Dysfunctional siblings reunite to witness the cremation of their mother. Back under one roof for the holidays, all decency is lost when a feud over her ashes tests the boundaries of family and a Christmas Eve tradition becomes difficult to digest.

After a long time apart, local deadbeat John must take care of reserved schoolboy Jack over a weekend in an insular working-class outpost of Western Sydney. However, Jack’s attempt to re-establish their relationship is threatened as John's self-destructive nature emerges.

Mate is an uncompromising examination of masculinity, maturity, and the challenges of growth within a changing social landscape. Featuring starmaking performances from Joshua Brennan and Jeremy Blewitt.

Winner: International Grand Prix - Clermont-Ferrand 2022
Winner: Best Director - George-Alex Nagle - Sapporo Short Fest 2022
Winner: Best Actor - Joshua Brennan - Sapporo Short Fest 2022
Winner: Best Foreign Short - Boston Film Festival 2022
Winner: Cinematic Achievement Award - Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival 2022
Winner: Prix du Meilleur Court-Métrage (Best Short Film) - Rabat International Author Film Festival
Winner: Best Actor - Joshua Brennan - UK Film Festival

When mother had some problems and left home, Seonwoo comes back home to take care of his father. Father asks Seonwoo three favors during his stay.

At the height of the Prohibition, an unorthodox detective takes the mafia head-on.

Friedrich Nietzsche’s Zarathustra returns in the shape of a female travelling teacher seeking shelter at the country house of a well-to-do family. But philosophical thought and petit-bourgeois mentality prove to be an explosive mix…

“Saigon Souls” captures a state of mind. You are Saigon-ese if you think that you are, whether you just arrived, just returned or have been living here your whole life.

The art film is a journey into finding the soulfulness of its makers - the Saigon people and the landscape that constantly reinventing itself.

This piece comes straight from the hearts and visions of two Saigonese, Vicki was born here and Robin has been living in Saigon for over 5 years. They experience the ups and downs, the opportunities, and flourishing spirits of this city like no other. To them, Saigon is not like Paris, Tokyo, or Shanghai. The city is always in-the-making, rough, and chaotic, literally in the physical sense. As you take a ride through the city, there are high-rise buildings and independent shops in between marshlands and public constructions. However, the city’s unchanged element is the people in it. Hence, we want to make Saigon Souls a platform to celebrate the local talents, artists, musicians, craft makers, designers, and many more individuals… etc that make the city unique. Without any stylistic set designs, and meticulous art direction, Saigon Souls wants to capture the rawness and unapologetic, relentless spirit that people in Saigon have.

A narrative music video for the band American Football.

Two brothers struggle to deal with the loss of their mother. The elder brother tries to cheer up his younger brother by taking him on a journey to an imaginary world. In the process, they find more than just a distraction from their grief.

Every Halloween, Death visits earth to resurrect good people. Noticing Mr. Edward’s unfulfilled last wish, Death decides to grant him a chance. After Edward is resurrected, will he be able to accomplish his last wish?

What is the human experience of war, narcissism and ecological destruction? Demi-Gods addresses these three dark aspects of humanity in the form of a musical and visual essay. It shows our worship of these dark forces, which have now become normalized and fetishized. A furtive look from us mortals at the mechanics of the dark demi-gods of our time; turned into a surreal sequence of sonic and visual transformations.

Aram Amatuni is a retired special forces spy who has devoted his entire life to serving and protecting his country and to creating a lawful government. His son, Gnel, is a successful businessman who to this day hasn’t forgiven his father for putting the needs of his country before the needs of his own family. This conflict between father and son reaches its climax when Amatuni’s grandson, a talented violinist who has the opportunity to study in one of the best European music academies, inspired by his grandfather’s ideology goes against his own father’s wishes and enlists in the mandatory military service from which his father has freed him using all of his connections.
The unexpected war further severs the father-son relationship, leading Amatuni to take a road of no return.

