Date Nights (2024)

I'm the Most Racist Person I Know

When a romantic gesture towards a bartender backfires, Lali unexpectedly finds herself offered a pity date by another bartender, Ana. What starts as an awkward encounter turns into a genuine connection as they bond over shared experiences as women of color. As they grow closer, Lali finds herself falling for Ana. But when the conversation takes an unexpected turn, Lali must confront her prejudices towards Ana and... herself.

The Darkest Hour

A writer in self-exile is haunted by the memory of his long-lost love. Mysterious events and an unexpected visitor are about to offer him a chance to relieve his pain. Based on the famous poem of Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven.

Session Man

When personal and creative differences threaten to destroy a musical supergroup during the recording of an album, studio guitar player McQueen is brought in to smooth out the tracks. Soon he is reconsidering the direction of his life as he dreams of the elusive brass ring.

Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great wish is to become a death-defying "diving girl," but Doc refuses her pleas. Undaunted, Sonora's gutsy resolve finally convinces him to give her a break. On the brink of stardom, however, a cruel twist of fate threatens to destroy her dream.

Mia

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

Vaca

A woman who is trapped in a boring routine working in a slaughterhouse finds an unexpected opportunity to change her life. Marta Bayarri and Pepo Blasco star in this short film. Directed and written by Marta Bayarri.

Seven Men, One Woman

At the urging of her childhood friend Brémontier, Lucie de Kéradec, a wealthy widowed countess who wishes to remarry, invites all of her seven suitors to her mansion. Her untold intention is to test them by claiming to be ruined. The experience is a success in that each of the potential husbands reveals his inner nature but a failure when it comes to finding a new life partner. None of the guests passes the test except - the eighth man, namely Brémontier who loved Lucie in secret but, being penniless, had not dared declare his flame to her.

Tea

While rehearsing asking out the girl of his dreams, a lonely and highly allergic Circuit-Shack employee gets stung in the throat by a hornet.

Soft

A teenager struggles with his identity after an unresolved family relationship.

Underwater

Battling with his own inner demons, Jonathan is taken to an elite swimming academy deep in the English countryside by his soon to be step-mother. At the academy, Jonathan struggles to find his place among the group. He may be a top athlete in his field, but when it comes to the small world of Lakeside, swimming, sex and chauvinism combine to create something explosive and the potential for something very dangerous. This short movie was produced by extracting the story scenes from the adult movie "SwimBoy."

Law of the Jungle

Nona Brooks, former member of a stranded theatrical troupe, earns a temporary living singing in a café in Duakwa, British Rhodesia, Africa. The café owner is secretly in league with two foreign agents with a goal of making the natives restless. American explorer Larry Mason leaves for the jungle with his servant, Jeff and a safari. Nona escapes the café into the jungle but is followed by the agents as, unknowing to her, she is carrying a report of the agent's activities. She joins the safari just as all hands are captured by a tribe of natives

Windblown letters

Lera is a young artist living in a bustling city, but her heart longs for her mother in a quiet village. Rare meetings have turned into memories filled with warmth and sorrow. However, an unexpected phone call pulls her back to reality, where she faces a painful revelation – one that could alter the course of her life forever.

Uwakoi

When he was a kid, Yukiteru (Tomoyuki Ishida) lit candles and stared at the candlelights, but the candles fell down. A fire broke out and the whole house burned into ashes. Since that time, he has lived at the home of childhood friend Yuno (Yurina Yanagi). Yukiteru and Yuno are a couple known to everybody. Rena (Nami Motoyama) is a new transfer student in Yuno's class. She becomes interested in Yukiteru. One day, Yukiteru and Rena have an intimate encounter. This changes Yukiteru.

Uwakoi 2

When he was a kid, Yukiteru lit candles and stared at the candlelights, but the candles fell down. A fire broke out and the whole house burned into ashes. Since that time, he has lived at the home of childhood friend Yuno. Yukiteru and Yuno are a couple known to everybody. Rena is a new transfer student in Yuno's class. She becomes interested in Yukiteru and one day they have an intimate encounter. This changes Yukiteru and his relationship with Yuno.

The House of Loss

The elderly at the nursing home have their heads shaved. The protagonist who works there sees them but can't read their expressions. However, from one instance, he finds himself looking closely at their faces.

Sard

«Sard», an adaptation of the «Thanda Gosht» by Saadat Hassan Manto, is a story of a couple living in an imagined lawless society on the brink of collapse. The main character SANNAN (Ashar Azmat) and his sensual and affectionate ROMANA (Sandeep Garcha) love each other deeply and they have a dream of leaving the dystopic society in which they live. However, a disturbing incident threatens their relationship. SANNAN discovers the darkest corner of his mind, resulting in a terribly gruesome act. On his deathbed he realizes that he has reached the bottom of immorality. The entire story takes place during one night only.

