Closing Dynasty

Are we the only ones?

June 2023 •Malayalam

Two working women talking about their lives on their way back to hostel. They came to conclusion that they're the only ones who talk about the job, salaries, struggles in workplace seriously since there's no change happening in anybody's life.

From Our Family to Yours

November 2020 •English

A granddaughter brings joy on Christmas morning by mending her Filipina grandmother’s beloved Mickey plush and decorating her house with Filipino Christmas lanterns ‘parols’; reviving a family tradition and evoking memories of Christmas past. In partnership with Make-A-Wish. Featuring "Love Is A Compass" by Griff.

Happy Birthday Younis

January 2013 •Arabic

Younis is a taxi driver, who has passed the age of retirement. He drives an old car, which has never disappointed him. Today is his birthday...

Right of Access

January 1965 •French

A 17 year old boy goes on a trip with his father and his father's girlfriend.

Nimic

January 2020 •English

A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.

Gabriela

October 2023 •English

It's the summer after high school graduation and Gabriela, a young undocumented Guatemalan woman, pursues her dream of swimming for an illustrious Country Club swim team. Despite her single-minded determination, Gabriela is continually confronted with her overprotective mother’s ears, limitations on her economic and legal status, and self-judgment. As she questions her self-worth against the structures of contemporary American Southern life, Gabriela embarks on a quest towards personal freedom and self-acceptance.

Xiao Lin

May 2022 •Chinese

Xiao Lin, who is in the stage of identity recognition, dares not face up to being gay under the pressure of his family. Under the influence of Ouyang Fugui who has come out, Xiao Lin began to accept his own ideas. However, after returning home, he saw that his family treated him with unlimited expectations of marriage, and Xiao Lin fell into the dilemma of self and family choices.

Strangers

June 2019 •English

When aged-care facility workers find two residents in bed together, familial tensions rise.

ADA

November 2024 •English

An A.I. therapy tool helps a lonely and depressed man confront the darkest parts of himself.

Girls & The Party

February 2021 •English

While preparing for the anticipated summer party in a cramped bathroom, Mercedes navigates her blossoming desires.

Dive

July 2015 •English

George's reflection has turned its back on him and he'll go to great depths to get it back.

100m Freestyle

June 2013 •Spanish

Polo and Domingo spend their last days together between Ciudad Mendoza and Cordoba, in Veracruz, Mexico, before Domingo moves to another city for college. Domingo has to say goodbye to his girlfriend, Mina; while Polo deals with his feelings towards his best friend in the little time they have left.

Deep Down

July 2014 •English

Deep Down redraws a descent into hell of a stripper called America, lost in the very depths of the U.S, taken away by a devastating love-story.

The Attendant

December 2012 •English

Frankie is a car park attendant at the spectacular Giant’s Causeway in Co. Antrim. His friend Cathy and her husband Paul are in trouble. Nevertheless as Frankie always says, "Something will turn up!"

Bem Vigiado

November 2007 •Portuguese

Monster and Dumpling

May 2011 •English

Once up on a time, there was an ugly and violent monster. Because he was ugly, everybody disliked him. One day, the monster came to the small town to get some food and found a small girl. The monster tried to eat her, but something happened to him and changed him.

The Swimmer

October 2013 •Spanish

A boy realizes how will his life be in the present and future with or without his crush

Goldfish

April 2008 •English

Two couples, in the same room, try to keep it together. The human couple fare differently to the pair of Goldfish in their fish tank. An artful piece exploring choice in life and love. The humour is derived from the wistful musings, in Cantonese, of the male fish and narrator.

Im Bären

October 2018 •Italian

An italian girl is looking for a room to stay in Berlin. In the process she will have to undergo a series of casting sessions in which she will lose herself in the big city.

Box on the Hill

August 2022 •English

A man comes face-to-face with the dark choices of his past.