Lifewasters (2025)

Take Care

Filomena lives alone in a rural village in the interior of Portugal and has just found out that she doesn't have much time left to live. Her granddaughter Laura, a young woman in her early twenties, raised by her, shows up out of nowhere at her house. They share memories of childhood and youth, up to the moment when the granddaughter left home to attend University in Lisbon. But something strange happens when the two have a heated argument about the possible return of Laura's mother to their lives. Is Filomena's illness playing tricks on her? Or is something else going on here?

Dumula ng Isa, Dalawa, Tatlo...

A theater group begins their rehearsal on a play about a witness' account of a massacre eventually leading to a confrontation and inner conflicts of the actors portraying their roles.

CARMEX

An Evil Entity intrudes on a YouTube Vlog by a group of Queer teenagers.

Killers of the Flower Moon

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson

Chris Grace wrestles with the ideas of casting & diversity in Hollywood in this meta comedy special.

The Blue Whale

The film revolves around the "Blue Whale Challenge" game used by many young people and adolescents, after the spread of technology and the parents are too busy to look after their children which might lead to their exposure to great risks.

Anaconda

A group of friends facing mid-life crises head to the rainforest with the intention of remaking their favorite movie from their youth, only to find themselves in a fight for their lives against natural disasters, giant snakes and violent criminals.

The Social Dilemma

This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.

ZAPPER!

In a surreal universe where bananas fire laser beams and soup cans are used as grenades, a wacky cast of gangsters are thrown into a deadly game to battle it out over a mystical longboard in this trippy take on the Tarantino crime genre.

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.

Hey Viktor!

Twenty-five long years after his time in the limelight, former child actor Cody Lightning tries to revive his fortunes with a self-produced sequel to Smoke Signals in this smart, irreverent new comedy.

Masovo chudo

Kirill, a 19 year old boy whose father works as a construction director, wants to study filmmaking.

A Cell Phone Movie

Shot entirely on a cell phone, the film follows a fictional version of writer/director/star Will Sterling, a similarly out of work, struggling actor trying to impress Hollywood by making a movie on a cell phone about an out of work, struggling actor making a movie on his cell phone.

Serenade for Two Spies

An international gang of gun dealers in the USA has stolen the prototype of a laser rifle from a German laboratory. The FBI agent Cormoran is being sent to recover the state-of-the-art and highly effective weapon. But there are some indications that he has defected to the enemy. Since agent 007 is currently on another mission, the chief of intelligence has to fall back on his second best man, the previous number 006. And so the German secret agent John Krim is given the assignment to get the rifle back, find evidence of Cormoran’s treachery and finally eliminate the colleague. Krim’s journey takes him across the ocean, and there he experiences incredible adventures in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Two women get in his way, and Krim can’t be sure whether he can trust them or whether they too are working for the other side.

Through the Olive Trees

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

Abzurdah

A disenfranchised 16-year-old girl connects to an older man on the internet and after a brief one-sided affair descends into obsession and anorexia.

Asteroid City

In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.

Leading Lady

After a sudden hiatus, a former media darling struggles to navigate the ever-evolving world of technology, hindering her comeback efforts in the entertainment industry.

Poruno Joyû Shigan

22-year-old Hyodo Kiriko has never had non-monetary sex except for her first time, and now works as an escort girl, with dates arranged by phone. One day, a customer invites her to appear in a real behind-the-scenes video, after she starts appearing in an underground video. Then, by chance, she auditions for a movie and makes her debut as a new actress, but the underground video is also leaked, and she becomes a scandalous actress...

The Second Act

Florence wants to introduce David, the man she’s madly in love with, to her father Guillaume. But David isn’t attracted to Florence and wants to throw her into the arms of his friend Willy. The four characters meet in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere.

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

On behalf of a multinational company, a production assistant drives around the Romanian city of Bucharest, interviewing various citizens who have been injured due to work accidents to cast one of them in a “safety at work” video.

Only Make Believe

Playwright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. He employs secretary Sandra George and dictates his new play to her, but tensions soon develop between the two. As Hudson creates, scenes from his play are dramatized and interpolated. The play being created is Dennis Potter's Angels Are So Few, seen with a totally different cast from the 1970 BBC production.

It's a Wonderful Knife

Winnie's life is less than wonderful one year after saving her town from a psychotic killer on Christmas Eve. When she wishes she was never born, she finds herself magically transported to a nightmarish parallel universe. With the murderous maniac now back, she must team up with a misfit to identify the culprit and get back to her own reality.

Sorry, We're Dead

The ennui of a filmmaker, trapped between aspiration and reality, frames Lana Jing’s quirky, sarcastic, and cinematic-joke filled quarter-life crisis. At her lecture hall job, where aging white men wax on, self-involved, Lana accidentally frames her friend and co-worker when she destroys the only copy of an aging tech-bro’s high-profile lecture. Lana is forced to navigate stop motion animation, a secret admirer, and terrible bridge traffic to sort out a way forward to her destiny… kinda.

Bo Burnham: Inside

Stuck in COVID-19 lockdown, US comedian and musician Bo Burnham attempts to stay sane and happy by writing, shooting and performing a one-man comedy special.