Uíge, Angola. Inside a Portuguese catholic seminar, different forms of silence are experienced. A place inhabited by multiple sonorities and images that wander from nature and meditation to colonial impressions.

A man attempts to come to terms with a traumatic event in his childhood.

This is an intimate portrait of a craftsman and lobster fisherman. Michael Sullivan is a 5th-generation fisherman living on Quebec's Gaspé coast in Canada. He has tasked himself to build 200 wooden traps during the cold, dark winter months. When Michael is not fishing lobster, he is thinking about how to fish lobster.

Pious girl Paraskeva, leaves her life in city of Constantinopole and after pilgrimage to Jerusalem, spends next 40 years in Jordan desert, fighting sins, temptations and inner demons. We follow her path from an ordinary girl to one of the most beloved female Saints in Christianity that is celebrate today.

Beside lead story, we see relations between christians and muslims in 10th century. Side story shows us how two women (beduin arab girl Zaineb and Paraskeva) from different cultural, social and religious backgrounds share same human emotions, values, love and friendship with their pure hearts. Zaineb is her only friend during time in desert, also her mirror and reflection of the outside world.

It is a story about how people can overcome own weaknesses. Topics of film are universal moral questions of mankind, and that makes it relevant today anywhere in the world.

A rabbit's friends take her on a meat-bender to celebrate her vegan-anniversary. They hitch a ride to town and indulge in all kinds of foods she avoids all year long. The evening has its ups and downs. Her friends reward her with a soy-based breakfast in the morning.

A college freshman drives seven hours to visit his girlfriend at another school, only to be broken up with as soon as he arrives. Unsure what to do next, he spends the rest of the night getting roped into various unexpected situations by a wide array of eccentric characters.

A feature-length film about the life, work, influence and impact of California-based choreographer/Arts Activist Bella Lewitzky. Described as "...one of the greatest American dancers of our age," (Walter Terry) Bella Lewitzky was a talented, strong, out-spoken artist, who dedicated her creative life to protect the rights of every American citizen.

No city was hit harder by the foreclosure crisis than greater Cleveland. Between the years 2000 and 2006 Cleveland lead the country in foreclosures. There were people there who saw the disaster coming, who warned the Fed, state government, and others about what was coming. They were ignored. 10 years after this man-made tsunami devastated the area, we look back at what happened, currently at what’s being done to remedy the problem, and forward to see where the city is headed. And we ask the unsettling question, could it all happen again?

Daymara Baker walks away from a senior position at a multinational brand to bake bread and change the world of the neurodiverse. Rockin’ Baker Academy is a workforce development program that provides cadet bakers with intellectual disabilities a comprehensive set of marketable skills that translate easily to the culinary industry and many other jobs. Rockin’ Baker and Rockin’ Baker Academy were created by founder/CEO and chief foodie Daymara Baker for the purpose of empowering lives. Kneading together a fun community of changemakers, immersive entrepreneurial education, on-the-job skills training and some wit to taste, Rockin’ Baker is intent on breaking the cycle of poverty for families. Rockin’ Baker sells European-inspired baked goods, all lovingly created by underserved yet deserving people on the path to self-sufficiency.

August 2020. The lives of three people intersect in the post-Covid19 lockdown Ibiza where they will try to overcome their personal tragedies, rediscover themselves and move on.

A shy little boy stumbles on a magical toy horse that transports him back in time to the Old West where he has to become the hero he’s always wanted to be, or else risk not making it back home in time for dinner.

Nauf, a mother of triplets (two boys and one girl) born prematurely on the 26th week, lived a bitter and challenging experience for 12 weeks in the hospital with her premature babies. She overcame all health, psychological, and social obstacles. Today, two years later, she has become a role model and is an activist on social media conveying her experience to other mothers. This short documentary takes a deep look into her journey and how she dealt with these obstacles in hopes that her experience will help other mothers going through the same challenges.

