Shorts

Quiet and sincere 9-year-old Sam is worried about making his first confession. His conscience is clear, therefore he cannot hope for any relief from the experience. He and his friend Jacob decide to remedy that situation, but their initially innocent prank turns unexpectedly tragic.

Tells the story of a young man desperate to come of age before time runs out.

A lovestruck, lounge-singing darts champion finds his prayers answered--literally--when he mysteriously receives a box of love-inducing darts.

A coming of age fable of a Somali boy as he struggles to survive in his war-torn land.

Henry, a great concert pianist, has his life thrown in turmoil the day the love of this life, Maria, disappears mysteriously. He'll then discover the inevitable verdict of life.

A man whose lush inner thoughts are rendered mute by a crippling stutter feels isolated from the world despite a flourishing online relationship.

On her first day in Afghanistan, an interpreter for the US Army is forced to deliver the child of an enemy bomb-maker.

A divorced father picks up his eight-year-old daughter Lea. It seems pretty much like every second weekend, but after a while Lea can't help feeling that something isn't right. So begins a fateful journey.

The friendship of two boys is tested to its limits as they battle for survival during the Kosovo war.

A volunteer at a housing shelter falls for a Ghanaian refugee.

'Sing' is a childhood drama with a lot of music, set in 1990s Budapest, Hungary. Inspired by a true story, it follows an award winning school choir and the new girl in class who just might uncover the ugly secret behind their fame.

Luna and Diego are the parking lot security guards. Diego does the night shift, and Luna works by day.

A deaf 6-year-old girl named Libby lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her to use sign language to communicate.

Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer.

An aging woman and her nurse develop a friendship that inspires her to unearth unacknowledged longing and thus help her make peace with her past.

Early summer. Moving house. Between games in the garden and packing boxes. 11- year-old Adele decides to send a message to her future self in case she should forget all the different elements that make up her life. Adele wants to capture it all even if that means staging the parts that aren't quite as she would like, or bullying everyone around her, or even no longer living in the present...

A night. A car. Alie is in danger. To get by she must make the most important phone call of her life.

A lone astronaut testing the first faster-than-light spacecraft travels farther than he imagined possible.

Nigel is an elderly man living as a recluse, haunted by his past and memory of the family he once had, until an unexpected visitor arrives and disrupts his lonely routine.

Set in the late 60's, broken relationships and an astronomical event intertwine the various narrative threads - an abstract interpretation of the historical Christmas narrative.

Coaxed into playing a racial typecast in a fellow student's play, Jonathan is faced to either challenge prejudice, or play it safe.

A travelogue of Valparaiso, Chile, a city built on steep hills. Life is a constant struggle against geography. Neighbourhoods are reached by series of ramps, staircases, and funicular railway elevators. The poorest residents on the hilltops have trouble obtaining water for drinking and washing. There are community dances, a travelling circus, a race course. Boys feed the harbour sealions; a fashionable woman walks her penguin. The ever-present onshore breeze provides fresh air and an ideal environment for kite-flying. The film's second half is in colour, making the switch with the tale of the city's bloody pirate past.

A strange creature races against time to make the most important and beautiful creation of his life.

Born into a world of numbers, an oppressed zero discovers that through determination, courage, and love, nothing can be truly something.