Surfaces (2020)

Lacuna

As she struggles to finish her short film, a first-time filmmaker travels through her memory bank in search of inspiration.

Borderless

Following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Denys is forced to leave his country. He has nothing left but the hope of seeing Dmitrii, a young recruit of the Russian army.

Anthony

Christmas Eve. An enormous explosion tears through Lapland. Santa and his elf, Anthony, have crash-landed in the middle of nowhere on their busiest night.

Penumbra

Luna decides not to commit suicide. Too drunk, meets Angel; they decide to flee together to a house in the forest that they saw on a postcard. What do they don't know is what will it cost them to get there.

Sugar Glass Bottle

Near-future Tokyo. Kou, through the help of his high school best friend, finds a surprising way to express his mounting frustration at the insidious forces of commercialism that are forcing out the neighbors he cares most about. Initially inspired by a prank that the writer-director Neo Sora (The Chicken, 2020) had pulled on him in his childhood, a sense of warm nostalgia and cold, material reality intermingle to tell a tale set in the not-so-distant future about disappearing spaces and the forces of policing and gentrification that drills this process forward.

Shannon Amen

Shannon Amen unearths the passionate and pained expressions of a young woman overwhelmed by guilt and anxiety as she struggles to reconcile her sexual identity with her religious faith. A loving elegy to a friend lost to suicide.

Meatoo

A naive actor auditions for a film which could launch his career. The things he's asked to do make him more and more uncomfortable, until a choice remark from the director makes him see red.

Boswellia sacra

Inspired by true events. "Boswellia sacra" is a short feature film about nature which draws a parallel between the environment and the protection of human rights; about the law of nature that is constantly being violated by man; about Vukasin Drakulic, a thirty-year-old young man who comes to realize this relationship. Can a person escape his own nature and the one that surrounds him.

The Difficulties Of Being Drunk Alone

A young man finds himself alone in his hotel room with a full bottle of vodka when his repressed memories begin to resurface and take control.

Nest

In early-colonial Australia, a timber feller, kept awake by his infant child’s cries of hunger, encounters something perturbing in the woods.

Tough

After her father unexpectedly hits her, a young girl decides to toughen up.

You and Me, Before and After

Now in their 30s, grumbling sisters Hannah and Rachel decide to get their first tattoos together. As they get inked, and unable to leave until it’s done, they bond in conversation over still-fresh wounds that they share.

Small Step

Antoine, a young introverted boy, dreams of going into space. While accompanying his mother to the hair salon, he slips under an old hooded hair dryer and suddenly finds himself transported into a spaceship.

Going Dark with Earnest Sweetgrass: Or A Comprehensive Guide on How to Die

Earnest Sweetgrass spends his 21,000th birthday thinking big thoughts about what it means to be nobody.

The Shore

Two boyhood best friends are divided by 25 years of misunderstanding amidst the escalating conflict in Northern Ireland. The two boys’ lives take very different paths until Joe returns for the first time to his homeland with his 24-year-old daughter, Patricia. In his absence, Paddy married Joe’s former fiancée Mary. What happened all those years ago? Can old wounds be healed? The answer is hilarious and moving in equal parts.

Hello Carter

Recently sacked and interminably single, Carter is in a rut. So when he spies his beautiful ex-girlfriend through a library bookshelf, for a brief moment, things promise to get a whole lot better. But she is nine months pregnant. And about to go into labour.

Untitled

A woman sits waiting for her train home. A stranger sits next to her and starts talking. He knows things about her that he shouldn't know, intricate details of her life and the lives around her, personal details of her past and future. He tells all this because he has a message, something she needs to hear...

Carillon

Ortensia is a mechanical ballerina, that every day is forced to dance for an audience, in a seemingly endless loop. But one day, she sees in the crowd someone drawing her: the first representation of herself as an individual.

Wake

A chance encounter between two women on the Mersey ferry leads to an exploration of the loss they both carry and how they navigate life and memories in its wake.

Implosion

When Thomas looses his best friend, his mind refuses to accept the fact. He pulls away from reality and continues seeing him, burning his bridges one by one. He is dragged further and further into his own mind, and further away for reality, looking for the truth about his friend.

Space 2

A detour taken on the way home from work threatens a man's relationship.

