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Roberto the Canary

The death of Roberto, the canary, forces a family to come to terms with their own grief.

Moseka

Moseka, a young woman from Zaire, travels to Belgium to study. With her braided hair and traditional clothes, she is the laughingstock of her fellow students who strive to look European, adopting wigs and European clothing. The film tells of the depersonalization of young Africans when they enter into contact with the European culture.

Shutterspeed

Fifteen-year-old Cas poses for his school’s trainee teacher and amateur photographer Jard. When he becomes painfully aware of the power imbalance between them, he seeks to reverse their dynamic.

Exposure

Set in an alternate, post-apocalyptic 1976, a filmmaker follows a worn and disillusioned photographer who, despite the circumstances, continues to make pictures.

Amaretto Sour

Enormous

Stephen, a man devastated after a breakup, sinks into sadness with only his pug, Jelly Donut, to keep him company in his empty home—until the canine finds an unexpected way to help him rediscover joy.

The Case of Majella McGinty

A children’s game of ‘Charlie’s Angels’ transforms into a reality through the vivid imagination of little Majella McGinty. Life becomes too stressful for 8-year-old Majella and taking refuge she hides in a suitcase in her parents’ bedroom. She overhears their conversation, and her TV-addled imagination runs away with her when she believes her father has been murdered by her mother and his body bundled away under cover of darkness. The Case of Majella McGinty shows the fantastical imagination of young children. This film combines the comical with the political, criticising the impact of violence on children’s lives. Set in 1970’s Derry, violence is rife, bombs can be heard in the distance and the army patrols the streets where Majella and her friends play.

Hollywood Halfbacks

Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that could beat the firemen. Since Johnny Mack Brown is about the only person in the film that even looks like he could play football other than Johnny and stuntman Joe Bonomo, it’s doubtful that the team Harron put together could even beat the Our Gang football team! So, Betty Compson, anxious to see her Hollywood friends win the game, keeps phoning false alarms to the fire department. A Hollywood Thalians Club short.

The Rape of Chloe

This short film adapted from the ballet Daphnis and Chloe. The pirates hunt Chloe, capture her, and rape her. Bryaxis, their leader, forces her to dance for him. Syrinx comes to free her... forever.

A minute of silence

A moment of silence for a musician, which becomes an eternity.

Dead Teenager Séance

A group of dead teenagers spending their after-lives in Limbo decides to wreak vengeance upon their killer by summoning him to the world of the dead.

Mr. Blob's Karate Rules

A karate instructor, Mr. Blob, teaches his student about fighting and life lessons.

Cain Rose Up

College student, Curt Garrish, goes on a murderous rampage.

Go To Hell Goliath

David is rejected by the Academy of Arts before he can even begin. But instead of leaving, he infiltrates, becoming a ghost in the institution. He launches his resistance by plastering posters reading 'Go To Hell Goliath'. His true opponent is not just bureaucracy, but the dean herself – Ms. Goliath, the face of institutional power.

Shards of Her Life

A young woman moves into her new home. We are shown snippets of the highs and lows of her life.

Sissy Frenchfry

The annual Student Body President election at wildly eclectic and diverse West Beach High pits the quirky, much-beloved incumbent Sissy Frenchfry against handsome, charismatic -- and socially intolerant -- transfer student Bodey McDodey, who enacts a devious plan to restore the "status quo."

Keys of Heaven

Iran, 1984. Homeless brothers struggle to survive in a country at war.

Gift

John despises his father for being a failure in life. When John returns home to facilitate his father's funeral, his life comes to a turning point, as he discovers the true motivation of his misjudged father.

The Purge: The Morning After

In comedian Johnny Ray Gill's parody of the Universal horror flick, actor Daniel Rubiano has to face the music when he reports to work the next morning.

B.M.E.

The Beginning, Middle, and End of a person's life flashes before the viewers eyes in this short film that took over a month to create.