Totally Killer

When the infamous "Sweet Sixteen Killer" returns 35 years after his first murder spree to claim another victim, 17-year-old Jamie accidentally travels back in time to 1987, determined to stop the killer before he can start.

Falcatus

The tired traveler visits an old establishment, but he is not prepared for the horror that awaits him!

Green Screen

An amateur film set descends into chaos when a lovers’ quarrel involving a crew member threatens their production.

Herpes Boy

A social outcast with a facial birthmark finds his world flipped upside down after he posts videos of his quirky life onto the Internet and becomes an unwilling cyber-celebrity.

Filme X

A man breaks into people's houses at night and observes them, without stealing or violating anything. He simply looks, putting himself in their positions and searching for something he has lost within him, but not thinking that he could be being watched too.

Maciste

A young girl, pursued by a band of conspirators, hides in a movie theatre where she watches the film Cabiria. She determines to seek the aid of that film's strongman, Maciste. When she locates him, he helps her overcome her enemies, but not without many thrilling and dangerous adventures.

0s & 1s

Los Angeles, 2006. Life is Easy 2.0 for James Pongo. He has a cushy job, a busy social life and an alluring love interest all through the click of a mouse. But when he wakes up after a night of reckless partying to discover that his computer is missing, James' hyper-connected reality takes a nosedive. Told entirely through the websites, programs, games and social networks, 0s & 1s uses James Pongo's nihilistic adventure to question our growing dependency on these alternate digital realities.

Mr. Yanagi’s Aliens

Two public broadcast employees, tired of their dead-end jobs, set out to make a documentary proving aliens exist in a small Minnesotan farming community.

Les Chouffes

After being turned down for funding by the town council, a filmmaker decides to make his great social and political fresco as an amateur.

wunsch zwei(2)

Wunsch zwei(2) is not about nightmares or fear, it’s about love. It’s is a tool to materialize oneself into the physical world. It’s wunschmaschinen. This short film was shot in a video-diary style between summer 2022 - fall 2024, being revamped with every other screening, exploring themes of identity, faith and mass alienation. It’s about diaspora, trans-girlhood and longing. It's about faith. It’s sort of an artistic take on what is more commonly known as “shitposting”. It’s about trivial posting of affirmations, conspiracies and jargon to conjure something into the screen and through it into reality, aiming to reproduce the shitpost phenomena in video form.

Directionless

A fledgling young actor has finally secured a part in a promising production, but disagreements between the director and producer threaten to derail the project—and his career.

Corrupt Colour

Corrupt Colour follows childhood friends and self-proclaimed internet pop-stars, Emily and Gia as they set up their first live concert but their delusions of grandeur are compromised when the live show of their dreams becomes a nightmare. The show must go on and with the help of their closest friends, irreverent leads Emily and Gia are forced to reckon with their true place in the public eye. With poignant lyrics, loud personalities, and unique creative decisions, Emily and Gia take us on a hilarious and melancholy journey through identity in the digital age that leaves us all asking "who am I trying to be?"

This Is Not Me

This Is Not Me is an intimate, haunting exploration of identity, longing, and the truths we try to hide. A raw, dreamlike film built from five striking monologues. Each character reveals the parts of themselves they’d rather keep hidden, blurring the line between confession and performance.

Hard Cut

After their scriptwriter Morgan goes missing, a crew of amateur filmmakers find a screenplay that outlines all of their deaths and desperately try to change the ending.

Walking The Line

This hybrid between a videogame and a film inspires you to think about your choices. As humans, we are constantly toeing the line between good and evil, and sometimes we fall in the middle. This is where anti-heroes lie in wait... in the gray.

The Death of Angel Candy

Angel Candy is a lot of things. A huckster, an artist, a life coach, a radio personality, and a titan of the rail wheel lubricant delivery industry. Above all else he is doomed. While in hiding, he presents to us the story of his bizarre and often morally questionable life.

Guy and Guys 4: Undead

Guy and his friends are back for another installment! But when their film is cancelled, the must juggle overcoming a new character and discovering how they came back... from the dead.

Meta Take One

An obsessive young director & his crew plunge into a frantic night long odyssey of desperation to finish his film no matter the cost.

Leśny Coach

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Cut!

Two force users battle in a university landscape. Inspired by a Mel Brooks joke in "Spaceballs" (1987).

LEFT

A failed filmmaker tries to make peace with his conscience

The Writer

Scott Stuckmann, a university student of screenwriting, is caught in a lull of inspiration and passion just when his final assessed screenplay is due. Scott struggles to find his passions again, where he envisions how he wants to acquire a newfound love for writing.

Tight Pants Ultra Bold

Georgie discusses a bubble font he designed and released himself -- to no acclaim.

Jack and Tommy Try To Stop Terrorists

When terrorists take control of a university campus, two students, Jack and Tommy, are thrust into a deadly game as they fight to save a damsel in distress named Ashley.

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

Tommy Jarvis, tormented by the fear that maybe Jason isn't really dead, unwittingly resurrects the mass murderer for another bloody rampage.

Feels Good Man

When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt Furie, fights to bring Pepe back from the darkness and navigate America's cultural divide.