My Grandfather's Clock

Dirty Computer

April 2018 •English

The story of a young woman named Jane 57821, who is living in a totalitarian near-future society where citizens are referred to as 'computers.' 'Dirty Computer' explores humanity and what truly happens to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness when mind and machines merge, and when the government chooses fear over freedom.

Spotlight Scandals

September 1943 •English

A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventually leads them to Broadway, but things start to go awry.

ROB.B

May 2023 •English

Set in the late 1950s, in a retro futuristic world, widowed father Richard arrives home from work to find his house in chaos. His son Thomas scares off their caretaker, Julie and steals her necklace. Richard prepares dinner, however Thomas is dissatisfied with the meal, broccoli soup, arguing his mom would have made it better. Richard snaps at Thomas, who leaves his soup on the table and retreats to his bedroom. Richard is left alone, defeated, takes a seat on the couch and sees a commercial for Rob.B, a personal caretaker robot. The next day, Rob.B shows up to take care of Thomas, but after a puzzle piece goes missing, Rob.B tries to find it and ends up being electrocuted causing a malfunction. Julie returns to find her necklace and the now aggressive Rob.B chokes her unconscious. Richard and Thomas must learn to communicate and work together to defeat Rob.B.

Das Taschenorgan

November 2000 •German

An organ left over after an operation causes turbulence in sober everyday hospital life.

First Express

January 2006 •Russian

New Year's Eve 2006. Our days, the place is a certain town, where famous artists are brought by chance. The film is based on sketches from popular films.

Amor a ritmo de go go

August 1966 •Spanish

Two older-generation taxi drivers get involved with chicks from a rock-n-roll coffeehouse.

The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To

December 2015 •English

THE BOY WHO COULDN’T SLEEP AND NEVER HAD TO is a coming-of-age sci-fi adventure in the tradition of “Back To The Future,” with classic teen-movie themes like friendship, first love, and betrayal playing out on a superhuman scale. Darren, a high school outcast whose only refuge is his homemade comic book, gets launched into an adventure way cooler than anything he could dream up when he discovers his best friend has no biological need for sleep and can bring their dreams into reality. Composed of equal parts action, humour, and heart, this story of a comic book fan who finds himself in a real-life superhero movie will make audiences believe that anything is possible.

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.

Velatorio (Barroco)

Invalid date •Spanish

Calypso Heat Wave

September 1957 •English

A jukebox operator helps promote a calypso craze.

Juke Box Rhythm

August 1959 •English

An European princess visiting America helps a record producer organize a big concert.

Our Season

March 2024 •Korean

ZBTV releases a music drama for Our Season by ZEROBASEONE.

Muckman

November 2023 •English

A short horror comedy following Muckman, that grotty dirty fellow who targets the elderly with his rot coated fingers, causing a fuss and being a bother.

Dig!

May 2004 •English

A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. The friendship between respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor, escalated into bitter rivalry as the Dandy Warhols garnered major international success while the Brian Jonestown Massacre imploded in a haze of drugs.

Laura

November 1944 •English

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

Porgy and Bess

June 1959 •English

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

Transmission

April 2019 •Japanese

Based on 'The Statement of Randolph Carter' by H.P. Lovecraft, an apprentice recounts his ghostly experience with a parapsychologist on their hunt for the occult.

Make-Believers

April 2024 •Japanese

Masa hires rental actress and aspiring dancer, Kanako, to pose as his fiancée to impress his estranged, terminally-ill father. But as his father's death delays, Masa is forced to confront the spiraling web of lies and to learn to follow his heart.

Night Crosser

July 2017 •French

A strange Romanian trying to enter Canada is confronted by an overzealous customs officer and his curiously cooperative colleague.

Never Better: A Closure Comedy

February 2017 •English

Rudi is in her mid-thirties, in between jobs, lives in a run down East Vancouver apartment, oh and is completely in denial of her mental state. After making the decision to break up with her ex, Dave, a new owner of a bed and breakfast in the middle of nowhere B.C., the decision still haunts her. She takes a road trip to reconcile with him but things take an interesting turn.