Linton Falls - A Study of the Force of Water(2024)

The Scary Movie(en)

Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams and "scary" music suggests that the girls' toying with gender roles and power dynamics may have dire consequences.

A Paw Over Dark(en)

A washed up actor performs night after night in a grimy theater to a nearly empty audience. However, everything changes when a clueless dog jumps on stage.

It's Not Me(fr)

This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time.

Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest(en)

Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.

The dream of the absurd man(hi)

An absurd man, feeling hopeless, decides to end his life. The night before, he dreams of a perfect world with no pain. In this dream, he sees how good people can be and how he can change. When he wakes up, he understands he must choose between giving up and finding hope. He realizes that even a silly dream can bring big changes.

Admissions of Desire(en)

A man and a woman talk on the phone and express their feelings and desires for each other for the first time. We watch as they listen to the other's admissions.

Between You and You All(fr)

A chronicle of the lives of a couple and the gradual dissolution of their relationship.

Electroma(xx)

Two robots embark on a quest to become human.

PRÓXIMO!(pt)

Guinea(ja)

Yukari Nishihara, 25, earns her living as an art model and aspires to become an actress. One day, while she was out, she saw “a man's face about to jump off the roof of a building”, and since then she has been suffering from a peculiar constitution: she sees a suicide while on her period, faints, and develops a fever. The goddess of love does not smile on Yukari, who is unable to become a sweet girl with a nice boyfriend. The only things that can save Yukari now are her best friend Hana, who has a keen intuition, and a suppository that can break a fever in one shot. On the day of an important audition, Yukari has decided that this is her last chance. However, Yukari realizes that she has forgotten her antipyretic suppositories, and her eyes meet those of another soon-to-be suicide victim. She is in a desperate situation. What does Yukari do?

Preface to a History(en)

A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected, politically uncertain modern world while on a trip to a remote Canadian island in this avant-garde feature film. PREFACE TO A HISTORY, created with a tiny crew of four people, represents an experiment in using minimalist tools to create an overwhelming aesthetic experience in service of a simple, but specifically contemporary, story about two people attempting to navigate a fraying relationship amid all the anxieties and external pressures of modern adulthood in a technologically-interconnected and politically unstable era.

The Brown Bunny(en)

Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true love.

Rain(cs)

Presence(en)

A couple, Rebekah and Chris, and their children, Tyler and Chloe, move into a seemingly normal suburban home. When strange occurrences occur, they begin to believe that there is something else in the house with them. The presence is about to disrupt their lives in unimaginable ways.

Begotten(en)

Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.

Dizzy(en)

Dealing with his pill addiction, Jinn suffers from vivid nightmares, featuring a monster that plagues his everyday life.

Pi(en)

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

Wasabi(es)

Narrator is a man in his early 30s who is cooking pasta while enjoying a seemingly normal morning. Suddenly, the phone rings: a mysterious voice is telling him things that don't make much sense. Something is not right but not wrong either, and it seems that some memory from the past might have triggered all this...

Inland Empire(en)

As a Hollywood actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.

Without You I'm Nothing(en)

Cameron and Sylvia, a young couple in their early 20s, share a touching last evening together before he departs for Paris, where he plans to pursue his dream of becoming a chef. Fast forward four years later, where present-day screens reveal Sylvia and Cameron, still moved by the memory of that unforgettable night. Despite the passage of time and their divergent paths, their connection endures, delving into themes of love, separation, and the everlasting impact of shared experiences.