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- DirectorJulia NgeowStarsAshlyn BurleyFilippo GioffreAiden HaileMind control, bullying, manipulation, fear, hate mongering, bribery, cheating, lying. Jemima doesn't have much to like about her new school.
- DirectorMadeleine GottliebStarsSteve RodgersJames FraserEdric HongAt an ageing Chinese restaurant in 1997, a father and his punk musician son struggle with the roles of parent-child when they realise they each desperately need something from the other.
- DirectorOttó FokyA cosmic metallic hen arrives to a planet of beans and observes their daily lives.
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsJeremy TheobaldIn his squalid apartment, a man tries to squash with his shoe an insect of some kind that is moving around the room.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsJessica HoareMia JenkinsCallum May5 teens try to discover what happens when you die.
- DirectorPeter StricklandStarsCsaba MolnárGyula MuskovicsA confrontation between two swimmers in a locker room.
- DirectorBora KimStarsJeongone HwangJeong In-giPark Myung-shinNine-year-old Eunhee anxiously prepares for her recorder examination as she struggles with a difficult family.
- DirectorJoaquín CociñaCristóbal LeónUsing human corpses and invoking the spirits of two damned Secretaries of State, a girl performs a ritual to free the kingdom of Chile from its feudal heritage.
- DirectorYelyzaveta PysmakStarsJulia BenedyktowiczAnna DluzniewskaYelyzaveta PysmakFollows an amusing tale about anorexia and butts.
- DirectorPeter TscherkasskyStarsBarbara HersheyFootage from The Entity (1982) is edited into an abstract nightmare.
- DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsAndrey BerezinBotis SevaDitta Miranda JasjfiInspired by a powerful involuntary mania that took hold of citizens in the city of Strasbourg just over 500 years ago, this film is a collaboration in isolation with some of the greatest dancers working today.
- DirectorBertrand MandicoStarsPauline JacquardElina LöwensohnAnne Lise MaulinAn abandoned seaside resort. The shooting for a fantasy film about the end of an era wraps up. Two women, both members of the film crew, one an actress, the other a director, Apocalypse and Joy, are on the verge of concluding their love affair.
- DirectorJulia DucournauStarsGarance MarillierYacine N'DiayeAude BriantJustine, who goes by Junior, is a 13-year-old tomboy with pimples and a unique sense of humor. After unexpectedly contracting a stomach virus, her body becomes home to a bizarre metamorphosis.
- DirectorUgo BienvenuFélix de GivryStarsAdrien SchmückXavier GojoMuriel BiotAs part of the opéra de Paris shorts collection, these two directors chose to imagine Opera Garnier in a post-anthropocene setting. Their imaginative scenario is a reflection on art, architecture and the melancholy of mankind!
- DirectorPatrik EklundStarsJacob NordensonAnki LarssonDaniel RudstedtMiddle-aged couple Rolf and Eva live in a passionless relationship. They wear and tear at each other and Eva begins to feel sexually frustrated. One night she tries to seduce Rolf. He dismisses her but then something happens that will change their relationship forever. (Plot Summary from Swedish Film Database)
- DirectorDustin Guy DefaStarsGayle RankinHannah GrossA woman is confronted by a stranger, who believes she's been edited out of their story.
- DirectorEric BaudelaireStarsHigashibata KanokoGoto YasukaArakawa OsamuAn employee at a Japanese bookstore receives a package of photography books. She uses a scalpel and a brush to censor images which may be considered offensive or obscene.
- DirectorMegha RamaswamyStarsSyesha P AdnaniFaizan MohammedRidhima SudBunny is a love letter to the fantastical childhood we leave behind. The story explores a delicate relationship between a little girl and her pet toy - Bunny. Things take a sad turn when Bunny is found 'dead' under mysterious circumstances on a rainy afternoon. An adventure explodes when the eager-to-please boy next door buries Bunny in the neighboring woods, only to discover later that Bunny has disappeared from his soggy grave...
- DirectorNeill BlomkampStarsBraam GreylingGodfrey SeomeDawie AckermannAn eerie tale of a close encounter of the third kind in Johannesburg.
- DirectorRanda MaroufiStarsWalid AchouikhAbdellah AdnanReda AfandiA place with nebulous frontiers and laws. Characters captured in an existence whose outlines flee the camera's gaze. Such is the world of the old fairground located in the Arab League Park in Casablanca that Randa Maroufi leads us into. Actions frozen in gestures of exchange, expectation and aggression are played out following a score conducted by the artist who, in the manner of Eric Baudelaire, uses composition to explore reality. But this reality is also virtual, for these scenes come in part from a repertoire of violent self-representations found on the Internet. The artist reprises their vocabulary. Violence, she tells us, is a language, and its interpretation is a matter of context. A strange vitality emanates from the gentle immobility of the silent travelling shot that drifts through the scenes acted out by the local inhabitants, whether simply passing through or precarious residents. Like the roughness of the vegetal and urban architecture of the abandoned park, these existences are not festive, yet they celebrate life's endurance, a vital energy that is hidden yet tenacious. Maroufi's Le Park escapes along each hidden path, leading us on in a gentle dream whose outcome is never revealed to us. Indifferent to our presence, it murmurs its silent rhythm. These scenes, these lives - the artist began by approaching them with restraint, then trust, and always with respect. Without ever seeking to appropriate the indomitable park or the existences that inhabit it, Maroufi leads us into an intimate world on the threshold of an intensity at once real and fantasised. The artist thus draws, incisively yet delicately as if with a metal tip, a forgotten tale at the heart of the city but on the margins of the world.
