Rheum (2021)

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.

The Beast

A young mexican smuggler and a little girl travel illegally on top of a cargo train, called La Bestia, to get to the USA. An injury transforms his perception of the journey.

The Focusing Effect

For his final project for film class in college, Kevin Morris, with the help of his girlfriend Julie and his roommate Jay, is making a documentary in which ex-couple share their breakup stories individually. When he comes across a disturbing secret involving one of his subjects (Ashley), he goes against his better judgment and shares it with Ashley's ex-boyfriend, James. But when the results are anything but satisfying, things start to get dangerous as James acts more ominous and it seems the lives of Kevin, Julie, Jay, and Ashley are soon in question.

Chlorine

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

Drop the Dog

A park. A woman. A man. Two benches. Two conversations. A cell phone.

Bread

In an alternate food-themed reality, the brash Detective Alfredo crosses former friends and enemies in an attempt to retrieve a stolen heirloom, The Bread, over the course of one chaotic night.

Brother Mary

To understand a mysterious man in a Victorian gown, who sings praises to God on the streets of contemporary Vancouver, we meet the people who claim to be closest to him.

Nova

A young astronaut works in solitude on a spaceship, trying to avoid reminders of her life back on Earth. When an alien entity finds its way aboard her ship, she must face some difficult truths.

Smokestacks

Maayan's parents are out-of-town, and the world starts falling apart. While civil defense sirens sound, Soya, Maayan's chinchilla goes missing. Maayan's neighbor shows up and together they explore the chaos

Kanya

A coming-of-age, drama about an adolescent girl growing up between the values of occidental and traditional cultures, whose aspirations of becoming a competitive swimmer takes an unexpected turn when she gets her first period.

The Touching

Behind the closed doors of their room, two brothers share a secret of self-discovery. But when the elder Marek starts growing up, bringing his childish curiosity to an end, he realizes that they’ve crossed the boundaries of brotherly love – something that the younger David is still unable to understand...

Apuntes sobre la tortura y otras formas de diálogo

In a country subjected to a cruel dictatorship, a political activist is savagely tortured, unleashing the indignation of certain leftist intellectuals.

Must Be Painful

After missing a train, Danny, a perpetual student, and his Spanish boyfriend must wait in an empty train station with two homophobic Czechs, who do not realise that Danny understands their every word.

Family Outing

A family goes on a road trip and sparks various conversations along the way in their car.

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.

Isaiah vs. The Hodag

A young man living with his parents in Wisconsin comes face to face with a terrifying monster while searching for the elusive cryptic known as the Hodag.

I Am

Her self-chosen solitude in the thick forest comes to a sudden end for Noé, when she finds the broken body of a female android. While she slowly approaches the mechanic woman, Noé’s past is revealed and brings up questions about how alike she and the android can become.

Clothesline

An idle, Arab American stoner discovers a portal to the war memories of his mother's past while doing the laundry chore.

Amaranthine

Set in an abstraction of 1970s London, Amaranthine tells a tale of punks, betrayal and revenge.

Lessons

A Chinese "study mama" considers her daughter Nana as her everything, sometimes her fantasy world. But after having a fight this morning, she finds Nana's missing.

One Last Taste

Yuan needs to sell her grandma's house to pay her bills but suddenly finds something in her grandma's kitchen.

Teddy

A desperate father tries his best to wake up his wife who's in a coma.

The Denigration of Carl Skiln

Up against a deadline, a narcissistic screenwriter forces two of his worst critics to delete their reviews of his work at gunpoint.

The Curse of Professor Zardonicus

A young man recruits a film student to help him prove the existence of an urban legend.

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.

Boy in the Elvis Suit

An impotent Elvis impersonator becomes addicted to erotic hypnosis in this tragicomic odyssey of the mind.