House of Dolls[2022]

A Fermenting Woman(en)

On the brink of getting fired from her restaurant by new owners, visionary chef and master fermenter Marielle Lau (Sook-Yin Lee) develops an incendiary new dish with a bewitching ingredient she’s convinced will save her career.

Pandora(en)

Experimental filmmaker and color cameraman here collaborate in a surrealistic retelling of the old myth. But this is a dream fantasy with no real parallel to Pandora, replete with striking symbols where everything is larger than life--the silhouetted image of a mother and an infant, the profiled view of two sculptured heads spouting smoke and fire.

7FATES: CHAKHO(ja)

Anime short film based on the webtoon 7FATES: CHAKHO

Papa-Figo(pt)

A child's play turns out to be a nightmare when they set out to challenge an urban legend.

THE WASHING MACHINE(es)

Barandilla and Pizarrón, two newly independent friends, must face their first big challenge: doing laundry. What begins as a simple task turns into a surreal experience that teaches them more than they expected.

Shrek the Halls(en)

The Christmas tree isn't the only thing green in this new holiday classic. Shrek is back and trying to get into the spirit of the season. After promising Fiona and the kids a Christmas they'll remember, he is forced to take a crash course in the holiday. But just when he thinks he has everything for their quiet family Christmas just right, there is a knock at the door.

The Snowman(en)

A young boy makes a snowman one Christmas Eve, which comes to life at midnight and takes him on a magical adventure to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.

La Lluvia(es)

The Talisman(en)

This short film, based on the novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub, was produced to demonstrate the direction of a full Talisman adaptation.

The Enchanted Bell(cs)

After a magic bell from Tibet is stolen, a little girl and an elephant undertake a dangerous journey to bring the bell home.

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

Valis: The Fantasm Soldier(ja)

Yuko Asou is a Japanese student from the late 1980s who must protect three different kingdoms - our own land, the land of the Spirits, and Vecanti, the world of dreams - by using a mystical sword called Valis.

The Portal(en)

A dimension-traveling wizard gets stuck in the 21st century because cell-phone radiation interferes with his magic. With his home world on the brink of war, he seeks help from a jaded travel agent who he mistakes for a great sorceress. Without his powers to prove his identity, she has trouble taking him seriously, but finally agrees to reveal the secrets of our world in exchange for a lunch date.

Blip(en)

A man takes a mysterious pill that gives him the ability to teleport into different times and different places, but with serious consequences.

Norman the Snowman: The Northern Lights(ja)

The boy has longed to visit the northern country and experience the beautiful mysteries of nature that his childhood friend Norman the Snowman has told him about. On the first day of snow in the northern country, the boy sneaks out of his house and boards a northbound train with Norman to see the mysteries of nature with his own eyes.

Mortys(fr)

An emotional and generational conflict between mother and son in the twenty-first century, except for one detail: Mother is none other than death.

The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers(en)

A sinister fairytale depicting the lives of two brothers and their daily suicide attempts.

Shalabham(en)

A struggling artist going through a creative block rendering his mind void of inspiration.

Mon Colle Knight: Legendary Fire Dragon(ja)

An alternative interpretation of the series' start.

Apocalypse Now Now(en)

Snarky, monster-porn-dealing teen, Baxter Zevcenko, might be a serial killer. His girlfriend, Esme, is missing, and he’s the prime suspect. To clear his name, he’ll turn to Cape Town’s grizzliest, drunkest bounty hunter, Jackson ‘Jackie’ Ronin. Little does he know that Ronin is a supernatural bounty-hunter, and that he’s about to be dragged headlong into a deep, dark Cape Town underbelly full of monsters and myth, shadowy government forces, bloodthirsty crow-men and a conspiracy across time and space.