Born Digital: First Cuts

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).

A Trip to the Moon

June 1902 •French

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.

Hope

August 2015 •Spanish

Claudia Recher is a young woman who has lived a horrible situation. Her sense of reality becomes an illusion as she struggles to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked life. The last witness of innocence and her internal conflicts.

Nimic

January 2020 •English

A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.

To the Edge of Our Sleepless Nights

November 2023 •French

Reb, a social worker, fights body and soul to restore a semblance of dignity to a forgotten fringe of society: sex workers. One summer night, Maria, a transgender prostitute, is murdered. Reb and the prostitutes finally get the chance to speak out, as no one else will.

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.

Missed

September 2007 •English

Will is shocked when he's told that his colleague Emma has died while on holiday. He's even more surprised when he sees her walking past the window of the café in which he's sitting the next day.

Louse

September 2022 •Persian

A little girl wants to sell the television in her house, however her mom relies on it to calm herself down.

Glass

January 2011 •English

A mother who is addicted to meth in New Mexico has a son who is left alone.

Suzanne

July 2005 •French

In 1943, Joseph, a Jewish man, was arrested by the Germans in front of his 13-year-old daughter, Suzanne, in the apartment where they were hiding. By abandoning his daughter, Joseph saved her life.

I Love Hooligans

September 2013 •Dutch

A football hooligan feels unconditional love for his club. However, being gay, he has to hide his identity in order to survive in this world that is so precious to him.

Hello, Stranger

December 2016 •Dutch

Arthur is a single dad, struggling with the care for his seven-year-old son Max and the combination of his secret life as a drag queen.

Naked

November 2013 •Spanish

A message from Javier's boyfriend changes his family situation and causes them to reconsider their relationships.

White Man

August 1994 •Korean

A white-collar South Korean man discovers a severed human finger and keeps it.

Herculanum

November 2016 •French

Three "meetings." Two men. A rumbling volcano.

The World In Your Window

February 2017 •English

Eight-year-old Jesse lives in a twilight world of sadness and silence, squeezed into a tiny caravan with his grief stricken father. They're in limbo, existing more than living. The child intuitively understands that looking forward is harder than looking back, and that's where life happens. But they are stuck, until an accidental friendship with a V8 driving transsexual unlocks the means for Jesse to liberate his father and himself.

Might

January 2016 •Finnish

Maryam, a rebel leader in an archaic world governed by ruthless religion, is set to prove that the god hovering in the sky is a lie. But she is stopped by a holy warrior that turns out to be her lost father. Soon their lives change as they are about to find out a secret only a god can keep.

Tour Eiffel

June 2006 •French

Stanbrook

July 2020 •Spanish

Spain, March 1939. The war is dying down. At the Port of Alicante thousands of people are piling, waiting for the arrival of ships that will carry them to exile. Moored, the freighter Stanbrook is witnessing the desperation.

Kiri and the Girl

October 2021 •English

After the death of her mother, a young girl finds her strength and reconnects to her world.