"Anany" is a music video that displays certain phases after realizing you are your own victim and killer, by giving away too much for others that take advantage of you. Through a self leather dance by the hero and the voice, a silenced story is told.

Abby is physically trapped inside of a body that does not function due to Cerebral palsy. She cannot speak and her body does not move the way it should move. Abby has a profound love for all animals. She trains and communicates with dogs without speaking. The animals understand Abby better than people can.

A robot student starts his school life in the robot school to learn the skills of a robot assistant. He feels inferior to his classmates at the beginning because he looks different from them and fails to do well in class. He tries to blend in and learn to do better but finally realizes that his talents are not those repetitive movements but the comprehension of knowledge and emotions.

"Of Wood" is a unique experimental stop motion film created by progressively carving images in a large round of wood, enhanced with wooden objects coming out of the wood. It examines the role of wood in daily life through the ages and comments on the impact of consumerism on our lives.

A theater actor with crippling body image insecurities must face his greatest fears when he is asked to perform nude on stage in his dream role.

I began making Healing was the time when the pandemic was very serious， it effected my from both physics and mental. So, the motif of the video is I want to make a story about healing. The healing what I want to show is not very direct or on the surface, it’s should be from the root, or from our subconscious. The world consists of elements, I tried to start with elements, doing an inner therapy.

This film is a music video for composer E's song "Quiet chatter", and is a stop-motion animation work created by visual artist Yuko Knatani expressed static foods such as vegetables and fruits graphically.
These vegetables and fruits looks like playing happily or chatting about something important.

SHADOW OF THE NIGHT
The Documentary
SYNOPSIS

‘Iravin Nizhal Making’ is a documentary style film, giving a front seat view of the struggles and challenges behind creating the World’s First Non-Linear Single Shot Film Iravin Nizhal. With voiceovers by its writer, director, producer and lead actor Radhakrishnan Parthiban, the film has behind the scenes footage, footage from the actual film and interviews of its cast and crew.
This path breaking effort was filmed through an enormous set consisting of 59 set-ups, with over 300 actors including children and animals, 150 technicians, numerous costumes and make up changes, 50 years of time periods, special effects like rain and fire, all beautifully choreographed into a single shot and achieved after a whopping 90 days of rehearsals.
Despite numerous rehearsals, numerous surprises and challenges propped up for the crew that they had to overcome with improvisation and creativity. The documentary follows the crew’s emotional experience of pulling off all-consuming feat and take number 23 is the final film, a ‘never before’ experience.

After their flight is grounded, two strangers agree to an anonymous tryst as their new travel plans are arranged. When the brief encounter wanes to an end, the impermanence of their time together is mirrored by something greater.

A father and son go into the woods to hunt, the father is burdened by his internal demons. Thy kingdom come, THY WILL BE DONE.

A personal history of a 95-year-old man, told through the object in his house and explored by his great grandson.

A small-town nobody, Felicity Fury, spends every day making the most of her alternative life in virtual reality completing simple objectives in the great city of Sunscape! One day she comes out of the game to find her dirtbag boyfriend Logan has used the last of the cartridges, which use a concentrated dose of dopamine to keep players happy and hooked on the game. She gathers what little money she has to go acquire a new cartridge but she’s been plugged in too long; not only have they been recently declared illegal unbeknownst to her but she is beginning to dissociate. In other words, her reality is glitching. What is real and what is not? As she chases down a cartridge she discovers that happiness is not a product she can easily purchase. Rather, happiness is a product of the mind.

A stunning visual exploration of matter in various states of microbial transformation begs fundamental questions about human cultures’ complicated relationships with other species.

Wrought begins with that universal moment of disappointment: despite all best efforts, our food has gone bad! But instead of turning away in disgust, Wrought zooms in, approaching the usually hidden world of decay with curiosity and stunning time lapse photography. Spoiling dinner leftovers bloom with successions of geometric bacterial colonies. Yeasts churn and froth in the torrential flood of juice leaking from a decaying melon. Cheese is slowly engulfed by carpets of furry, green mould. But, the narrator asks, would rot by any other name still reek?

