Sonata

La chaqueta del botones

June 2016 •Spanish

UDIN

Invalid date •Indonesian

Udin, a Betawi boy who loves painting, dreams of joining a competition. But his father insists he practice pencak silat like other boys his age, unaware that Udin is being bullied at the training center.

QUIET

May 2025 •English

Two paramedics are awoken on the overnight shift for a 911 call unlike any other.

The Hard Way

September 2024 •French

Matéo, a teenager from a good family, is sick of being bullied and wants to buy a gun. He enlists the help of Karl, a childhood friend who has fallen in with bad company. During the deal, Matéo realizes that the rifle he wants will cost a lot more, and the situation quickly escalates.

Nowhere

October 2013 •English

In a vast, open desert landscape, two strangers with troubled pasts collide.

Por No Morir Nada Mas Vernos

March 2015 •Spanish

A couple going through a rough patch must sit out a power outage.

Stains

August 2024 •English

As Erin packs her old life into boxes, she overhears a violent attack in the apartment above that derails her night.

Garden of Remembrance

October 2022 •Japanese

An untidy room. Empty beer tins, empty wine bottles, a half-empty glass of whisky... A girl is getting up absent-mindedly and starts preparing herself. YOUR morning starts. Lazy and hard-to-wake-up YOU. The emoticon is ME watching over YOU. I play tricks on YOU, while YOU are playing the guitar and drinking. One day, in town, YOU walk past THE CHILDHOOD FRIEND who is buying an Anemone I liked, and remembering that I liked them, YOU rush out to buy them. THE CHILDHOOD FRIEND displays the Anemone with care. One day, years after I died, YOU hear noise from the closet. Opened, YOU see MY garden right in front of YOU. Overflowing emotions of ME and YOU. When exiting from the room with memories, a picture of the Anemone that YOU painted is displayed in YOUR new room.

My Brother Juan

February 2019 •Spanish

Ana is a 6-year-old girl who goes to therapy. Through games and drawings, she tells the psychologist about her family, specially about her older brother, Juan. She describes what he is like, how he feels about her, how they play together. But soon, it will be revealed that things are not always exactly what they seem.

Menuett

March 2019 •German

Apprehension

August 2018 •English

A dark entity lingers over Elsie. A daily struggle, impaired thoughts and emotions causing her to lose contact with external reality.

City of Smiles

February 2020 •Urdu

Pakistan, 2071. There have been no reported instances of terrorism or violent crime in over 30 years. The cost: the systemic subjugation of all human emotion.

Rules for Werewolves

March 2020 •English

As teens ransack a suburban home for food and clothing, one recounts how he got there and how desperation has changed him.

The Artist

October 2011 •French

Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.

To: Gerard

June 2020 •English

A sprightly elderly man brightens the day of a little girl through magic.

The Long Goodbye

March 2020 •English

A short about racism and Islamophobia in the UK.

Kongo

October 1932 •English

The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, through superstition and sadism, living only for the day when he can get revenge on the man who ruined his life.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

March 1913 •English

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

The Room

April 1992 •Japanese

A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through Tokyo, towards the ruins the decadent economy has left behind, in hopes of finding The Room.

Coche

September 2020 •French