The Summer of 12(2019)

Dandelion(en)

An elderly man remembers the full life of love he has lived, with the help of a wish he made on a dandelion years before.

Bloodwater(en)

Mia has locked herself inside her recently deceased mother's rundown, crumbling house. Armed with a litany of books detailing ancient cultures and rituals, she tries desperately to reach out to the other side and speak to her mother. But when she succeeds, she gets more than she bargained for. Waiting alongside her mother is something monstrous, something that Mia recognises instantly. As she tries to survive the night and escape the ritual alive, Mia is forced to confront a variety of evils - ones from both without, and from within.

A Shore Away(fr)

Newly employed in an emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness, Geneviève is shaken to meet a young woman there whom she believed to have succeeded in reintegrating when she was her social worker.

Noble Intentions(en)

A teenage boy reluctantly turns to the streets to earn $6,000 a month for his mother's cancer medicine and quickly discovers that street money does not come easy. When an old family friend makes him a syndicate boss, jealousy and greed immediately turn his friends against him. With pressure mounting from all sides, he must choose between saving his mother’s life and saving his own.

Transamerica(en)

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

City of God(pt)

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

Autonomous(en)

When a mistrustful rogue, who earns a living by sending "obsolete" humanoid robots to the scrap heap, has a change of heart and decides it's time to call it quits, he stumbles upon a conspiracy that will reveal his life's darkest secret.

Strangers in the Night(en)

El and Jali, a twenty-something couple from Sydney’s Inner West, arrive at a house party. As El wanders through the house, she experiences a myriad of gender performances, and finds kinship in another girl, Fleur. The night changes route completely when they are confronted by a violent figure.

The Tin Drum(de)

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.

Doughnut(en)

Things turn sour when an amateur improv class meet for the first time after one of the group misjudges the situation. https://shortoftheweek.com/2021/11/22/doughnut

Foul Play(pt)

A lonely boy finds his passion in football and pursues the sport to endure the difficulties of growing up.

Do Útero Ao Túmulo(pt)

Ghosts(en)

Three Kiowa boys attempt to escape a government boarding school in 1891, Oklahoma.

It’s a Date(uk)

Kyiv in 2022. A car races at breakneck speed through the city at dawn. Filmed from a subjective camera angle in a single unedited shot, this remale of Claude Lelouch's "C'était un rendez-vous" captures the emotions in a state of emergency caused by the war.

Close(fr)

Thirteen-year-olds Léo and Rémi have always been close, but they drift apart after the intimacy of their relationship is questioned by schoolmates.

The Boy Who Wanted to Fly(es)

In 1980's Madrid, five-year-old boy Ivan is confronted with the birth of his new brother. His sister is Dad's favorite, and the newborn will be Mom’s favorite. So where does that leave Ivan? If only he could grow wings and get away from it all...

Testosterone: Volume One(en)

The first volume in a collection of gay shorts from the four corners of the world that will set your pulse racing. From the intense effects of first love, to a deliciously campy tale of a camping trip gone horribly wrong. This collection includes: The End of My World [Mój koniec świata] (2017), The Surf Report (2016), It Gets Better? (2016), and Killer Friends (2017).

Coming Home(ja)

Mitsuomi Kozuka quits his job due to his boss. He decides to return to his hometown for the first time in 10 years. The town is located in the countryside. There, Mitsuomi Kozuka meets Yamato Kumai. Yamato Kumai is the stepson of old man Kumai. The old man runs a farm near the home of Mitsuomi Kozuka's parents.

Our Time(en)

Our Time is the story of two teenagers growing up in New York City. It was shot on location in Central Park.

Eyes of Eidolon(en)

Plagued with the guilt of feeling responsible for his late wife Amelia’s overdose, Alexander exiles himself into seclusion amongst the confines of a remote lake-house cabin.