Ashes and Dust

The Albatross

January 1998 •English

A ship sets sail on an epic voyage through malignant natural and supernatural elements from which one man alone survives. An adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustrated by19th Century wood engravings which are animated by scratching directly into the surface of color filmstock. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with its message of ecological redemption has a curiously contemporary resonance, but it is at the level of the mythic that the poem has lasting relevance; for this epic tale of extraordinary events simply mirrors the struggle that each human being faces on their own in his or her life. -VDB

Hollywood Lucifer

January 2014 •English

Five Minutes Ago

October 2008 •English

A young man pretends to sleep while he watches his lover go through her morning routine.

New Blood

May 2010 •English

Steve is very good at his job. Some might say a little too good. To some others... suspiciously good. The nature of Steve's ascension to corporate glory is riddled ...

Guiltless

October 2017 •Spanish

Twenty-one-year-old Juan gets some terrible news from his doctor: he has aggressive lung cancer. His whole life turns upside down as the disease evolves.

Oasis

February 2017 •Spanish

Ophelia goes to El Oasis, a tavern where men pick up men, looking for her husband. Her suspicions confirmed, she faints and a transgender prostitute unexpectedly helps her.

Sana Sarılmayı O Kadar İstedim Ki

November 2021 •Turkish

Writer Toprak Karasu receives a letter from her mother, whom she does not know, at a time when she is having an artistic crisis. In the letter, he writes that his mother left him a house as an inheritance. Toprak wants to sell the house as soon as possible and pay off his debts, but a sudden encounter completely turns all his life plans upside down.

Marina

March 2025 •English

Strange leaks start dripping from the ceiling of the house where Marina works as the caregiver for her aging father.

Resurrection

April 2026 •English

In the wake of a traumatic incident at a funeral, an aging widow is faced with a bizarre, impossible choice.

Is It Time?

Invalid date •English

A man addicted to visiting his memories wrestles with a promise he made his father when he was first diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

The Last Rung on the Ladder

January 2019 •English

A man, upon learning of the suicide of his sister, flashes back to a summer when they were kids and he saved her from falling from a dilapidated ladder.

Wer bist du?

June 1971 •German

The little dog Nero looks around inquisitively in a world that is still somewhat foreign to him. He doesn't really know who or what he is and wants to have everything he admires in others. Only when the fox intrudes does Nero come to his senses.

Truckload

June 2025 •English

Following a near-fatal traffic accident, Lizzie's moving out of her mum's care and back to London (or as Mum calls it, the city of death). But Lizzie's going to live.

MOR

Invalid date •English

A mother and her son arrive at a remote seaside cottage to celebrate his eighteenth birthday. A cottage they have not visited for many years now. Over the course of a weekend, they seek to find a connection with each other once again. But a connection that they may have ultimately lost forever.

Small Arms

January 2017 •English

A college student in Northern Michigan, harassed with anonymous homophobic threats, seeks out shooting lessons with a reclusive survivalist in an effort to prove his manhood.

The Story of Alfred Nobel

February 1939 •English

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and later established the Nobel Prize.

The Mistake

April 1986 •Albanian

Martin is a curious boy, but because of his personality, he often has misunderstandings with his parents, siblings, and teachers.

Life in the Alley

October 2016 •French

This is the story of four people: ODNEY, RAJNI, ALUKI and MUFEEDA. Four lives, four journeys that led them in a search for freedom. Together they decide to live on the fringe of society and to finally find a place where they can do things their way.

Doce de Pebrero

May 2025 •Tagalog

Thirty years after the massacre of Doce de Pebrero in 1945, an aging survivor struggles to maintain his quiet life as he is haunted by the shadows of his past-memories of violence and fear that refuse to fade, forcing him to confront the lasting scars of his trauma.