Please Make it Work

La Chinoise

August 1967 •French

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

Comédie

January 1966 •French

An adaptation of the Beckett play

Ice Cream and the Sound of Raindrops

March 2018 •Japanese

In March, 2017, at a small town, six boys and girls are selected through auditions. They work hard to prepare for a play, but the play is suddenly cancelled. These young people are disappointed at the news. One girl says "let's practice." The six boys and girls want to stand on stage no matter what.

House

August 1977 •Japanese

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

Still Life

June 2017 •English

In these three short films, we examine key issues in the American cultural conversation—incarceration, race, life, death, digital culture, gender—through a distorted lens. They may be fictional, but these dizzying one-take videos do have the ring of truth.

Nickel Boys

December 2024 •English

Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

Madly In Love

November 2011 •English

The last thing Damian and Pippa want, is to fall in love. Yet when they first look into each other's eyes, love is exactly what happens. So much so that it makes them, and everyone else in the park burst out in song and dance.

Son In The Barbershop

April 2015 •English

A teenager overhears a phone call and inserts himself into the father-son story behind it. As this strange 'conversation' develops, two separately wounded lives slowly wind into a double helix of pain, regret, and filial love.

Dash

April 2022 •English

An adulterous rideshare driver navigating the nighttime streets of Hollywood goes to great lengths to take his troubling double-life to the grave...only to dig a grave for himself.

Russian Ark

May 2002 •Russian

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.

Close-Up: an odyssey

April 2021 •English

Join Lucy as she embarks on a spiritual journey to Mars in this psychedelic short film full of music and mischief.

The Brown Bunny

November 2003 •English

Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true love.

Lichter der Stadt

November 2020 •German

Electroma

May 2006 •

Two robots embark on a quest to become human.

Locked

August 2022 •English

A tormented man struggling with his inner demons, seeks desperately a way to be at peace with himself.

A Woman Is a Woman

September 1961 •French

Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.

Amy & I

October 2022 •English

When Amy and her boyfriend have a nice dinner in a restaurant where they first met, it turns out there's some pressure on their relationship.

Blows of Wind

September 2023 •English

You're waiting,aren't you?

Totally F***ed Up

August 1994 •English

Gay, alienated Los Angeles teens have a hard time as their parents kick them out of their homes, they don’t have money, their lovers cheat, and they are harassed by gay-bashers.

Paranoid Park

July 2007 •English

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".