Passing Time

Mio on the Shore

November 2019 •Japanese

Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father’s best friend, Kyosuke. He runs a public bath. She begins to work at the public bath, but it is scheduled to be demolished to make way for redevelopment.

TIME

June 2024 •English

"Time" takes you through the city at night, capturing fleeting moments. With dynamic visuals and an atmospheric soundtrack, this short film explores the nature of existence and memory. Narrated by David Bowie, it invites you to reflect on the passage of time.

Da Lama Ao Caos

July 2023 •Portuguese

Northern Lights

October 2016 •English

Emma approaches adulthood, she tries to live an ordinary life and keep up to her late mothers expectations. However her anxiety weighs over her, stopping her from enjoying the last few youthful years.

On Top of the Earth

January 2007 •French

Sophie is both attracted to boys and girls. She is torn between Nicolas and Mathilde.

Stealing Beauty

March 1996 •English

Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.

The Notebook

May 2004 •English

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

No hay Eco en el Eco

May 2024 •English

A visual interpretation of the poem "the girl / the scream" by Mahmud Darwish.

jany robiać z hary piramidu

July 2018 •English

a visualization of a poem telling a story of making a piramid out of a mountain

The Shape

May 2019 •French

A storm is on the horizon. When a jet-black cloud engulfs a small village, the residents discover that it could put an end to more than just blue skies.

Beautiful Neighbor, Opposite

April 2020 •English

An exploration of love and loss in Paris.

For Colored Girls

November 2010 •English

About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.

What's Up with Cinta?

February 2002 •Indonesian

A popular high school girl strains her relationship with her close-knit clique when she begins falling for a reclusive, lower-class schoolmate.

Escargots

March 2006 •French

An adaptation of a children's poem called Chanson des escargots qui vont à l'enterrement by Jacques Prévert, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Filmed in Paris, France and Los Angeles, California.

The Great Metaphor

September 2023 •English

What does a bankrupt poet with no desire to live have to say about life?

Lenore

October 2021 •English

A modern reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem "The Raven."

Songs from the Second Floor

October 2000 •Swedish

A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.

Dobrisa Cesaric - Selected Poems

September 2013 •Croatian

Narrated collection of the greatest Dobrisa Cesaric's poems.

Overload

August 2022 •English

A spoken word piece about an autistic person experiencing sensory overload in a world that rejects their existence.

Afterword

October 2017 •English

Approaching the microphone in a small room, a young woman prepares to make the speech of her life. Desperate to find her voice in the wake of an ended relationship, she resorts to sharing any piece of advice she can muster. Her reflection on their differences strikes up an imaginary conversation.