The Silence of the Dying Fish

Spotless Dominoes(en)

A child, a cat, a starry night but, in this world of innocence, dream and magic, obscure forces of evil awaken. This animated short revolves around the adventures of a young, horned boy and a group of six devil-like vermin that can combine themselves to make one large creature.

Night 'n' Gales(en)

Because of a storm, the Gang has to stay overnight at Darla's house, and they drive her father crazy.

Rushin' Ballet(en)

While trying to track down Butch, Spanky and Alfalfa get caught up in a dance recital.

Three Smart Boys(en)

When they overhear Miss Witherspoon, the school superintendent, say that nothing short of an epidemic will allow the school to be closed for a week, the Our Gang conspire to fake illness.

Fishy Tales(en)

Alfalfa tries to back out of a fight by pretending to be incapacitated.

The Pigskin Palooka(en)

While Alfalfa was away at military school, his letters to his friends back home bragged about how he was a star football player. Now that he's back home, he has to prove it.

Framing Youth(en)

Alfalfa and Butch are competing in an amateur radio contest, and Butch tries to fix it so that he will win.

Glove Taps(en)

Butch challenges Alfalfa to a fight.

Hearts Are Thumps(en)

The gang promises to keep away from girls on St. Valentine's Day, but Alfalfa can't resist Darla.

Streamlined Greta Green(en)

In a world wherein cars act like humans, Junior wants to be a taxi, but his mother wants him to grow up to be a nice touring car like his father. Mom doesn't know that Junior sometimes skips school and ventures into the city to ride in traffic, drink hi-test gas, and race trains.

Rollo Aller! 2(de)

The sequel to Rollo Aller!

Glen(en)

Divorced, lonely and inept with the web, a 50-year-old man decides to try his hand at finding love online – with spectacularly catastrophic results.

Oldboy's Apples(en)

Join a demon, a puppy and a rat in this stop-motion headtrip about a mysterious, magically summoned apple tree. With its innovative, intricate character design and intoxicatingly evocative, genuinely strange world, Oldboy’s Apples makes for tactile, ritualistic viewing – a rabbit hole of idolatry and the id.

Reptile(en)

A group of schoolboys engage in tomfoolery, but it’s not long before playful behaviour turns primal.

Heartless(en)

A story about a bitter businessman's journey to find his long lost heart.

Reunion(en)

A TV decorator returns to his small Arizona town for his 20 year class reunion with his boyfriend in tow and discovers that his former classmates are not exactly as they seem.

Ben(en)

Ben has been training hard for a year in order to participate in an important competition.

Poison(fr)

Short black and white surrealist film from Man Ray starring himself and Meret Oppenheim.

Celeste and Moulee Till the End of the World(en)

"Celeste and Moulee Till The End of The World" is a comedic account of the survival of a woman and her rabbit in the aftermath of an apocalyptic catastrophe.

Egg(en)

A woman is locked in her home with an egg, which she is both attracted to and scared of. She eats the egg, she repents. She kills it. She lets the egg die of hunger. EGG is a poetic short film based on a small yet significant moment of the director’s own life. It portrays a moment of shame, defeat and yet of victory.

Film(en)

"This piece, with the generic title Film, is a series of short videos built around one protocol: a snippet of news from a newspaper of the day, is rolled up and then placed on a black-inked surface. On making contact with the liquid, the roll opens and of Its own accord frees itself of the gesture that fashioned it. As it comes alive in this way, the sliver of paper reveals Its hitherto unexposed content; this unpredictable kinematics is evidence of the constant impermanence of news. As well as exploring a certain archaeology of cinema, the mechanism references the passage of time: the ink, whether it is poured or printed, is the ink of ongoing human history." –Ismaïl Bahri

C(ms)

40 Days of Silence(uz)

This is a passage between two faces, each the same, yet different. Bibicha’s face first appears in the dark, her eyes open and expression impassive, only her heavy breathing betraying the strain she feels. She will withstand the strain and take the vow of silence, retreating to her grandmother’s house for the 40 days to pass. The house and the landscape outside at least offer Bibicha certain sensory distractions: the taste of honey, the texture of a wall, an eye-catching bedspread, the view out over a sea of cloud, water fizzling on the stove. But it is not just her under strain, as her aunt’s frantic text messaging, her grandmother’s rueful acknowledgement of the stories of marital strife on the radio and her little cousin’s illegitimate status bear witness to. Four generations of women in the complete absence of men, yet all marked by their presence, the similarity of their fates blurring together different times and customs.

Life and Death of Pushkin(xx)

The life and death of Alexander Pushkin is summarised in a 5-minute sequence of half-a-dozen scenes. The film's subtitles are in Russian.

Do Patti(hi)

Billed as a “thrilling suspense-filled ride,” the film is set in the hills of northern India.

Hantang(ko)

The Forgotten Front - La resistenza a Bologna(it)

In Bologna, Italy, the resistance movement fights Nazi-fascism between 1943 and 1945.

The Great Mr Handel(en)

This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah.

Pelikan Blue(hu)

Hungary, 1990s. Travel abroad is finally possible, but unaffordable. By forging international train tickets, three young people get to know the world.

If You Kill Call Me(en)

Refined, often millionaires, drug trafficker lawyers evolve within a territory where law, organized crime and corruption meet. They are smugglers, the visible actors of the collusion between criminal organizations and the legal, political and financial structures of countries crushed by narco-violence. This investigation penetrates into the depths of drug trafficking through a little-known angle, that of justice, and aims to deconstruct the preconceived idea of the drug trafficker as the sole responsible for violence. "If you kill, call me" debunks the myth of drug trafficking by penetrating, through drug trafficker lawyers, into the heart of the legal system to reveal its deep complicity with organized crime.

The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration(en)

Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a special retrospective documentary encompass this Fathom Event.

Sex Education Films(en)

A collection of sex education films from the 1950s and 1960s.

Osu(ja)

A man is sitting in a dark room, looking anxious, while his tomcat explains the man why he needs some privacy.

Gamers, Rise Up(en)

A deep dive into gaming culture through two not-so-reliable representatives of the community.

22:47 Line 34(de)

It's 10:47 pm on a bus somewhere in a city. A few teenagers are listening to music and talking loudly. The other passengers look languidly out the window or at their cell phones. A drunk man gets in and joins the teenagers; the mood starts to shift.

August Garden(en)

Scattered in seemingly random order, on the screen, we see the light that traverses the kinetic fields of Bill Brand’s latest film August Garden. Made for a group exhibition at Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre (Paris), the film accompanies a series of flower ink paintings, carefully made by the artist. Before, in the first seconds, we’re able to see an animation of August Garden 07 (ink and watercolor on xuan paper, 9″ x13″, 2019), which titillates lively for brief moments.