20 Crickets (2025)

Down with Love

In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.

The Consortium

In a building where silence and order usually prevail, Estela tries to sleep, unable to doze off due to the passionate nights of her young neighbors. Tired of their disrespect, she calls for a consortium meeting to decide the couple's new fate.

Punch-Drunk Love

A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.

Dada

An absurdest short film set in the roaring twenties that chronicles two brothers who are obsessed with stealing Marcel Duchamp's shovel back from their arch nemesis, a greedy, drunk, fat, perverted aristocrat.

Tokyo Cabbageman K

A young man wakes up one morning to find that his head has transformed into a large cabbage. He quickly becomes a source of bemusement, desire and hostility to all those around him.

Strangers with Candy

A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a 46 year old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her life over.

Round My Place

Round My Place follows a gentle yet slightly twisted northern bloke, called Richard Crimble, as he gives us a guided tour of his old run down apartment. To Richard it is more than just an old apartment though. It sparks his strange imagination, making him consider the place's past and how each little detail came to be.

OMG! Oh My Girl

Over the years, awkward Guy keeps falling for confident June in the wrong places at the wrong times, leading him to believe fate is playing tricks on them.

Transformer

A family is rocked by a split opinion on a seemingly mundane topic.

The Toxic Avenger

A gang of thugs devise a cruel hoax that goes horribly wrong as Melvin, a nerdy emaciated janitor at the local health club, is cast through a third story window into a vat of hazardous toxic waste.

Agak Laen: Menyala Pantiku!

After repeatedly failing their missions, Detectives Bene, Boris, Jegel, and Oki are given one last chance: to go undercover in a nursing home in search of a fugitive wanted for the murder of the mayor’s child.

Paris When It Sizzles

Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been in Paris supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him finish on time.

Festival de Viña del Mar 2025: Pedro Ruminot

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The Howl

A young bride escapes her wedding ceremony with a stranger and together they set off on an epic journey though increasingly bizarre lands. They encounter talking animals and mournful exhibitionists, converse with a discoursing rock, journey through a surrealist's psychedelic hotel, instigate a prison riot, escape from naked cannibals living in a tree and battle a wind-up midget dictator!

Monday

A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what happened a day before.

Molli and Max in the Future

A man and a woman find their orbits repeatedly colliding over the course of 12 years, four planets, three dimensions and one space cult.

My Darling Clementine

A 2008 short film from filmmaker Andrew Edison

The Rounders

Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.

Spring Fever

Harold is a bookkeeper who works in an office but can't keep his mind on his job -- the spring weather is too nice to stay indoors. After escaping from his office he romps in the park instead.

Out of the Box

After a series of personal failures, Savannah, a college student, creates Boxland, a world where she does not have to take responsibility for her actions, and it's up to her best friend Connor, and his brother Martin, to rescue her from her paradise turned prison.

The Cocaine-Over

Calvin, a millennial burnout, wakes up hungover on his couch to his estranged mother, Bambi, standing over him before strapping a brick of cocaine to his chest and sending him on a strange odyssey.

Spite Marriage

An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.

Mathieu Madénian : un spectacle familial

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Dickshark

Rachel Crow stars as the woman whose lover has been secretly using penis-enlargement cream. It has an unusual side effect that ultimately leads to an abomination. Erin Brown (also known as Misty Mundae) supports her boyfriend, Dick (played by Bill Zebub) who is a modern day Victor Frankenstein. The search for the rampaging monster intensifies as more victims fall prey.

Monkey Business

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.

Le Gro Secret

As CANAL+ is celebrating its 40th anniversary, Doully reveals their darkest secret: they stole everything from Groland!

Raymond Devos à l'Olympia

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Too Many Cooks

"Too Many Cooks" is a humorous parody of US sitcoms of the 1970s and the 1980s, meanwhile what seems like an interminable opening theme, a mysterious killer makes his way and kills (preparing a lunch with their limbs) various members of the Cook Family.

Who Wants to Kill Jessie?

In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!

Friend of the World

After a catastrophic global war, a young filmmaker awakens in the carnage and seeks refuge in the only other survivor: an eccentric, ideologically opposed figure of the United States military. Together, they brave the toxic landscape in search of safety... and answers.

Pandemonium

Azaria Chamberlain was not killed by a dingo but saved and raised by said dingos. She is raised in an incestuous dingo environment and travels back to Sydney transformed as the second coming... a new messiah for a new age.

Declan Sennott’s Intrusion

Adam is a man who can’t feel any emotion whatsoever. When his doctor advises him experimental treatment, he sends over his nursing assistant to help him. But, that night, an intruder breaks in and says that his only goal is to make Adam feel every emotion. The catch? With 10 violent “acts” that will gradually build up to his possible death.

Y un jamón

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The Judgment

Adapted from the short story by Franz Kafka, The Judgment is a psychological drama exploring themes of alienation, memory, and the lines between fantasy and reality. The film follows Georg Bendemann, a young merchant living 1900s Prague, who is struggling to maintain balance in an ever changing world. As his situation deteriorates due to complicated familial relationships, we are compelled to question the very nature of what we are seeing.

Big Words From A Small Man

our short stories interlaced to create a surreal world of absurdity, in which characters try to find connections in the mundane.

Chase Me and I'll Catch You

It tells the story of Ramadhan and Monita, two people with opposite personalities who become entangled in a push-and-pull romance, presented with clever humor and social satire.

Axırıncı yol

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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also has fallen in love with the girl on the company's billboards, the competition's daughter, and her sweet inspiration keeps him tramping along.

Together

A biohazard remediation cleaner finds the integrity of her business threatened after hiring a technician with an insatiable appetite for his work.

Paradise Man (ii)

Paradise Man searches for meaning in an unknowable universe.

Eudaimonia

Prudence, a dishwasher and housecleaner with the telepathic power to eavesdrop on people’s consciousness, creates eccentric characters out of clothing she steals from her clients and stages confrontational performances in the street. She’s estranged from her mother, an artist, and the only person who shares this telepathic gift. As Prudence comes to terms with her mother's terminal illness and the knowledge that her telepathy comes at a cost, she gains a clearer understanding of how to find meaningful connections with others.

Mammals

"Waiting for Godot" on ice and snow, without words. Against a barren winter landscape, a figure approaches: it's a man, pulling a small sleigh on which another man sits, plucking a dead bird. They stop to trade places; the one now on the sleigh takes out his knitting. Accidents, misunderstandings, disagreements, and an outright fight await our absurd protagonists as their trip to nowhere continues, first with one pulling, then the other. What if they were to lose the sleigh? What rules of civilization and partnership would guide them then?

Beau Is Afraid

Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odyssey back home.

The Glutton

Gulosus (the glutton), is an alluring yet disturbing view of gluttony in contemporary culture. The film is in stop motion, with one photo being taken every 6 seconds, and contains over 130 individual sound effects and foley sounds. The piece draws from the compositions of traditional vanitas paintings and photography. It was also heavily influenced by a genre of youtube called 'Mukbang' (korean for 'eating show'), where people consume mass amounts of unhealthy and idealistic foods for viewers to watch. All of these elements came together to form an opinion on greed and vanity through a relatable but confronting menu. Influencing artists: PES Jan Svankmajer Reynold Reynolds Chen Fei Achievements: BUFTA Bond University awards - nominated best overall film - nominated best director - winner best experimental - winner best sound design Artexpress exhibitions at - Margaret Whitlam gallery - virtual gallery VX - Maitland regional art gallery

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