Jim thinks he knows who he is: he's a man, he has a hot girlfriend, he's on the basketball team… But when Cassie tells him about friend assigned male at birth who now identifies as a girl, Jim's concepts of gender and identity are challenged.
K Kypers
as Jim
as Glenda
Kayla Miller
as Cassie
His recent animation Kablunât: Legend of the Origin of the White People (2016) draws from a Nunatsiavummiut legend recorded by a Moravian missionary. Making use of archival photographs collected over nearly nine years, Gear reinterprets the legend for a contemporary Inuit audience, while framing the story as a reclamation from colonial retellings. “I wanted to literally insert myself in that narrative, break it apart and see what was there in a kind of dreamlike way,” he notes.
In Sara's class, the popular kids, also known as the kings and queens, are subjected to daily humiliations, which include having their pants pulled down or water thrown on them, but this is only a sign of their elevated status. Sara is the only blond and blue-eyed girl in her class, and she is completely overlooked by the kings and queens who do not have blond hair and blue eyes. She has a secret crush on one of the kings, who is way out of her league, and she doesn't have any friends either, but would like to become friends with Karen, also an outsider who aspires to a better status. One day, Sara eyes an opportunity to boost her popularity by humiliating herself and thereby become queen. Karen instantly becomes her friend, she seems to catch the eye of her kingly crush and popularity appears within her reach. However, her happiness is short-lived, and in the end she learns a far more valuable lesson than how to be queen for a day.
In a desert world where oxygen is running out, man is forced to live underground. Lana, resourceful young woman, takes care of her young brother Théo. But one day, he disobeys her.
An elephant saves an unfortunate whale from being paraded in front of the public and takes it away with the circus caravan to put it back into the sea.
A satirical film about modern British politics and tactics of distraction.
When a robotic rover starts drilling for signs of life on Mars, the race is on for one tiny rock-beast to save her native community from the invader from Earth.
Strange experiences lead a grieving artist to reconsider his identity and beliefs in this meditation on grief, family and mental illness.
In an uncertain time and place, a group of animated shy rock cubes come out from the anonymity of their quarry to mate. Powerful and indescribable forces made them move towards others in the sky, in a sort of dance that attracts some cubes to others, until those compatible latch on each other and produce a fresh new rock cube.
Grandma and Grandpa, a couple of old people are trying to hold up the retirement home's cafeteria for a fistful of Toffees.
Two masks face each other under a multitude of disturbing glances. A signal is given, begins then a dance, a ritual fight.
When electricity is first brought to rural Ireland, a six-year-old girl believes a faerie has entered her home with ‘the Light’ and soon learns the story of its keepers; the Wiremen.
A sanctuary in the depths of the forest. Masks are waiting and getting ready. Music begins... a cage is brought. Inside, attached, is the victim. The ceremony can begin: a joyful celebration of spring.
Ingmar Bergman's "Cries and Whispers" retold in a single minute.
