Lightning Sketches

Canada Vignettes: Newfoundland(en)

An examination of the Viking explorers who were the first Europeans to discover Canada.

L'aéroplane de Fouinard(fr)

To Be(en)

Blending fantasy and reality, this animated short is a bold inquiry into an as yet unresolved problem - the nature of human identity. When a scientist creates a machine that can make copies of physical objects, including humans, a number of ethical questions arise. Is the technique moral? What of its safety? A film by Oscar-winning filmmaker John Weldon (who also wrote the catchy banjo tune that punctuates the story's changing moods).

A Garfield Christmas(en)

Garfield, Jon and Odie go to Jon's family farm for Christmas, where Garfield finds a present for Grandma.

Shrek the Halls(en)

The Christmas tree isn't the only thing green in this new holiday classic. Shrek is back and trying to get into the spirit of the season. After promising Fiona and the kids a Christmas they'll remember, he is forced to take a crash course in the holiday. But just when he thinks he has everything for their quiet family Christmas just right, there is a knock at the door.

The Snowman(en)

A young boy makes a snowman one Christmas Eve, which comes to life at midnight and takes him on a magical adventure to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.

BURN·E(en)

What lengths will a robot undergo to do his job? BURN·E is a dedicated hard working robot who finds himself locked out of his ship. BURN·E quickly learns that completing a simple task can often be a very difficult endeavor.

Smile, Buttercup, Smile(en)

The unhappily married couple head to divorce court where Toots tells a series of funny stories about Casper.

Benny, from Panama(en)

Jeanette and Eddie get married, but their wedding night is a fiasco. First, their wedding guests follow them, resulting in a police chase, then the guests show up at their apartment, disrupting the building. Then, a rowdy sailor friend of Eddie's shows up, accompanied by a squad of even rowdier buddies and an enormous vengeful mosquito.

Numero 69(it)

Two friends enter an Emergency Room, seeking help after an incident. They will find themselves living a series of surreal experiences through the eccentric characters that populate the waiting room. But will they get the help they need?

One Hundred and Eighty(en)

The winner of a regional women's darts final suspects her opponent of letting her win, and won't let her leave until she finds out why.

Amateur Night in London(en)

A comedy musical Directed by Monty Banks.

The Simpsons Meet the Bocellis in "Feliz Navidad"(en)

This Christmas, Homer surprises Marge with the ultimate gift: an unforgettable performance from Italian opera superstar Andrea Bocelli and his children Matteo and Virginia.

No 89(en)

A comedy about breaking up enough times to finally move on. This funny and moving short asks how far will someone go to mend a broken heart as it follows a young woman and her unusual way of dealing with a brutal break-up.

After Shave(fr)

Abou Milad, an old itinerant barber, lost his barbershop during the Lebanese civil war. Today, he hardly earns a living by offering his services in the popular cafés of Beirut. One day, he is summoned by a recluse resident of a large old mansion.

The Enchanted Bell(cs)

After a magic bell from Tibet is stolen, a little girl and an elephant undertake a dangerous journey to bring the bell home.

Classified(en)

Babs Comet is employed by the classified ad department of the daily paper and uses her looks and position to get a husband.

Skip(en)

Tonight, Paul pops the question to Amanda. Everything is perfect; then suddenly - chaos. Now the couple find themselves stuck between two worlds.

The Musical Beauty Shop(en)

A beauty salon owner puts on a cabaret.

The New Waiter(en)

An agile waiter unmasks a cabaret conjurer as a thief.

The Voices of a Big Country(ru)

In every corner of our vast country there are talented people worthy of recognition and glory. They flock to the capital and take part in popular television shows. But the spotlights go out, and life goes on. And not as they saw it ... Each of the heroes - young and adults, ambitious and modest, lonely and in love - will have to go through many trials. They are waiting for ups and downs, meetings and partings, friendship and betrayal. But in the end they will become one big team, a family that unites different people from the most remote towns of our big country, in the name of music, talent and, of course, love!

Leimert Park: The Story of a Village in South Central Los Angeles(en)

An extraordinary group of artists and musicians, in the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, creates an underground arts movement and transform a community.

