Drawback(2024)

Gunda(en)

A glimpse into the raw and simple power of nature through encounters with farm animals: the eponymous Gunda, a mother pig; two cows, and a one-legged chicken.

Koyaanisqatsi(en)

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.

Microcosmos(fr)

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.

Napoleon: The Ticket(xx)

Follow Napoleon Bonaparte, everyone’s favorite vertically challenged dictator, as he learns to interact with the modern day world. When his trusty stead gets a parking ticket, Napoleon is forced to come to grips with his new stature in society.

Phantasia(xx)

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their respective invention in what today is considered to be the first cinema screening. Thus, both cinema and radiography fall within the scopic regime inaugurated by modernity. The use of X-rays on two sculptures from the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum generates images that reveal certain elements of them that would otherwise be invisible to our eyes. These images, despite being generally created for technical or scientific purposes, seem to produce a certain form of 'photogénie': they lend the radiographed objects a new appearance that lies somewhere between the material and the ethereal, endowing them with a vaporous and spectral quality. It is not by chance that physics and phantasmagoria share the term 'spectrum' in their vocabulary.

Clean House(th)

On an ordinary day off, a man starts his day by cleaning his room as usual. But when he tries to sweep up the dust, he finds that it won't go into the dustpan as expected. He then tries every possible way to make sure the room is spotless.

ECDYSIS(xx)

Dusk or dawn, stuck in subconsciousness until we can’t separate between the true self and appearances. Is it even possible that we will be free from our own sake?

Soch(xx)

A doctor treats a mentally retarded child, but a simple action of her makes him question himself.

Offlight(fr)

Stringless Puppets(xx)

A young man living far from his beloved one wastes his existence absorbed in modern distractions until he loses contact with her.

Virap(xx)

In a secluded area near a chapel perched on a hill, an unknown man digs a grave, intending to kill a beggar and bury him with a black sack over his head. The title ‘Virap’ is the romanized spelling of the Armenian word ‘Վիրապ,’ which means ‘pit’ in English.

Pulse(en)

A rhythmic film set to a drum beat with no dialogue that follows a downbeat jazz musician as he attempts to break out of his rut and achieve creative freedom.

Nuclear Winter(en)

Waiting for his wife to come home from an expedition in the freezing wasteland, a man loses his sanity in a subterranean nuclear bunker.

Powaqqatsi(en)

An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.

Echoes in Freestone(en)

Using sounds from the past, over pictures of the present, the film glimpses a man’s life in pioneering days. Set in the historic town of Richmond, Tasmania, the film shows some of the classic colonial Georgian houses and churches.

Dry Ace(pt)

A degenerate poker player lives in his car, refusing to sell it to settle a debt. He instead enters an underground game organized by the Boss. Our player cheats in order to start winning, but at the risk of suffering the Boss's temper, he might lose more than just the game.

Bagels.(en)

A man tries to eat a bagel, but the world is against him.

Silent Night(en)

A tormented father witnesses his young son die when caught in a gang's crossfire on Christmas Eve. While recovering from a wound that costs him his voice, he makes vengeance his life's mission and embarks on a punishing training regimen in order to avenge his son's death.

Rice Bowl(ja)

Overripe with psychosexual poetry and stark, oneiric rituals, Adachi's filmmaking debut, made while he was still an undergraduate, counts among the more resonant accomplishments of the now famous Nihon University Film Club. Adachi's obvious fascination with the wide-eyed watchfulness of childhood and the uncanny is an expression of the important surrealist strand running throughout the post-WWII Japanese avant-garde. - Harvard Film Archive

Blood Tea and Red String(en)

The aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak battle over the doll of their hearts' desire.