The Unnamable(2025)

Daydream Therapy(en)

Daydream Therapy is set to Nina Simone’s haunting rendition of “Pirate Jenny” and concludes with Archie Shepp’s “Things Have Got to Change.” Filmed in Burton Chace Park in Marina del Rey by activist-turned-filmmaker Bernard Nicolas as his first project at UCLA, this short film poetically envisions the fantasy life of a hotel worker whose daydreams provide an escape from workplace indignities. —Allyson Nadia Field

Eddie(en)

Deep underground, a lone scientist mans a discarded research facility struggling to deal with extreme boredom, a desperate voiceless companion and a mystery he'd really rather not have to solve.

The Dreamers(en)

Footage shot for Orson Welles' unfinished and unreleased film project, edited into a short documentary.

Bed Rock(en)

A Canadian returns to find his fiancée is married and schemes revenge.

Night Shift(en)

After a brutal robbery, a Shopkeeper sets out to get back what was stolen from him: his pride. Featuring a unique blend of fiction and reality.

Carried by the Waves(fr)

Loïs, 22 years old, wakes up on the beach after a drunken night. In his distress, he approaches Killian, 20, who is jogging and falls for him at first sight.

Hillbilly Blue(en)

Crawdad Eustace is fed-up with being treated as food and goes with possum pal Mordechai on a cross-country trip to New Orleans.

Safe Word(en)

Cesar, an emotionally stunted masochist, must confront his self-loathing after his dissatisfied-yet-caring Dom, Bear, reinterprets the rules of their game. They arrive at a paradigm-shifting result neither one of them expects.

On the Road(zh)

Son and father are driving on the highway. The son keeps asking questions until he finally notices the changes in his father's body. The dialogue in the animation is taken from a recording of a real conversation between the filmmaker and his father.

Longing(he)

When Michal finds out her husband Meir is having an affair with a man, her world collapses. Not only is she is forced to deal with sexual rejection from Meir, she also has to endure social rejection.

Lucky Fares(es)

One of the Three Kings and Santa Claus spend Christmas in jail, talking about what their future will be like in a world like this.

Me First(en)

Feeling trapped in an unhappy marriage, Sarah confides in her daughter’s friend. In a moment of weakness, everything changes and she is suddenly faced with feelings she has never felt before. Sarah must chose between her family and her own happiness. When she makes her choice, it’s up to her daughter to put her mother’s happiness first.

Picnic with Weismann(de)

Various objects are having a sunny outing together in the nature.

Jabberwocky(en)

In stop-motion animation, a wardrobe moves through the countryside. It arrives in a house, a child's voice recites Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," and various objects, such as toys and dolls, move about, disintegrate, and play out archetypal scenes. Like Carroll's verse, the images are at once familiar and unfamiliar. A child's play suit, hanging in the wardrobe, becomes the adventure's protagonist.

Dimensions of Dialogue(cs)

Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.

Saint Android(de)

It's the future, Norman's wife is dying. In these final moments, he calls for guidance—but it's not what what he asked for.

Cicada(ko)

Chang-hyeon, a transgender prostitute encounters a visitor who seems both familiar and alienated to him.

Acorn(en)

With Joy and Merriness(fr)

"With joy and merriness" is a experimental documentary where we observe, through every day scenes, the degeneration of a society where the rise of technology leeds the population to the biggest dream of all men: immortality