John Manley one day learns to his great sorrow that Caroline Hastings, whom he was going to ask to be his wife, is already betrothed to another.
Social & External
The people behind it
Augustus Phillips
John Manley
Bessie Learn
Ethel - Manley's Protegé
May Abbey
Charlotte Hastings
Mrs. William Bechtel
The Housekeeper
An uncompromising and controversial short set in the Scandinavian suburbia on the hottest day of the summer. A sister reluctantly babysits her little brother. Two young boys catch her attention, and she makes a crucial decision.
A hustler named Oscar encounters both the light and dark of humanity in an alcohol fueled odyssey of sex, love, and death.
A sedated young jaguar dispassionately ruminates over his latest victims as well as the object of his affection in this mesmerizing video diary.
Anto travels to the depth of his most beloved memories with Julián. He must cross the threshold of the loss of a loved one.
After a diving excursion in the middle of the ocean, Lindsey is viciously sexually assaulted by Bruce, her instructor. She fends him of and they fall overboard into the water. Bruce grabs her and sinks her to the depths of the ocean. In this spiral of violence, she has no way to breathe.
Emre, frustrated with the problems in his life, undergoes a procedure to remove his negative emotions using a new technology that everyone is starting to adapt to. However, negative emotions are not the only thing he loses.
Madrid, Spain. A mutilated man, a war veteran, walks, leaning on a crutch, through the stadium of the Ciudad Universitaria, a place that still preserves in walls and buildings the terrifying traces of one of the bloodiest battles of the Spanish Civil War.
A 14 year old boy excitedly prepares for his first dance, but when his date arrives he's faced with a split-second decision.
A restless sleep and chlorophyll tinted dreams. A short visual experiment within a character's introspection.
Even though Migeum and Jeong-ah have been friends for many years, they always engage in the battle of nerves. The two head to Seoul together to meet their daughters but face an unexpected event during their journey.
A young boy, Bjørn, discovers on his 17th birthday that his problems with the girls might not be self-inflicted.
After a gay purge in a dystopian future, two couples who secretly meet once a week to reminisce about their former openly gay lives must decide if their clandestine meetings are worth risking their lives.
Kiko, a Japanese illustrator on assignment in France, gets suddenly overwhelmed by a strange new inspiration, while she realizes she's been spying on a gay couple on the beach next to the chapel where she's working. Obsessed by such a vision, she will continue spying on those men and drawing them secretly. These drawings will slowly push her towards an encounter that will change her life and break the barriers she created around her.
After he traveled the city by foot, a mathematician stuck his gaze onto the overpasses, cable-stayed bridges, and light beams randomly colliding at night. Tired of only seeing things on the ground, he decided to take off from a bridge, and hunt his “angles” while cruising through the sky.
Two young men share different points of view of the same sexual encounter in a public space.
Christian (12) and his best friend have been invited over to an older boy from school. There, he enters a mysterious world. It becomes an overwhelming experience - an essential step towards puberty.
This film unites the themes of war, religion and LGBTQ issues by wrapping them in the values and emotions of one complex family.
The morning after a one-night stand, two young men must figure out what kind of relationship they want. But they want opposite things: One of them just wanted casual sex, while the other wants something more.
A Young Writer gets caught up in his thoughts, losing track of time and opportunity.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
When a brilliant nine-year-old working in a sweatshop gets a chance to attend school, she must make a difficult choice for her and her sister's future.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
A woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls for her boss's wife. She must soon defend herself as she becomes entangled in a web of malice.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
“Snow gently falls on the blood-stained streets of a seedy out-of-time New York City. Steam envelopes the nightmare unfolding within its narrow alleys. Iron is the will of the one who would dare to resist… fight… survive.”
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
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.
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.