And So We Are Here

When Anna and Natan meet by chance and decide to spend the day together, their different lifestyles collide, blurring the lines between right and wrong.

Polygraph

Yasmine, an openly lesbian Arab nurse, finds out that her lover, Or, an intelligence officer in the Israeli army has been reporting on their relationship. Yasmine's sister arrives for a visit from the West Bank, not knowing that she is going to meet the occupying enemy at her own sister's house.

The After

After losing a family member to a violent crime, a shattered rideshare driver picks up a passenger that forces him to confront his grief.

The College Students

A college. His teachers and his students. His conflicts and his lies. His images and his words. His looks and his silences.

The Human Voice

Short based on the Jean Cocteau play following a final telephone conversation between a couple.

Shé (Snake)

Fei is the top violinist of an elite London youth orchestra. When another Chinese violinist arrives to challenge her place in the orchestra, Fei’s anxieties and internalised racism grow to take monstrous physical form. They whisper to her, urging her to be the best, no matter the cost.

The Night

Luisa and her sister Estela will play hide and seek during a particular night. They both have suffered an important loss in their family, the mourning and grief will be present inside their house all night long.

Wanted

Marcos, an adult who as a child lost his beloved pet, a black German shepherd dog, with whom he had a special bond. This bond leads him to search for it over time until he believes he has found it in a park with another owner.

Two Birds

The story takes place during one bright summer night and follows a group of young teenagers on a journey from innocence to adulthood. The main character is a timid boy who has a typical schoolboy crush on a girl his age, who happens to be a friend of his mate.

Implant

In a world where the technology exists to hack into peoples’ memories, a traditional housewife colludes with her close friend to expose her husband, who she suspects is unfaithful. A film about love, betrayal and technology.

Two Little Boys

A boy's love for his closeted bully drives him into an unconventional road to confession and its consequences.

Mountaineers

Three men struggling to survive their spatial and temporal limits in front of and within a witness: the mountain.

How Wang-Fo Was Saved

Wang Fo, the greatest master of medieval China, aided by his assistant who has given up everything to follow him, desperately seeks aesthetic perfection. A day comes when he thinks he has achieved it. But his genius arouses both the curiosity and the jealousy of the Emperor. Wang Fo will be able to escape the Emperor's vindictiveness only by going to the limit of his talents.

Good Boy

Out of money and out of luck, Danny is determined to turn his life around, but the interventions of his anarchic mum and the reappearance of figures from his past threaten to derail him at every turn.

The Lights

When electrician Lloyd receives a call-out in the dead of night, he is drawn into the bizarre and melancholy world of a man haunted by Christmas. As he becomes an unwilling guest in the home of Mr. Elliot, Lloyd is forced to make a decision: should he fix the Christmas lights, or is the darkness in the house best left alone?

Rachel

When a rare chance for a meeting with her estranged daughter presents itself, Rachel grabs it with both hands.

Gabriel

Gabriel, a 32-year-old Spanish man lives in Germany with his boyfriend Lars, far away from his conservative family. Time and again he remembers his childhood in daydreams.

Lucy's Tale

Lucy begins to realize she is not like the other teens in school.

FirstOut 3

This third volume of award-winning gay-themed shorts serves up a spectrum of complex emotions -- from coming-of-age angst to secretive shame. Selections include writer-director Anthony Meindl's "Ready? OK!" in which an 11-year-old boy discovers a passion for cheerleading, and Todd Bartoo's "Coffee," in which two friends investigate a rumor that their best friend's ex is gay. Other works include Nick Oceano's "El Primo" and Adam Lipsius's "4º."

Thunder from the Sea

Between night and day, the hills of a village in Israel. The young Dekel tries pulling himself together from a painful break-up. Within the imprecision of a natural backdrop dipped into the sweetness of the moon, he stumbles upon his friend Doron whose lit-up shoes spread light visible kilometres away. Along with two other boys, they are going to spend the night talking away: talk as much as possible, in a final attempt to give life back to what they share.

The Roof

After being sent to stay with his grandfather, a Cheyenne teen uncovers a connection to his family and community in a way he never thought possible.

Purity

A cam girl and her blender salesman brother navigate life in the San Fernando Valley.