Wake
A nuanced story of friendship, forbidden love and self-awareness in the face of grief.
Short Film
A couple house sits for the weekend, and as they spend time in another person's home curiosity gets the best of them.
A nuanced story of friendship, forbidden love and self-awareness in the face of grief.
THERE ARE MERMAIDS IN LA follows Cassie. Bored of her relationship. Having mediocre orgasms. Trying desperately to reupholster a lamp because why not? “It might be the first step towards sewing patchy jeans or something.” But one day Cassie’s boat is rocked by a mysterious silent visitor. A woman. With long, fire-engine red hair and almost no discernible personality or clothes. We’ll call her Mermaid. Because, as the legend goes, she made a bad trade somewhere down the line, swapped her voice out for legs, and then wound up in the wrong place. The place being this woman's beach... RIP the prince. As Mermaid makes herself comfortable in Cassie’s home, the two women begin to form an unlikely bond. The game is simple: Cassie talks and Mermaid listens. Until they both get sick of it.
A teenage girl is ready to experiment, but an older man’s demands burden her sexual awakening with complex realizations about her place in the world.
Manuel, a young Dominican chef, has the opportunity to fulfill his dream when a businesswoman asks him for a dish that will impress her. But, he has to deal with his inner voice that torments him in order to make it.
A nice day at the beach.
An awkward dinner party among friends from an infertility support group takes an unexpected turn.
Babz Dubreuil, a lonely ex-convict, works as a cook in a brunch restaurant. At the encouragement of a colleague, she finds the courage to ask an attractive customer on a date. It might be the beginning of redemption.
Alice is a victim of sexual abuse, and like many victims, lived in silence for years, ashamed, tortured by guilt, afraid to reveal the truth. When Alice starts reading from her teenage diary she finally summons enough courage to confront the man she holds responsible for her suffering.
St. Petersburg streets. Cloudy day. The inflamed consciousness. The feeling of an invisible presence of somebody behind you. Who you want to be. your shadow... The shadow challenges you. All you have to do is figure out who really exists-you or your shadow.
Ahmed flees his war-torn homeland of Syria and faces discrimination in Iraq. The people of the new society he joins make it impossible for him to move on and begin a new life.
A blind violinist's sight is restored by an operation paid for by a young woman who loves him, but the fickleness of fate strikes them further tragic blows.
When her newspaper reporter brother is taken ill, a young woman takes over his job. Before she knows it, she's involved up to her neck in a plot involving stolen jewelry and a very agile monkey.
Look out: Beryl's back. With Affairs of the Art, British animator Joanna Quinn recounts another gloriously unhinged chapter in the adventures of Beryl, the comic everywoman she unleashed upon the world with her debut film, Girls' Night Out, which took home three major awards from Annecy in 1987.
The intertwining fates of two Vietnamese sisters who sustain a wartime relationship through written correspondence.
The Flying Sailor is based on the Halifax Explosion of 1917 when two ships collided in the Halifax Harbour causing the largest accidental explosion in history. Among the tragic stories of the disaster is the remarkable account of a sailor who, blown skyward from the deck of a British cargo steamer, flew over 2 km before landing completely unharmed, but naked except for his boots.
Adri and Beamo are two brothers who like to hang out and challenge each other. When Adri asks his little brother to enter an abandoned house and bring back an object, the latter will make a strange discovery that will haunt their night.
A retired boatswain hires an ex-soldier to rob a widow's inn.
Two incompetent Bailiffs men reposess the wrong house.
Zosimo is the best at his trade. But if he can not work, his life holds no meaning.
From the moment a girl goes to her in-laws house, an evil force called violence surrounds her. In this story too, a girl is going to her in-laws house after marriage. A character named "Violence" starts giving bad advice to the girl's husband, father, father-in-law, mother-in-law. But nobody cares about Violence. At one point the Violence erupted with various attempts to enter the girl's in-laws' house. Finally, the Violence is seen to be dormant. Lutfar Rahman George played the role of Violence. Filmmaker Shamim Akhtar said about the film, “Everyone overplays the negative things. This film is an exception. Because, the entire film tells a positive story."