Ready for Pickup(2023)

The Transcenders(en)

Two Native Americans struggle to make the transition from their home reservation to the city life, but soon find a solution in an advertised remedy that promises to transform their primitive behavior, to the ranks of the refined and successful.

Party Animals(en)

Nicole and Matt move into a new flat, but are quickly disturbed by their party going neighbours which causes them to evaluate their relationship when they notice their differences.

A Haunting of Past Ink(en)

A person receives old entries from their diary, unsure of who is sending them. They eventually arrive at a moment of transcendence.

Star Wars: A New Toke(en)

A long time ago in a lockdown far, far away... a filmmaker had nothing better to do, so she recreated her favourite film from memory but only using assets from 1995's children's game/ animation software/ fever dream Microsoft 3D Movie Maker. What resulted was a surreal animated homage.

Found Footage Festival Volume 6: Live in Chicago(en)

In their most unsettling compilation to date, Found Footage Festival curators Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher present their latest and greatest array of VHS wonders. Didgeridoos will be blown, sponges will be rainbowed, opossums will be massaged, and senior citizens will be fed salad. It's all here! Recorded live at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago.

What's Wrong with This Picture?(da)

A snapshot of the state of the Danish nation: in one of the stories, a woman enters a pole-sitting contest in a desperate bid to reinvent herself. Another is about Erik, whose wife has been lobbying a Better Homes and Gardens type magazine to do a spread on their perfect home. When the editors finally relent, she makes Erik sip his red wine in the laundry room lest he stain their cream-colored couches. Svend, the last remaining Marxist in Copenhagen, is the impassioned organizer of a political mass meeting where no one shows up. Finally, Jens, a pizza and porno connoisseur, connives his way to some booty by convincing Gry the model that he lives with his mentally challenged brother. Over the course of a week, their paths cross and nothing, and nobody, is ever quite the same again.

Citizen Steve(en)

On the occasion of the 40th birthday of the almighty filmmaker Steven Allan Spielberg, inquisitive reporter Clip Maxwell attempts to uncover the truth behind his undisputed rise to the throne of the Amblin Empire.

The Beethoven Method(en)

When Arnie Silverman, a manic-depressive novelist, begins a bout of self-harm and lies to his girlfriend about it, his best friend and sister’s ex-boyfriend unintentionally lead him on a path to a new romance that could potentially solve his problems or send him to rock bottom.

The Door Barrier(en)

A group of friends begin playing a game of hide and seek, but the hiders find themselves stuck with no clue of what is causing it, turning their game of hide and seek into a frightening situation where they must find a way out past the mysterious doors.

Picnic Under A Gibbet(en)

From the director RICHARD CORSO, FISH (2016), THE SALESMAN (2018) and CASSIDY BLUES (2020) and adapted from the short story by GREGORY FERBRACHE. PICNIC UNDER A GIBBET is a political satire about a court jester (SEAN MICHAEL CUMMINGS) a town fool (CODY DERMON) and a traveling plague doctor (LEONARD BARRETT JR) who enjoy a nice picnic under the corpse of the previous king.

Purgatorium(en)

After his death, a young man stuck in purgatory attempts to cope with the afterlife.

So Quiet on the Canine Front(en)

During anatomy class, students learn that war has broken out. Several enlist and are sent to Camp Poodle, for rookie training. At first the constant shelling bothers them, but within a week they are veterans, unfazed. Barker sort of volunteers to parachute behind enemy lines disguised as a nurse to get the enemy's troop movements. He's captured and sentenced to die, so his mates in the Airdale Army attempt a rescue. Will they succeed?

Crossfade(en)

Two Lifelong friends and aspiring musicians begin to spiral downwards as one of them decides to move away to pursue a new career.

The Hunglaiover My Lady(th)

Uncontrolled Love(zh)

Xie Yan adopts Shu Nian as a child, but after years apart, old feelings resurface, forcing Xie to confront his true emotions despite the obstacles.

A Friend Indeed(ar)

Gad and Osama are childhood best friends. Osama was raised by his grandfather, as his parents died in a train crash. When presented with one job opportunity in a gulf country, they agree to let Gad take it and Osama stays behind to take care of his grandpa and Gad’s elderly mother. Five years later, Gad returns to Cairo on vacation and Osama comically convinces him to stay with them.

Made in U.S.A.(en)

Two men from Pennsylvania give up hope in their small run down coal mining town, and head off in search of the beaches of California. The two steal cars as they travel across the USA and are joined by a wild young woman.

fuji_jukai.mov(ja)

A smartphone is found at the TV shoot for a show about the Sea of Trees near Mount Fuji. The phone contains videos of three high school girls who met online: Ami (Okuma Ami), who is suicidal, Hinata (Kohinata Setsu), who yearns to witness the instant someone dies, and Mitan (Otonari Mirei).

The Young Offenders(en)

Two teenage boys from inner-city Cork steal bicycles and ride off on a 160km quest to find an unrecovered bale of cocaine worth 7,000,000 euros.

The Sacrament(ja)

Iwakiri is now a third year university student who belongs to a film studies group on campus but has yet to shoot even one film. He hears from an older student about a ghost which appears once every four years at the welcome party for new students.