Rheum (2021)

A Cold Wind To... Blow The House Down

With their relationship on the rocks, David and Emily move to Halifax to catch a break from the pandemic and their monotonous routine. Upon meeting Emily's best friend Delilah and her local friend Meg, the already shaky groundwork of their relationship starts to fracture.

La caza de brujas

When, in a very strict Catholic school, a teacher enters a bathroom and surprises two students engaged in forbidden sexual practices, some of their classmates do not know whether to remain silent or rat out their own friends when questioned by school authorities.

Inversion

A film about the complicated friendship of three adolescent girls, two swimming pools, and one malicious act of revenge.

Sing for Us

When Eva (14) goes to the lake with her older brother and his friends, she finds herself under her body’s control, of which she is still ashamed at her age.

Dino Bone

After seeing a suggestive fossil of two dinosaurs "getting it on," an anxious father tells his curious son a series of little white lies to avoid having "The Talk."

Protozoa

Darren Aronofsky’s AFI short opens with angry slacker Dave sitting in a dreary, empty junkyard. Dave stares into space, sips beer, and beats the hell out of a cracked guitar. We quickly realize the emptiness of the dump parallels the emptiness of Dave’s life which consists of smoking weed, staring at television screens and watching school children. Dave’s friend Pete is shortly introduced, along with their friend, Ari, who despite calling her pals losers, doesn’t seem to accomplishing much herself. These three are going nowhere fast. They’re the amoebas of life… protozoa….

Dogwatch

A security guard working the night shift at a strange apartment complex begins to discover that all is not as it seems.

Rhinoceros

Father and daughter, cars and rhinos... and the zoo director meet in the story of Emilia, a 15-year-old girl who tries to find the answer to the question - are we destined to be like our parents?

My Parents, The Zombies!

In the seaside town of Canvey Island, we meet Charlie, an 8-year-old boy with a great imagination. He spends his school summer holidays in isolation, playing with his toys and too afraid to leave his room. One fateful day he becomes so hungry he must venture downstairs and into certain danger to retrieve food. It is on this mission where he comes face to face with his greatest fear; his Zombie Parents! And his true adventure begins!

The Players

Arthur studies at the library of his high school. Sarah, near him, looks at him with interest. Nothing prepared them for what awaited them, behind the door.

Nouvelle Vague

Two kids research Nouvelle Vague for a school project.

Shergar

A boy lives a fast-paced, free-roaming life with his friends on the streets of Dublin, which doesn’t always lead to good choices.

Seeing Double

Things become shrouded when The Loner discovers a dead body outside his home. His mind becomes a prison of contradiction, falsification and fear when a series of dreams push him to realize the truth.

Ultraviolet

In Vancouver, British Columbia, two teenagers attempt to create a feature length documentary about their lives. The main character James (played by himself) becomes obsessed with the project and is pushed into a more introverted, lonely existence. His best friend Quinn (played by himself) sets out to help him, but is met with the real answer as to why James is keeping himself inside: the rejection of what he thinks is the love of his life. The two of them go their separate ways, with James going deeper into a depression he’s not sure he can escape from.

Bill the Galactic Hero

Bill is a reluctant astronaut in a fascist society.

Cowboyland

According to the justice of the Wild West, thieves must be punished. But when the sheriff's horse breaks, and there is no-one to oversee justice, it's hard to forecast if justice stays justice.

Live and Let Kill

The adventures of The Mute and Davit continue as they begin to unravel a massive criminal conspiracy with the help of an old ally.

Transformation

A brief, abstract exploration of identity.

Soy leyenda

First the atomic war broke out, new machines were made, dead birds appeared. In 1999, a bacteriological warfare began, there were sandstorms and giant locust infestations; the human tissue was transformed and a new being, once legendary, now real, emerged: the vampire. Only Robert Neville, the last man on Earth, remains unpolluted, living in constant struggle with the new inhabitants of the planet.

The Big Picture

Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once production gets rolling, corporate reality begins to intervene: Nick is unable to control a series of compromises to his high-minded vision, and it's all he can do to maintain his integrity in the midst of filmmaking chaos.

Weekend at Dunham's

Two teenagers accidentally kill their film teacher and attempt to cover it up.

The Clam

In the sequel to "People in Tights", we follow newly minted her The Clam through the stages of his training as he begins to deal with the consequences resulting from his newfound fame.

Spree

Seeking fulfillment, a young drifter forgoes isolation to embark on a year-long murder spree.

Can

Andrés, who lives with his grandmother in a decadent mansion, decides to become a dog in order to overcome his moral prejudices so that he can commit a horrible act.

Coffee Pot

Jomu’a is a Palestinian who lives in a refugee camp. Every early morning, he goes to the entrance of the refugee camp to earn his living selling coffee. He tries to find additional work but the only job available is to demolish a house.

Alien or: The Escape of Valdis in 11 Chapters

After being whacked on the head with a shovel, Valdis no longer shows interest in the things that used to make his life worthwhile: alcohol, techno, cars and fights. His friends desperately try to help him regain his memory, but nothing works.

Magical Mom

Daiki just wants to fit in at school, but his magical girl mother might ruin everything for him by bursting in on Career Day. Will the power of love hold strong amidst family tensions???

Chlorine

Two different moments in his life. The first love and the real love. Traumas from the past stick like chlorine in water.

Trash Cat

Watch the featured feline knock over a garbage can and eventually create a bigger mess of the virtual kind. It's further proof that a curious cat will find its way into anything.

My Dear Corpses

Unexpectedly evicted from his house, Erki faces a rather difficult task to take care of his lonely mother. He’s forced to agree to become a corpse carrier.

Some Boys Don't Leave

Some Boys Don't Leave is the story of what happens when the break-up happens but the break does not. 'Boy' is forced to come to terms with the fact that 'Girl' no longer wants him around. The only problem is he just can't seem to leave their once shared apartment. 'Girl' decides to keep living her life around him; while he remains, watching at a distance. In time, each decides to go in his or her own distinctly different directions. 'Boy' soon finds that sometimes the greatest distance we are asked to travel is one within ourselves.

Frontier

During a random check, the commander of the Czech Customs Unit notices that there are immigrants in the back of a van. In the turmoil that followed, a minor is injured while trying to escape into the forest. The officers scatter the woods to look for the boy who managed to escape. Their aim is to find him and cover up the event. When the child's father refuses to cooperate, the incident becomes insurmountable and the officers start to mistreat the refugees. It is a fairly harsh short film about human emotions and views against immigrants.

The Marathon

The director Misha Tumelya and animators Sasha Dorogov and Alexandr Petrov presented this short to Roy E. Disney as a tribute for the 60th anniversary of Mickey. A little over two minutes in length, the cartoon shows a young boy in black silhouette going to a line that divides the screen image in half. It is like a mirror with the young boy on one side and the classic black and white Mickey Mouse in black silhouette on the other side.

Muerte al amanecer

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