Rheum (2021)

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.

Boys and Girls

Ryan and Jennifer are opposites who definitely do not attract. At least that's what they always believed. When they met as twelve-year-olds, they disliked one another. When they met again as teenagers, they loathed each other. But when they meet in college, the uptight Ryan and the free-spirited Jennifer find that their differences bind them together and a rare friendship develops.

Protihráč

Not long ago, Petr was a celebrated and highly paid footballer, a national team player, captain of the most famous club in the country. But those days are gone. Now Petr is trying to restart his career at a small regional club and get his life in order. But his biggest rivals are no longer his opponents on the football field, but himself.

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….

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.

Toast

After Romaine is kidnapped at the hands of the shadowy Spicers, Detective Alfredo Pasta goes undercover to find his missing friend and root out an evil conspiracy in San Pancrisco.

Spree

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

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.

Sawsan

Sawsan is 22-years-old and, like many her age who still live at home: feels suffocated and regularly fights with her parents. Eventually she decides to run away and journey into the night life of Bethlehem city where she finds an unexpected surprise.

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 Abyss of Man

A woman goes to see a movie to which she appears to have a strange connection.

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?

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???

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.

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.

The Lamp

In waning winter light, a doll maker works in his shop, a kerosene lamp beside him, a jumble of dolls and doll parts, whole and broken, surrounding him. There are noises, too: a cuckoo clock chirps the workday's end. The artisan completes a repair and leaves, shuttering the shop from outside. Back inside, whispering begins. What else is in store for the shop's seemingly lifeless denizens?

Becoming Italian with Signora Enrica

A shy Turkish student, Ekin, goes to Italy for his studies. There, he meets Signora Enrica, a strong-willed Italian widow who agrees to host him in her home. At first reserved and cautious, Ekin gradually discovers her warmth, joie de vivre, and eccentricity. This encounter transforms his outlook on life, love, and freedom.

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.

Practice Funeral

After teenage Ben comes to the realization that his stage 4 testicular cancer is terminal, he decides to throw a "practice funeral" as one final hurrah before the end of his young life.

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.

Boy in the Elvis Suit

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

Clothesline

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

Margarita y el lobo

Lorenzo is a handsome, intelligent, charming, elegant and liberal man. All he asks for is total devotion. And Margarita, foolishly, falls in love with him…

Love Is Just a Death Away

Sometimes life starts after death for someone. Like for a little parasite, who walks with a rotting corpse of a dead dog around an old landfill. Trapped in his unpalatable body he tries to find love and friendship.

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.

The Seven

A parody of the film The Magnificent Seven about seven transport company inspectors who bravely fight a gang of stowaways.

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...

Love and Other Catastrophes

A day in the life of two film school students trying to find love and another housemate.

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.

A Toothful Smile

A man walks down the exterior staircase of building of flats; he's dressed to go out, taking care to wrap a scarf around his neck. He pauses as he passes a small window that's about eye high. He ventures to look in, and there a young woman stands at a washbasin, drying her hair,

Daughter

A young girl buries in her soul a memory of a painful moment, when as a child she brought home an injured bird and her father burdened by his own weight of worries didn’t notice her feelings and longing for understanding. The girl took her father’s reaction as indifference and closed herself in her inner world longing for her father’s love and its manifestations. Since that moment she and her dad continued to grow apart, and as an adult she is no longer able to accept his endearments. The father suffers from guilt and searches for a way back to his daughter, trying to revive their lost relationship.

The Nettle

Nikola is about to join his girlfriend at her father’s house for a summer holiday, but after wearing makeup for the very first time, he begins a startling and life-changing process of self-discovery.

The Best Orchestra in the World

Ingbert, the sock, applies for a position as a double bass player at the Vienna State Orchestra. Bad idea.