The Lives We Lead
Two sisters and their male counterparts struggle with the negative influences of their youths over a 50-year period.
80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken away from a better life at birth; following a hospital fire, he vividly recalls being swapped with another new-born, and subsequently grows up in a poorer neighbouring household.
Two sisters and their male counterparts struggle with the negative influences of their youths over a 50-year period.
A newly hired college dorm host sits in on her first shift watching the front desk from 11 PM to 6 AM. She tries to order pizza, and things get worse from there.
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Prisoners in a futuristic prison controlled by ai decide to trick the system and escape. But how can you outsmart a computer that sees and hears everything?
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After returning back to her childhood home, Fern, a Thai-American finds herself exploring fragments of her Vietnam war veteran father’s memories through her fungi infested house. All while her boyfriend, Thee and their dysfunctional relationship enters the same maze her parents were once in.
Arthur, a young boy with a wild imagination, develops a preoccupation with death and disease and begins to explore mortality in the vivid images he sees in the movies and through a strange visitor from the past.
Dioni, like every day, is late for work. His boss already warned him that if this happened again, he would leave him on the street. Someone is going to have to run if he wants to get paid this month...
Julia is a child living in a Mexican town trapped in the war against drug trafficking. After waiting for days for his father’s return she meets Miria, a hitman boy.
Tayra and I grew up on a beach in the north east of Brazil. We were inseparable. The sea breeze brings me back happy memories.
After a tragic accident Grace is lost and alone in the Smoky Mountains. Grace's struggle for survival is made more complicated by her troubled past. Battling the demons in her mind may be the only way to come out alive.
Luisito, an 8-year-old boy, experiences the grief that has been denied to him when his mother decides to get rid of his late father's clothes.
A female photographer looks upon three photos that she has taken the night before her opening exhibition, and recounts her relationship with her grandfather.
Anton and Franz live together since the beginnings of 20th century. They talk about their difficulties of being vampires, since their first bite in 1938. Their inconsistent arguments recall those of normal human beings. And history repeat itself. As if that were not enough, they also doesn`t really like each other much.
A journey to the past inspired by nostalgia, the basis of happiness. A simple and ambitious story from the inside of a window establishes the delicate boundaries between the past, the present and the future. Produced during 2020's confinement due to Covid-19.
In this quiet, naturalistic dramatic short, six-year old Sarah grapples with understanding mortality after the sudden death of her older brother, David. With the help of her family, she gradually learns how to process his passing and cope with her grief. Written, produced, and directed by Jackie Rivet-River, this short film for Encyclopaedia Britannica Films was awarded the Silver Hugo prize at the Chicago International Film Festival, as well as 12 additional awards internationally.
What will our lives be like 10 years from now? Five up and coming Taiwanese directors each offer their own take in answering this question. In 2028, Taiwan is suffering from nuclear waste (“The Can of Anido”), migrant workers (“942”), industrial collapse (“Way Home”), low birth rates and diversity in families (“A Making-Of”), and insomnia (“The Sleep”).
Emma is a young girl hunted by a monster in her dreams that leaked from reality.
The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.