The Beast

Teremok

January 1995 •Russian

In the middle of the forest, a bear finds an abandoned hut full of food and sweets and encounters different animals while staying there.

Parked

October 2019 •English

Everything's unfair, especially at the fun fair.

The Class

September 2008 •French

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

Lorna's Silence

August 2008 •French

Lorna is a young Albanian woman in a marriage of convenience with Claudy, a heroin addict. Just as Lorna is about to be granted Belgian citizenship, Claudy finds the strength to detox; this presents a problem not only for Lorna, but for the criminal who brokered the deal.

The Chaperone

September 2013 •English

The Chaperone tells the true, previously untold story of a lone school teacher who fought off an entire motorcycle gang while chaperoning a middle school dance in a church basement in 1970s Montreal, Canada. Told from the first person unscripted perspective of the school teacher and DJ who were there that night, The Chaperone recreates the whole scene using hand drawn animation, miniature sets, puppets, live action Kung Fu and explosions all done in stereoscopic 3D. With over 10,000 hand drawings (many of which were colored in crayon by hand), an original blaxploitation score and featuring a cast of over 200 people, The Chaperone is an unconventional approach to documentary shorts.

Altair

December 1994 •English

One of Klahr's masterpieces, Altair is an 8 minute collage color -noir culled from late-40s pages of Cosmopolitan, which induces a sense of claustrophobia and dread through its use of Stravinsky's The Firebird.

Bonita & the Bandit

April 2024 •English

Bonita & the Bandit is a short film and the full, color-version, of the 'mini-Episode' that plays throughout the Short Film GRUFF.

Gabriel

September 2020 •Dutch

At the end of World War II, a wounded German soldier, disguised as a Canadian, ends up in the midst of a hiding Jewish family.

Vuelve a tu primer amor

January 1989 •Spanish

Short film by Paco del Toro

Gabrielle

January 2009 •French

Under the Parasol

August 2019 •English

Marie relaxes at the beach under a parasol. The only problem is that it is night time.

Sunset Cemetery

January 2020 •French

Joseph isn't particularly happy, even though he's good at hiding it. The day his brother dies, he becomes certain he'll miss out on his life. So that it doesn't slip away from him, one night he gives in to his desire.

DIME

May 2019 •English

Etta comes home from a work trip in Vegas with ten grand in cash and needs to explain to her boyfriend how she got it.

Baby Steps

June 1999 •English

Baby Steps depicts the encounter of a single gay school teacher with a midwestern adoption agent.

Take off (Despegue)

July 2005 •Spanish

Cor Petit

May 2023 •Spanish

Gael, a young aspiring actor, will do everything possible to star in the next play by theater director Luca Rossi. During the rehearsals, a series of strange events will begin to occur while Luca's suspicions about Gael increase.

The Simpletons

September 1974 •Estonian

The story of a bunch of peasants who have a hard time using logic to build their community.

Ryo

March 2013 •Japanese

The son of a samurai who lost his parents during the attack of English ships on a Japanese town is given the name Ryo and becomes the bodyguard of Ryoma Sakamoto, a man who has his own plan to fight for the country.

Parigala

November 2007 •Azerbaijani

The events in the film take place in a remote place, far from the modern city and civilization, where the real and the unreal worlds meet. There, mysticism and reality are so intertwined that all kinds of miracles are expected. The people there live by their own unwritten laws. The punishments given to those who violate them are also completely different.

Biscut

February 2022 •Hindi

Biscut is a powerful film on the state of politics in Uttar Pradesh and offers a gritty and hard-hitting take on the treatment of the backward classes and their never-ending exploitation in the caste-dominated political landscape of Uttar Pradesh.