In answering this question, Wrought unfolds a larger story about the ways humans create categories for the world around us that can be limiting. It explores (and challenges) terms like spoil, ferment, compost and rot as it coaxes audiences to decompose these categories and their associated binaries: self and other, human and non-human, and nature and culture. As the film title implies, we are all forged out of the relationships that transgress such binaries; we are all, indeed, wrought.

An uplifting story of how one puppy overcomes a series of obstacles to find his purpose in life.

Hear what it hears, and see what it sees. But seeing is not necessarily true, hearing is even more false. However, all things are empty. Heaven and earth grow out of the universe, and life is between heaven and earth. No matter the spirit or the soul, a person is just a breath that travels around the world. Take the body as the world, and live life after life.

The setting of this story is early modern Ireland. Many battles broke out. The bard harper plays harp with recalling his memories. His mind is stuck in the past without noticing the truth.


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The setting of this story is early modern Ireland. Many battles broke out.
The lonely bard harper was stuck in the past memories and kept playing the harp to calm himself. He kept following his sorrow for having lost his lover in the war and couldn't be happy.
The beautiful butterfly flying around him was out of his sight. When he saw his lost lover's illusion, and it disappeared, his emotion exploded with anger for her death in the ridiculous war.
After he blasted out all his emotions, he got some space in his mind. His mind was back to the present and noticed there was a butterfly flying around him.
He received telepathy from the butterfly that the butterfly was his lost lover, their beautiful memories were still alive in her, she didn't vanish but became phantasmagoric,
and see and support him from everywhere. When he knew the truth, his emotional scars were healed and he was released from the past and decided to live brightly for the future.

This film embraces plant sentience as fact and speculates how beings of the vegetal variety might approach interspecies communication with humans (who are far more sensorially limited). Leaves, mycelium, and roots playfully examine how humans experience the world, and the (supposedly) silent watchers consider what language those swift blurs of human might possibly understand.

"i'm a dog,who lives in the park under a bridge.awooooooooo~"

On National Day, a woman neglected for too long by those around her decides to desperately draw attention to herself.

Friendship is the story of two childhood friends who bond together despite their different personalities and ethnicities. The short film spans their lifelong journey and portrays how they sustain their connection through challenges, celebrations, and the test of time.

It uses symbolism to compare a closed system to a bus, and depicts a society in alienation and surveillance from a microscopic perspective.
A fluoroscopy bus carries the crowd from the center to the edge of the city. In the fixed and crowded carriage, some people just boarding the bus collide with each other, and some people are taking a nap at the seat.

A zany character has his first day operating a mobile crematory service.

A young college student still lives at home with her parents in Oceanside, California. In love with her best friend who has just married another woman, she becomes confounded by faith and ultimately must risk telling her parents who she really is in order to save herself.

Throughout Italy, dogs are abandoned casually. In rural Sicily, one man saves the dogs he can, especially those being poisoned.

"The Tree" draws attention toward environmental concerns, such as deforestation and its effects on wildlife and our ecosystem. The film has won the "Best Experimental Short Film Award" at the 2022 North Dakota Environmental Rights Film Festival.

Suddenly was a film born from one simple phrase - life flashes before your eyes. The film is a metaphor for this statement. You not only get to go on a journey with the main character, but you get moments to breathe and exist inside 2D art. Which is as magical as life itself.

What is it like to live on the longest block of one of the most progressive cities in America? Inventively funny, absurd and surprising, this mixed media film redefines what it means to coexist with others in a perpetually changing neighborhood.

Joseph Lifchitz, once the most promising young American jazz trumpeter, now lives his last days alone and forgotten in his room in the middle of Paris. Torn apart by the loss of the love of his life, a pianist, he wants to compose one last music piece in her memory; but he does not have much time, and grief and illness prevent him from finishing. Until one night, when a piano starts playing over Paris. Joseph starts a race between music and time, to finally finish the work of a lifetime.

