Close to the Bone

Territory

August 2022 •Danish

16-year-old, Blanka, is both curious and disturbed when her two new step brothers move in. One afternoon she goes all in to provoke a reaction and to mark her territory.

New old phone

Invalid date •Polish

Yuppies

January 1991 •Dutch

A succesfull busninessman who has it all is looking for a new challenge and decides to hire a contract killer to assassinate him.

Herman the Gangster

January 1995 •English

Short gangster film based on a novella by Belgian writer Hugo Claus.

The Black Virgin

February 2018 •Spanish

Belisario's wife is very sick, a healer comes to meet her and gives him the mission to climb the Andes mountains to bring back an object buried in the snow to try to save her.

The Old Man and the Sea

July 1999 •Russian

An old fisherman makes the biggest catch of his life.

The Little Matchgirl

September 2006 •English

An animated short based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale about a poor young girl with a burning desire to find comfort and happiness in her life. Desperate to keep warm, the girl lights the matches she sells, and envisions a very different life for herself in the fiery flames filled with images of loving relatives, bountiful food, and a place to call home.

Anger of the Dead

October 2013 •Italian

Alice and Nicholas survived an epidemic that ravaged the world, now only inhabited by the undead. But the nightmare is not over; the rumbling of a motorcycle approaches, breaking the silence. Maybe it's another survivor that will bring them to safety, or perhaps it is the most dangerous predator from which they have no chance of escaping?

Pretty Boy

March 2015 •English

Sean is taken to a motel and is given a prostitute for his 18th birthday by his father. He must sleep with her to "fix" his questionable homosexuality. "Pretty Boy" is a coming of age story of a young bullied teen, Sean, struggling with his sexuality and the hardships of high school. After his father finds some questionable magazines in his room, this devout Christian will go to any lengths to get his son to find the light and "perform" the way a man should. Sean is introduced to Katie, a prostitute that understands the stigmas of modern society and helps him see the true light that is within him.

The Euthanizer

January 2009 •English

A black comedy about a man struggling to make a living by helping people kill themselves.

Little Bird

October 2024 •Vietnamese

Linh, a disillusioned Vietnamese woman carrying out evictions for a landlord, is instructed to evict Vietnamese refugees. She must decide whether to follow through with their eviction or reject it in solidarity.

Take The Bridge

January 2007 •English

Take The Bridge is a 2007 independent film from Sergio M. Castilla about four young adults who all try to commit suicide on the same day and how they meet up and become friends. The film Premiering at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.

Open Your Eyes

December 1997 •Spanish

A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.

Like Trees

January 2021 •English

A widower delivers a word in guidance of his stepson's next chapters.

I'm an actrice

February 2004 •English

Baba, a preteen from Belleville, Paris, must deal with her mother's determination to turn her into an actress.

Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video 25

January 2007 •Japanese

A collection of shivering psychic images received by general posts, "It really was! A video of the curse." Fear grows! Earthbound spirits, vengeful spirits, floating spirits, guardian spirits... It's full of mysterious images that can't be solved by science, including 'Half-faced man', 'Creepy woman', 'Rock-climbing', 'My girlfriend', 'Safari park', 'Household surveillance cameras' and 'Kumano Kanko'.

The Scary Movie

January 1993 •English

Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams and "scary" music suggests that the girls' toying with gender roles and power dynamics may have dire consequences.

Hiatus

January 2018 •French

In his classroom a philosophy teacher opens the discussion on the place of religion in society. Out of his course he faces the realities of the street.

Audrey

October 2017 •French

Audrey learns how to communicate with her dying mother who is in a hospice. It is Audrey’s last chance to prove to her mother that love supersedes identity issues. This is also her ultimate attempt to tell her mother what she has always been: her daughter.

Contradictions

November 2002 •French

A transvestite is bedridden in a colorful room. A customer arrives, then a game of hide-and-seek, of pretense and confusion of feelings begins.