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Icebreaker(en)

Four strangers struggle to figure out why they matched on Icebreaker, a friend-finding app.

Thousand Year Sleep(en)

Samantha, Lydia, Isabella, and Lisa. These four young women are about to learn that humanity is just an irrelevant flame burning nowhere in the vastness of space. Their dreams will be shattered and one man will marvel at the evil he has committed.

The Kids Find Candy's Catching(en)

Animation featuring the characters Bud and Susie.

Waltz Me Around(en)

Snub, the delivery man, and his assistant, Sunny, are returning from a delivery when they almost run over a lost woman. After she asks for directions, they accompany the woman to a dance school, where Snub is mistaken for the new professor.

Sing Along(en)

A sheltered boy with a dream of starring on Broadway survives day-to-day life by imagining the world as a musical.

From Kuleshov to Berlanga(es)

Sheik to Sheik(en)

A radio salesman gets knocked out by a golf ball and dreams he's in the desert where he sells radios to sheiks.

Batman at the Checkpoint(ar)

An Israeli car and a Palestinian car are stuck in traffic in front of a barricade at the entrance of Jerusalem, coming from the Dead Sea. Yuval and Mahmoud, both seven years old boys, find its much more fun to pass the time playing with one another. But when Mahmoud's father tries to cut into the other's lane, Yuval's father bumps into his car in an attempt to prevent him, and things start to get complicated. What began as a game becomes an outright battle over a plastic Batman doll.

The Wages of Tin(en)

aka Billy, the Ford Buster

Jaret's 2022 Halloween Special(en)

In October of 2022, two student filmmakers and a viral YouTube and Tik Tok sensation disappeared in the woods near Harrisville RI. This footage was found at the scene.

Monster(en)

A comical short film about a family raising a spoilt daughter.

The Apple(en)

A man's repeated attempts to retrieve an apple off a high tree branch all prove fruitless. What does he want the apple for? That would be telling.

The Laughter Congress(fr)

Richie the Killer(en)

A young man hires a film crew to record him as he pursues his dream of becoming a serial killer.

The Courtship of the Newt(en)

Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.

Dark Magic(en)

A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.

An Evening Alone(en)

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

How to Sub-Let(en)

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

Opening Day(en)

The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.

The Day of Rest(en)

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.