A Brief State Of The Human Being

Tree #3

June 2019 •English

After he's been cast (again!) as a background tree in his annual middle school play, an ambitious and imaginative Israeli immigrant boy leads a revolution on stage that his intolerant drama teacher will never forget.

Connection

May 2021 •English

The biggest boxing fight of 1960 takes an unexpected turn with the help of a powerful twin connection.

When The Rupiah Disappears

January 2025 •Indonesian

Some people in North Kalimantan are facing a strange situation where the Rupiah (Indonesian currency) suddenly disappears, and they are the only ones who still remember it.

One Week, Two Days

December 2016 •Arabic

A delicate exploration of the highs and lows of intimacy between Leila and Ibrahim, a loving couple, as they deliberate the difficult decisions surrounding conception and parenthood.

Intervene

April 2018 •English

INTERVENE is a surreal, hypnogogic parable about an unstable young man whose family feeds his madness by staging religious visions.

La Dernière Expédition

March 2023 •French

The Injection

January 2011 •French

In an indeterminate future where it seems to be raining endlessly a man called Balthazar is waiting at home alone with his dog for a visit from an employee of an organisation called La Piqûre.

Every Breaking Wave

February 2015 •English

Every Breaking Wave, based on the U2 song of the same name, is set on the streets of early 1980s Northern Ireland. It is built around themes of emotional abandon and the uncertainty of romantic relationships following two teenagers, one Catholic and the other Protestant, who fall in love amidst the ongoing violence.

Sam

May 2014 •French

Sam, a shy young man, finds himself in a slow-motion world. Trying to restore the time, he fails. The circumstances bring him to rescue his coworkers, and Nathalie, the girl he secretly loves.

Alive

January 2020 •Swedish

Victoria is disabled and yearns for intimacy, so her assistant Ida offers to help by making a Tinder profile. Victoria gets a match, but the guy she is matching with is very shady, and Ida worries about what might happen if they meet.

Fellow Creatures

January 2021 •English

When a mysterious Stranger approaches Tom with an unusual offer, the struggling dad faces a life-altering decision.

Confessions to Code

June 2025 •English

As panic spreads over an AI-driven data leak, personal secrets become breaking news in a society addicted to oversharing.

그 누구의 딸

Invalid date •Korean

Eat My Shit

February 2015 •Spanish

Eat My Shit tells the tale of a woman with the unfortunate defect of having a butthole for a mouth.

Distorted

October 2006 •French

Mardock Scramble: The First Compression

November 2010 •Japanese

Rune Ballot is a down-and-out teen prostitute in Mardock City. One day, she's picked up by an ambitious casino manager named Shell who gives her everything she could want. Renewed by a false innocence, a false past, and now the false life Shell has given her, Ballot feels grateful. However, she can't help but be curious about why he's done so much for her, so she does some research about his past on a computer. This turns out to be a mistake which will change her life greatly. When Shell finds out what she's done, he attempts to burn her to death by blowing up her car.

Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion

September 2011 •Japanese

Second film of the Mardock Scramble series. Balot and a severely injured Oeufcoque seem to be at the mercy of an obsessed Boiled. Dr. Easter comes to the rescue and the group escapes to "Paradise" where many secrets of Mardock lie and where Balot will need to come to a decision herself about what she will and can do.

Hotori: Simply Wishing for Hope

August 2005 •Japanese

At the Personality Plant, robots are being built and slowly outfitted with the artificial memories of real people. Suzu is one such robot, being made to replace the young boy a family has lost. By chance, he meets Hitori, a young girl suffering from progressive memory loss. The two children become friends and attempt to define themselves in the light of their changing memories.

Junk Town

July 2006 •Japanese

A science fiction story about a young boy who discovers and befriends a small robot at a shopping arcade. The robot is hungry and he grows in size as he devours a number of machines of increasing size.