Vampire of the Desert

Animal Farm(en)

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.

Les 14 définitions de la pluie(fr)

Skate and Die(en)

Elisabeth is a shy little girl, new to the school. Soon she encounters Hildegunn, the toughest girl in the local gang. When Elisabeth arrives at the skateboard park wearing roller skates the gang mock her leaving Elisabeth feeling isolated and humiliated. Should Elisabeth try to be tough, or will she find the confidence to be the person she really is?

The Playground(en)

A fable of five vastly separate inner-city lives who struggle against their limitations in an interlocking tale assembled by a dark orchestrator.

Stranger(no)

An old farmer struggles to take care of his rundown farm alone, when a stranger appears and uninvited begins to help him.

The Red Hood(en)

A dark re-telling of the classic fable 'Little Red Riding Hood' set in the Canadian prairies during the Great Depression.

Bear(sv)

A young inexperienced man rekindles his emotional and intimate relationship with his only love–his charming, and talking, childhood teddy bear.

Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev(hy)

Yasha recently retired after serving many years at a factory, with a highlight of his career being a delegate of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1976. Yet his future is left unknown when he emerges in new realities that he finds difficult to accept. The world has changed after the collapse of the Soviet Union, yet he tries to hold on to what once was. Thus enters former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Appearing like Yasha’s alter ego, he guides Yasha, giving amusing commentary and voicing what Yasha should say or do. Brezhnev’s presence gives way for more historical leaders that Yasha idolises to arrive. Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Josip Broz Tito and Erich Honecker, and even the African dictator Jean Bedel-Bokassa all make an appearance! When Yasha takes an oath of loyalty to them, this creates trouble for his family.

Park City(en)

A celebrity petroleum engineer discovers a rundown property in Park City.

Seven Angels(en)

An invitation to enter the soul of an artist - director Erick Ifergan - through a highly personal retelling of the Orpheus tale suffused with Ifergan's striking paintings, sculpture and conceptual photography.

Susanna's Financial Mistakes(en)

Susanna is the CCP Secretary when Xi Jinping asks Susanna to send some financial aid. But she messes up and makes a VERY BAD MISTAKE! (That is financially related)

Two(xx)

This short film shows an encounter, through a series of games, between a street child from the shantytowns and a child of a rich family, stationed at his window. The film has no dialogue and the action moves through the attempts at one-upmanship evident in their successive display of their toys. Their rivalry (a kite shot down by a toy rifle, for example) concludes with the opposition between the world of noise (the toys inside the house) and that of music (the street child's flute). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.

Mr. Deeds(en)

When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds.

Lucy's Revenge(fr)

After Polish-born writer-director Janusz Mrozowski, a French resident for the past 30 years, made a series of 30-minute films based on African writings, he was approached by Africans to do a cinematic survey of past events in African history. Filming in Burkina Faso, Mrozowski responded with this comedy about a dictator kidnapped from the present-day and taken back through the mists of time. There he meets the mother of humanity, Lucy, who teaches him the basics of sexual equality. By the time he returns to the present, he's also received an education in 16th-century slave-trading and European influences on Africa.

The Little Fox(hu)

A tale about a little fox Vuk from the novel of the famous Hungarian writer István Fekete.

Reineke Fuchs(de)

The Cock Crows at Midnight(zh)

Chinese puppet fable.

Delilah(en)

An evil omnipotent Queen. 3 spies determined to topple her regime. A magical wig that holds a secret source of power. Will the Queen meet her final hour? A surrealist and sexy queer espionage film that reimagines the Biblical Samson and Delilah fable.

Stepan's Remembrance(ru)

The heiress of a gem mage travels to St. Petersburg to fulfill her father's dream and her destiny.

Banyan Deer(en)

First Indian animated film in color, based on a tale from the Buddhist Jatakas.