Cellar Door

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.

The Inexhaustible Variety of Life

January 2024 •English

A conversation between reality and consciousness.

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".

Casual Workers

December 2020 •English

An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19

Instinct

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A woman strolls through nature, embraces trees, and enjoys stunning views. She dances around a large tree, then suddenly falls into darkness, wakes up in a completely different setting, and wonders if she was dreaming or if this is her dream.

Once More Unto the Breach

October 2019 •Italian

July, 1941. After the beginning of the German invasion, an Italian soldier, a veteran of the colonial wars, is sent to the Soviet front. As he remembers the fairy tales his Russian mother used to tell him, the train he is travelling in crosses Europe on its way to the vast Ukrainian plains, where the enemy and a cruel winter await him… (Based on the experiences of several Italian soldiers.)

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.

Nickel Boys

December 2024 •English

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

Mello, Judd, & Tooth Floss

October 2023 •English

Mello, Judd, & Tooth Floss is a slice of life short about two friends who sit in their car by the ocean on their lunch break as they make up stories about passersby.

The Eve

September 2015 •Italian

Simon is an eight-year-old boy who seems to have everything from life. He’s a handsome child, he’s rich yet unhappy. He senses that there’s something wrong with his life and this leads him to wander off thanks to his fervid imagination. His greatest wish is to leave the materialistic world behind since he isn’t fond of it. That’s why the only present he wants for Christmas is for Santa Claus to take him away to live in his fairyland toy factory. At the same time, a secret that his family has been keeping for a long time suddenly comes to the surface and it is feared that the worst might happen soon. The expectation for the stroke of midnight on the night before Christmas is transformed into reality for everyone on the eve of something truly different. Something terrible that might happen.

Nourishment of the oblivion

June 2022 •English

Andrea and the simbionte travel to Toledo; when they arrive, they find a lonely bus station, which slowly turns off the lights for them. In the silence that surrounds them, Andrea watches the moment pass and with it her certainty about her future dream with the simbionte, feeling that everything she experiences is actually a memory.

Inviável

July 2022 •Portuguese

A man and a woman live in an abandoned house in a forest. Their lives are shaken when someone visits them.

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.

Longing of the idle plants

February 2022 •English

A film about using nature as a way to deal, cope and escape depression, a sense of melancholy and loss clouds over the film.

La Demoiselle de Coeur

January 1963 •French

The kings of the card game, tired of serving for the amusement of men, decide to participate in the lives of humans and behave like them.

Vestígio

Invalid date •Portuguese

A photographer looks at pictures of the last day of a boy's life.

Ad Meliora

June 2020 •English

'Ad Meliora' (translation: Towards Better Things) is an experimental short film about the struggles girls go through growing up in a male dominated society.

Electroma

May 2006 •

Two robots embark on a quest to become human.

Verrückt

March 2021 •English

Procedurally-generated frames slowly expand in density to visually explore the mind of a psychopathic, narcissistic teenager, up until the demise of the subject.

DEAR ROBERT_

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