Short films

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The story of Shmilu, a Hasidic Jew in crisis, torn between his community and the romantic possibilities of trendy East London.

Piety and Pleasure collide when Duvid Stern is taken from his sheltered, ultra-orthodox community and introduced to the underground rave scene of New York City. Torn between two girls and the two worlds they embody, Duvid is forced to reexamine the bedrock of his identity.

Josh is a young secular Jewish professional living in Montreal's Mile End Neighborhood. One night he's confronted by a group of Hasidic men who accuse him of having thrown a rock at them and of anti-semitism. Josh's first thought is 'what would my mother think?' Trying to resolve the misunderstanding, Josh agrees to an impromptu tribunal with the Hasidic men and their Rabbi.

The Great War. The story alternates between a young North American soldier remembering being home at plowing time, enlisting, taking an ocean voyage to Europe, and going through military training - and that same man in battle, slogging through a muddy trench, enduring bombardment, being part of an assault. Death and decay are everywhere. The trenches give way to fields, the guns to plows, the soldier to soil.

The tragedy of the First World War, a conflict that helped define Canada.

In 1914, Fritz Haber is Germany's greatest chemist. His Nobel prize-winning synthetic fertilizers have saved the world from mass starvation. But as World War I breaks out across Europe, slaughtering millions of young soldiers, the desperate German military asks Haber to invent an entirely new kind of weapon. Already having sacrificed his Jewish identity and his wife's career to achieve success, Haber's decision not only unleashes weapons of mass destruction for the first time in human history, but also threatens to destroy his family as well.

In a village inexplicably haunted by a plague of zombies, Lucio, an honest worker, is the only person who can fight them. He has matrimonial problems and hides Ana, his adorable wife, now transformed in a horrible zombie with a violent behaviour and a bad attitude, in the basement of his house. This situation is temporarily forgotten in the local bar, where the strange inhabitants of the village get refuge. It's here where Lucio discovers again another chance for love in the relationship he starts up with Nancy, but the relation is threatened by the strange creatures and by the mortal jealousy of his wife. Will Lucio handle all his problems with the power of a gun and a cutlass?

A woman's story of how she became involved in terrorist activities in the 1970s.

David, a detective of NYPD, is in search of the man responsible for the death of his father, but something goes wrong. He gets drawn into one unusual day, where his reality is mixed with his dreams, traveling through his subconscious.

This is the story of Jimmy, a young commuter who decides one day to fly to live his dreams. His dreams are essentially about writing, day and night, making movies. And to break into the middle, especially. Then Jimmy abandons everything: his city, his friends, his mother, and goes to the boarding of Los Angeles and his legendary Hollywood Boulevard. Where he will end up being lost, devoured by the unyielding desire to succeed.

The shadow of a deceased World War I soldier is captured by a collector, who offers him the chance to live again if he captures the shadows of 10,000 people, leading to a quest driven by love and jealousy.

An horrific schoolroom accident involving Mr Jones' son sparks a most unusual case of post-traumatic stress disorder.

The ripple effect of a brother and sister's past catches up to them at the funeral of their father.

Ana, alienated and struggling to find herself, enlists in the reserves to be part of a disciplined group while searching the uncertainty of her own being.

A prologue of one heart-breaking history of love and the prologue of the travel told in The Darjeeling Limited (2007).

For Mia, beauty is everything. A trophy, a promise, a ball and chain, a wish upon a star. A life sentence.

Helen a peasant girl in Poland chosen to bring the message of Mercy to mankind in preparation for The Last Day-The Day of Judgement

A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution). Some knowledge of the subject is essential in order to understand the film, which is entirely visual.

Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother.

The action-packed, tough life of an agent including a chained down interrogation.

The silent routine of 5 Nuns living in the West Bank wilderness is disturbed when an Israeli settler family breaks down right outside the convent just as the Sabbath comes into effect.

On the distant steppes of Mongolia, using only simple tools, strength and ingenuity, a nomad builds a home much the way his ancestors have for the past one thousand years. Mujaan (The Craftsman) is a vivid window to a disappearing way of life in one of the most remote corners of the world.

With Thor gone, Darryl searches for a new roommate, but only the Grandmaster responds to his ad.