Sacred Journeys (2016)

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.

Rite of Spring

Set during the dog days of summer, a group of teenage boys inhabit a makeshift bike part in a secluded wooded area of Toronto. David (14) craves the attention of Peter (17), an older boy and a natural leader to the group, while being mercilessly teased by his best friend, John (14). When their hidden world is breached by an outsider, anger, fear and misunderstanding lead to a violent outburst.

Touch Me in the Morning

Two men in a morning routine... a dance and no words.

The Gift of the Magi

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But Milk Is Important

A man with social anxiety gets followed by a naive and clumsy creature. Terrified the man tries to escape, unaware that the creature is actually a helper with slightly unconventional methods.

Jerk

A Jamaican man of the community battles depression and disillusionment.

the last day i can no longer remember.

An abstract, experimental, personal reappraisal of experiences and crises - the project was the result of an experiment.

A Place We Call West

An immigrant finding solace in his new home. Reminiscing the stories his grandfather told him during his time as a trader.

The light years

An astrophysicist (Marion) and an extraterrestrial (Thomas) are in love. Tomorrow, they must say goodbye. It's the price they must pay to free Thomas from the horrible affliction he is suffering from on Earth. Thomas will leave our world and return to his planet. Marion accompanies him to the point of no return.

The Painter

The Painter, he terrorizes children with some sort of supernatural power. No one knows who or what it is. All they know is that it wears an eerie looking mask.

Apple

Apples are always something to fear.

Solitudo

This is a story about loneliness. Loneliness has many faces; different causes, different symptoms, different effects. Here is a picture of one of them

The Cost of Consideration (Adjusted for Inflation)

A lonely man in his 60s accepts a stranger's invitation on a community app, leading him to Thanksgiving dinner with a young married couple in his neighborhood. As a tense evening unfolds, everyone's true motivations are revealed.

Son, I Love Your Mouth 2: The Taste of the Forbidden

Second part of the romance between father and son. In this installment Alex introduces his new girlfriend to Gonzalo, who cannot hide his jealousy.

Violetas

In 1945, beneath the oppressive shadow of the Francoist dictatorship, Juan, a university teacher assistant, meets Manuel during a chance encounter at night in a park. With their initial reservations, a complex love story unfolds between them, shaped by the turbulent political climate and the misunderstanding of those around them.

Past Perfect

Former best friends Leba and Maria reunite at their old school. As they explore the empty halls, they revisit their shared past and confront unresolved emotions, all centered around a purple chair.

Matador

A gritty drama focusing on Street Fighter's sociopathic and self-adoring Spanish ninja, Vega. Matador details Claw's traumatic upbringing and the pivotal sequence of events that made him into the assassin he is today.

The Eraser

Visions of characters by the seaside from one's memory are erased by the filmmaker's hand.

Ele Não

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I See You

Christina is in her mid-twenties and in a sensual and playful relationship with her boyfriend Joel. Though it irritates her when Joel takes erotic photos of her during sex, she gladly submits to it, for him. After all, they’re not teenagers anymore. Christina eventually starts to question her trust in Joel when she sees him tipsily showing a photo on his phone to their mutual friend Tanner. Christina’s doubts alone suffice to put the couple’s relationship to the test.

Essence of Pandanus

A young man is on a regular monthly visit to his grandmother. Things take an unexpected turn as she starts reminiscing and as the future and the past collide.

Götaplatsen #flerochfler

A male director is making a film about the annoying, dominant whiteness of cultural space. But what words do they really use? When two of the women in the team question how they figure themselves, they need a break.

The Road Ahead (Where do we go from here?) Director's cut

Leo gets abducted and carried around in the trunk of a car. The man who is holding him captive has a sinister plan. He gets Leo to bury corpses for him. In the process, Leo gets to speak with his ego and gets glimpses of his higher self. Will Leo get out of this alive?

