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Cassini's Grand Finale(en)

To help visualize the dramatic final chapter in Cassini's remarkable story, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory produced this short film that features beautiful computer-generated animation, thoughtful narration and a rousing score. Producers at JPL worked with filmmaker Erik Wernquist, known for his 2014 short film "Wanderers," to create a stirring finale video befitting one of NASA's most successful missions of exploration.

The L.A. Riots: 25 Years Later(en)

HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the LA Riots, the most destructive riot in American history that left 53 people dead and caused over a billion dollars in damage.

Wawa(fr)

Garance has just lost her Wawa. It’s going to be picked up, rolled around, transported, thrown away, carted off, dragged off, snatched up, shot, smashed, trampled, given away, pushed around, stolen, soiled, forgotten, chewed on, slapped, crushed, banged up, and found again. This is the story of the unfortunate trip of a stuffed dog through the streets of Paris.

Paseo(es)

The Chicken of Wuzuh(ko)

Wuzuh, a girl with Down Syndrome, has a secret crush on her teacher. One day she discovers that a hair accessory her teacher gave her as a gift he also gave to another student. Feeling betrayed, Wuzuh brings a chicken she has been raising for her teacher to class, causing chaos.

Stake Land: Origins(en)

As a mysterious virus starts affecting middle America, a young boy films his father, a butcher, for a school project.

Kingdom of Strangers(ar)

On the Pacific coast of Los Angeles, Ali and Yaffa struggle to remember the Arab Mediterranean cities they have left behind.

Home Sweet Home(fr)

An old lady’s house is full of boxes filled with memories. Every Wednesday, along with her cockroach friends, she tells her granddaughter wonderful stories. But as the little girl grows bigger, they start running out of space inside the house.

Let Us In(en)

The tables are turned on two cult members when they choose the wrong house to break into.

Hurry Hurry Faster Faster(en)

Before the Blerta bus and Goodbye Pork Pie's yellow mini hit the road, some friends with more energy than cash dressed up as mad doctors and criminals, and began making films. This freeform short about running late is an early product of varied schemers who were key in the Kiwi film renaissance. Geoff Murphy plays the man in a hurry, and Bruno Lawrence is Dr Brunowski. Warning: final credits not to be trusted.

Speak in my Language(en)

A couple only communicates with each other through telepathy.

The Freak Barber(en)

A barber cuts heads off Negro and white customers, who then dismember him.

Inside/Out(en)

When a pick-up in a NYC bar results in date-rape the young man who has been victimized must decide if he's going to take the chance again.

Umění ohně(cs)

Fortel(cs)

Kiri and the Girl(en)

After the death of her mother, a young girl finds her strength and reconnects to her world.

El foro(es)

Arturo is packing up the set, when he finds a script lying on the floor with the secrets of cinematography.

Tiempo(es)

Christina wakes up in the middle of nowhere without remembering how she got there, but after a long walk she meets El Tiempo, a mysterious being who seems to know a lot about her and who, by giving her answers, will create greater questions about herself and about what she wants in life.

Myth(en)

Collaborating with Australian circus company Gravity & Other Myths, 2020 BAFTA Newcomer and Berlinale Talent Campus alumna Alies Sluiter crafts a disquieting, quasi-surrealist tale of bravery and grief.