short films

In a locked down train station, a homicide detective conducts an interview with a tormented monkey.

Mathilde, aged 9, enjoys her last day of summer holidays at the seaside with her group of friends. Her father falsely interprets one of their games.

An aging painter and his wife struggle increasingly to cope with his advancing dementia.

The bond between a father and a daughter is imperiled by matters that go unspoken and hurts that are slow to heal.

SARIA explores the unimaginable hardships faced by young female orphans at the Virgen de La Asuncion Safe Home in Guatemala, leading up to the tragic fire which claimed 41 of their lives in 2017. We follow the story of two inseparable orphaned sisters - Saria 12, and her sister Ximena 14, as they fight against mounting daily physical abuse at the very institution designed to protect them. In the sisters' desperation for survival, they devise a daring plan of escape for all the orphans to find freedom in America.

It tells the story of a middle aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.

An elderly woman drifts back through her memories. She exists between two states, the past and the present.

TAIKO Studios presents the story of Luna, a Chinese American girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut.

A father tries to do his daughter's hair for the first time.

In a short musical film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Thom Yorke of Radiohead scores and stars in a mind-bending visual piece. Best played loud.

A collection of animated short stories that span various genres including science fiction, fantasy, horror and comedy.

An unlikely connection sparks between two creatures: a fiercely independent stray kitten and a pit bull.

During his acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award, Nicolas Chauvin - farmer-soldier, veteran of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and father of chauvinism - embarks on a grand monologue, sending him back in time and space.

Joël, a small town journalist, goes to cover a case in the French countryside. When he stops after running over a dog on the road, he finds himself trapped in the stories he usually writes.

Agathe, 39, has but one obsession: to have a child. She finds her ex, Marc-Antoine, a DJ, mixing techno in Marseille. As she tries to talk him into getting back together, plastic bags come to life and attack the city.

In a Tunisian village, children are playing football on a wasteland. Meanwhile, Abdallah and Mohammed come across a donkey with headphones on his ears and bags full of a white powder on his back. The two young brothers decide to bring those bags back to their village.

At first glance she is just an ordinary woman. But every couple of month her normal life comes to a halt. Secretly from her loved ones she goes on a long journey.

Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler. A true story based on interview transcripts and records from the James Bulger case, which shocked the world in 1993.

Animated anthropomorphized characters in a therapy session.

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

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

Mohamed is deeply shaken when his oldest son Malik returns home after a long journey with a mysterious new wife.

A Chinese-Canadian woman suffering from empty nest syndrome gets a second shot at motherhood when one of her handmade dumplings comes alive.

'Weekends' is the story of a young boy shuffling between the homes of his recently divorced parents. Surreal dream-like moments mix with the domestic realities of a broken up family in this hand-animated film set in 1980s Toronto.

A hungry sandpiper hatchling ventures from her nest for the first time to dig for food by the shoreline. The problem is, the food is buried in the sand where scary waves roll up.