Delta

After her parents' divorce, Julie visits her father Nicolas along with his new much younger boyfriend Christian. Christian tries to use her visit to resolve a fight with Nicolas in his favour.

Balloon

In the brutal battlefield of junior high, Sam has always tried to stay below radar — but all that changes when he discovers he has super powers.

Despertar

Nico and Thomas are childhood friends who were separated. Years later, at the beginning of their adult lives, they meet again and feelings from the past resurface, causing them both to face personal dilemmas. This is how, between dreams and disagreements, Nico and Thomas reflect on life, themselves, and love.

Afago

Helena finds herself lost in her life and loves. Reflections on herself lead her to thoughts and disappointments.

Roy

Trapped in a lonely existence, reclusive widower Roy passes the days by cold calling strangers from the phone book, looking for brief moments of companionship. But when he accidentally calls adult hotline worker Cara, an unlikely friendship is born that will help them both rediscover the joy of life.

When the chamois are quiet

During a hike, Romy invents a game to silence Sacha, her chatty little sister, by asking her to pretend to be a mountain chamois. Romy has fun pushing her further and further into her role, but Sacha quickly gets too caught up in the game...

Fag End

"Fag End" is an astute representation of the metaphorical death of a mother. The movie revolves around a girl named 'Tania', a victim of smoking and alcohol abuse, going through the process of In vitro fertilization. When it comes to alcohol and smoking, an abuser is overlapped with the tendencies of both alcoholism and chain smoking wherein one is subjected to intense cravings, followed by untoward mental as well as physical detention. Things go downhill one morning, as she relapsed the night before and she suffers a miscarriage. Does it not leave us with the raucous screams of the unborn?

Dust

The short drama film Dòst tells the tough coming of age process of best friends Alko and Björn in a small rural village community. Between agricultural weekend work and partying, dealing with other adolescent boys and girls, one kiss can make a big difference. The urge to fit in, to uphold image, and peer pressure makes the boys both having to make choices that will affect their friendship.

Four Quartets

Over the course of a night out in a queer club, Raf struggles to find his place among the crowd until he stops trying to force the narrative and just lets himself go with the music.

Three Wrongs & Mrs. Right

After revealing to his girlfriend that he’s had an affair, Wes, a man who struggles with the terms of his own reality, determines he must get closure on three distinct events to get the love of his life back.

Holy Moses

In 1963 a cow goes missing from an Irish Magdalene Asylum only to reappear 25 years later at a gas station in Texas. The attendant calls the sheriff, the sheriff calls the doctor, and together the three discover a strange mystery in the middle of an American nowhere.

The Testicle

Laurent is a thirty year old dreamer. The day he gets dumped by his girlfriend, he has to go back to his parents and discovers he has testicle cancer. His whole vision of life and priorities are then going to change.

Dog's Dialogue

A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.

Ten Minutes

A desperate man makes a call to customer service looking for an answer.

Fangs

After a man dons a pair of fake vampire teeth for a Halloween party, he soon comes to find that he can't take them off again.

How to Say I Love You at Night

When Paul (Chris Petrovski) refuses to leave, Benny's (Mat Vairo) easy night of sex and drugs takes a strange turn in this sixteen minute single take film exploring notions of male-on-male intimacy, sexuality and violence.

Muerte al amanecer

At night, a young thief boldly breaks into an empty office, but his petty theft goes unexpectedly wrong.

Little Waves

After witnessing her cousin enveloped in a steamy new romance, distraught teenage Amélie allows herself to dive into her own fantasies, sparking something much more powerful.

Homesick

A young boy, left alone as an unnatural threat ravages the world, clings to his daily routine as he waits for his mother to come back for him.

Broncho Billy's Christmas Dinner

It's Christmas, and a young woman is on her way to celebrate the holidays with her parents. A group of drunk cowboys startle her horses making her wagon, with the woman on it, speed off. By chance Broncho Billy saves her life and the grateful girl invites him over for Christmas dinner. Little does he know that the young lady is the Sheriff's daughter…