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The Washing Machine

March 2020 •German

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

Late B(l)oomer

November 2023 •Indonesian

Jul just got laid off and chose to pursue his old dream. It comes with a price however, as he has to face his daughter’s expectations that she had set for him.

The Cabin Man

January 2007 •

We are all in a hurry to fulfil our dreams and reach our destination ahead of time. Then suddenly we find, that time has outpaced us leaving us behind stranded and clueless about the future. Is there a destination in life? Is there life beyond a destination?

What Grown-Ups Know

February 2004 •English

Teenage boy Roy and his ailing mother Elizabeth live an aimless life on the road, shuttling between gas stations, temp jobs and cheap motels. When they end up at a desolate caravan park, fractures begin to appear in Roy's relationship with his mother as he starts to fall head over heels for park manager Maurice.

In the Name of the Father

February 2002 •Portuguese

The short film depicts the life of a boy who is constantly sexually abused by his father. Leonardo Miggiorin brilliantly plays the role of this boy, who belongs to a poor and unstructured family.

The Limited Bird

January 1989 •English

John's first independent work from 1989. Won Best of Fest Shorts at the Cinequest Film Festival, CA. The film is comprised of highly rendered drawings with very little moving parts to tell a complex story of relationships "gone to the birds".

Who Am I

January 2019 •English

Bastian, a young religious guy decides to embrace his sexuality and goes on a hook up with a stranger. Soon, he regrets it and does not know how to cope with it. Once his best friend Peter finds him at home crying, he has to go out with the truth. However, Bastian is more than surprised by Peter's reaction.

The Kite

March 2016 •Danish

A short coming-of-Age film about two boys, first love, and a kite that reunites them 20-years later.

Andy

August 2017 •English

After being accused of sexually assaulting a girl at a party, Andy uses a public twitter confessional to rewrite his story.

The Rumor of the Future Time

November 2021 •Turkish

The couple, who went out at night after the curfew was lifted in Istanbul due to the pandemic, on the journey home, their perceptions are deconstructed, and they slowly move away from the city, time and each other.

Le premier cigare

June 1897 •French

Since this is lost the content of the film can only be presumed but it was supposedly depicted a schoolboy smoking his first cigar.

Les clowns Price

January 1898 •French

Memories of boobs flasher

August 2014 •French

A boobs flasher tells us, a boobs flasher lets us see.

Fear & Shame

August 2017 •English

Actor Robert Pattinson takes us into a brief, desperate, hunger-filled moment battling anxiety and fame in the life of Robert Pattinson.

The Bachelor with Dogs and Scott Eastwood

March 2015 •English

In this spoof of The Bachelor, a guy picks from a group of dogs to be his companion.

Listen

September 2014 •Danish

A foreign woman in a burqa brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint against her abusive husband, but the translator assigned to her seems unwilling to convey the true meaning of her words. A tense, diamond-hard film about cultural isolation and bureaucratic ignorance.

Tricycle Thief

September 2014 •

After discovering his eviction notice, a tricycle driver goes on a desperate hunt for money.

The Cave Men's War

December 1913 •English

The dramatized illustration of the invention of the bow-and-arrow through a romantic triangle foregrounded by the bloody conflicts between the Cave Dwellers and the Shell People.

Dogs

April 2021 •English

A young Polish partisan flees from the Warsaw Uprising. Whilst hiding in the yard of a countryside manor, he is chased up a tree by a large wolfhound. With his rifle out of reach, there seems to be no way to escape his predicament.

Fairyocious

October 2019 •French

Alma, petrified, does not know how to react when her son, age 8, wants to dress as a fairy and go to school. She asks advice from her neighbor, and eventually the entire building debates his right to behave cross-gender.