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The Truth Close-Up(uk)

An animated short film that deconstructs and exposes the exhausted Soviet cliches in search of truth which is traditional for glasnost and perestroika era.

Land Without Bread(es)

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time. (Silent short, voiced in 1937 and 1996.)

With Love from Winston(de)

Short film by Hans Lang and Nikolai Karo

March the 13th, 1941(sv)

The year is 1941. Two Investigators are doing research on an old well. One of the gentlemen climbs down the hole and then they communicate through a military phone. But something is strange, the place, the hole, and then the phone...

The Picture in the House(en)

A young man takes shelter from a storm in an old house inhabited by a strange older man. While examining an old book, the young man begins to wonder if this house and it's host are hiding a dark secret. Based on the short story by H. P. Lovecraft.

The Music of Jo Hyeja(en)

A young woman in a Seoul suburb finds herself captivated by the strange music of an old woman named Jo Hyeja, who is living in poverty upstairs from her. Her investigations into the music reveal a terrifying secret.

Christmas Movie(en)

Rooming together in a garage, two friends' Christmas eve night escalates into a realm of psychedelic hedonism.

Crumb and Crust(en)

A middle-aged man, Jake, vividly remembering the regretfully egocentric past of his young heyday. His dilemma is that he is yearning, seeking love, being loved.

Mojana(en)

A heartbroken man, dumped and alone on a planned engagement trip, unknowingly brings local folklore to life.

Tied Up(en)

Tied Up is a mockumentary short, profiling famed ribbon dance Katrina Day.

Le corps noir(fr)

Armand is a pickpocket. In stealing a camera, he did not expect to discover his portrait, pris sur le vif.

Mishimasaiko(fr)

Mishima lives in the shadows surrounded by worms in his underground lair. Early one morning, he discovers a rose in the sun in which the beautiful Saiko awakens. Mishima will do everything he can to satisfy her needs. But worms are not supposed to live in the sun...

Man Yuk: A Portrait of Maggie Cheung(xx)

Experimental short made by Olivier Assayas for Fondation of Contemporary Art and starring Maggie Cheung.

Onze e Quinze(pt)

Online Love(en)

Finding love can be hard, right? Even when you do find someone, what do you say to them through the social network you'll inevitably be using?

Strange Thing(uk)

Humorous tales about the life of a little boy. About how he was born without a father and mother, how he was hit by a snow lying on the oven in his hut, how he walked into the woods being a kid, and the miraculous things he had seen there. In his fantasies he could fly, make friends with birds, climb trees, and most importantly – do it all in infancy and without looking at anyone else. Based on poems by Stepan Rudanskyi.

Komorebi(zh)

Jhe-Ming returns to Tainan to celebrate his mother’s birthday. Being thirty something, single, and the only male heir, Jhe-Ming’s unmarried situation is always his mom's favorite topic. Throughout the years, he tried to avoid the relationship conversation at all costs. But this time things are a bit different ─ he is married to a man he’s been with for 7 years. Should Jhe-Ming finally come clean to his mother?

The Cat and the Rooster(uk)

A Rooster and a Cat lived in a cabin in the forest. The smart and resourceful Cat was an earner, going away in the morning and leaving the hardworking Rooster to do household chores. And everything would be well with them, if a Fox had not got into the habit to visit them dreaming to steal the rustic and unsophisticated Rooster.

De Civitate Rei(it)

Costante dies and leaves his wife Torella his computer discovery. Torella entrusts the disk to her husband’s friend Gervasio, a lazy man scorned by his family. Twenty years later, Torella tries to get back the disk but Gervasio, who has become rich thanks to the discovery, agrees to go to court over it and comes away the winner. He therefore summons divine misfortune: he loses his third son, suffocated by wealth; kills his wife in a blind rage; and is executed by his first-born son who, after a violent panic attack and reckoning with his conscience, chooses life.

No Ordinary Love(en)

An ordinary woman is suddenly trapped in her own home after a stalker is infatuated with her.