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The Bishop's Wife

December 1947 •English

An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.

Don't be late, Myra

October 2024 •English

Ten-year old Myra is forced to walk home alone, dodging men harassing her on the streets of Lahore. Soon things escalate in this thriller where a sinister turn quietly awaits her.

Dilution

February 2025 •English

Dilution is an experimental short film that explores the transit between resistance and (di)ssolution, between holding and releasing and a path towards obsessive repetition. They are layers, exposed pores, matter that oscillates between remaining or disappearing. The sound is not a background, but a puncture: friction, tearing, water that drags what still persists. A sensorial testimony of what refuses to vanish completely.

False Creek Stories

October 2010 •English

This is False Creek, perhaps an insignificant point on a map. Its happenings won't splash across the front page of your morning newspaper, but the daily affairs of this little neighborhood are the main headlines to the people that live here. Their source for these stories is Bill, a wheelchair bound man with paraplegia who devotes his time and ambition to seek out those local chronicles that his neighbors so desire. But with Bill's responsibility to entertain comes certain jealousy from Igor, who thinks he's better suited for the job. And from Doug, who just craves the respect it brings. Today, dressed with a shirt he found in the free-box, and with hope in his heart, Doug sets out to gain that respect.

Soch

September 2016 •

A doctor treats a mentally retarded child, but a simple action of her makes him question himself.

Fighting Chance

July 2023 •English

Three boxing athletes and one coach open up about their journey within the demanding sport. This touches on community, role models, mental health, and the sport perception on mainstream media.

It Got Dark

June 2022 •Spanish

Oca has left home today with his two little brothers and has taken them to the mountain with his asshole friends. But she has not come to spend the day in the field. And she doesn't plan on coming home.

The Golden Wedding

October 1911 •Italian

A grandfather recalls how he and his wife met and fell in love during the Second Italian War of Independence.

Truck Driver

March 2013 •Spanish

In a boarding school, Raidel is witness to the abuse suffered by his schoolmate Randy.

Soa

August 2017 •Serbian

The story follows a man who lives in an isolated farm with his wife. In the rugged mountainous area they live usual tedious rural life. It is full of rehearsed routine tasks around the farm and endless wandering through wild landscapes. Autumn is long and in such an environment he prepares atrocious crime. He puts on a woman's wardrobe and troubling ram. The man is left alone. People are saying there was a man…A very strange enchanted man…They say he wandered very far, very far…

NADIA

July 2017 •English

Nadia is a troubled teen girl kicked out of home by her surpassed mother and has nobody to turn to, until her High School's Principal Mr. Green discovers her sleeping rough on a bench and takes her under his wing.

Goldfish

April 2008 •English

Two couples, in the same room, try to keep it together. The human couple fare differently to the pair of Goldfish in their fish tank. An artful piece exploring choice in life and love. The humour is derived from the wistful musings, in Cantonese, of the male fish and narrator.

Brasil, Vermelho-Amarelo

November 2022 •Portuguese

Destruction of Silence

February 2014 •German

그녀의 단속반

September 2023 •Korean

On the Beach

July 2015 •German

Laura and Clemens spend their holidays at the sea in Northern Germany. Laura is bored and invents a game: She pretends to be blind. Over the course of a few days the couple gets entangled in their lie, revealing the emptiness of their relationship.

Dive

July 2015 •English

George's reflection has turned its back on him and he'll go to great depths to get it back.

100m Freestyle

June 2013 •Spanish

Polo and Domingo spend their last days together between Ciudad Mendoza and Cordoba, in Veracruz, Mexico, before Domingo moves to another city for college. Domingo has to say goodbye to his girlfriend, Mina; while Polo deals with his feelings towards his best friend in the little time they have left.

Cuban Breeze

October 1986 •English

Irishman Vincent Coke is facing execution on the electric chair after a lifetime of adventures, including smuggling rich Cubans from Cuba to the USA. While rebelling against the system, he finds an unexpected lifeline offered to him by the very system he is rebelling against.