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There Goes the Bride

January 1925 •English

What bridegroom could be romantic with a swollen jaw and a yelling tooth? His young bride thinks that's no excuse!

Was halten Sie vom Tod der Wilma Montesi?

October 1977 •German

The life and death of the fictional star Wilma Montesi is reported in the form of a staged newsreel. Excerpts from films of various genres and eras are juxtaposed with "documentary material" about the star's public and private life. By stringing together clichés and cinematic quotations, a certain reporting and narrative style about the glamor and misery of show business is presented in a critical and ironic, but at the same time entertaining way.

Friendly Endeavors

January 2021 •English

A short film about people in multiple different jobs

Norman the Snowman: The Northern Lights

March 2013 •Japanese

The boy has longed to visit the northern country and experience the beautiful mysteries of nature that his childhood friend Norman the Snowman has told him about. On the first day of snow in the northern country, the boy sneaks out of his house and boards a northbound train with Norman to see the mysteries of nature with his own eyes.

Moon of a Sleepless Night

May 2015 •Japanese

In a thick forest full of giant trees, a boy lives modestly with his family. One day, a guardian of the moon looking like a squirrel shows up in front of the boy, saying the moon got accidentally stuck on a high tree somewhere far East. Night dominates the world as the sky stops moving with the still moon. Now, the boy and the squirrel go off on adventures into the dark forest to search and free the moon.

The Maginot Line

Invalid date •English

A very stressed young woman is dismayed to find herself behaving like her own mother, with whom she has an extremely combative relationship.

Murder Island

April 2006 •Swedish

It's summer. A group of teenagers decide to go on a camping trip. They drive far up in the country until they find a small place were they rent canoe's for a cheap price. The group paddle for a long time before they find the perfect island to set up camp on. They have sex, do drugs and drink alcohol. But the next morning they notice that one of them has disappeared. They split up to go looking for her, but that proves to have horrifying consequences...

Dog Walk

January 1996 •Swedish

A man with a mission climbs the stairs of a haunted apartment building.

The Resurrection of Michael Myers

January 1987 •Swedish

Silly, amateur Swedish horror spoof reuses the original HALLOWEEN score and opens with theater patrons viewing the final reel of the original John Carpenter film. In a nearly-abandoned office building, a psycho in a jumpsuit and white mask cuts his way out of a package and proceeds to chase a clumsy clerk around while killing off anyone who crosses his path.

Mettle

May 2007 •English

An experimental film shot with the purpose of trying to create a hostile alien environment using only shots of nature, color correction, and sound design.

Elvis Stories

January 1989 •English

Elvis Stories is a short movie directed by Ben Stiller and starring John Cusack and Ben Stiller

Only Strangers Sleep in My Bed

December 2018 •English

A conman works his way into a lonely woman's home by posing as her long lost son.

Night of the Living Dread

May 2021 •English

When a power-cut ruins Ruby's bedtime routine she finds herself haunted by embarrassing past versions of herself. The only way for Ruby to get a peaceful night of sleep is to confront her visitors and accept herself just as she is.

A Quiet Man

February 2021 •French

From the 17th floor of an office building, Pierre is staring out a colleague that is here for hours.

Ways Of Seeing

July 2016 •English

Rumble of train rails; Crashing of ocean waves; Soft caress of distant wind. Two people. Two ways of perceiving the world.

Clé à molette & Jo

February 2015 •French

Rest Stop.

April 2019 •English

It's 1975, and John Dykstra, a lowly college professor, with not much confidence but a semi-successful author, is on his way home from his monthly meet up group with fellow authors, when he decides to pull off to the nearest rest stop. What he encounters there is an unnerving domestic assault, that will force him to embrace his alter ego, Rick Hardin, the hitman in his novels, and finally decide what kind of man he wants to be.

In the Deathroom

February 2014 •German

Fletcher tells his psychiatrist how he was mistakenly held captive by a mysterious secret service. This secret service is said to have tried to manipulate him in an elaborate power game to break his spirit. Fletcher's psychiatrist is suspicious of the story and tries to help Fletcher stay sane, because the truth is even more frightening.

Senko

April 2008 •English

A Japanese family is confronted with the mother's disease. The profoundly symbolistic images of this short film show us how Yù and his father perceive the possibility of the death and how it affectsa young boy and his vision of life.