The Oddity

The Belt

April 1989 •Italian

Vittorio, an American novelist teaching in Rome, meets the beautiful but damaged Bianca and they rapidly fall into an urgent, tempestuous affair. He's hesitant over their relationship since she seems to thrive on conflict and is constantly baiting him into physical altercation. Bianca gives Vittorio an exquisite leather belt as a gift; he knows immediately that she wants him to whip her with it. Driven by his craving for her, Vittorio complies to Bianca's desire. Their relationship escalates into a dark realm of S&M which becomes more and more self-destructive.

Party Girl

August 2014 •French

Angélique is a 60-year-old bar hostess. She still likes to party, she still likes men. At night, she makes them drink, in a cabaret by the French-German border. As time goes by, clients become rare. But Michel, her regular client, is still in love with her. One day, he asks Angélique to marry him.

Showing Up

April 2023 •English

In the days leading up to a possibly career-changing exhibition, a sculptor navigates her relationships with family, friends, and colleagues.

A Piece of Dogu

May 2014 •Japanese

Nostalgic story that revolves around 'Dogu,' a mysterious clay doll.

Absent

September 2020 •English

Unable to afford proper menstrual products, Chloe is constantly faced with anxiety and humiliation; this is not the first time this has happened and it won’t be the last. 'Absent' is based on multiple true stories and made in association with Freedom4girls. It aims to raise awareness around period poverty in the UK.

Synonymous With

April 2021 •English

A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.

20 Conditions to Fall in Love With the App

January 2021 •Japanese

28-year-old Taeko Kase works at an event company. One day, she makes a mistake at work and is reprimanded by her boss Hiroki Itokawa. Making things worse, Taeko Kase is dumped by her boyfriend. Later, Taeko Kase follows the recommendation of cafe clerk Haruto Takagi’s and joins a dating app. With Haruto Takagi’s advice, she decides to meet Makoto Hasegawa from the app.

Happening

November 2021 •French

France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.

Be-Bop High School 2

August 2005 •Japanese

The Boy Who Stole the World

Invalid date •English

A sci-fi fantasy adventure of a young boy whose life changes forever when a mysterious visitor lands from nowhere into his backyard to warn him of an impending invasion.

Sick of Myself

September 2022 •Norwegian

Increasingly overshadowed by her boyfriend's recent rise to fame as a contemporary artist creating sculptures from stolen furniture, Signe hatches a vicious plan to reclaim her rightfully deserved attention within the milieu of Oslo's cultural elite.

Reconstruction

March 2021 •

Reconstruction tells about a certain night in 1982, reconstructed in 2020 by the people who lived it through together. The film combines dance, drama and documentary, but most of all is a story of a friendship of a boy and a girl, and how jolly situations can turn sour and how, even though close, friends do not share same experiences – and that can have an effect on their friendship.

Stop-Zemlia

January 2022 •Ukrainian

Hanging out with friends, smoking a lot, spinning bottles and kissing, making mistakes, playing, refusing to accept, dreaming with open eyes - life as a teenager can be overwhelmingly beautiful and difficult at the same time. In her debut, the Ukrainian director composes a deeply emotional and multi-layered portrait of a generation whilst seamlessly flowing between the fictional and the documental.

İki Cambaz

December 1979 •Turkish

Two master thieves try to outdo each other to be the sole owner of the loot.

Has Anybody Seen Phil?

January 1989 •English

Phil, a teenager, disappears and his friend Danny talks to people in town in an attempt to locate him. Danny learns that Phil was under enormous stress from his parents, football coach and teachers.

Sissy

Invalid date •English

‘Sissy’ is a short drama set in a secondary school, where two sisters with a fraught relationship, feisty Millie who is 16 and goody goody Chloe who is 12, wait to be seen by the headteacher for very different reasons.

The Blood in the Vein

May 2021 •French

Simon and Zoé meet on Tinder. They live in the same suburban town and Zoé, wasting no time, invites him right over to her house. Simon can’t believe his luck! But once he arrives, he quickly understands that his date may prove more complicated than expected.

I'm Your Man

July 2021 •German

Alma is a scientist coerced into participating in an extraordinary study in order to obtain research funds for her work. For three weeks, she has to live with a humanoid robot tailored to her character and needs, whose artificial intelligence is designed to be the perfect life partner for her. Enter Tom, a machine in human form in a class of its own, created solely to make her happy.

Boonie Bears: The Wild Life

February 2021 •Chinese

Bear brothers Briar and Bramble set off on an adventure with their human friend Vick to Wild Land, an amusement park where humans can turn into animals using a gene-technology bracelet.

History of Walking Upright

December 2017 •Korean

Mi Na is a normal high school student who skatesboards to school every day and has an unacknowledged crush on family friend slash local tennis star Jong Min, who is her fellow student. Also Mi Na has the superpower to turn invisible twice a day.