Drones replace divine spirits in Thai artist Korakrit Arunanondchai's explosive film that contemplates the place for spirituality today through body painting, performative expression and catchy hip hop.
While teenagers John and Tom, who live in a refugee camp in Guinea Conakry, go from housebreaking to robbery in order to survive, Satou, similarly to many other destitute young women, turns to the streets. Things go from bad to worse and Tom - soon followed by John - gets stuck in a downward spiral of extreme violence. Will Mémé their grandmother and also a refugee, be able to save them?
Collection of tech-related short films marking the 30th anniversary in 2019 of the World Wide Web.
Lu and Wei live in a village in rural China. The young girls often go to the nearby river to play or fish with their fathers. The river has a special meaning for them because China’s one-child policy has led to some parents drowning their newborn daughters there.
In the course of one afternoon, Raphael's paradise turns into a spiral of guilt and paranoia.
In the Amazonian jungle, the village of Palma Real resists the modern world. Carlito, a silent young man, decides to leave. On the muddy bed of the immense river, an encounter reveals the secret that Carlito has hidden from his community.
A queer Arab boy, Nazeem, looks up to his Muslim mother with awe. Later in life, it is only through being a drag queen that he holds on to their lost and fraught connection.
Female high-school athletes become unlikely teammates in the wake of unspoken trauma.
Laura a young homeless woman from London finds shelter in an underground train station, where she encounters a psychology professor waiting for his train.
Two brothers are bored on a Saturday and decide to start a band. They then realize the stress of being in a band. Once they get a gig, they must put together a setlist and get ready for show, but they fear they don't have the time.
After his death, a young man stuck in purgatory attempts to cope with the afterlife.
“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes’ mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert’s steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.” International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Mickey shares everything with her younger sister Sky: a bedroom, a school, an illegally obtained .357 Magnum, and a deadly obsession with the perpetrators of one of the most infamous school shootings in history books. When Mickey is raped by one of their bullies, the girls decide to take revenge. They begin to plan a massacre. But Mickey will have to ask herself, is there truly anything to idolize about male violence?
An old man needs a plastic toilet stool by the bed at night, but the health center can't deliver it, so the old man has to pick it up by himself.
In the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl atomic fallout time seems to stand still in Germany. Like disconnected ghosts, the teenager Phillip, his overbearing father Henning and the polish housekeeper Ada live together in a Wilhelminian-style villa. In this environment of toxic nature and masculinity, Phillip decides to go on a boat trip with Ada, triggering a symbolic stream of consciousness.
The old man’s daughter married the foreigner and moved abroad. Only his neighbor Gienyk remembers his name. Others call him “Beard”. “Beard” feeds hens, smokes cheap cigarettes, goes fishing as an ordinary villager. But nobody, even Gienyk knows what’s on his mind. His daughter visits him while passing by. He’s not at home at that moment. When he comes back, he founds his daughter on the threshold, ready to leave. The old man sees off his daughter with sadness. And then takes the gun. Everything’s going to change in a moment… The Beard will disappear.
An ambitious understudy’s respect grows to obsession.
Grumpy old man Bert learns to overcome his feelings of isolation when cheerful new resident George arrives at his care home; forming an unforeseen friendship.
A short silent movie based on the tale Little Red Riding Hood.