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Going Ga-Ga

January 1929 •English

Anita and Marion realize that an abandoned baby they sneaked into an orphanage was kidnapped from a millionaire. For the reward, they proceed to break into the institution at night, dressed as men to beat curfew, to get the kid out again. This film survives only in very fragmentary form.

Growth Vitamin

June 1988 •Russian

The teacher at school made a scientific experiment - he put two rats in different cages. One of the rats was given carrots containing vitamin of growth, and the other did not feed. Time passed, and the rat, to whom nothing was given, became thicker than the rat that was fed. It turned out that one student from pity fed another rat.

De Civitate Rei

January 1993 •Italian

Costante dies and leaves his wife Torella his computer discovery. Torella entrusts the disk to her husband’s friend Gervasio, a lazy man scorned by his family. Twenty years later, Torella tries to get back the disk but Gervasio, who has become rich thanks to the discovery, agrees to go to court over it and comes away the winner. He therefore summons divine misfortune: he loses his third son, suffocated by wealth; kills his wife in a blind rage; and is executed by his first-born son who, after a violent panic attack and reckoning with his conscience, chooses life.

Fiorenzo

January 1995 •Italian

A man is sick and he doesn’t show himself. Three people don’t go to visit him and they show themselves.

Il Mosè di Michelangelo

January 1999 •Italian

Moses searches for history into palletes.

We Deliver a Smile

May 2020 •German

The Pani company employs a dark-skinned supplier. The young Karim gets into a difficult situation through his work as a food delivery boy when he delivers to a customer who doesn't want to let him go. The boundaries between racism and helplessness become blurred and Karim has to decide: morality or compassion.

The Washing Machine

March 2020 •German

The washing machine bites the dust: turning the humdrum life of a young couple upside down.

Socarrat

May 2009 •Spanish

We all have secrets. We all have family. We all search for happiness. What if we share our secrets and search for happiness together?

The Catch

February 2017 •English

Morgan loves fly fishing in the river near her home. She also likes boys. But boys don’t like girls who fish. Morgan can't seem to reconcile her two interests. Will she have to choose one and abandon the other?

The Last Brunch

March 2024 •English

Sometimes you don't realize how thirsty you are until it's right in front of you.

The Birth of Yue Fei

September 1962 •

The Birth of Yue Fei is a Hong Kong Drama starring Sammo Hung in a child role

The Monkey Soldiers Come to the Rescue

March 1963 •

The Monkey Soldiers Come to the Rescue is a Hong Kong Drama starring Sammo Hung in a child role

Wild Planet

October 1989 •English

George Bonicelli, an unassuming, naive accountant, has his routine '9 to 5' existence turned on it's head when he's accidentally run down by Leilah Deluxe - an estranged young girl from another planet - fleeing for her life on a jet propelled motor scooter. George soon becomes entangled in a manic chase throughout the city in one action packed night. In relentless pursuit is the mad and obsessive French biophysicist, Professor Henri Gautier and his two equally deranged henchmen, former Nazi rocket scientist, Doktor Werner Von Toller and a French Moroccan hit man, Fartouk Hahmesh. Armed with a '59 Chevrolet, a homemade radar tracking device and a laser gun, the evil trio hurl themselves at Leilah and George from all sides, carving up the late night city streets like a heat seeking missile.

Wild Planet (Redux)

January 2010 •English

He's a mild mannered accountant from out of town; She's an extraterrestrial from the planet Ultra Terra; They're three very 'evil', 'wicked' and 'nasty' characters from out of the past behind the wheel of '59 Chevrolet in hot pursuit... Filmmaker Brendan Young, re-works, remasters and 'reduxes' his 1989 short sci-fi comedy chase film 'Wild Planet' and propels the eccentric genre-mash up into the 21st century for a whole new lease of life.

Walkshort

January 1987 •English

Short film by Bill Toepfer

Suppietij

January 1991 •Italian

The extremities of a middle-class being ramble on, reflecting poetically on the wretchedness of moderation.

Electric Eye

July 2021 •Portuguese

An experimental short film, shot during the COVID-19 pandemic, made by one person. Using recorded scenes and archival footage, the short presents an unorthodox narrative to explore the themes of self-identification, identity, gender expression and androgyny.

Uncle Jake

May 1933 •English

Pigeon

Invalid date •English

Set in Remies, France in 1941 during World War II, a Jewish man tries to escape Nazi persecution and a chance encounter with a woman sitting next to him on the train. Based on a true story.

A Europa é um Jardim

February 2024 •Portuguese