Being There(2022)

Predicamented: The Plant(en)

A young woman has only one friend: a plant. That is, until tragedy strikes. (Promo Short for Predicamented Company)

Goodbye(en)

A dysfunctional couple goes over their errors.

The Cuckoo Still Sings When It Rains(ro)

"Cântă cucul și pe ploaie" takes the convention of a reportage movie in the style of those made in those days at the "Alexandru Sahia" Studio. A reporter from the Scânteia newspaper arrives in the small mountain town of Bocșa to document the abuses committed many years ago, in 1962, by the headmaster of the town's high school, with the complicity of local authorities.

The Journey of Eva's Unspoken Words(pt)

Routine imprisoned Eva in an automatism that was ingrained in her spirit. Dromomania will perhaps be the expression that best illustrates her condition. She feels absent, and her frivolous glance catalogs each one of the small details of the journey that imprisons her every day. Her apathetic state is interrupted when she crosses an object outside the street and Eva is forced to finally face her demons.

The Apple Seller(ar)

Numero 69(it)

Two friends enter an Emergency Room, seeking help after an incident. They will find themselves living a series of surreal experiences through the eccentric characters that populate the waiting room. But will they get the help they need?

My First Phone(hy)

Eight-year-old Sargis' father returns home and gives a present to Sargis his dream phone. On the same day, Sargis learns that his father has returned to break up with his mother.

The Diary of an African Nun(en)

An African nun is consumed by fear and doubt about her decision to take the solemn vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Her anguish intensifies night after night as she lies on a hard bed in her small room at the convent and listens to the rhythmic, beckoning drums of her village.

The Cube(en)

An insecure but curious gay guy tries to change the outcome of his date by manipulating time with his Rubik’s Cube, despite not acknowledging the consequences that this time warp might bring to his date.

Widdershins(en)

A pampered gentleman's seamlessly automated life is thrown into chaos when he pursues a free-spirited woman, against the advice of his robot butler.

Saint(xx)

Saint is a short black and white film without dialogue shot on Super-8, that portrays the martyrdom of St. Sebastian through evocative imagery and tone rather than concrete story detail.

I'm Trying to Impress You(en)

Over the course of a long, booze-filled Halloween in Los Angeles, four romantic relationships unexpectedly affect the fate of the others. A dark romantic comedy, shot in beautiful black & white on a budget of just under $2,000, I'm Trying To Impress You takes a raw, cool and sometimes fantastical look at young romance in the 21st century.

Se faire dire au revoir(en)

A silent student short film with lots of drama. Courtesy of Collège Ahuntsic, Montreal Qc.

الحب والفلوس(ar)

I Will Make You Mine(en)

Three women wrestle with life's difficulties while confronting their past relationships with the same man.

One Hundred a Day(en)

A young girl is forced to continue working at her machine all day in a 1930s shoe factory after a visit to a backyard abortionist. Based on the short story 'How beautiful are thy feet' by Alan Marshall.

The Painter(en)

The Painter, he terrorizes children with some sort of supernatural power. No one knows who or what it is. All they know is that it wears an eerie looking mask.

Good Luck, Sweetheart(pt)

Dirceu, 30 years old, has origins that go back to the aristocracy of Northeast Brazilian backlands. Settled in a kind of subjective amnesia, Dirceu tries to bury his family's past. He is a demolition man in Recife, an urban landscape undergoing an uncontrolled process of transformation. Maria shares the same country origins, but she uses the city for a different purpose. She is a carefree and joyful music student. If Dirceu aspires to a world that is stable and present, Maria lives in discord with the present. To her, nothing is as it should be. Maria's apparition unleashes in Dirceu an urge for being somebody else. On a route of escape through the desert of the backlands, a unique encounter is set to happen. Boa sorte, meu amor (Good luck, sweetheart) is an anti-romance of the impact between music and silence.

Our Mr. Foerster Died(cs)

On a sunny afternoon an old man speaks to a laundress about his love for Provence, then a black flag is unfurled outside the town monument: news has arrived over the radio that the famous composer Foerster, born in the town, has just died.

Celluloid Soul(en)

Monty meets an actress from a 1939 movie who looks exactly like she did then, complete with a black and white hue, specks of dust and vertical scratches throughout her face and body.