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Breakfast(fr)

Relentlessly reworking ‘real’ images, using techniques borrowed from painting and animated film, Patrick Bokanowski is an author of stature, capable of creating an insane and cataclysmic universe of unquestionable beauty.

Dance Macabre(en)

Horror fan short by director Wim Vink, that works with just a little dialogue and mostly with eerie atmosphere, set in a small Dutch town. A bit of Argento, mainly by using some of Goblin´s music as well as some Fabio Frizzi compositions, mixed with a bit of Romero´s undead, this is about some cult who unleash an evil spirit that starts attacking people, in the shape of zombie-like creatures, when it all turns out to end as a weird version of the beginning from "Dawn Of The Dead".

The Beach(fr)

Reworked and colored images of people playing at the seashore.

The Bloodthirsty Fairy(fr)

Two mysterious men dressed in black and with cigarettes dangling from their mouths drop a large, presumably heavy (since it takes two to carry it) package off on a doorstep and walk away. When the home’s owner returns he drags the package inside, then goes about doing a few more activities before deciding to finally open it. Upon removing the paper, he notices it’s a large steel barrel. Using a blowtorch, he gets the lid off and sees it’s full of oily water… but rising out of the water is a nude, voluptuous, smiling woman, who immediately starts to entice the man by massaging her breasts. Naturally, being in a barrel for who knows how long, she needs to get cleaned off and hops into a bubble bath. While she’s lounging in the tub, the man gets into bed, lights a cigarette and starts to remove him clothes in anticipation. We get to see fantasies from both the man and “the fairy.” —The Bloody Pit of Horror

Tree of Consumption(en)

Dana Claxton uses low-grade video equipment to create degraded images that correlate the treatment of the earth with the treatment of women’s bodies. A figure stands enmeshed in cutting barbed wire among ravaged forests and chopped tree stumps. Grainy black-and-white images have been electronically ripped, cut and torn in post-production while repeated images of the artist’s open-mouth scream silently against a volatile red sky. A video work from the early 1990s continues to resonate in our contemporary moment—and with decades of missing and murdered Indigenous women across exploited lands.

Brabeza(pt)

Echoes from the Cinema Novo, stylized in photographic compositional experiments and montage, in the encounter of a migrant woman with a man carrying a rifle in the streets of the big city.

Sebelah(id)

A guy welcomes a new neighbor in his apartment.

Nobody Plays the Trombone Anymore(es)

Cutberto Ortíz Ramos, a young trombonist, was kidnapped, along with other 42 students, on September 26, 2014, and murdered in Ayotzinapa, México.

Broken Night(ko)

An insurance fraudster earns a living with fake car accidents. One day he gets involved in a real accident, and the dilemma begins.

The Little One(cs)

When Rong was a small child she and her parents moved from Vietnam to Prague. Now she is grown up and remembers that time and what it was like to feel like a foreigner.

Patch(de)

An experimental animated short film using abstract painting to explore the tension field between abstraction and recognizability.

Wiener Blut(de)

The film follows Mrs. Sarika's departure to a Jewish retirement home. What was supposed to be a peaceful end to life, turns into the horror of the Holocaust, and she herself becomes a victim.

Zibilla ou la vie zébrée(fr)

That Towering Oak(en)

Growing up, Paul was carefree and full of life. He would spend countless hours playing in the oak tree in his backyard. He spent so much time out with that tree that his mother would tease him saying they were bonded for life, and for a long time, he believed it. Time passed, Paul grew up, moved away and settled into monotonous adulthood filled with responsibilities and routine. A job he hates, a wife that hates him and no end in sight...

The Metamorphosis of Franz Kafka(es)

Free adaptation based on Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". The action is in Praga occupied by Germans, at home of a Jew family (maybe the Kafka's). Novel's room of Gregor Samsa is replaced by an enormous library.

Encore(zh)

The soon-to-graduate son is busy on preparing his graduation play. The mother memorizes the staging old days. The son's gay orientation becomes the mother's concern. Reality and fiction inside and outside the play reflect the emotions that every family faces.

The Christmas Carol(en)

A Christmas Carol was a 1949 syndicated, black and white television special narrated by Vincent Price.

Lightningface(en)

Basil Stitt, in the aftermath of an inexplicable incident, decides to sequester himself inside his apartment, setting the stage for a profound transformation.

Venus in Furs(en)

Where a nun and a nurse go to hell because of their sinful life in St. Vincent's Hospital.

The Beckoning(en)

In the days preceding a total solar eclipse, the receipt of a peculiar and intriguing gift sets a reclusive man on a path to discover an ancient and unworldly power.