Almost

Antoine and Colette

June 1962 •French

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

Beauty and the Beast

October 1946 •French

The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.

La Jetée

February 1962 •French

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.

Winter Morning

February 2014 •Faroese

Maria hesitates when her best friend Birita offers her some pills, but – what the hell? Her mother’s away and they are both desperate to have some fun tonight. They set off and, once the drug takes effect, start euphorically planning how they might finally escape their dreary island...

Just Ask Him

January 2021 •English

Just Ask Him is a romantic LGBT short film about an out high school kid gathering the courage to ask his soccer jock crush to a dance.

Diamonds. Theft

September 2010 •Russian

This is a poetic film set in the times of Lenin's NEP. A ballet dancer steals a brooch and gives it as a present to another dancer. This is a crime of passion. A mysterious black ball is after the heroine. She runs away from it and manages to give the brooch in an exquisite pirouette movement, as shiny as diamond facets. What gives a stone its dazzling luster are its polished facets. But the real gem is love, and it's much harder to get than any diamond in the world.

No Me Digas Wey

October 2023 •Spanish

Cherry-Red

October 2007 •German

Anna and Marie are two women who could possibly love each other. Marie wants to be open to this new overwhelming feeling, even if she has to throw away all that she has ever held to be right. Anna on the other hand, enjoys the attention from this gentle soft girl Marie, who seems to love her, not in spite of but also because of her sharp edges. It could all be so easy if it weren't for Zoe, the woman who has been at Anna's side for years.

Beast

January 2011 •Swedish

Vincent has a secret that forces him to stay away from the people he loves. But when he meets Gustav, love strikes Vincent. As their love grows, so does his fear of letting his secret destroy his new lover.

Eleni

September 2011 •Greek

When Helen is bored, horrible things happen around her.

Interlinings

February 2015 •Spanish

Our fate is the hands of three sisters: Clotho, Atrophos y Laquesis. The latter has decided to destroy the world, but love has not said her last word.

The Reach

May 2018 •English

An sick elderly women hears the voice of her deceased husband and he tries to convince her to travel to the mainland.

Pídemela, amor

September 2013 •English

Diana finds a bottle in the sea. The bottle contains a message. The message speaks of love. Love will guide this story.

Requited

September 2011 •English

Nicolas, a young man in his mid 20s, struggles to decide whether or not to go to the wedding of his best friend from high school, Aaron, who he's always been quietly in love with. The two had a falling out years earlier after Nicolas inexplicably kissed Aaron's girlfriend. Nicolas clings to an idealized image of his former friend, unconsciously sabotaging his own happiness in the process. The film is a realistic slice-of-life that poses the question "How do you get over something you never had?"

Boys Like You

June 2011 •English

A young man struggles with the boundaries of friendship when he finds himself in an intimate situation

Fragile in Love

December 2007 •Chinese

Fragile in Love is an experimental short that rebels against the suppression of electronic music culture and gay house parties.

The Artificial Humors

September 2016 •Portuguese

Using a mix of Hollywood aesthetics with documentary strategies, the film follows a young indigenous girl from the Xingu National Park to São Paulo, where she falls in love with a robot that also happens to be a stand-up comedian. This strange story mixes the anthropology of humor, indigenous communities, and artificial intelligence.

First Love

February 2008 •Hungarian

A girl meets a boy. The most normal thing to do when you are 16. A girl meets a boy she has never seen yet - alone, at night, in a dark parking lot. The most foolish thing to do when you are 16.

Like a Kiss from Jesus

April 2015 •French

A boy frolicking about on the beach meets this girl who gives him his first kiss.

Barry's Last Shot

January 2011 •English

A love-struck American musician who repairs broken saxophones and clarinets for a living flies to the Czech Republic in pursuit of a wife to bring back home.