Light from the Mesa

Name of the Rose

A Master Criminal needs to test the depths of his immorality by choosing the woman he loves as his next victim.

March of the Penguins

Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their young. They walk, marching day and night in single file 70 miles into the darkest, driest and coldest continent on Earth. This amazing, true-life tale is touched with humour and alive with thrills. Breathtaking photography captures the transcendent beauty and staggering drama of devoted parent penguins who, in the fierce polar winter, take turns guarding their egg and trekking to the ocean in search of food. Predators hunt them, storms lash them. But the safety of their adorable chicks makes it all worthwhile. So follow the leader... to adventure!!

The Virus

A mysterious, electronically-transmitted bio-virus virus threatens to infect a young couple unless their small town can identify and neutralize the source. The key to their safety may lie in the man exposing his toxic secret.

Berlin Short

International friends Cat and Alex reunite in Berlin to shoot a tribute to Kate Bush.

So Nice to Love You

So Nice To Love You is a short film of six stories from six individuals with interlocking lives, capturing one significant moment remembered from each of their relationships.

Remembering

A writer loses a very important idea when her phone rings. Personified as golden light, this lost idea is found by the writer’s inner child, who takes us on a journey through The World of Imagination. It is easy to lose touch with this world, but each of us can be inspired by it—if we just remember.

Dereliction

There is a rumor that a private LEE reported the irrational incident in his platoon.

Who Can Love Pikku Iso?

A lonely guardian of land, longing for a companion in life, battles uncomfortable dates and long distances in his search for love in this short puppet film.

A Cor do Cinema

Catherine

A tragic comedy of a sweet little girl, who grows up to be a crazy old cat lady.

Hi Stranger

I made this film especially for you. I needed to check in with you. I needed to tell you how I feel.

Keelhaul

A swabbie aboard a stranded pirate vessel discovers something hidden beneath the ship’s planks, an ancient and living secret bound to the sea, and to their captain’s past.

Onán

When his father caught his 12-year-old son masturbating over a pornographic magazine, he does not punish him but he states: "If you do this fifty times - you will die". What will happen at the 50th?

The Raven's Dance

With a keen sense of visual beauty, director Markku Lehmuskallio has created a thought-provoking, aesthetic film about a married couple and an old man living in a remote part of Finland. The young husband goes out hunting but only to support himself and his wife, not to kill off hordes of animals. He sets traps, and that gets him in trouble with the police who proceed to ticket him for using the devices. The forest cycles themselves are intimated when an old tree is shown falling to earth -- perhaps a reflection on the old man's passing years. In contrast to these few people living off the land and basically keeping the ecological balance intact, a highway construction crew is shown at work felling trees. Soon the antagonism grows between encroaching civilization and the quiet life of the young couple and elderly man.