- DirectorBenoît ForgeardStarsGaspard ProustWilliam LebghilBenjamin WangermeeA French man who hates from the British and carries out operations against the British culture, tries to deal with this paranoia of him.
- DirectorRuben ÖstlundStarsBahador FoladiRamtin ParvanehLeif EdlundAn attempted bank robbery. Follows the thought process of two confused witnesses, the filmographer and the producer.
- DirectorPeter BurgerStarsWi Kuki KaaNancy BrunningSydney LarkinsWhen one soldier dies, another takes his place. Wi Kuki Kaa delivers a poignant performance as a homeless man, confronting his memories of the Vietnam War. Screened at Critics' Week, Cannes Film Festival 2003.
- DirectorTaika WaititiStarsRangi NgamokiHutini WaikatoTe Ahiwaru Ngamoki-RichardsSometimes first love is found in the most unlikely of places, like in the carpark outside the Te Kaha pub.
- DirectorHelena BrooksStarsLliam PowellEmily O'Brien-BrownGeraldine BrophyBilly just wants to be ordinary. Mistaken as a child as Jesus reincarnate, he leads his life avoiding any kind of attention. But can he ever escape his most zealous devotee - his mother?
- DirectorLala RollsStarsJames AshcroftDorothy Anne BonnerMacgregor CameronA man finds peace by rowing each day to work in the city. But when a seductive blonde enters the picture, his morning boat ride heads in an unexpected direction.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsMatt DillonDaphné PatakiaSusan ElleA professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.
- DirectorAntonio MarzialeStarsAntonio MarzialeCole DomanJonathan SlavinAn intimate evening between a film director and an escort is disrupted when a familiar face arrives.
- DirectorBertrand MandicoStarsElina LöwensohnEva MaloiselThomas ArnoldJoan of Arc's eyes are burned and she is deflowered by an English stallion. Joan of Arc is condemned to wander the battlefield, like a scavenger, in search of virgins.
- DirectorJohn SmithStarsJohn HardingMark StevensA short film about haircuts and clothes.
- DirectorAndrea ArnoldStarsNatalie PressDanny DyerJodie MitchellA struggling single mother is determined not to let her four young children be an obstacle in the pursuit of starting a relationship with an old acquaintance.
- DirectorJes BenstockLuke LoseyStarsOrbitalTilda SwintonSimon KennettAn otherworldly traveler phases into existence and experiences the madness of modern urban life in this music video for Orbital's The Box.
- DirectorHlynur PálmasonStarsÍda Mekkín HlynsdóttirGrímur HlynssonÞorgils HlynssonSiblings building a tree house together over the course of a year. We experience the beauty and brutality of the seasons, as we follow them through their struggles and moments of joy.
- DirectorYann GonzalezStarsOliver SimFehinti BalogunJimmy SomervillePopstar Oliver Sim is the main guest of a talk-show that soon slides into a surreal journey of love, shame and blood. A three-part musical short.
- DirectorAndrea ArnoldStarsJoanne HillFreddie CunliffeVeronica ValentineA teenage girl gets ready to go out to meet her boyfriend, despite her mother's loud verbal disapproval of her clothes. She goes out to a deserted area with him and he begins to touch her up and have sex with her, however a dog reveals the true nature of her boyfriend.
- DirectorAndrea ArnoldStarsLynda SteadmanStephen McGannLee OakesFrom the get-go, Arnold was fascinated by the careless, seemingly simple choices people make in their day-to-day lives that lead to unintended, complicated consequences.
- DirectorTebogo MalebogoStarsSizo MahlanguThapelo MaropefelaBalindile ka NgcoboTau comes to a realisation, setting in motion a cascade of thoughts and emotions in Tumelo - nothing will ever be the same between them.
- DirectorJohn SmithA story about three objects the directors father had shown to him before he passed away.
- DirectorJohn SmithFragments of COVID-19 related speeches by the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson accompany views from the windows of a London residence during the COVID lockdown.
- DirectorApichatpong WeerasethakulStarsChaisiri JiwarangsanShe paints her nails by the swimming pool. He waits lying on the sofa. The boat leaves.
- DirectorAkosua Adoma OwusuStarsNana Saah Adwubi KeteWhite Afro employs an archival instructional video on how to offer curly perms or body waving services to their white clientele, ostensibly for financial gain.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsCaroline BaudryCatherineAgnès VardaWhat does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted with motherly instinct or not, answer before Agnès Varda's camera.
- DirectorAriane LabedStarsRomanna LobachGrégoire TachnakianJenny BellayOLLA answers an ad on a dating website for Eastern European women. Shortly thereafter, she moves in with Pierre who lives with his elderly mother and things don't go as expected.
- DirectorPark Chan-wookStarsHak-rak ChoiGi Ju-bongIn-bae KoTwo different families claim the body of a woman killed in a catastrophe.
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudMarie-France PisierPatrick AuffayAntoine Doinel is 17, lives in a hotel and works in a factory making records; he loves music. He falls in love with a woman he meets at a concert. She sees him as a friend, but her parents love him.
- DirectorMorgan QuaintanceThe inevitability of separation, loss and death are explored through an introspective written monologue and a selection of stills, moving images and written text.
- DirectorBi GanStarsGuohua ChenYongzhong ChenHuan HuangA fairy tale that follows the relationship between man and cat.
- DirectorRené LalouxIn a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail.
- DirectorPeter StricklandStarsMichael BrandonSebastien KappsAn aging porno director makes a commentary in 2022 for the DVD of an underground 16mm film he made in 1972 and was recently rediscovered. As the beautiful stud in the film undergoes a series of erotic reveries, the director laments his doomed love affair with his protagonist.