The Selkie's Lover

A seal in water and human on land, the mythical selkie cannot return to their true home in the sea if their seal skin is stolen. In this modern adaptation a selkie woman trapped on land in human form, longing to return to her underwater realm, unwittingly falls in love with a young fisherman.

Nocturne

After ending a very close relationship, Manuel falls into melancholy and begins to rethink his way of loving. Within his thoughts are the social problems that surround him. He realizes that with these comes a rethinking of what love is. An idea that we have been carrying for a long time: the idea that to love is to possess.

Recycling

As the gravedigger prepares for the next funeral, each time he digs a hole he wonders about his own death.

Headbutt

Headbutt portrays the desire of Tobias (15) to restore the old relationship he had with his brother Lucas (18). While they used to do everything together, Lucas now has no interest in his younger brother anymore. When Tobias fantasizes that Lucas will commit suicide, Tobias has no other option than to restore the relationship with his isolated brother.

nothing, except everything.

A graduating high schooler navigates a world of seemingly inevitable chaos by finding order in the number 7.

Survivor Type

A disgraced surgeon stranded on a deserted island with no food and only a handful of supplies must go to great lengths to stay alive for rescue that may never come.

Submergence

While James More is held captive by terrorists in Somalia, thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, his lover Danny Flinders prepares to dive herself in a submersible into the deep bottom of the ocean, tormented by the memories of their brief encounter in France and her inability to know his whereabouts.

Locks

A young man in Oakland, California, wakes with a heavy heart and decides to take a walk through the neighborhood to the local barbershop.

Placer

Seven friends gather, like every year, in a mountain cottage in the mountains. This year is different, it will be their last year as twenty-somethings before turning thirty. Everyone seems to have matured but the discovery of a porn movie will make them discover how sexual fantasies can change everything.

Massacre

Two sisters, aged ten and twelve, are about to leave their beloved island, which has become too expensive for their family. Their sadness turns into rage towards those forcing them to leave: the tourists. This last summer will be dark, deadly, as toxic as the seaweed swarming over the beaches.

Leylak

In present-day Queens, a Turkish gravedigger is unable to face a shattering truth and risks losing the dearest connection left in his life.

Atabai

Atabai lives with his father and his niece in the village of Pirkandi (Khoi). He was an architecture student at Tehran University of Fine Arts many years ago and left school a year after graduating because of the emotional problems caused by his unexpected love for his colleague....

Her Bath.

A young girl finds her ideal type in a small bathhouse which runs by her mother. She is strongly attracted to something and awaits her. It is not possible to know whether the women's scent, which she has not yet had, is yearning for her.

CHORUS

After missing his wife's phone call goodbye on the morning of September 11th, a now listless and brokenhearted music teacher must harmonize with his increasingly desperate fourteen-year-old son.

Sid & Aya: Not a Love Story

Sid is a guy who suffers from insomnia. Through the many lonely nights, he meets Aya. Who is she, really? And how will she change Sid’s life?

In Self Defense

A doctor receives a call in the early morning. Álvaro, his neighbor, asks him to go urgently because an incident has happened. Upon entering the neighbors' kitchen, he discovers a wounded young man and Álvaro still pointing at him.

Jay

Jay, a 13-year-old boy, is fascinated by his toned and athletic older brother. In order to get close to him, Jay feigns an interest in basketball so that his brother will practice with him. Steadily, Jay's fascination develops into an attraction.

Summer 96

The eternal August 15 picnic on Callot Island. But this year, Paul, his family and their friends find themselves trapped by the tide. Paul, upset, stuck between the world of adults and that of children, becomes aware of his individuality.

Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose

A nightingale bird discovers a true lover when she witnesses a young university student talk with great passion about his beloved. The Nightingale goes on a quest to find the red rose the Student needs win his lovers heart, but this comes at a chilling price. Based on the classic fairytale by Oscar Wilde.

The Beginning

Biel and Aina confront the final conversation about the breakup of their relationship, the first one of both, before she returns with train to her home, making the breakup official. In spite of Aina seemingly having assumed it, Biel wants to fight for the relationship, something that will make her hesitate.

Normal People

Daniel has just been released from prison and is trying to make a new life for himself. Between taking care of his alcoholic mother and finding a job, he might be able to find some happiness and normalcy in a new relationship.

Dead Again

In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.

Miles Above, Years Apart

A young man enjoying a refreshing hike in the mountains discovers a small boy living in an ancient temple. Trapped there by an evil spirit, the innocent boy's only wish is to return to the farmhouse where he once lived with his loving family.

Being

A once harmonious pair of angelic youth are disrupted when one decides he is fed up with his simple way of life. He takes a drastic step in order to get closer to the human boys he envies.