Sacred Journeys (2016)

Night Hustler

A young man prostitutes himself near the Bois de Boulogne (16th). A motorist stops; the young man rides and protects his client. Produced by Lesbian and Gay Pride Films, this film is part of a program of ten short films from a screenwriting competition launched in October 1995 on the theme of homosexuality in the time of AIDS.

Ride or Die

What do you do when your friends don't think you have what it takes to ride with them?

Terma

A woman arrives on a Greek island and makes profound connections with those she encounters.

Home of my Memories

A kid find his passion through the experience of his grandfather, all of those teachings come alive in a truly wonderful way.

Langit Budak Biru

Abu and Nuwas are two teenage boys in boarding school. With different characters, both try to keep a secret between them while grappling with the challenges of bullying and self-discovery in a time of uncertainty and self-doubt.

LY

Mario is not able to overcome the death of his wife; by chance he meets a woman almost identical to her. Marta is not able to overcome the crush she has for him; by chance she meets the opportunity to take the woman's identity.

Heaven

A shy teenager attempts to manipulate a game of seven minutes in heaven so he can confess his feelings to the boy he is infatuated with.

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).

Ele Não

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After the Fall

While on a long journey north, a post-apocalyptic survivor is awakened to the sound of an explosion, and upon investigation, finds the hope that she might not be alone in this deadened world.

Skin

In a small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash.

Detainment

Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler.

Cleaning Woman

Cleaning woman is cleaning and finds herself in an unexpected situation.

See

Biel works at a carpenter’s workshop. He lives a routine and boring life, he doesn’t feel alright. Everything changes when he runs into a stranger on the subway, who makes him discover the little details around him, to see the daily spaces from another perspective and discover himself.

Welcome Home

When adolescent Elsabe is adopted by a well-to-do lawyer named Nancy, she struggles to feel welcome in her new home as her jealous step-brother Andrew attempts to corner Elsabe in her alienation.

Mayday

After a traumatic collision with a rogue asteroid, a pilot is marooned on his ship in the deep black of space. He must use everything in his power to repair his ship and find a way 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.

Hipolita

When an accident befalls Hipolita, her unusual ward finally has a chance at freedom.

Streaming

A series of short films including Detergent, Square and ACPOAPM, made in New York.

Daniel

Spooky stuff is afoot in a French school. All of a sudden, 10-year-old Daniel finds himself alone with Marthe – their encounter is both tender and troubling, and it seems to take place in a sort of vacuum. In Marine Atlan’s dream-like feature film debut, children dance tango timelessly, recite poems and do the drill for an imaginary terrorist attack.

Blank Canvas

A queer female artist struggles with her first major painting and its impending deadline. Concealing herself in her cluttered bedsit, she begins to experience hallucinations which she ultimately decides to use to her advantage.

Invincible

Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom.

You Are Here

Two brothers plan to spend quality time together on a weekend hike, but when things go wrong they are forced to confront a rift in their relationship.

Hello, Thanks

Filmmaker Andy Blubaugh documents a year spent looking for love in the personal ads.

Lalo

Lalo is a little boy who lives in an orphanage and dreams of singing in the choir of the church. His companions make fun of him and beat him, so he is unjustly punished afterwards. Very soon, everyone will discover in him an extraordinary change of direction in his life.

Days, Months, Years and Nothing Else

A randomly chosen name and random scenes shot in two different hours. Monologue (story) adapted later according to name and scenes with "Funkadelic - Maggot Brain".

How It Feels

Over the past few months, less so now, I've been experiencing some fairly intense spouts of anxiety. Something incredibly new and quite frightening for me. After a bunch of CBT sessions, my therapist recommended channeling my experience into video form. So, here you are. With the help of the incredible Suli Breaks, I've made this little video. Trying to demonstrate how it felt for me. Hope you take something from it.

Europe by Bidon

Biodun is Nigerian. In this animated documentary, he tells the story of his journey on foot from Lagos to Paris, how he survives with a container (un bidon) and thanks to his courage. With his amazing patter, he transforms the events into extraordinary adventures.

