Brenda and Billy and the Pothos Plant

Two estranged siblings, a botanist and a magician, come together to try and raise their mother’s body from the dead.

Normal Doors

An OCD gay twentysomething considers a romantic life with a struggling actress he meets at an S&M-themed party.

The Breakfast

Curly Mulligan is the pupil who brings the headmaster a full fry-up every morning. When the head finds a hair in his breakfast, all hell breaks loose.

All at Sea

In this short, surreal, painterly comedy, Laura escapes from her superstitious worries by floating out at sea on her bed. On a sunny Friday 13th, all her troubles return.

Christmas at Moose Factory

A study of life at Christmastime in Moose Factory, an old settlement mainly composed of Cree families on the shore of James Bay, composed entirely of children's crayon drawings and narrated by children.

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Exit

Åke is trapped in a theme park with no chance to escape, unless he's having a great time.

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After learning that his girlfriend recently broke his typing test record for a friendly competition, Danny attempts to gain the record back in the middle of a work meeting.

Hold Up

Determined to hit the road for their vacation, two gangster brothers engage in a state-of-the-art holdup unaware that their opponent, a bitter gas station salesman, will be harder to take down than anticipated.

Conversation avec Claude Lelouch

51 films to date, a unique body of work whose common thread is the search for love: this is the cinema of Claude Lelouch. As a Jewish child hunted during the war, the filmmaker offers his very personal vision of betrayal, scoundrels, good people, travel, parent-child relationships, and the ghosts of his deceased friends whom he will always love.

Beacon

BEACON is a montage of location shots filmed at ten different places around the world. These sites are connected by the fact that each is located by the sea. Seamlessly combining travelogue footage and appropriated clips from feature films, BEACON produces a single, imaginary locale. Distant echoes of stories of the sea mingle with the banality of today's touristy beachlife. In its collage of places of expectation and with its seductive prospects of the sea, Beacon sets off on a journey with no distinct destination.

Short Plays

Football seen through the eyes of some of the best directors of the world.

Fun After the Wedding

A delightful and typical farce film, ending with the usual Gallic chase.

Rite of Spring

Black-and-white film projections by Bill Morrison, using archival footage of frigid Arctic scenes.

Crafts

Mockumentary about six children of a school that created a film group

Patience Labour

Interesting short documentary on young athletes in a Soviet ice skating program, some of whom are barely past toddler age. Kinetic and up close, the doc focuses on movement with music, eschewing interview and conversation, and mostly submerging political and social commentary.

Like a bull in a china shop

A passionate porcelain salesman finds himself faced with a slight problem that threatens his store.

Barbados

David (Michael Sheen) is a middle class guy with middle class problems, despite his lovely home and beautiful middle class wife (Radha Mitchell). His son Gary (Ty Simpkins) is the same, just thirty years younger. Both are looking for a way out from suburbia and all its trappings. One Sunday lunchtime, however, the police come knocking - and David's world suddenly becomes even more claustrophobic.

Water pulu 1869 · 1896

Playing with the recording of a water polo match, Galeta creates a kind of Copernicus twist in the structure and perception of this sports game. The ball still motivates the movements of players, but it is no more a dynamic element, but the fixed center of the image.

This Way Out

The oddball owner of an assisted suicide center and her hapless assistant have ten days to increase client numbers or face closure by the strict Euthanasia Licensing Board.