Walk Safe! Young America

Dad... Can I Borrow the Car?

A live-action short, using many avant-garde film techniques, that looks at American car culture in the late 1960s. The main section deals with the many trials and obstacles a teenager must face on the path to being able to drive. Surviving the driver's education class is only the first step, as the teenager must then pass his driving test, and then finally get permission to borrow the family car.

The Breath of the City

"Nagaraye Husma" is a Sri Lankan short film that explores the harsh reality of vehicle air pollution in urban areas. Through emotional visuals and subtle storytelling, the film highlights how everyday human activity silently destroys the breath of our own cities.

Family Dinner

Tonight, dinner starts with a slice of tomato.

Unarmed Verses

Toronto filmmaker Charles Officer profiles the young people of Villaways Park, a housing project on brink of historic change.

Winter Crossing

Marie, in her forties, lives in the Hautes-Alpes, cut off from her relatives. She only has her lover, Alex, a border policeman. Thanks to him, she smuggles cigarettes between Italy and France for her ' get out. On her way to France, she bumps into Mouneer, a 20-year-old Sudanese migrant, determined to join his little sister. He guesses her trafficking and persuades her to bring migrants across the border.

Friday

Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.

Cutting Heads

Daryl Johnson a young man trying to stay in college and Burt Marshall a young man just released from jail work together at a Barbershop but clash shop.

Adulthood

After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.

Anatomy of Los Angeles

This documentary explores the complexities of Los Angeles. Blending a highly structured montage of shots exploring the city with interviews of students, the writer Henry Miller, and residents from all communities, this evocation of Angelenos' city paints a portrait of a living, constantly evolving entity.

City by the Sea, or how to survive in Venice

Yannick Bellon's documentary paints a portrait of a city torn between the problem of unsanitary housing, pollution corroding walls and statues, and the recurring and increasing floods—all consequences of human activity. Faced with job shortages and rampant speculation, the overarching question arises of how industries can coexist with the city of Venice. Allowing them to develop risks destroying it; driving them out risks turning it into a museum, causing its inhabitants, and thus its soul, to leave.

Zazie dans le Métro

A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.

Dans les clous

The Brave One

A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

Melody of a Great City

A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer.

Rodents

The world of Salvador, a young and naive petty thief is changed by the arrival of his cousin Angel, an ex-convict in search of easy money, and with a hideout. Salvador gets wrapped up in Angel's twisted dealings in an attempt to escape from his suffocating family, dragging along his family and friends, in his criminal path. Where will this all lead?

The Talking Car

Jack and Mary (and their dog, Rags) are walking down the street when a talking car stops them and begins lecturing them about traffic safety.

€ (Euro) - un cortometraggio di Andrea Ventura

Faraway, So Close!

A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in name but overrun with crime, corruption, and—in what turns out to be a key theme here—Americans.

Dil Chahta Hai

Three inseparable childhood friends are just out of college. Nothing comes between them - until they each fall in love, and their wildly different approaches to relationships creates tension.

Beer over the Street

A man feels like having a beer, but due to heavy traffic, it is not safe for him to cross the road to the pub on foot.