Getting Fat in a Healthy Way

Bulgaria-based director Kevork Aslanyan’s European Short Film Festival-winning sci-fi short sees a man trying to overcome an obstacle of gravitas for love. In a dystopian post-communist world, Constantine and his father Atanas share a small flat in a run-down apartment block. A tragic accident has disturbed gravity on Earth beyond repair, so everyone weighing less than 120 kilos flies up into space. With only 60kg body weight, Constantine cannot go outside, nor does he want to. Stuck in the flat, at the mercy of the electrical mood swings of a household gravitational normalizer, Constantine leads an almost normal life. He is content spending the days looking at the world through his window. Until the beautifully plump stewardess moving in next door changes everything.

SLEIGH!

Jacob tries to keep a tradition alive by throwing a Christmas party for his distant friends. The night takes a deadly turn when they brush off an antique Christmas board game. It proceeds to show him his friends aren't who they seem.

Largo

An unfinished love story between glimpses on wheels.

A Sister

A night. A car. Alie is in danger. To get by she must make the most important phone call of her life.

Lonesome Bridge

A gay college student stumbles into trouble when he falls in love with his homophobic suite mate.

Circle

Damu(10year old boy) , leaves his home to buy Jagarry .On the way he meets his friend Manya . They stop at a Bioscopewallah. Damu realizes that he is not having enough money and he decides to earn some quick money . This greed takes him to play a game . After the game Damu goes to the shop . But he walk back with tearful eyes.........

Explorer

Deep in the suburbs, a troubled and obsessive man waits for signs of alien life from the skies. Instead, he finds new meaning in the empty rooms of his family home—and travels into his own inner space.

The Katy Universe

Katy went to a wedding and developed superpowers.

The Understudy

An ambitious understudy’s respect grows to obsession.

Purgatorium

After his death, a young man stuck in purgatory attempts to cope with the afterlife.

The Saucing

A short film following a cult that worships spaghetti sauce.

Gritty Fraggle Rock

Worlds collide when a secret passage way to the dying world of Fraggle Rock is discovered in the U.S. Officer Lamb and Officer Chops are on the case, when a seemingly targeted string of murders begin to take place against the people of Fraggle Rock. Gobo Fraggle and his friends face new threats, and adventure, in their new home, Earth.

A Walk in Winter

When Conrad returns to his hometown to identify his mother's body, he is forced to confront the painful memories of his childhood.

Kryo

A man who cheats death through the help of cryonics has to learn the hard way that death is a undeniable part of life.

The Last Dragon

Video poem based on The Last Dragon by Radu Stanca.

Rag Doll

Although Yingying’s mother was killed in a modern day persecution and the little girl is alone on the streets of Northern China, an enchanted art form could reunite them. Enter a child’s world, where hope and imagination are more powerful than police batons or state-sponsored violence, where noble determination conquers all.

Crossed Destinies - A Short Film About Climate Change

A papercut stopmotion animation in which human Travelers from 2053 travel 30 years into the past to warn "foundlings" of the future that awaits them. The story follows Jonah and his Traveler, learning about the possible chaotic future that could happen if such measures are not applied.

Dar-Dar

In the mountains of the Basque Country, a mother and her daughter take shelter in a ruined hut that seems uninhabited.

Dotty

A lonely 9-year-old boy stumbles across a modest caravan in the American Midwest. Inside the caravan lives Dotty, an eccentric but kind women; old enough to be his grandmother. Dotty invites the boy into her rainbow decorated caravan that is littered with exotic memorabilia from her past, and in particular an incredible collection of brightly colored shoes. The boy, who has a hidden sadness he wont discuss and a suspicious bruise on one arm is able to forget about his troubles momentarily as Dotty and the boy embark on a journey that spans her colorful life.

Shallow

When newly elected MP Richard Dove runs over a young girl on a deserted forest road, he must decide to what lengths he will go to save his blossoming career.

The Smotherer

Vicente is an “abafador”, a smotherer who travels around with the mission of ending the suffering of those who are terminally ill and dying. Tired of living like a criminal, he does one last service but is caught red-handed by a woman.