This Is Not

Bills Included

June 2019 •Spanish

In Madrid, a tenant agrees to ignore the existence of the other tenant living in his apartment, so that both inhabit the space as if it were an individual use.

Feed Me

October 2022 •English

Following the death of his wife, a broken man spirals into an abyss of night tremors and depression and finds himself in the home of a deranged cannibal who convinces him to take his own life in the most horrific way imaginable.

Please Hold (Your Call Means a Lot To Us)

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Reece Fenton enters the Bureau of Corrections after experiencing a problem with his tax file. Jacob, the woman at the desk, explains that the file has been mixed up with that of ‘Mr Benton’, a 66 year old dead man. Both Jacob and her illiberal supervisor Mr Moggs determine that the best way to resolve this issue is for Mr Fenton to die as well.

Beau Is Afraid

April 2023 •English

Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic odyssey back home.

Occurrences of Questionable Significance

April 2020 •German

When forest animals invade our cities, the world is in disarray. Office vixen Fiona struggles with her banana phone addiction. Will she succumb to it? Temperamental bunny Barbara only gives her stag sugar daddy Nestor his special massage, after he dines her and plays the big spender. This obscure short film pinpoints postmodern tropes of consumerism, eroticism, and art with an homage to the theater stage and references to literature. This work uses a fantasy language and needs no subtitles.

Packages

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Packages is the debut project from first-time writer / director Nick Barat. Described as a “nightmare comedy” and “Franz Kafka with an Amazon Prime account,” this short film is the latest creative evolution for Nick, who has spent two decades in culture as a DJ and producer, graphic designer, co-founder of Fool’s Gold Records and editor at The FADER Magazine. “With my background, it would have been obvious to start with a film about ‘music,’ but Packages is still very much my sensibility, my rhythm and the way I see the world. It’s an exploration of dream logic and visual storytelling – stylized, surreal and satirical, mashing up genres while cracking some jokes in the process.” Packages is currently submitting to film festivals for a premier in 2026.

Selfless

September 2025 •English

After regaining control of his mental health, Damien is eager to reconnect with Liana, his girlfriend of three years, minus a two-month break. But just as he's ready to make his triumphant return, something stops him. Something not quite human.

Have You Seen Me

October 2022 •English

When Benny's younger brother, Loren, suddenly reappears after being missing for months, the two are forced to reckon with the drastically different ways they have chosen to live their lives.

The Divinity of a City

January 2024 •English

David Bono is a hitman hired to target Orshanabi Nazzar, a high-ranking priest-bureaucrat in a temple corporation in the fictional city of Babylonia (Brussels-based). The corporation has invented a way to avoid death by recording people's lives. While gathering information and preparing for the job, David meets Ellie, with whom they slept together. However, Ellie is a member of a cult called Children of Ishtar, and David's job would interrupt their life-recording ceremony. Facing an obsessive dilemma, David tries to find a way to do his mission without killing Ellie. First, he tries to convince Ellie not to attend the ceremony, and then he hires a local crook to kidnap her while he does the job. After the successful job, Ellie frees herself from the kidnapper, discovers the truth, and leaves for Akkadia. Meanwhile, David calls to receive the rest of his payment but gets ambushed by the contractor.

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

October 1970 •Italian

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.

Locusts Beyond a Phantasia

February 2024 •English

After a sight-restoring surgery leaves him seeing surreal distortions, a photographer must rely on his camera to discern reality from illusion as he ventures outside for the first time.

Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: Hoyoyo! City of Dreams, Mechapolis

July 1985 •Japanese

Children are lured to Metropolis only to find that the renowned, mythical city may not be the happy-go-lucky utopia they'd thought it would be.

El humor de tu vida: Tip y Coll

January 2004 •Spanish

Escape

October 2024 •Spanish

A young man becomes convinced that the solution to all his problems is to live in jail, and he will do whatever it takes to get it.

Pushover

October 2023 •English

A man's life is upended by increasingly threatening phone calls demanding he leave a review for a paperweight purchased online.

The Mix-up

May 1994 •Arabic

Ihsan is a simple employee in the Ministry of Culture from the house to the office and vice versa his work colleague Nargis loves and plans to marry him. He is surprised by one of the security authorities arrested and directed a number of charges, which does not know the cause and continues to haunt him

Ramen Hell Capítulo II: Las Sobras

November 2019 •Spanish

Months after the gruesome events of Ramen Hell, Alejandro and Frank try to escape to Colombia with the help of René, a mysterious driver, and Tarántula, a thug drug dealer.

ZIPWHARF

June 2024 •English

A street performer hatches a brilliant scheme to get back at the content creator who destroyed his livelihood.

Gobsmacked

Invalid date •English

Private Detective H. Gibson loses a case-file for the first time in his decade-spanning career. He decides to try to solve the mystery, of what it is he is supposed to be investigating.

Roach Motel

October 2023 •English

Two runaway, gun-obsessed, outlaw lovers are given a task to kill two political figures in the midst of a civil revolution outside the walls where these characters are trapped, waiting for the phone call to give them a sense of purpose