Mano a Mano

Dumpster Diving

August 2017 •English

Best friends Miguel and Bryan have their relationship tested by peer pressure when a local gang attempts to recruit Bryan in this short written by Los Angeles High School students.

Echo and Response

January 1965 •Slovenian

A 8mm short film.

Boy Mom

March 2025 •English

Ms. Bird was a major Hollywood star in her prime. Now a four-time divorcé who hasn’t worked in years, she attempts to claw her way back into the limelight, leveraging her ill son.

Meatoo

February 2019 •English

A naive actor auditions for a film which could launch his career. The things he's asked to do make him more and more uncomfortable, until a choice remark from the director makes him see red.

Mother's Day

August 1948 •English

Accepting the potentialities of the medium to manipulate both time and space, Broughton brings past and present head-on as he regards with adult feelings his childhood family and friends. Grown-ups romp like children, and by their magnified infantilism playfully underscore such basic traits as sadism, sensuality, arid egocentricity. (Melbourne International Film Festival)

The Jacobson Dogma

July 2017 •English

The Jacobson Dogma

Verona

November 2013 •Portuguese

Ten years after the end of the dance music duo Verona, Elias come back to Brazil to meet his former partner, Walter, who is going to marry the young and talented Filipe. Walter lives in a countryside house, where he celebrates the end of his youth and the beginning of a new moment in his life.

The Storm

August 1965 •Arabic

The Kuwaiti short film العاصفة (The Storm) explores Kuwait's social and economic shifts before and after the discovery of oil. Through the perspectives of an older father and his modernized son, it delves into the challenges of tradition versus rapid modernization.

The Magical Beacon Stone

December 2020 •English

When an evil genius steals the Magical Beacon Stone and forces the children of Inverclyde to toil in his factories, Bella and Jenny only have five days to find the Stone stop his schemes and save Christmas.

Ночная смена

March 2016 •Russian

Sancta mortale

January 1997 •Dutch

The story of Lieve, a young orphan who lives with her aunt in a house for elderly people. When she finds a wounded pigeon, she integrates it in her world of fantasies and is persuaded that the pigeon is Jesus.

Food Love

October 2023 •

With "FOOD LOVE" (2023), Mayr and Hase present their second short film and the follow-up to their debut film "CAR LOVE" (2022). Here, the themes of food and sexuality are negotiated; more specifically, it's about French "haute cuisine," which is brought into a sexually charged context during the film. The boundaries between the art of cooking, food consumption and sex become blurred in FOOD LOVE; the food that the protagonist creates is consumed in a multiple sense and serves physical gratification in an ambiguous sense. In the order of a French menu, sexual acts are performed with and on the dishes. After the climax, however, a surprise awaits: it is an inconspicuous fast-food burger that is finally eaten by the protagonist.

Voices of a Distant Star

February 2002 •Japanese

It is 2046 when a mysterious alien force begins their annihilation of the human race. Leaving behind the one person she loves, Mikako joins the interstellar battle as a pilot. And so - while Mikako risks her life to save mankind - Noboru waits. The two lovers, worlds apart, desperately strive to remain connected as the gap between them widens at a frightening pace.

Berncastel

January 1995 •Dutch

A woman tells a story told in a poem about her life messing around with a lot of men.

L'apprentisage du péché

January 1997 •French

A child is confronted to the first questions about procreation, in a world wanting to awaken him to sexuality.

The Neighbor

December 1992 •Tagalog

One by one, the children who play at a neighborhood park are abducted by a Witawit, a monstrous-looking creature who lives in the park’s trees. Little Nikkie and Yaya Tising try to get to the bottom of the mystery and rescue the abducted children.

Power Bank

July 2018 •Thai

A short film for the song 'แบตสำรอง' by BOY PEACEMAKER.

Based on a True Story

April 2009 •English

A struggling screenwriter falls victim to an unscrupulous talent & literary agent while trying to break into the entertainment industry.

Judgement

October 1999 •Korean

At the identification of a dead body, a couple and a morgue employee both claim to be related to the deceased, and therefore the rightful recipient of an indemnity of at least 520,000.

Goodbye Mommy

December 2024 •English

This horror machinima short by Alvin Soprano tells the story of little Lucy walking in on her recently deceased mother crossing over to the light.