her sock at a local laundromat sends a fragile Rita over the edge. Hellbent on finding it, she searches deep and gets sucked into a washing machine, entering an otherworldly cycle from which she may never escape.

Pathological

A woman who’s a pathological liar wakes up one day to discover her lies have become true.

The Lost Season

As the world experiences its final winter, desperate measures to hold onto the season awaken a radical labor consciousness.

guts

Desperate for help, a woman in recovery asks an unlikely stranger on a dinner date.

Say Hi After You Die

After her best friend dies, a woman sees visions of her friend appearing in the form of a portable toilet. She interacts with the toilet as if it is her deceased friend.

Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story

Dr. Harvey Wallinger is one of Nixon's aides who rises through the ranks to become the "real" power behind the president. This short was produced as a television special for PBS in 1971 and was scheduled to air in February 1972, but it was pulled from the schedule shortly before its airdate as PBS officials reportedly feared it might adversely affect their government funding. The special never aired, but it can now be viewed in The Paley Center for Media and has been widely bootlegged online.

Vincent

Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams that annoy his mother.

Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom

Professor Owl gives a lecture on the evolution of Western musical instruments, starting with the advent of rudimentary brass, woodwind, string and percussion instruments by ancient cave dwellers at the dawn of history.

Would You Look at Her

A hard-headed tomboy spots the unlikely solution to all her problems in an all-male religious ritual.

Pikachu's Vacation

Pikachu and the gang learn responsibility, teamwork as well as cooperation during their Summer vacation at Pokemon Island.

Gayniggers from Outer Space

Extraterrestrial beings travel the galaxy to free men "oppressed" by females to make way for an entirely-homosexual society.

Eureka!

A lazy, uninspired woman is visited by an otherworldly being responsible for giving humanity all its great ideas.

Baseball Bugs

Bugs Bunny single handedly takes on the “Gas-House Gorillas,” a baseball team of hulking, cigar-chomping bullies.

Big House Bunny

While attempting to evade a group of hunters, Bugs Bunny jumps into a rabbit hole and inadvertently tunnels into Sing Song prison, where the malevolent prison guard, Sam Schultz, assumes he's an inmate.

David French Is a Piece of Shit and I Want Him Dead

Brothers Dean and Anthony form the up and coming rock band Bad Penny with their friend James as lead guitarist and singer and are doing their first headline tour. On their tour they brought along a support band called French Kiss, which is fronted by a charming singer called David French. To the brothers disgust French Kiss is becoming more popular than them and they devise an evil plan to make their band gain popularity again.

The Search for Human

In a fantasy world, a griffin embraces his fate and goes on an epic journey to find a legendary creature : The Human.

Irradiation

While being escorted to a mysteriously irradiated site, a scientist experiences strange visions.

Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic

Dante journeys through the nine circles of Hell -- limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery -- in search of his true love, Beatrice. An animated version of the video game of the same name.

The Waiting Room

A large train station, it might be anywhere in a big city. Waiting passengers, some are curiously observing each other, some are too much involved with their own petty problems to pay attention to anything else. Our man, self- assured, practically undresses some of the woman present with his eyes, at least as long as his wife is absent, trying to get them some coffee. A beauty in blue returns his challenging looks, he can hardly believe it's true. Obviously, it is his lucky day today. By the time his wife returns our man has experienced some astonishing things under the watchful eyes of the fellow passengers. And most probably he will be much more reserved next time he sees a beautiful blonde.

Average Joe

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