
Brotherly Love (2009)
A poetic and melancholic short film about two brothers with different intentions. A personal struggle involving obsession, abuse, and guilt.
A poetic and melancholic short film about two brothers with different intentions. A personal struggle involving obsession, abuse, and guilt.
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
When a college student brings home her older boyfriend to meet the family, he quickly becomes radicalized by her Zapruder-loving family.
Ling returns to her hometown for Chinese New Year, only to find her mother Fang gets into trouble. Fang plans to move to Ling’s apartment in Taipei and live with her for a while, which unveils Ling’s true reason to come home. Eventually, Ling spends the day with Fang and tries to solve her trouble.
Milagros stretches a carefree youth in her last years of fertility while Jonathan seeks solace in Grindr to overcome abandonment issues. A delirious road movie, full of music, where a mysterious mermaid will set the course of the journey....
Sophie comes to New York from France with the intention of joining a man she met a few months before. She finds herself alone in the apartment of the guy, who left town because he was scared stiff at the idea of seeing her. Originally commissioned as one third of an omnibus feature showcasing the Figaro, a Japan-only retro throwback car.
Peter is an eight year old boy who lives in a cheap hotel room. When his mother oddly disappears, a transsexual woman comes to take care of him, against her own will. Sooner or later Peter will find out that this is the woman with the 'plumed snake', the woman that will pull him to outside world, where anything is likely to occur.
A short film from University of Saint La Salle - Bacolod.
In a rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcilable until he befriends two closeted men in his grandfather's senior housing complex.
The area around Catalan in Brazil’s state of Goiás is dry, very dry. Sandro’s life here is somewhat monotonous. He works in a fertiliser factory, goes swimming and spends his evenings doing jigsaw puzzles of landscapes. When Maicon, a man straight out of a Tom of Finland illustration, shows up in their small town and flirts with Ricardo, Sandro’s burgeoning feelings of jealousy set a change in motion.
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims, and he begins to use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.
A professional fighter hiding her career protects her mother from an abusive landlord.
On the annual motorcycle tour of big friends, there's trouble this time. Markus has brought his girlfriend Marion along, even though no one has ever had his girl with them. And Werner, who actually wants to get married and to whose bachelor party everyone is invited after the tour, is missing.
Short film by Paco del Toro
Val Garcia, a Mexican-American teen who is half human/half vampire, has had to keep her identity a secret from both worlds. But when her human best friend shows up at her monster-infested school, she has to confront her truth, her identity, and herself.
Avalon’s not ready to process the loss of her mother, but when she's put in charge of a 4-year-old for one night, she finds more comfort than she ever could have expected.
When Gabriel, a 7-year-old Chinese kid who loves ballet, becomes friends with Rob, another Chinese kid from school, Rob’s dad gets suspicious about Gabriel's feminine behavior and decides to intervene.
In the middle of a trip, Rubí, an eight-year-old girl, discovers within herself a powerful desire to eat roses. The rigidity and severity of her mother forces her to act in secret, until her desire manages to transform into something else.
Set in the early 1990s, "As You Are" is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation.
David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother’s health declines, David frantically tries to extract meaning from this horrible experience and convince everyone (including himself) that he's "doing okay.”