The Buildout(2023)

All the Little Things We Kill(en)

A college professor takes her students hostage to force the passage of a bill that bans semi-automatic weapons.

way(en)

San Francisco filmmaker Konrad Steiner took 12 years to complete a montage cycle set to the late Leslie Scalapino’s most celebrated poem, way—a sprawling book-length odyssey of shardlike urban impressions, fraught with obliquely felt social and sexual tensions. Six stylistically distinctive films for each section of way, using sources ranging from Kodachrome footage of sun-kissed S.F. street scenes to internet clips of the Iraq war to a fragmented Fred Astaire dance number.

Young and Dangerous 4(cn)

The boss of the Hung Hing gang, Tian Sang, has died. Ho Nam and Hon Bun find Sangs younger brother, Yang to lead the gang. Meanwhile, Hon Bun receives news that his younger brother, a leader of the Tuen Mun gang has been assasinated. They travel to Hong Kong to settle the matter.

Six: Inside(en)

Delves deep into the anxiety, thrill and uncertainty of six aspiring animation artists as they are plunged into the twelve-week trial-by-fire that is the NFB's Hothouse for animation filmmakers.

Hello(en)

Hello explores changes in two people’s working lives: a Mexican trash picker who separates and collects recyclable materials from landfills to sell by the kilo, and a German freelance computer-animation designer working for the advertising industry in Berlin. The double interview is controlled and manipulated by a computer-generated severed hand which Maria describes as an object once discovered in the trash while working in the violent northern town of Mexicali. This CGI hand was in turn produced by Max, who was born with no arms, and sought refuge in computer-imaging as a means to operate and manipulate a digital reality.

Box(en)

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Rouge sang(fr)

Treacherous(en)

A former race car driver who has retired and is the owner of a Mexican resort hotel gets mixed up in a robbery involving $2 million by one of his former girl friends.

My Bearded Mother(sv)

It's a glowing late summer day. Karin and Mirjam are playing horse. Daddy stopped talking long ago. Mommy has a serious problem with body hair. Really serious. The Horse Man cometh, and things are about to change.

Surviving R. Kelly: The Impact(en)

A look at the aftermath and global impact of the docuseries `Surviving R. Kelly'

Let No Man Write My Epitaph(en)

Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.

HELLO(en)

Through a haze of smoke, coke, and booze; possible futures, pasts, and presents coalesce chaos inside the mind of a man drifting directionless through life. When your future calls, what will you have to say?

Munted(en)

Munted is an unusual, multi-award winning, short film about an accusation of pedophilia and its terrible consequences. Set in 1961 in a remote rural community, it tells the story of a ten-year old girl and her friendship with a brain damaged artist. Told through erosions between film and drawing the film is a lyrical and brutal account of the cost of rumour and prejudice.

Hello...(en)

A lonely man finds himself bedeviled by a malevolent force. But is it real or just all in his mind? (ALTER)

For Ireland's Sake(en)

Set in the late 1790s, a depiction of Irish villagers rebelling against British occupation (Red Coats) over the right to bear arms.

Citizen Weiner(en)

Zack Weiner is an actor residing in New York City. When the film industry shut down in 2020, Zack and his friend Joe embarked on a unique project: to make a film about running for city council, while actually running for city council.

Ceuta's Gate(ar)

Bab Sebta is built of a series of reconstructions of diverse situations observed in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in the North of Morocco. A place where manufactured goods are entering the state exempt of taxes, to be sold at a discount prices in the cities of northern Morocco. Every day, thousands of people engage in cross-border exchanges of all kinds, more or less legal. Based on situations witnessed while crossing the border, this experimental video reconstructs the mise-en-scène of this unique place, involving real smugglers and police reports on trafficking, tricks and occasional tragedies.

Army Pack Train Bringing Supplies(en)

A troop of soldiers on horseback enter San Francisco with relief supplies following the earthquake that year.

the coming of baphomet(en)

A guy comes home from college. Then the end begins.

Bagdad Cafe(de)

A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic sparks between the two women, this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving and popular oasis.

Selva Oscura(en)

A woman finds a corpse along a familiar path. She begins to investigate and soon becomes wrapped up in a mystery.

Salsiccia(en)

In a reimagined industrialized post-WWII Italy, a middle-aged man named Dante is met with an ill fate once he discovers a curious egg in the forest. By taking it home with him, he unwillingly unleashes terrors beyond human imagination and understanding.

A Visual Poem(xx)

Surreal environments take center stage in this visual odyssey.

Voidcaller(en)

Several people with amnesia realize they may have been involved in something sinister on a cosmic scale.

SKY//BLUE(en)

Two activist friends investigate into strange occurrences after they witness a man lose his mind in a bar. While they dig deeper into who the man was, sinister forces converge to control the situation.

Curse of the Re-Animator(en)

Herbert West is totally out of control on campus, sticking his glowing green reagent into every corpse he can find!

LISTEN(en)

A young woman begins to uncover the mystery of a cassette tape left by her estranged father, causing her to question the sanity of her father and face the dark forces that lie outside our world.

this is not the end(pt)

Two related police officers step into a forest region searching for missing people after a mysterious accident. Thereafter realizing they are lost and seemingly walking in circles, astonishing phenomenons and unexpected encounters take place.

The Resonator: Miskatonic U(en)

Visionary Miskatonic University student Crawford Tillinghast follows in his late father's footsteps and becomes obsessed with completing work on the Resonator, an inter-dimensional device that opens doorways to other worlds.

The Five Fingers of a Dog(en)

In this gothic neo-giallo: A depraved killer, a deadly cycle, a possessed detective, and a perverse world merge to form the most disreputable piece of horror.

Shutdown(en)

An office worker gets terrorized by an unknown force through an error on his computer.

Aeterna(en)

Aeterna is a movement-based film that explores the feeling of personal insignificance when confronted with the complexity of human existence. By combining choreography and cinematography, the film plays with distorting the human form, offering a visual representation of our place in the world.

The Breach(en)

John Hawkins is set to retire from his post as police chief of the small town of Lone Crow, that is tucked away in the deep woods of northern Ontario. But following the discovery of a gruesome body with uncanny injuries, he’s pulled into an investigation to solve the horrifying mystery, which evades explanation.

O Breu(pt)

Flash(es)

Arturo, a retired photographer, sees on TV that the building where his love of youth died will be demolished. Arturo is determined to find answers to the sudden death of Daniela, he will embark on a journey where he will relive the last moments he spent with her and discover the mysteries behind her death.

Dagon(en)

Based on H.P Lovecraft's Dagon, a man makes a twisted discovery, leading to an event that leave him marked.

Galaxy of Horrors(en)

Trapped in a damaged cryogenic pod, a man is forced to watch a series of horrific science-fiction tales while his life support systems run out. Featuring eight intense stories of the unknown and other-worldly, equally wonderful and terrifying. Visit the GALAXY OF HORRORS, if you dare! Curated from Rue Morgue & Unstable Ground's Little Terrors Festival.

Children of the Pines(en)

Riley, a junior in college, is persuaded by her estranged parents to visit during winter break, only to find they have taken up a supernatural practice in order to fix the deep-rooted issues plaguing their family.