Based on stories from Writer/Director Austin Abbott's own book 'I Tried Calling', this film follows three different men in distress across three different times making three different phone calls. The first: A janitor stuck in a church. The second: A sports gambler who made a mistake. The third: A businessman having a bad Christmas Eve.
A representation of the change of evil through the superstructures of power. The walls of the former concentration camp of Trieste, the Risiera di San Sabba, give the words of knowledge a sense of physical trail, thanks to the prophetic text by Jean Baudrillard, “The transparency of evil”, which however is not accompanied by the images, but chooses a path that is autonomous and at the same time parallel to them.
Clovis, Châtaigne and Mérovée leave home in search of new horizons. They meet Titus and Lucius, two legionaries who have survived the fall of the Roman Empire.
This animation highlights the technological remnants of what is left behind. It is a simplistic creation consisting of color and rhythm. It incorporates X-ray images, figures from Pompeii, and footage of a turtle in Syria. This creation story symbolizes the ability to generate something new and release it, akin to a primordial soup of pixels. The animation emphasizes the constant act of looking, viewing, perceiving, and receiving images. It portrays the relationship between the photographic technique, the apparatus itself, "the machine," and the complexities of distortion in perception and imagination. The film was created using a broken special effects machine from the 1990s, resulting in the destruction, overexposure, underexposure, abstraction, and, ultimately, in the freedom of the material.
Sarah and Manon, two videographers from Paris and fans of URBEX (the illegal practice of exploring and filming abandoned places that are off-limits and hidden), set out to explore an abandoned castle for their YouTube channel. To their horror, they will discover that a disturbed and frightening family seems to still inhabit the place, turning their exploration into a true nightmare.
A short fiction film about three queer Brazilian people who love each other and live together in Brussels, Belgium. We follow their journey over the course of a day through the streets of the city and the people they meet along the way. This film is also a portrait of their search for belonging in a foreign land.
Hotel Attack is a relentless thriller about a criminal named Hawk The Killer, a ruthless murderer terrorizing an entire town (Greenfield) His main targets are a group of friends (The Exterminators) that live in the town of Greenfield. Nathan Xanders, Scotty jones, and Julian Miller plan to stop hawk for good.
A queer voyage along the labyrinths of dreams, archives and lived histories, Roohrangi navigates the real and the imaginary – traversing the filmmaker’s encounters in a gay-cruising forest-reserve as he retraces the memory of his grandfather’s leucoderma-ridden face. A face on whose white-and-brown patches, he saw a forest of miraculous trees.
In the heat of summer, Johanne, Mila and Zac, three best friends, escape for a day by the lake. But beneath the tranquil surface, tensions rise and unspoken desires are awakened. Mila draws Johanne into an unsettling game of seduction, where the boundaries between friendship and love blur. As they venture into a deserted cottage for the night, the balance of their trio shifts and ignites into a wild intensity.
After more than 20 years of not acting, a former child actor ventures deep into the forest in the middle of the night with the power of his faith and body to try to overcome collective war trauma and finally feel fearless. But is it even possible to heal after so many dead bodies in similar settings and the blurry VHS footage of executions we grew up watching on the news?
Growing old as a woman is a tragedy. Without realizing it, that’s what I’ve always thought and what I’ve always been taught. So how do I get rid of this stupid idea that’s so deeply rooted in my skull and in my society? At nearly thirty, it’s time for me to talk with women of other generations and tear down some anti-aging advertisements.
Amid the buildings and streets of Ramallah, men take up positions. In a continuous, unedited shot, the camera witnesses a confrontation between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers illegally stationed in the city. With a single gesture, the viewer experiences the occupation of Palestinian territory in real time.