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Woman Who Stole Fingers(xx)

One day, a boy who separated from his mother’s hand is deprived of his fingers. His fingers become a larva and part from his hand. The house. . . conceal[s] a relationship between the two from anyone. How does the boy who is deprived of his fingers grow up?

Tip Tap Toe(en)

Hal and Mitzi have known each other since they were babies. Tap dancer Hal now works as a window dresser in Blake's Department Store, owned by Mitzi's dad. Mr. Blake hates jazz music and dancing. He refuses to let Mitzi marry Hal, because Hal's ambition is to be a dancer on stage. When Mitzi reveals a secret about Mrs. Blake's past, her father soon changes his tune.

El Cuco Is Hungry(en)

A babysitter fulfills a request on short notice and finds herself in a strange house with a young boy all alone.

Broccoli(de)

L'Apparition(fr)

A man's bathroom routine triggers a miraculous vision in a nearby church.

Close Your Eyes(en)

A young man tries to sleep as a mysterious voice wants to be let in.

A Short Circuit(en)

Silent cartoon.

REALity(en)

We are surrounded by many things we can not explain. Things that makes us questioning our reality. Like in this short film where a guy meets up a girl at night.

Cassandra(en)

Do you remember? Last summer, Illinois was confronting a series of bizarre murders. At each crime scene, police found a sketch of a house which turned out to be the location of the next murder. But detectives couldn't identify the houses in time, and the murders continued, becoming more violent until someone recognizes the latest sketch as the old Wilson farm up in Monroe. As we open, a policewoman named Crawley is being interviewed by an unseen authority figure. She tries to remember what exactly happened at the Wilson farm. She explains she was patrolling in the area and went there quickly, intending to find out what the owner knew and get him out. Instead. . . what happened was. . . if only she could remember. . .

Antoine and Colette(fr)

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

Flail(en)

It's her boss's birthday, and Allie is trying as hard as she can.

James(en)

James is about a 12-year-old boy growing up with a disability and the fantasy world he creates around it to face his tormentors at school and heal his fractured family.

Curtain Razor(en)

Porky, a talent scout for "Goode and Korney Talent Agency," auditions various acts. A final gag has a wolf performing this "stupendous act" where he wears a devil hat, cape and the like, drinks nitroglycerin, gasoline and other explosive stuff, then swallows a match. KABOOM! Porky thinks that the act is really good until the wolf's ghost comes in and says that there's a catch... "I can only do it once!"(Source: bcdb.com)

Decorosa(es)

Decorosa keeps a skeleton costume in her bedroom closet, between her nightgowns. It is what love has.

Enter the Freeman(pl)

Broken Allegiance(en)

Two Sith apprentices, Ruan and Calis, escape the Empire by fleeing the planet Coruscant in a stolen transport. They must fight for their freedom when Darth Vader sends a vicious bounty hunter, Korbain Thor, to track them down.

Inertia(en)

When five prisoners are locked in a room, and are unable to communicate as none of them speak the same language, the situation is intensified when the haunting stone altar in the centre of the room demands a sacrifice. However, once one is selected and disposed of, this occupant is replaced, and in time a new choice of sacrifice must be made. In a dog-eat-dog environment, where might equals right and disunity abounds, can any of the room's occupants find a way to salvation?

Female Harakiri: Glorious Death(ja)

Part of the Zankoku-bi: Onna harakiri 01 series.

Einige Minuten Außenpolitik(de)

Short film about foreign affairs

Black Savior(de)

A cinematic inversion of global power relations, 'Black Savior' parodies the idiosyncrasies of the white savior syndrome, through the story of the Agyeman family from Akanman, who travel to the heart of the cold continent with a goat to save the Swabian tribe.