Time and the Seashell(2020)

Nano(en)

In the near future, nanotechnology administered into the bloodstream can sync with computer apps to augment the human genome. A new law mandating and regulating this once elective procedure meets resistance from hacktivists who are conspiring to thwart the impending roll-out of "Nano version 2.0."

Night Child(sv)

Nattbarn is based on a graphic novel by Hanna Gustafsson, and is about 14-year-old Iggy, who lives a parallel life to escape everyday life. A story about identity, sexuality, borderland and friendship.

Sugar Glass Bottle(ja)

Near-future Tokyo. Kou, through the help of his high school best friend, finds a surprising way to express his mounting frustration at the insidious forces of commercialism that are forcing out the neighbors he cares most about. Initially inspired by a prank that the writer-director Neo Sora (The Chicken, 2020) had pulled on him in his childhood, a sense of warm nostalgia and cold, material reality intermingle to tell a tale set in the not-so-distant future about disappearing spaces and the forces of policing and gentrification that drills this process forward.

Shannon Amen(en)

Shannon Amen unearths the passionate and pained expressions of a young woman overwhelmed by guilt and anxiety as she struggles to reconcile her sexual identity with her religious faith. A loving elegy to a friend lost to suicide.

Meatoo(en)

A naive actor auditions for a film which could launch his career. The things he's asked to do make him more and more uncomfortable, until a choice remark from the director makes him see red.

OVERRATED(en)

Benin has left Adelaide for a new life in Sydney, but he will soon realize that there is only so much charm to a fresh start. The struggles of adulthood seem to escalate around him - a recent breakup, followed by a series of other failures, has cornered him into a dark state of mind. With some help from his friends, he'll have to strive for the obvious personal development needed in order to keep moving forward.

Presentation(en)

Holly, an anxiety-ridden high school sophomore, is faced with the challenge of giving a class presentation.

Trick or Treat(en)

Pete and Sandy get permission to go trick-or-treating by promising to avoid mischief. So, they inveigle two younger boys to play a prank.

Toto(en)

The career of an embittered former horror star who longs for his glory days comes gruesomely full circle.

Lennart(sv)

An elderly man tries to learn to live and be independent after the death of his wife.

Straight A(en)

Struggling with maintaining his same-sex long-term relationship a secret and keeping up with his image of being the perfect straight A son, Alex must face his father and tell him the truth about his sexuality.

Free Party(fr)

Julien, 18, visits his half-brothers without warning. Max, 26, lives in an travelers' camp in the middle of the Cévennes forest. The two brothers had not seen each other for several years. Julien falls in love with Lise, an occasional mistress of Max with whom he makes some music. This chaotic affair upsets Julien and brings to the foreground the family conflicts that they have never addressed.

Portobello 196(en)

The Recorder Exam(ko)

Nine-year old Eunhee anxiously prepares for her recorder exam as she struggles to find a place within her own family.

Nostradamus(en)

A look at various predictions Nostradamus made, such as the American and French Revolutions.

Revive(zh)

Revive is one of five short films within the Jia Zhangke-produced omnibus film Where Has Time Gone? with contributions from each of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). In Jia’s segment, a Chinese couple in the ancient town of Pingyao attempts to breathe new life into their old love as they ponder having a second child. Pingyao, home to the film festival Jia has co-founded, is a highly picturesque UNESCO World Heritage Site, and Jia humorously plays with a very recent dilemma – the second child policy dates from only 2013 – in a setting itself forcibly revived from history.

Holestepper(es)

Angel, an enthusiastic high school teacher, discovers a web page where he is teased by his students through strange videos. Mixing the reality and the digital universe adolescent, Angel will be involved in a world hitherto unknown.

Return from Nowhere(en)

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to relive events in his dreams.

The Good Waiter(en)

Kevin, an aspiring actor and superstar bistro waiter, is overwhelmed by the attentions of a fawning trainee, with potentially tragic results.