Chet Larson(2021)

Surprise!(en)

When a prank goes awry, 4 best friends and an awkward outcast witness a murder that threatens their hard-won success and obsessively sunny dispositions. Bummer!

Unchoosing Yourself(en)

Presenting a short film I made during a 24-hour filmmaking challenge at my university. The theme was "Unchosen Dream," and we had a maximum duration of 5 minutes.

100 Things to Do Before High School(en)

Scared of her older brother’s dull and pessimistic description of high school, as well as the change in priorities of her best friends Fen and Crispo, Cj, decides that she needs to make her time left in middle school count.

The TV Program(en)

At a prestigious film school where Film majors get all the glory, a scrappy group of underdog TV students fight to keep their production alive despite a nonexistent budget, a tyrannical dean, and their own chaotic dysfunction.

Meadow Bridge(en)

Meadow Bridge is a coming-of-age story that follows Darcy, a fourteen-year-old girl growing up in a small West Virginia town in the late 1990s. It's a story about growing up on the edge of poverty and possibility - about trying to reach out into the bigger world, while wrestling with where you're from.

Beautiful Thing(en)

This 20th anniversary production of Jonathan Harvey's play about two working class teenage boys falling in love on a south east London council estate was captured by Digital Theatre live at the Arts Theatre in London's Leicester Square.

W.S.H.: The Myth of the Urban Myth(en)

A folklorist researching an 'urban legend' becomes caught up in his task. The film tells its fictional story in documentary style, featuring interviews with real folklore scholars.

vvvamor(pt)

A formally free poetic documentary filmed through a summer depression in northern Portugal.

Gandhi Was Silent on Saturdays(ru)

The life of 16-year-old Mot is thrown into disarray when his father leaves the family. In protest, Mot brings home a homeless woman and declares that he will live with her.

Heysel 1985 - Dans l'enfer de la foule(fr)

Salaam Cinema(fa)

Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.

The Heirs(es)

Teenagers’ leisure at full swing: a group of friends spend their holidays at parties, having sex, boozing, and partaking in any adventure that brings them a boost of adrenaline. As they use violence for entertainment and to fulfill their authoritarian fantasies, their adventures will show the cracks and the collapse of the perfect world they live in.

Diary of an Unexpected Journey(es)

A young woman receives a diary as an inheritance from her father, in which he tells her that she must take a trip to Chiapas, a requirement for access to all his possessions.

Cosmos(fr)

Two young men seek the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed when a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible minds a pattern with sinister meanings.

Long Live Death(fr)

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando survive the search?

Watermelon Man(en)

A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight.

The 20th Anniversary Reunion Concert of Big Character Poster(en)

This faux newsreel spoof documents the rise and fall of four Chinese musicians who rose from the ashes of the Cultural Revolution to rock 'n' roll at Max's Kansas City. Al- though this loopy rockumentary is basically a one-note joke, it has particular resonance in light of Tiananmen Square

Different from the Others(de)

Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the law that punishes homosexuality).

Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer(en)

In this, her first non acting effort, writer/director Jamie Donahue parodies the 1950's high school educational film.

Away from here(de)

Berlin. The rents go through the roof and when Elias leaves the flat in a rage after a fierce argument, he doesn’t want to go back and is dependent on his five-man gang. As the son of a rich estate agent, Flávio, a member of the group and Elias’ best friend, seems to find a solution to his problem.