Drug dealer Guo-hao hopes to make enough money so that he and his girlfriend can leave their life of crime behind. One day, he is contacted by Michael, a drug broker with an offer to buy a batch of rare cocaine.

Guo-hao teams up with long-time buddy Da-wei to borrow money from local crime boss Uncle Ma to complete this deal.

On the day of the exchange, however, Michael is found dead and the drugs are already gone. The owner of the cocaine threatens to kill Guo-hao if he fails to come up with the drugs or money. At the same time, Uncle Ma dispatches his henchmen to recover the loan.

In the middle of the night, Guo-hao receives a phone call from a mysterious man claiming to be in possession of the lost cocaine, telling Guo-hao he has a new deal for him…

< Distance > portrays our shared memories - social distancing. It reveals what medical staff undertook during the early Covid-19 time, and how they sacrificed their family time for a better world.

The Secret Song chronicles the final months of Doug Goodkin’s fabled 45-year career teaching music to children in San Francisco. Goodkin’s time-tested methods are thrown into disarray as the pandemic forces schools into “distance” learning, and a music program that always prioritized singing and learning “through the ear, not through the eye” has to adapt to an online format. The film shows the dynamism and adaptability that all teachers find and bring forth in the classroom, and how a sense of belonging helps us surmount hardships and adversity.

Follow Honduran immigrant Miriam Vargas' quest to avoid deportation from Columbus, Ohio. Ordered by ICE to leave the US after 14 years of residency, and the birth of two daughters, Miriam took sanctuary in a church for nearly three years. Learn about the horrid and dangerous conditions in gang-controlled Honduras neighborhoods, convoluted and xenophobic immigration policies, and her treacherous but increasingly hopeful path to liberty.

A late couple’s photo is installed on a wall. The Old Lady comes to life and notices her husband in the photo next to hers. They, now both alive, try to get closer. Accidentally, they manage to do so.

A short film about a girl and her dog taking a walk downstairs in the middle of the night. In the silence of the sleeping city, their memories and imagination flew.

Las Abogadas follows four immigration attorneys over a multi-year odyssey beginning in 2018 as the U.S. government under President Trump upends every law to protect those fleeing from violence and war – and into 2021 when things fail to get better (and in some ways get worse) under President Biden. We watch the valiant efforts of our protagonists: Rebecca Eichler setting up a legal clinic in a Volkswagen van in the middle of 5,000 desperate migrants; Charlene D’Cruz forcing border guards to follow the law and accept three disabled children into U.S. custody; Mulu Alemayehu crossing the border to counsel African migrants stuck in Tijuana; Jodi Goodwin giving legal advice in the brutally hot Mexican sun to families desperate to see American soil. We watch our subjects’ arduous journeys to try and overcome a broken system, and we follow the stories of the migrants who they work frantically to try and help.

The story centers around temple youth Wei, who discovers the benefits of being a holdout when his grandfather urgently needs money for surgery. In order to get more money out of property developers, Wei teams up with Rainy, a girl opposed to community reconstruction, to apply for historical landmark status for the temple his grandfather left him.

Set in the Philippines during World War II, a young woman struggles to find purpose after losing her father.

Synopsis:The short film depicts a protagonist who is full of "hallucinations",these hallucinations gradually and orderly reflect his "beastly nature" at different time points or events...
Introduction:The title of this film is "牠<ta>", which is mainly used as a pronoun for animals in China, chose the word "牠" as the title of this film would be an apt description of the various animal forms that appear in the film.Visual design of film is mainly in simple black and white line art with partial color embellishment, there are no ups and downs in the plotting, which tells the most ordinary daily journey of ordinary people.Mainly through the image changes of people and animals, as the interesting and curiosity of the film, presents a scene of relationship between people, people and groups, and people themselves, focusing on people's identity, stratum, real self, etc