The Good Death

War on War

January 1983 •Arabic

The camera wanders through streets standing witness to a war that has destroyed a city and an entire nation. Bagdadi goes to war against the Lebanese civil war, exploring different locations and situations in a country faced with its own demise. The poetic text raises questions of life and death through contrasting images of violent death and the will to live.

Land Without Bread

December 1933 •Spanish

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time. (Silent short, voiced in 1937 and 1996.)

Hotel Paradijs

April 2007 •English

Every day Paul crosses a canal that separates the Amsterdam city center from the north side, where his lover Christiaan lives and waits for him. A dear routine for both - until one day Paul meets Claire, who starts seducing him into her very own universe, the Hotel Paradijs. Claire makes Paul the audience of her own play: a play where the roles are reversed and into which Paul is undeniably drawn.

Rite of Spring

July 2014 •English

Set during the dog days of summer, a group of teenage boys inhabit a makeshift bike part in a secluded wooded area of Toronto. David (14) craves the attention of Peter (17), an older boy and a natural leader to the group, while being mercilessly teased by his best friend, John (14). When their hidden world is breached by an outsider, anger, fear and misunderstanding lead to a violent outburst.

Touch Me in the Morning

January 2017 •English

Two men in a morning routine... a dance and no words.

Caucasian Gates

January 1929 •Russian

Short documentary about the Georgian Military Road. Captures Ingush and Ossetian settlements of the early 20th century

Hunter Goes to Hollywood

February 2003 •English

Hunter Thompson visits the set of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Naked

December 2014 •

As they penetrate deeper into the darkness of the forrest, a group of hunters guided by a wolf is getting closer and closer to the source of the original sin.

Jerk

October 2018 •English

A Jamaican man of the community battles depression and disillusionment.

Bittersweet

February 2023 •English

An oral history documentary of people of color at Miami University during its Public Ivy period—from 1970 to the early 2000s.

Cityscape

April 2019 •

From La Région Centrale (1971), Snow orchestrates new patterns of movement that exchanges the focus on landscape with the cityscape of Toronto.

Love Made Visible

January 2015 •English

A 16-year-old girl is brought to a house by a lawyer and told that this house belongs to her dad who she hasn't seen in 14 years. Strangely, she was told by her late mum that her dad died in a car accident a long time ago. From not accepting her dad to once again bonding with him again, what happened? What happened 14 years ago?

Document 56

Invalid date •English

In Cold War-era Romania, two Securitate officers intercept a letter from Richard Nixon to Nicolae Ceausescu. With 48 hours to prepare for the arrival of CIA operatives, the two agents race to determine the hidden agenda of the visit.

China's Secret Monkey Kingdom

October 2021 •English

Nocturnal

June 2022 •English

A one minute short film showcasing the sights, sounds, and people that characterizes Singapore's nightlife.

The Oval Portrait

January 1934 •English

An artist is so consumed with painting a portrait of the women he loves that he doesn't notice she is dying until it's too late. Shot as a silent film.

Not Sophie's Choice

May 2015 •English

When a husband and wife attempt to break some sad and life-changing news to their ten-year-old daughter Sophie, their disclosures are far from what anyone could expect.

Cierzo

November 2022 •Spanish

At the border between Navarre and Aragon we find the moors known as the Bardenas Reales, characterized by the dust and the omnipresence of the northern wind. This is a portrait of a land, but also a journey through Pilar’s memories. It is a glance at the past but also the present, and about how everything has changed, for better or worse.

The Give And Take

August 2018 •English

When eleven year old Amy finds an old eighties video game magazine she dials the phone number displayed on the back, and in a strange cosmic glitch gets connected to Caesar Spinone, a video game call center employee in the year 1989.

America

January 2019 •English

A cinematic omnibus rooted in New Orleans, challenging the idea of black cinema as a "wave" or "movement in time," proposing instead a continuous thread of achievement.