Mother's Field(ky)

In a remote Kyrgyz village, a mother navigates daily life as her family is drawn into the upheaval of World War II. Left behind to tend the land and hold her household together, she clings to hope amid growing uncertainty. As seasons pass, the quiet weight of absence and memory shapes her world. A deeply personal story of endurance, Mother’s Field captures the emotional cost of war from the perspective of those who wait.

Scooby-Doo: Agence toutou risques, vol. 1 : Le voleur de vélo(fr)

Florence Fight Club(ru)

Intertwined stories from the gladiator/athletes participating to the Calcio Storico Fiorentino yearly championship.

The Peasants(az)

A historical revolutionary film depicting the struggle of peasants and the Baku proletariat against landowners and Musavatists in 1919.

LEWISTON(en)

The movie arose out of our sparetime as teenagers with fresh driver’s licenses and cobbled-together camera gear, wandering around a tired and honestly pretty grim post-industrial mill community, reinforced with after-hours access to the darkroom at the Sun Journal (where Aaron’s dad was the visuals editor), and some half-formed education in the techniques of Robert Frank, Frederick Wiseman, Dogme 95, Italian neorealism, pre-Obama Shepard Fairey, plus whatever culture pushed its way through the creaky pipes of low-bandwidth dial-up internet, or was smuggled up the actual superhighway of I-95 from Boston and eventually New York, or mailed first class via United States Postal Service from a burgeoning Netflix in those classic matte red envelopes, as valuable and rare as cash sent from China. [...] Somehow we negotiated access to a Canon XL1 3-CCD MiniDV camera and shotgun mic from the local public access station, in exchange for taping the high school graduation we didn’t participate in.

The King: Stephen King's America(en)

Ghost nation? Violent home? Traumatised country? What does the horror of one of the most famous writers of our time hide? What does his fictional America expose? To what extent does cinema feed itself off his unique vision and expression of fear? In other words: what kind of America is Stephen King telling us about?

Volunteers(sh)

In this amusing antiwar comedy, seven inept and reluctant soldiers land on a desert island to carry on with the fighting. Just after their parachutes have collapsed behind them on the beach, helicopters approach and land nearby. Out pops a bevy of beautiful women sent to entertain the troops, which they do, and then they leave. From that point onward, there are a series of misadventures

Laivaston monnit maissa(fi)

Sailor is brought by the police as a recruit to the navy.

Un fil à la patte(fr)

Scream 4(en)

Ten years after the original Woodsboro murders, one of the survivors returns home to promote their new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostface killer to emerge, targeting a new group of teens.

GACHI-BAN: MAXIMUM(ja)

Following his release from the reformatory, Hayato is a free man and begins working at a Korean host club, the same one Yoshio works at. Unable to handle the woman and work he immediately wants to quit. However, Yoshio soon ends up saddled with a large debt a customer has made and is forced to pay with his life in an illegal underground fighting match. To save Yoshio, Hayato enters instead and comes up against Honda an ex-pro boxer.

Human Resources(fr)

"Good son" Franck returns to his hometown to do a trainee managerial internship in the Human Resources department of the factory where his anxious, taciturn father has worked for 23 years.

The Well Beloved One(pt)

Elected major of the small city of Sucupira, after unfortunate situation, Odorico must open the city cemitery and face acusations of being corrupt, to end his term on good terms with the people.

Máxima Traición(es)

Home(en)

Acting as both pseudo-sequel to, and remake of, Cutting Moments, Buck's follow-up changes the focus from the matriarch to the father... or, more fittingly, the many fathers... and the sins they pass down. Eschews explicit violence for a more psychological approach, to a no less harrowing result.

Los que buscamos(es)

Enrique was separated from his mother at birth, Ascension was forced to give up her daughter after giving birth. Both are victims of the "stolen babies" plot, a slippery ground for Spanish justice. While they continue with the legal battle, they continue with their searches, living with guilt, rejection and the construction of their own identity.

Zombie Fight Club(zh)

It's the end of the century at a corner of the city in a building riddled with crime - Everyone in the building has turned into zombies. After Jenny's boyfriend is killed in a zombie attack, she faces the challenge of surviving in the face of adversity. In order to stay alive, she struggles with Andy to flee danger.