Clean Break | An Improvised Short-Film (2025)

Sensitive Parts

Sensitive Parts is a tender and sharply observed dramatic comedy about a young woman who is forced to confront her social anxiety and interpersonal fears before they consume her and the people she loves, with a little help along the way from the imaginary manifestation of an iconic popstar.

Ground Control

A journey to an unknown star, a children's theatre play, an untalented writer and the fear of becoming the worst version of oneself. A mixture of live-action footage and animated scenes. A stream of (un)conscious stereotypes.

Honour Among Thieves

With hopes of starting over, a young thief joins old friends for one last heist. However, she soon finds herself entangled in a violent web of obsession and revenge.

One Split Second

In 1995 Los Angeles, a conservative radio talk show host's beliefs are shattered when his wife suddenly dies in a gang shooting.

The Stars Look Tired

A man struggles with grief after coming out of prison.

Poughkeepsie Crispies

He really likes Poughkeepsie Crispies. Maybe too much. A darkly funny, minimalist loop of repetition, ritual, and barely-hinged performance.

They Came from the Attic

A teenage boy is home alone for the weekend but when nocturnal creatures living in his attic escape, he must survive.

Lucky Lacki

Hopeless romantic Lacki flies halfway around the world from Slovakia to Australia for a Tinder date with a woman who doesn't remember chatting with him. When his romantic grand gesture goes disastrously wrong, he wanders the streets of Melbourne, discovering that sometimes getting lost is the only way to find yourself.

Through the Eyes

Monica is a social worker in Mexico City, whose son has a degenerative illness in both eyes. Having exhausted all other options, a corneal transplant is the only hope. Overwhelmed by the slowness of the health care system and the scarcity of resources, she decides to search for an extreme solution in her work environment: the world of street children.

Century Egg

A man returns to Taiwan, the country he left behind decades prior, only to find himself wandering a city he no longer recognizes and in the company of a stranger who took him in.

Crossed Wires

A misunderstanding leads to sombre consequences as two flatmates recall very different turns of event from the previous night.

The Bosses

Mafia grunt Hubert is tasked with assassinating a rival boss. However, fate intervenes...

What You Can't Promise

When a mysterious woman turns up unexpectedly at an old country house, the new owner makes a decision that could change him forever. He soon realises that something about his new houseguest makes him uneasy. Nevertheless, he can't help but find her strangely beguiling.

Fiz Amizade com um Fantasma

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Will of a Coffee Cup

When an ordinary coffee cup on the desk had its own last will before the final sip.

Dolly Baby - Rhythm & Flesh

In a world where humans are treated like dolls—every part replaceable—Adisa, a struggling musician, faces pressure to buy a new voice before a career-defining gig. Desperate, he turns to the Body Shop, a chaotic underground clinic. The procedure could change everything for him… but is this what he really wants?

Blue Moon Once

John the Baptist finds himself in a Holešovice silo, a wanderer roams across Prague´s brownfields and several women face their fathers.

An Intervention

Chelsea Bledsoe and her husband Graig throw a surprise intervention for her old high school boyfriend, Henry, with a mismatched group of acquaintances from back in the day to fill out the guest list.

Due to Unforeseen Circumstances...

A doomer discovers freedom through despair over the course of a fateful night in self-isolation during the COVID-19 crisis. Shot with zero budget entirely in quarantine.

Refugee Poetry

The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after fleeing from IS war and genocide. As he remembers the abomination, he writes a poem with the title “You drive me mad” in Kurmanji Kurdish. In his home country, Yazidic Kurds are forbidden to work in his profession. Then he eats his apple and wanders through Europe’s middle with more hope.

Willbaht

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A Place of Our Own

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Walter’s Room

A movie about a dying old man, and the son who forgot him.

Ripoff

In a small town in New Jersey, two low-life friends work for a high profile crime boss, who assigns the two a job in which they must pull off a diamond heist at a local nightclub. But when the heist goes terribly wrong, the two start to question if their boss can be trusted.

Pool Sharks

A young girl is terrified of the deep end.

What We Owe to Ourselves

On the day that Maeve arrives at Will's apartment to finalize their divorce, they relive the moments that brought them together and the moments that tore them apart.

Hull

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Ayana

Ayana is eagerly anticipating an important relay race. Just before the start, she is confronted with discrimination and self-doubt, which shake her determination. To make it to the starting line, she must recognize her own worth and find new confidence.

The Nucleus of Our Love

An overzealous bureaucrat invades the sanctity of a nuclear family and their beloved bomb.

A Bike Thief

It follows the journey of a bike belonging to a young newspaper boy.

Clean Break | An Improvised Short-Film

A raw short drama about a couple forced to stay one more night together after a bitter breakup. This film was completely improvised.

Gracious Night

The three men enjoy the evening at a bar whose fate is threatened by pandemic restrictions. Bartender Heikki offers discussion help to his friend Risto, who works in the first line of healthcare, and who has just finished a difficult shift. The evening gets a new twist when a stranger looking for a mobile phone charger pops in and refuses to leave.

no/me

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I know how much your dad loves cigarettes

Two actors perform a play without an audience.

Next Weeknd.

Two teenage pseudo-intellectual hipsters spend the day driving around their hometown in search of culture and adventure

El Último Día en la Tierra

Two old friends reunite by chance the same day a new quarantine is announced.

Mantiac

Two hackers hoping to change their grades find themselves caught up in a dangerous conspiracy centering around manta rays.

I Don't Even Want Me

A snapshot of a 20-something's stagnancy and rejection in his hometown, years after college.

Rewind MIPA 3

A short retelling of big events that happened throughout the high school days of class MIPA 3. Made for a senior year project.

Zoom Out

The attempt to make a short film about editing a short film about editing an argument between 2 friends during the editing of an incomplete short film about the decision to make a new short film from scratch or to re-upload an old short film.

Rise from Your Grave

On a moonless night, when a radioactive meteor collides with the planet Earth, all hell breaks loose! Led by the immortal voodoo queen Benzuda, the dead have risen once more. Now, it is up to Adam Fisto, agent of B.P.R. (Bureau of Paranormal Resistance), to stop the dance of the dead.

Mimic

A young couple makes one last ditch effort to recuperate their failing relationship. Taking an impromptu trip to a secluded camping location amidst dense woods they soon make shocking discoveries.

Jugular

Jack is straight off the plane. He has few friends and no money. In desperation, he accepts an apartment formerly housed by the main suspect in a serial murder case - John Ellroy. Plagued by insomnia, Jack broods in the apartment and wanders the inner-city streets of Melbourne. His loneliness leads him into a friendship with a teenage addict Janie, and into a bizarre obsession with Ellroy. Jack struggles to retain his sanity as his world spirals into madness and violence.