Book of Suffocations

Some Things That Couples Do

Avery, an asexual woman, moves to Salt Lake for med school and meets Wes through a shared interest in parkour. They start dating and grow close, helping each other heal and discover what comes next.

Kopfhörer

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.

The Way Things Go

A lifetime of loneliness ends when Elise meets a kindred spirit, finally finding understanding and friendship in an unexpected encounter.

Pura Sangre

Frankie and Lucky, two young artists navigating love and identity in New York City, cross paths again after years of separation. Their reunion in a bookstore triggers a flood of memories, reopening wounds from their past relationship. As Frankie revisits the apartment they once shared, she reflects on their tumultuous past—Lucky's struggle with trust, Frankie's desire for autonomy, and the emotional weight of unspoken truths.

Leviticus

Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most: each other.

Strangers in the Night

A lonely young woman becomes obsessed with the sex lives of her next door neighbors, unaware that appearances are not what they seem.

Open Mic

At an open-mic party, Abigail strives to break her boundaries with a new found connection she has made with a daring woman.

Freckles

Young-shin is locked up in a fat camp against her own will. After kissing her roommate, the boring days at the camp turns into a small turmoil.

Double Jeu

Infatuated with her crush Owen, Isabelle devises a plan with her best friend Jasmine to get his attention.

Ik dacht dat ik je kende

Jip and Mijntje meet at a party organised by their mutual friend Lino. The sparks fly immediately and they grow closer as the months pass. Suddenly Jip gets the feeling that Mijntje doesn't really know them as well as they thought. Jip starts to doubt their connection and realises that their 'situationship' has reached a dead end.

A Little Love

Through interspersed conversation and prose, this experimental documentary follows a poet and a neuroscientist as they explore the definition of love, what it means, and why it matters.

Occurrences of Questionable Significance

When forest animals invade our cities, the world is in disarray. Office vixen Fiona struggles with her banana phone addiction. Will she succumb to it? Temperamental bunny Barbara only gives her stag sugar daddy Nestor his special massage, after he dines her and plays the big spender. This obscure short film pinpoints postmodern tropes of consumerism, eroticism, and art with an homage to the theater stage and references to literature. This work uses a fantasy language and needs no subtitles.

Niña Linda

"Niña Linda" follows the story of a young Dominican-American college student, Carolina (played by Aileen Pujols), who begins to find a new sense of self through her relationship with Carter (played by Brock Warren), and navigates her complicated relationships with Mami (played by Yanelba Ferreira), Tia (played by Genesis Diaz), and God.

Alice

Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults herbalist Dr. Yang, who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of her well-established rut.

An Un-Ideal Husband

It is a queer adaptation of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband. When a rags-to-riches lady returns to Victorian England, she brings home blackmail, scandal, and quick-wit; turning the lives of a noble Member of Parliament, his generous wife, dandy brother, and their honorable friend upside down.

The Reader

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

Silab ng Pira-pirasong Alaala

In a household ruled by a domineering patriarch, a young reserved woman clings on to a cassette tape gifted by someone from her past – reliving their shared moments of love and defiance to find her own path.

What Once Was

Two former partners suddenly reconnect and begin to question if they made the right choice.

Omelettes With Spinach

The morning after a class reunion, two hungover colleagues reconnect over breakfast but unspoken tensions of loss and desire adorn the air between them, driving them further apart.