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A case of mistaken identity leads to a heated confrontation between a young Black man and two law enforcement officers.
After ending a very close relationship, Manuel falls into melancholy and begins to rethink his way of loving. Within his thoughts are the social problems that surround him. He realizes that with these comes a rethinking of what love is. An idea that we have been carrying for a long time: the idea that to love is to possess.
As the gravedigger prepares for the next funeral, each time he digs a hole he wonders about his own death.
A lonely cult-member tries to recruit an old friend - a nihilistic drifter from her childhood church. But it becomes unclear if she’s trying to save his soul, or if she herself wishes to be saved.
Two adventurous 11 year old best friends play around, explore forests and rivers, run, swim and play pranks on a local girl.
12 year old James is now caught between wanting to continue being the adventurous boy he was a year ago, however someone now is more of a mystery for him. Now he wants to spend less time with his best friend and starts spying on the girl that he once called names. He makes excuses not to go with his friend and instead takes peeps at the girl wondering why she does things. James is starting to get a crush on the girl.
At the age of 13, James now disagrees with his best friend and defends the girl against him. He fell in love with her and wants to spend all his time with her. James takes her to the river where he and his friend used to hang out. James is now a teenager and the girl is his whole life.
Father Adam, the local priest, has his world turned upside down when he encounters an evil seductress who intends on manipulating him for nefarious and otherworldly purposes. The sultry Eve has been set out on a mission by an unknown supernatural force and will succeed by any means necessary.
A short animation by Makoto Shinkai in Lightwave 3D. Inspired by Haruki Murakami's book "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" with music by Tenmon.
A first-generation American high school student describes what she and her mom learn about people when cleaning their homes.
After selling his fishing boat, a young single father retreats to his sister's house in an attempt to escape the trauma of his past once and for all.
José, a homeless person who collects garbage, discovers the value of the family tradition of putting together the Christmas tree.
A Young Writer gets caught up in his thoughts, losing track of time and opportunity.
Lok Chen, a primary school student, was sent by her father to a school that champion perfection. Anything that is less is intolerable. With a grading scheme of either a full 100 or 0, those who fail to perform to perfection will be modified for improvements. Soon, Lok Chen discovers that the system itself is flawed with dystopic intent. Whether she will survive the system now becomes the question.
After the Trento bombing in Italy 1943, the CG animated short film is the story is of a little girl named Mila. It focuses on the collateral damage affecting the civilian population, and especially the children.
Jeong-ah and Sol are the members of the broadcasting department at highschool. But there are rumors that there are lesbians at school. Jeong-ah who is a lesbian gets scared because of the sight of the uneasy society.
Requiem is set in 1605, against the backdrop of the witch trials. It's a coming of age story, following Evelyn as she engages in a game of cat and mouse against her father, Minister Gilbert, in order to be with Mary, the woman she loves.
Having slept together for the first time, two teenage boys must make sense of their evolving relationship.
A week after the events of the first film, a new girl arrives. She appears kind but this soon proves to be a form of persuasion on her part.
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
Two large, ignorant bullies ruthlessly pursue a small, brilliant boy in this young adult Roald Dahl short story.
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
A retired boxer intends to return to the ring for one last shot at the title, but first he must make the weight. Holed up in a room in Las Vegas with an unscrupulous trainer, he embarks on an intensive and illegal weight-cutting program.
Bruce Conner's landmark experimental film consisting entirely of found footage edited to a new score.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
An animated short based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale about a poor young girl with a burning desire to find comfort and happiness in her life. Desperate to keep warm, the girl lights the matches she sells, and envisions a very different life for herself in the fiery flames filled with images of loving relatives, bountiful food, and a place to call home.
Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter pushes for his parents to get a divorce.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes are.
Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy food. One day her old flame drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared that he doesn't want to go out with her, she lies and tells him that she is just babysitting the kids. This will be her first date in years.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.
Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.
After a heartbreaking loss, a grandfather struggling to reclaim his passion for painting finds the inspiration to create again.
