Etalage

Pulse

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

You, the Living

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.

We Are Bleach

A multi-awarded 23 minute short film about pansexual punk rockers in a toxic relationship in London’s underground music scene

Naked

An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.

Pi

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

Martian Child

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.

Belgian Bob

A satire about an alien who lands in Belgium and tries to attain citizenship. During the integration programme he experiences discrimination and unfairness whilst he just wants to fit in with the rest.

Le réfrigérateur

Two different but strangely complementary young women living together are pictured in a fragmented and non-linear narrative about incommunicability and alienation.

Malls

Lou and Noodles are consumers. Adrift and empty, they are separate from each other and from the world. Ruled by desire and uncontrollable drives to excess, they spend their solitary hours in spaces both real and unreal. Occasionally, they are in the same part of the mall.

The Savages

A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.

Reporte Aqui

Breakthrough

An alienated young man comes under the influence of a motivational guru, whose intoxicating charm masks his morally questionable methods of manipulation and his own concealed darkness.

KINKAMACHE

Main Man

A German tourist who gained fame in the 1970s after becoming lost in America and a washed-up one-hit-wonder indie rocker are connected across history by feelings of having already peaked.

Laaf

When Daan visits his cousins again after a long time, they excitedly tell him about their day in the Efteling. But when they say they only went to Land van Laaf, Daan is overcome by a creeping sense that something isn’t right, as if his cousins are hiding something, or worse, as if they never truly left.

Sister My Sister

A true story of shocking violence catapults a picturesque little town into history. The close sibling relationship between the two maids takes on a new dimension as their overbearing employer discovers a sexual fever between the two sisters.

OVVAI

Despair

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.

Anomie

Antonio is a 20-year-old university student who feels overwhelmed by his environment. His father, his peers, and social media exert a heavy influence on his perception and philosophy. Although he strives to think for himself and develop his own judgment daily, it is difficult for Antonio when the opinions of others resonate louder than his own.

Dirty Cigarettes

Jason, a lonely and isolated film student, notices his friends don't like him as much as he would like. This drives him to enact a three-step plan to get in everyone's good books, each step more extreme.