Bringing It All Back Home(1979)

Potted Palm Trees(de)

The dress is too lavish and the toilet cubicle too small for the bride to fit in. The ballroom is jam-packed and the mood is alarmingly good. Something is about to burst: the groom’s delusion of grandeur? The pregnant belly of deaf Betti? Her step-father’s patience? Or the wine-filled bladder of his ex-wife?

Unpaired Shoes(es)

Enoshima Clown(ja)

A MOVIE IN THE 8mm Film. By Akiyoshi Imazeki

Amaranthine(en)

Set in an abstraction of 1970s London, Amaranthine tells a tale of punks, betrayal and revenge.

Tingling(en)

Over a devastating night, a couple grapples with memories from the Gulf War.

A Field of Honor(en)

An ex-soldier encounters many dangers in the small town he lives in.

Eyes Wide Open(fr)

During a very hot summer, Emma (15) is doomed to boredom at her grandparents's house. She's dying for something to happen. At the edge of a pond, she hides to observe The Young Man. She develops a brief but intense obsession for this fantasized stranger.

Hawaii: Living on the Edge in Paradise?(en)

During the summer of 2018, hundreds of earthquakes shook the summit of Kiilauea, sparking the volcano's largest eruption in 200 years. To some, it was a disaster. To others, it was the goddess Pele's way of creating new aina (land). The Hawaiian peoples' resilience and cultural unity is a lesson in the true spirit of Aloha.

Wabishabi(ja)

Director Noboru Iguchi's first 8mm film, which he shot as a high school student.

Airawat(mr)

The film explores the mental time and space of one character, a girl, who lives in a lane in a suburb of a city (Mumbai).

Boy in the Elvis Suit(en)

An impotent Elvis impersonator becomes addicted to erotic hypnosis in this tragicomic odyssey of the mind.

Boys and Girls(en)

Ryan and Jennifer are opposites who definitely do not attract. At least that's what they always believed. When they met as twelve-year-olds, they disliked one another. When they met again as teenagers, they loathed each other. But when they meet in college, the uptight Ryan and the free-spirited Jennifer find that their differences bind them together and a rare friendship develops.

The Denigration of Carl Skiln(en)

Up against a deadline, a narcissistic screenwriter forces two of his worst critics to delete their reviews of his work at gunpoint.

Tödlicher Schnitt(en)

Belinda and Jim are dragged down by life: While he gets abused in his monotonous job, she became apathetic and unable to form any kind of relationship. Now, in constantly crossing frontiers, she tries to escape her dismal everyday life. With that, the project of Heinrich, who seems to think similarly, becomes really interesting for the both. But delving into the threshold range has it's consequences.

heroes(en)

Displaying the faces and voices of transgender youth, the documentary short shows the authenticity of queer and trans people living in Toronto, while simultaneously discussing the struggles for self-acceptance that people who do not conform to cisgender and heteronormative ideals of gender face. Andy Nguyen, trans director and film student, captures his trans friends in their natural state on 16mm film shot on a Bolex h16 camera. Accompanied by narration written and recited by Salem Rao, this film represents that trans people exist and this is what we look like. Regardless of the obvious everyday transphobia, trans people find community and uniqueness within each other and themselves.

it's a girl!(en)

A self-portrait short film on 16mm from a trans male perspective.

Nelásky(cs)

True Mirror(da)

Disgruntled(en)

This meta student film illustrates the trials and tribulations of being a film student.

Three Sicks(en)

This ode to standup comedy and overall antisocial, student film, headlined the 2002 film program at Long Beach.