Labour of Love

Janet

November 2024 •French

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

May 1947 •English

A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its former owner.

Villa 69

October 2013 •Arabic

Hussein is a terminally ill yet charming architect who enjoys a solitary routine in his old family home, and a variety of female visitors. Not realizing his past is about to catch up with him, Hussein's sister and her grandson move into the house, disrupting a well-established lifestyle, and forcing him to re-examine his ideas about life, love, and family.

Le Nomade

September 2023 •French

Meantime

October 2022 •French

While waiting for his girlfriend to join him in the calm and quiet countryside, city dweller Marc gradually falls prey to the assault of sounds not usually heard.

The Death King

January 1990 •German

Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.

Garage

October 2007 •English

Due to a learning disability, Josie's life in a tiny town revolves around a menial job taking care of a garage that could close at any day. Things start to change, however, when David, the son of his boss' girlfriend, comes to work with him. Josie hangs out with David and his teenage friends, bringing them beer, and despite being a grown man himself, finds that the new company lifts his spirits. But his simple-mindedness blinds him to some potential legal dangers.

I Think We're Alone Now

September 2018 •English

After a catastrophe destroys most of humanity, recluse Del lives in his small, empty town, content with the utopia he has methodically created for himself, until an interloper, young Grace, disrupts his solitude.

They Came from the Attic

May 2022 •English

A teenage boy is home alone for the weekend but when nocturnal creatures living in his attic escape, he must survive.

Rosewater

May 1999 •English

A solitary man struggles to cultivate beauty in a desolate urban world. Lonely and dislocated, he drifts in and out of a dream state envisioning the promise of regeneration. ROSEWATER tells a story of hope sustained through perseverance, ritual and, ultimately, revelation.

Love

February 2011 •English

After losing contact with Earth, Astronaut Lee Miller becomes stranded in orbit alone aboard the International Space Station. As time passes and life support systems dwindle, Lee battles to maintain his sanity - and simply stay alive. His world is a claustrophobic and lonely existence, until he makes a strange discovery aboard the ship.

Surcharge

January 2025 •French

Saudade

August 2022 •English

Aurora and Bernardo are experiencing moments of happiness, but their joy is interrupted by the onset of war.

The Dirties

October 2013 •English

The line between reality and fiction starts to blur when two best friends start making a movie about getting revenge on bullies.

Fireflies

October 2018 •Spanish

Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico. There his nostalgia and melancholy are confronted with new friendships, while he starts to rediscover his own desires.

Goose Town

March 2023 •English

An urban teenager finds solace from his chaotic life in the footsteps of his fictional outlaw persona.

Love Life

September 2022 •Japanese

Taeko and her husband, Jirō, are living a peaceful existence with her young son, Keita, when a tragic accident brings the boy's long-lost father, Park, back into her life. To cope with the pain and guilt, Taeko throws herself into helping this deaf and homeless man.

14

August 2024 •English

Mick is rejected by the girl of his dreams, and from there on, he solely exists by himself. The first short film of a planned quadrilogy.

In the Forests of Siberia

June 2016 •French

Fed up with the hectic, senseless world he lives in, Teddy decides to settle down alone in Siberia, in the midst of winter, in a hut by the shore of Lake Baikal. After an initial period of elation in front of the splendor and magic of unspoiled nature, Teddy soon finds himself confronted with the less glossy side of things : solitude, extreme cold, the necessity to find food, danger... One night Teddy gets lost in a blizzard and would be doomed to a certain death, were it not for Aleksei, a Russian convict living hidden away in the forest nearby, who rescues him in extremis. Friendship soon blossoms between the two men...

The Crystal Cradle

May 1976 •French

An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life.