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One Small Step

July 2017 •English

One of humankind’s greatest achievements has been to walk on the moon. It was marked in history as a phenomenal success. What if that first step had turned out a little differently? As Neil Armstrong is about to take his first step on the moon, something catches his eye in the distance. Naturally curious, he leaps out into the unknown territory to investigate. What he finds will forever change the course of human history.

Swirlee

February 1989 •English

Tells the story of Mr. Softee, a mutant hybrid with an ice cream cone for a head, who was the victim of the anti-miscarriage drug "Nodroppinum" which changed the pregnant mother's child into whatever food she craved at the time (a parody of the Thyladimide scandal from the 60s.) Softee was the head of an ice cream company, until he was forced out of business by the artificial ice cream mafia, led by Don Tofutti.

Fotofinish

October 1986 •German

A man in financial debt is asked by his little son if the photographer of the famous picture which shows the Hindenburg zeppelin going up in flames early this century has become rich by that. The father quickly concludes that he only has to take the right picture in order to be able to pay his debts. After contacting a underground explosives engineer he takes off to the Munich Olympic Tower with his camera...

Fifty Shades of Blue with Selena Gómez

May 2012 •English

The sexually charged literary blockbuster, Fifty Shades of Grey gets adapted for the screen with Selena Gomez and Nick Kroll.

Duvetman

November 1996 •French

Delicious Party♡Precure: My Very Own Children's Lunch

September 2022 •Japanese

Anime short that will accompany screenings of the Delicious Party♡Precure film. The short will star characters from three previous Precure series - Tropical-Rouge! Precure, Healin' Good Precure, and Star Twinkle Precure - alongside the characters from the current Delicious Party♡Precure series.

turn turn turn

September 2016 •Korean

a very quiet weekend car center. A car that appears somewhere starts to turn around the car center. Turn and turn and turn...

Tuyul

December 2020 •Indonesian

Agus is the new night security of the village administrative office. Rumor said the office is haunted by the elusive Tuyul.

D.Asian

March 2015 •English

4th grade is all about fitting in. For ten-year-old Daniel, that means owning the latest in Hello Kitty fashion, liking the cutest boy in class, and convincing yourself you’re Asian when everyone else thinks you’re white.

Play

June 2017 •Greek

Most adults dream of staying in childhood forever; go through life like a game, free of society's rules and restrictions. Five employees in a metal company put this dream into effect. What they find is: you may escape the rules but you can't escape the consequences or your personal responsibility.

Okay, Chief

January 1931 •English

Bradshaw, an Englishman, is arrested for the New York killing of booze racketeer Buck Cooly. Interrogated by police chief Galvin, Bradshaw claims self-defence, but refuses to name the woman he was with at the speakeasy where Cooly was shot, and who could provide the alibi that would exonerate him from a murder charge. Galvin's continued pursuit of the woman's identity eventually leads to an unwelcome surprise.

The Bomb Boy

December 1914 •English

Screengrabbed: BBC Introducing Arts

November 2019 •English

Janina Ramirez presents a screengrab of inspiring, beautiful and urgent stories from emerging and established film-makers with their interpretations of life's big topics. A Fashion Show; Birdcage; Body to Body; Ffasiwn, The Film; Folk; Light Noise; Through a Screen Darkly; Be Different Today; Palm Tree; Shiner; Demons Before Breakfast; How Do You Know You're in Love?; Sensational Simmy; What Does It Mean to Be British?

Dirt Devil

February 2007 •Spanish

Notodofilmfest short.

The New Waiter

March 1930 •English

An agile waiter unmasks a cabaret conjurer as a thief.

Three Women Wait for Death

January 2016 •English

Miranda and her adult-ish daughters, Hester and Rose, are crammed in a rotting little caravan to be near their irascible Gramps in his final days. They love him but his care bills are mounting and when they discover that he’s hidden his savings and doesn’t remember where... they could bloody kill him.

Boychick

June 2001 •English

In sunny suburbia, a loud-mouthed Jewish mom incessantly nags and humiliates her shy gay teenage son, who she calls her 'Boychick'. Meanwhile, in the classroom, Boychick can't stop ogling a hunky classmate. If only Boychick had the courage to face up to his desires. As if by magic, along comes his idol, pop star Ashley Hart, to give him the hip-strutting, hair-flicking confidence he craves.

No Peas for the Weary

May 2016 •English

A woman comes to the aid of her brother-in-law after he feels he's become a victim of fraud perpetrated by a frozen vegetable company.

The Vampire of Soho

November 2018 •English

A short film prequel to the feature film, The Vampires Of Soho. Set in 1982, the film tells the story of Mel, an idealistic young girl who falls in with a bad crowd - vampires.

Let Us Keep a Dog

January 1974 •Hungarian

The tender-ironic film outlines some well-known situations of the dog-owner relationship.