Hold Me Down

Pulsar

May 2018 •English

A Peacemaker, who rejects his final mission to save an endangered planet, is believed to be cursed when a solar storm hits his spaceship.

Lost for Words

Invalid date •English

The Neighbors' Window

August 2019 •English

The story of a middle-aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.

Rougarou

January 2016 •English

In rural Louisiana, 11-year-old Sabine's widower father misses Ash Wednesday Mass, so she pushes him to give up drinking for Lent. He breaks his vow, evoking the wrath of the ROUGAROU, a mythical bayou beast who punishes bad Catholics. Now Sabine has to step up to save him from the monster or risk losing her only living parent.

Totems

June 2016 •French

An excellent example of how sometimes dialogue is not necessary, Totems is a visual display of our inner animal disposition. A lumberjack is working in a forest when a tree falls down and his leg gets stuck. As he is trapped in a beautiful but cruel environment, the despair awakens his primal instincts.

ANNA (kidnapper)

July 2018 •Japanese

196X. Anna, an enigmatic and attractive professional kidnapper, abducts The Professor during his wedding ceremony on request from one of the latter's former girlfriend. This woman, whose face Anna has never seen, wishes to die with The Professor before he marries. Leaving the church with The Professor on the back seat of her motor-bike, Anna starts on the journey to the fictional city of 'Alpha Paris'.

Notifiée

July 2024 •French

The Dadshuttle

May 1996 •English

A father and his gay son use the opportunity of a car ride to have a sometimes uncomfortable conversation.

Occupy Me

June 2015 •English

Two men, David (a Jewish-American) and Sam (an Arab-American) meet for an afternoon sexual encounter and find that there is more between them than just a visceral connection. But when a flirtatious word-spar about sexual positions turns unwittingly into a debate over something else entirely, both men take sides against the other and replace that could-be beautiful connection with anger, resentment and accusation. OCCUPY ME is about the insidious way outside issues can seep into our interpersonal relationships and invade and cloud our perceptions until love is replaced by anger, truth is pushed out by fear, and potential is destroyed by the past.

Pashmy Dream

January 2008 •English

A movie star flees from an interview when she's surrounded by paparazzi, leaving her bag behind.

What Are the Clouds?

April 1968 •Italian

Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello.

Pepper

January 2014 •English

Today is a big day, it's Pepper's estranged son's birthday. He disowned her 20 years ago for becoming a drag queen. A chance meeting with Charlie, an eight-year-old boy, reminds her the importance of family and doing the right thing.

Sunday Morning

June 2017 •English

A high school student's journey to discover his sexuality in a conservative area is made harder as he struggles with sexual abuse, manipulation, and fear.

A Sweet Sickness

September 1968 •English

A young woman gets sexually used and abused by every man she meets while on her way to rising to the top of Hollywood's entertainment industry.

Junko's Shamisen

January 2010 •English

A young Japanese orphan, and her mystical friend, exact poetic justice on a malevolent samurai lord.

Summer

September 2017 •English

During a hot summer in rural England, a sheep shearer in his late adolescence struggles with a growing attraction to his colleague.

7 Planets

April 2018 •English

A great discovery, regarding seven Earth-size planets nearby our solar system, has been made. This is a story about one person’s lifelong obsession with such a discovery and her struggle to be understood.

Acid

February 2018 •French

A disturbing cloud has appeared from the west. It moves slowly towards the centre of the country, prompting the population to take to the roads. As it advances relentlessly, panic increases. It is a cloud of acid.

Chuchotage

April 2018 •Hungarian

During a professional conference in Prague, two interpreters in the Hungarian booth hilariously vie for the attention of one listener.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

March 1913 •English

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.