Entertainment for the Aliens (2024)

Pre-Drink

Alexe is a young trans woman, and Carl a gay man. Best friends since forever, an evening spent together destabilizes Alexe, when both decide to have sex together for the first time.

Weapons and Their Names

Struggling to connect with her grieving family after the sudden death of her stepfather, a teenager sneaks off to shoot guns in rural Florida with her best friend.

Family Affair

Sunday. Classic game on the brazilian championship. Rossi’s family organize themselves in front of TV. Eunice, his mother, looks trough the window while Borges, his dad, and Cauã, his older brother, watch the football match. Rossi tries to find his place in the house.

Baldwin Beauty

Farrah, new to LA, goes on the mobile styling app Get Glam, to find new clients. When she arrives at an appointment, she finds a house of girls pre-gaming for a party and maybe a new crew of friends.

Blocks

An existential comedy about the mother of two young children who begins to spontaneously vomit plastic toy blocks.

Dirty

Marco cuts class to spend the afternoon with his boyfriend, Graham. Things do not go as planned.

Ignition

In the midst of a climate of political repression, Ernesto is a student who believes that the "revolution" will only begin if there is a martyr for the cause; Isaac, his best friend and his student leader, seems like the ideal candidate.

When the moon is on the wane

In a tilting and subsiding town, everybody has left. Jae-ah is still waiting for her brother to come back. She lives in the shadow of fear, as her house begins to tilt.

AYOR

In 1970, during the annual Dutch national commemoration of those fallen in World War II, two men try to make a statement against gay discrimination. In the moments before and after the incident, their doubt, fear and firm belief becomes clear.

Maggie Simpson in "The Force Awakens from Its Nap"

In a daycare far, far away… but still in Springfield, Maggie is on an epic quest for her stolen pacifier. Her adventure brings her face-to-face with young Padawans, Sith Lords, familiar droids, Rebel scum, and an ultimate battle against the dark side, in this original short celebrating the Star Wars galaxy.

Persuasion

During her first on-camera performance, an Asian-American actress struggles to define her role in the face of prejudice from the director. Featuring Christina Hsu as Ashley, a young up and coming actress. On her first big gig, however, she is asked to play a stereotypical Asian role which causes her to question the scripts material.

Stripped Back

A marketing employee fights to keep his job at a hip no-label alcohol company obsessed with authenticity.

It's a Dented Life!

A parody short film of It's a Wonderful Life centered on the infamous streaming personality, DarkSydePhil. It explores how one childhood disappointment can allegedly ruin a life.

SUPER SUPPORT 2

Super Support 2 is a short film by Mark Masterton that follows the continued efforts of a support team as they navigate a series of new challenges. The film extends the narrative of the original Super Support, focusing on problem-solving, team dynamics, and the complications that arise when situations escalate.

Nest

A family of four lives in a remote village: a man, a woman, a teenage girl and a little boy. One day, an unexpected guest, a miserable-looking, middle-aged man comes to the family. Everything changes with his arrival. It turns out that the unexpected guest, the woman, is Mehman, her first husband, who has been in Armenian captivity for a long time. An ex-husband wants his wife and house back. The woman's current husband, Abdul, does not want to give up...

Dog Noise

A young woman finds herself in an unfamiliar house rolled up in a rug, struggling to piece together the events of the night before.

Liar

Mentiroso, a period piece set in a small Mexican town, is a coming-of-age story about a boy who tells his friends that he can get a nude photograph of a beautiful girl.

Short Cuts: The Piano

Jane Campion's "The Piano", Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1993, retold in a single minute of animation by Inés Sedan.

Eternidade

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Antoine and Colette

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

Lamento

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Diwa

An unflinching look at the plight of immigrants victimized by violent crimes and the obstacles they face as they seek justice - told thru the eyes of one victim.

Abigail

A lonely and elderly widower struggles to come to terms with the loss of his wife and the circumstances surrounding her death. When he visits her grave, he encounters a little girl who shows him the path to healing and fills him with hope.

Hezarfen

Hezarfen is a historical Turkish character. The story takes place in 1632 in Istanbul, where he will attempt the first flight of the human being.

Paseo

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Panda Syndrome

A young boy, Bjørn, discovers on his 17th birthday that his problems with the girls might not be self-inflicted.

The Last Virgin in LA

When Millie discovers she's the last virgin in LA, things get out of hand.

Hit Astray

In the summer of 2008, Santi lives a carefree lifestyle with his hometown friends. Over their long friendship, Santi has become more infatuated with his best friend, Dylan. However, an unexpected tragedy changes the trajectory of their lives. Leaving Santi struggling with his sense of reality and self-acceptance.

La noche de las ponchongas

Before going away to live in Barcelona, Jorge spends his last night with his three best friends in a forest near the town. When everything seems to indicate that it was a bad idea, something happens that none of them could have dreamt of: three older girls are sunbathing half-naked on the other side of the river.

Retouch

Maryam is faced with an important decision in this black comedy from Iran.

Visions of Europe

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays

Hungry for sun, light and warmth, a group of teenagers embark on a dream trip to the Balearic Islands.

Pixels

This short film portrays the disintegration of a relationship. When the distance between the couple seems hopeless, facing it will be the only option.