2022 shorts

Mind control, bullying, manipulation, fear, hate mongering, bribery, cheating, lying. Jemima doesn't have much to like about her new school.

At 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.

A cosmic metallic hen arrives to a planet of beans and observes their daily lives.

In his squalid apartment, a man tries to squash with his shoe an insect of some kind that is moving around the room.

5 teens try to discover what happens when you die.

A confrontation between two swimmers in a locker room.

Nine-year-old Eunhee anxiously prepares for her recorder examination as she struggles with a difficult family.

Using 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.

Follows an amusing tale about anorexia and butts.

Footage from The Entity (1982) is edited into an abstract nightmare.

Inspired 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.

An 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.

Justine, 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.

As 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!

Middle-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)

A woman is confronted by a stranger, who believes she's been edited out of their story.

An 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.

Bunny 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...

An eerie tale of a close encounter of the third kind in Johannesburg.

A 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.

A French man who hates from the British and carries out operations against the British culture, tries to deal with this paranoia of him.

An attempted bank robbery. Follows the thought process of two confused witnesses, the filmographer and the producer.

When 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.

Sometimes first love is found in the most unlikely of places, like in the carpark outside the Te Kaha pub.

Billy 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?