Ten Minutes to Showtime(2024)

Quotations From a Ruined City(en)

Quotations From a Ruined City was first performed as a workshop production for the Los Angeles Festival in a former shoe store on Hollywood Boulevard. The production subsequently moved to a vacant pajama factory in New York's meatpacking district and went on to be presented by multiple European presenters. It was Abdoh's final work. "Quotations from a Ruined City is a sort of apocalyptic follies: an evening of song, dance, poetry, nudity and torture set in a world whose center has clearly long ceased to hold. Created and directed by the gifted young theatrical cult artist Reza Abdoh, the work is a kaleidoscopic catalogue of images of decay and destruction that range through the centuries and around the globe."--New York Times, 1994.

INT. CAFÉ – NIGHT(en)

A short film exploring two stories about love, loss and reunion set inside a café in Kolkata, India.

La Flambée(fr)

Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)(fr)

"Ni Pour, Ni Contre" tracks the fall of a young TV camerawoman, Caty, after she becomes involved with a group of petty criminals and their enigmatic leader, Jean. The gang lives hand-to-mouth until the day Jean plans a daring bank robbery. Although other gang members feel out of their league, Jean persuades them to take part and Caty finds herself in a hellish world of betrayal, violence and murder.

The Aura(es)

A quiet, epileptic taxidermist plans the perfect crime. All he needs is the right opportunity. An accident, perhaps…

Touching Gold Captain(zh)

Although Cao Shun is a descendant of a Mojin, his father never taught him any skills. In the village, he has no skills under his belt and lived as a glib full of deceit. One day, an evil man entered the village and picked Cao Shun, a descendant of a Mojin, to help him find a mysterious treasure. If he refused, he would kill the village. Cao Shun had to bite the bullet and disguise himself as a senior Mojin, and went into a real tomb with a group of people...

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale(en)

The tale of a lonely Southern woman's longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic and romantic, the story is a reworking of the Williams play "Summer and Smoke," which uses the same characters and setting but in dramatically different ways.

Revenge(en)

Michael ‘Jay’ Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years and he's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a powerful but shady Mexican businessman who he once flew to Alaska for a hunting trip. Arriving at the Mendez mansion in Mexico, he is immediately surprised by the beauty and youth of Mendez’s wife, Miryea.

Sonata(en)

Before an important audition, a mute theater student summons his five core emotions as he deals with the loss of a close friend.

Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys(en)

Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout several decades. Recently, their lives have become mired in turmoil as their adult children’s extramarital affairs, unethical business practices, and a dark secret threaten to derail family fortunes and unravel the lives of all involved. Charlotte and Alice decide to take a breather from it all by making a cross-country road trip in which they rediscover themselves and possibly find a way to save their families from ruin.

Stella. A Life.(de)

Stella, grows up in Berlin during the rule of the Nazi regime. She dreams of a career as a jazz singer, despite all the repressive measures she is forced to go into hiding with her parents in 1944, her life turns into a culpable tragedy.

Symbiosis(hu)

A betrayed wife begins to investigate her husband’s mistresses. Her jealousy is gradually replaced by curiosity.

The Seagull(ru)

What if Konstantin Gavrilovich, from Anton Chekkov's famous play, did not commit suicide and was murdered instead? And who did it? Boris Akunin's take on The Seagull unfolds as a comedic murder mystery.

Kaalam Darrr - Short Film(ta)

Ever thought about getting rid of the worst parts of your life to find peace? Meet GoKi (Gopala Krishnan), a frustrated and vexed young man who spends New Year's Day running his uncle's CD shop. Desperate to escape his monotonous life, he stumbles upon a mysterious calendar in a pile of trash. As soon as he tears off a sheet, his life takes an unimaginable turn. Yet, time has a way of binding human lives to reality. This 3-minute (2 mins, 49 secs) mystery comedy Tamil short film depicts how time intricately crafts a profound journey for its protagonist.

Hanging Up(en)

Three sisters - Georgia, Eve, and Maddy - do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the telephone lines that bind - when their curmudgeonly father, Lou, is admitted to a Los Angeles Hospital. After years of wild living, intermittent affection, and constant phoning, he is finally threatening to die.

Detention(zh)

In the 1960s, two classmates go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took part in an illegal book club, only to come face to face with ghosts and deformed monsters that have taken over their school.

Suicide Kings(en)

Carlo, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ransom to save the sister of a friend. As Carlo plays mind games, however, his captors splinter -- each wondering whether one of their own had a hand in the crime.

The Prince of Tempters(en)

Francis, the result of a clandestine marriage between the Duke of Chatsfield and a peasant girl, after being raised in a monastery following his parents death assumes his title but falls victim to a pair of schemers leading to much heartache before all is set aright before the fadeout.

Flesh + Blood(en)

A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.

Gray Wall Gear(ja)

The stage of this work is Saitama, a suburb of Tokyo in the early Heisei period. Immediately after the bubble burst gangster countermeasures law, there were gangsters who defended the last territory and young people who freely controlled the city. The youth conflict escalated day by day and became a force that surpassed the yakuza, and the runaways were sent to juvenile prisons one after another, where exclusive rules awaited.