Emoticon Man (2017)

1999 A.D.

A whimsical yet serious-minded look into the future sponsored by the appliance and radio manufacturer Philco-Ford. In the "1999 House of Tomorrow", each family member's activities are enabled by a central computer and revolve around products remarkably similar to those made by the sponsor. Power comes from a self-contained fuel cell which supports environmental controls, an automatic cooking system, and a computer-assisted "education room".

White

Seven colors are assigned to eat the food of their own color. They don't question it, until one of them wants to take a different path.

To Live

To live is to dream and to fight to communicate and ward off loneliness. In this sexually-charged experimental, two men find each other in a time of need.

Inner Demons

Mya prepares to fight the horrors lurking within.

Am I a Psycho?

The short film surrounds Cassie and her struggle, confusion, and eventual discovery of her OCD. We take a glimpse into her interactions with her friends and family, often paired with flashbacks (intrusive thoughts) of supposed violence towards herself and others. Unknowing of her condition, she is distraught at each thought, and as a result reluctant to share with her loved ones what she is going through.

Monangambeee

Filmmaker-griot coming from the theater, it was with a camera, while the war in Vietnam occupied everyone's minds, that Sarah Maldoror gave visibility to the African wars of decolonization: Angola, Guinea Bissau, French Guinea, Cape Verde... Her short film Monangambée addresses the torture by the Portuguese army of a sympathizer of the Angolan resistance. At the end of editing, Sarah Maldoror approached the members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago during a Parisian concert and offered to add sound to her film. The next day they watched the film, were convinced and recorded their first soundtrack for free as evidence of African-American solidarity. Shot in Algiers, Monangambée is a film about torture and, more broadly, about the incomprehension between the colonized and the colonizers. It is based on a novel by the Angolan writer Luandino Vieira, then imprisoned by the Portuguese colonial power.

Stray

Fifteen year-old Ben Garber has a secret. A secret which leads him to infiltrate the household of a family in a neighboring town...

The Unseen River

Stories told along the river: a woman reunites with her ex-lover at a hydroelectric plant; meanwhile, a young man travels downstream to a temple in search of a cure for his insomnia.

What the Brides Do

The couple, Mariam (Marta Hazas) and Ale (Juan Caballero), are going to try an old sexual fantasy to solve their sexual problems: making a threesome with a stranger. An unknown person, Él (Sergio Mur) is the key piece of an erotic triangle where nothing goes as planned. Erotic drama, a story where feelings and sex mingle to form a web of emotions where not everything is what it seems.

El último canto del pájaro cú

Minutes before his death in the general ward of a city hospital, Ulises, a terminal patient in his fifties, reconstructs the fragments of his life. Lauro, a young and smiling nearby patient accompanies him on his final agony, reliving all Ulises' missed opportunities.

Float

A father discovers that his son floats, which makes him different from other kids. To keep them both safe from the judgement of the world, Dad hides, covers, and grounds him. But when his son's ability becomes public, Dad must decide whether to run and hide or to accept his son as he is.

The Morning After

Family tensions erupt when Nicole introduces her girlfriend to her father the morning after the 2016 US Presidential election.

Warsha

A Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut volunteers to cover a shift on one of the most dangerous cranes, where he is able to find his freedom.

Geneva Jacuzzi's Casket

Los Angeles 2066AD: The Pleasure-U BioDrone, Kate Shaw's only assistant, has contracted an undiagnosed mental-disease.

Out of the Blue

Once again Mads is forced to walk home because his big brother, Anders, is running late. Finally Anders arrives, but during a stop on the drive back home to their father, Mads is confronted with the questionable path that Anders is heading down. When an unforeseen collision with a deer occurs, their relationship is tossed around on the highway.

Fuelled

Fuelled tells the story of a housewife on the path of revenge for her late husband.

The Least Untrue

Two strangers discover a devastating secret that binds them together... and offers unexpected options for the future.

Mirrorball

This is a short film based on Taylor Swift's "mirrorball" from her Academy Award-winning album, 'Folklore'. Ben Stafford plays James, a celebrity who serves as a metaphor for a mirrorball; fame can be glamorous and incredible, but also terrifying and fragile.

Hotel Chevalier

In a Paris hotel room, Jack Whitman lies on a bed. His phone rings; it's a woman on her way to see him, a surprise. She arrives and the complications of their relationship emerge in bits and pieces. Will they make love? Is their relationship over? (A prequel to The Darjeeling Limited, 2007.)

Sad Beauty

In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. When she falls ill due to a bacterial infection, nature appears to send her a message in her hallucinations.

My Little Boy

Berlin, 1934. Many men are forced to live their hidden homosexuality. Erich, a photographer, has an appointment in his photo studio with Wolfgang, a Nazi soldier, with whom he shares a loving, tumultuous, and passionate relationship. For both of them, this should not be a problem, but appearances deceive.

Sing

Quiet 10-year-old Zsofi has just changed schools. Feeling out of place at first, she is quickly admitted to the school’s famous choir and befriends her popular classmate Liza. Soon, they have to stand up united against their choir master, who isn’t quite the friendly and inspirational teacher they first thought she was.

Requited

Nicolas, a young man in his mid 20s, struggles to decide whether or not to go to the wedding of his best friend from high school, Aaron, who he's always been quietly in love with. The two had a falling out years earlier after Nicolas inexplicably kissed Aaron's girlfriend. Nicolas clings to an idealized image of his former friend, unconsciously sabotaging his own happiness in the process. The film is a realistic slice-of-life that poses the question "How do you get over something you never had?"

Boys Like You

A young man struggles with the boundaries of friendship when he finds himself in an intimate situation

Revolution

A coming-of-age story about Jack, a 16-year old Iranian boy growing up in 1989 Los Angeles. With the 1979 Iranian Revolution a distant memory, the AIDS movement as a backdrop, and a haunting score by Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij, Jack learns how to stage his own much smaller revolution within the confines of his traditional family.

The In-Between

The story or two men who fall in love and move in together.

Frozen Roads

Balthazar and siblings Christian and Lyla have been friends since childhood. As the trio struggles with coming of age in a rural, conservative Canadian town, they must confront escalating desires for one another that threaten to destroy their delicate bond.

Dream Kitchen

A tale about isolation and lack of communication, the gap between the reality a teenage boy lives, and how he would like it be. He has a secret that he would like to tell his family, something that he has come to terms with and is about to affect the rest of his life. But how will they react?

Myosis

Myosis is the constriction of the iris which decreases the diameter of the pupil. It is an unconscious phenomenon which can be triggered by an intense light, fear, or the effect of epiphany.

Away We Stay

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The Horsemen of Death

Sometimes it is not easy to know who you are...

Chicken Boy

Chicken Boy is a dark coming-of-age story in which a lonely boy recognizes parallels between the bullying he endures at school and the neglect he experiences at home.

Town Business

After a "diplomatic mission" into a neighboring town Kell returns to his town to see that his not so bright team of idiots have screwed up everything.

Cake and Sand

Tim and Julian are deeply in love, but the gay couple can't have sex with each other. When you can't sexually satisfy the person you love is this enough reason to quit a long relationship? On a weekend trip to the sea, the boys want to spend some time together away from the pulsating city of Berlin where they live. The trip ends with two cakes in the sand. What if two people love each other but can't live with each other?

The Cage

Parents squabbling over a sick bird that was brought in by their son Alex.

Barking Island

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, 1910. There are too many stray dogs on the streets, so the government decides to deport thousands of them on a desert island, off the coast of the city.