Social & External
Mia
Suffering from her mother's recent suicide, a delusional young girl falls for an alluring Goth, against the objections of a life-size talking muslin doll. The Melancholy Fantastic is a psychological thriller set during the holidays.
A woman misses her train and buys lunch in a café. When she returns to her table, a man is eating her salad.
In a world where the future is for sale, a grieving man visits a mysterious Time Spa, seeking a glimpse of his future. However, he discovers that some truths are more challenging than the past he's desperate to escape.
Two brothers develop a sexual attraction to one another amid the unkind world around them.
The narrative portrays a plain man who guides the viewer through his life in a bleakly stylised world.
When 15-year-old Violet gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet the lead singer of her favourite American band, she decides to make him an offer he can't refuse. Or can he?
A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies away with it.
The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall.
Following a shocking on-air disturbance, a curious Stage Manager begins to suspect that something is deeply off about the talk show she works for, and its eccentric host.
Isa’s having a bad shift. The restaurant is packed, there’s new graffiti in the bathroom, and her best friend Earn has just told her he’s picking up shifts at the rival rooftop bar next door. Customers start getting weird, the chefs couldn’t care less, and the strange messages in the bathroom seem to be telling Isa she needs to get out of there. When her manager asks her to get some biodynamic wine from the cupboard upstairs, Isa realises the only way out is up.
A story of a group of humanoid rabbits and their depressive, daily life. The plot includes Suzie ironing, Jane sitting on a couch, Jack walking in and out of the apartment, and the occasional solo singing number by Suzie or Jane. At one point the rabbits also make contact with their “leader”.
This anti-homosexual social "scare" short film focuses on the dangers of young boys talking to strangers.
Being gay-bashed and left in a corn field in rural America takes an unusual turn when one of the bashers returns with remorse and a secret.
At a strict girls school, a mysterious fire blazes out of control. Now everyone's questioning whether it was an accident — or arson.
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.
In this short motion picture, schoolboy Kees is intelligent, introvert and sensitive, but gets ridiculed verbally and physically at an all-boys school by mindlessly cocky class mates and even insensitive teachers, especially in gym, where his physical weakness is mercilessly abused to make him a defenceless laughing stock in front of his smirking peers. His awakening sexual interest goes to boys, and in particular to Charel, a beautiful athletic classmate who probably feels an undetermined interest but would never risk admitting (possibly not even to himself) having any gay or bi appreciation, least of all for a 'sissy', and thus remains unresponsive to shy Kees' overtures. When the hunk finally comes over to Kees' place while his parents are away, a desperate disappointment with a tragical twist is in the making…
Year 1703: the tyrannical madness of King Louis XIV of France has taken hold. The Musketeers hatch a plan to eliminate him and free his twin brother Philip, who is imprisoned on the island of Saint-Marguerite, but before they can act, he is executed. The Musketeers subsequently manage to recover Philip's body and, together with some loyalists to the monarchy, capture Louis. Louis XIV, in chains, is now victim of a ritual of blood and power.
A man is reunited with his father who has been gone for more than 15 years.
1954 - Panic erupts when the citizens of Bellingham, Washington notice strange cracks in their car windshields. What is causing this mysterious phenomenon?
A small town begins to feel the effects of an illness, forcing the local pastor to make an ethical decision that will affect the habitants of the place.
In this Oscar-winning short film, grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
A deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage.
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.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
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.
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.
The story of two brothers, Tom and Jake, and their problematic relationship.
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister asking him to look after his nine-year old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.
When Ruby and Rhett's parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered. Moving to an incredible house in Malibu with the Glasses', old friends of the family, seems to be the beginning of a new life for them.
Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness.
