The Short Films of David Lynch

Happy Birthday(et)

"Happy Birthday" is an outlook vision about the duel between the bible hero Jesus and a man-made robot. Does the robot manage to break the formed dogmas and convert the religion into his favour or will the status quo remain firm?

Ambula(en)

A story about a young man who has an argument with his friend so chooses to take a walk to clear his deteriorating mind.

Les frères Hélias(fr)

Nico and Raphael stole a towel from Victoire, a girl who was swimming naked in a lake.

Underwater(es)

After 8 years together, a gay couple is confronted with the fact that they don't know how to keep on going. What is love? What is keeping them together? Is it better to drown or to die of thirst?

Out of Earth(es)

An incestuous relationship between to siblings after their mother's death, leads one of the characters to feel haunted by guilt. They try to forget their blood ties but they only become more evident and hard to manage.

JAM(en)

In 1999, a young girl explores the challenges of adulthood whilst desperately clutching onto her childhood.

Avós(pt)

Leo celebrates his tenth birthday. From one grandmother, he receives socks, from the other, underwear. From his Grandfather, Leo gets an old Super-8 camera and with it he tells us of his attempts to change the gifts. While doing that, he finds out that Monica Lewinsky is Jewish, that Clinton is the president of America, that the numbers in his grandparents arms are responsible for him being chubby and that this old camera is worthless.

Barking Island(fr)

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, 1910. There are too many stray dogs on the streets, so the government decides to deport thousands of them on a desert island, off the coast of the city.

Sprinters(en)

A visually striking and meditative study of a team of athletes, including British Olympic finalists Jeanette Kwakye and Sarah Claxton, filmed over the two months leading to the start of the 2007 outdoor season. Sprinters is an intimate and arresting portrayal of the frequently brutal world of top level athletics, revealing the mental and physical barriers confronted by the runners as they pursue their dreams, and a world in which agony, ecstasy, winning and losing are separated by a hundredth of a second.

Girls of Fire(fr)

A suburb housing. Two girls on the phone are looking for each other but never succeed to meet. One of them vanishes.

Donner la parole(fr)

Documentary Short

Galerianki(pl)

Short film that was later expanded into a feature film with the same name.

Andenken an einen Engel(de)

A woman travels to Italy and tries to make a decision.

Er(de)

Far Away(es)

A landscape is only a landscape until we know what lies beneath. Pozo Ibarra, in the Central Mountains of León, is a mining complex full of significant architectural attributes, and also the imposing and ruinous remnant of a painful past that passed the ideas of freedom, literally, through the stone, turned into a great mass grave. Now, when the sun goes down, the souls that inhabit it rise up, refusing to forget.

Hure(de)

A night in the cold trade of prostitution. Blue goes out on the streets. His "working day" begins at eleven o'clock at night and ends at dawn. Then, when he has converted the money he has quickly earned back into drugs, escaped the cheated dealer and answered his pimp's questions, when he has been left alone once again with the futile hope that "someone will get him out".

Who?(hi)

Suggestions of ancient and modern myths and folklore coalesce in dreams to bring alive a colourful animated world.

Hearts Recollection - Short Film(en)

A Short Film About Holding Onto The Past

Someone's Trying to Get in(fr)

A Haitian asylum seeker flees an immigration camp, unknowingly approaching a house owned by a paranoid blue-collar worker.

A Black Morning(en)

A man wakes up one day to find things are not as they should be.